Halloween Candy: Most Popular In Minnesota

MINNESOTA — Experienced trick-or-treaters know certain houses just have better candy than others in the neighborhood. These pros also know that certain houses give out apples and Good & Plenty for some inexplicable reason. Homeowners eager to please the costumed youngins can be prepared as a recent study found the most popular Halloween candy in every state.

CandyStore, an online candy retailer, found each state’s favorite Halloween candy by combing through 11 years of sales data, and focusing on the months leading up to the holiday.

The company also verified the conclusions with major candy manufacturers and distributors, and presented the information of each state’s three favorite Halloween candies and how many pounds of the tasty treats were sold last year.

The most popular Halloween candy in Minnesota in 2018 was tootsie pops, which sold over 202,210 pounds here.

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The second-place finisher in our state was Skittles, with 196,541 pounds sold, and Candy Corn was the third most-popular Halloween candy for residents of Minnesota.

“Minnesota is sneaky,” the report reads. “The Land of 10,000 Lakes actually has more like 12,000. Classy underselling, you say? Likely, but if you thought Minnesotans were also painting a picture of being the state with the most lakes, it is not. By a long shot. Alaska has – wait for it – three million lakes of over 5 acres. I’m a little in shock by that. It’s ok though Minnesota, 12,000 is still a whole lot. I don’t think the good ice fishing spots are in danger of overcrowding just yet. Most popular Halloween candy has not changed this year. Tootsie Pops again at over 200k pounds. Skittles were #2, Candy corn #3.”

Skittles was the most popular Halloween candy across the country, with the ever-beloved M&M’s, Snickers, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and Starburst rounding out the top five.

While the above candies dominated a large section of the country, Jolly Ranchers made a surprise appearance as the favorite treat in Arizona, Georgia, and Utah.

Which has to leave you feeling a little sorry for children in the Jolly Rancher hotbeds.

Ninety-five percent of the 179 million Americans who celebrate Halloween will purchase candy for the holiday, according to the study. On average they will spend $27, and nearly 25 percent of all those purchases are made online.

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