There are four great candy holidays: Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's Day, and Easter. But which is the best? A ranking, from worst to best.
4. Christmas candy. Basically candy canes and taking regular candy and making it all green or red. Gets some positive points for the fudge and the mint flavorings here and there...but still, it's a distant fourth.
3. Valentine's Day candy. Either it's really sweet and overly sugary candy, like Skittles, or it's chalky stuff like those message hearts, or it's substandard chocolates with all sorts of filling, not all of it good (hello, coconut).
2. Halloween candy. Here there is a great kind of variety...but the problem with Halloween candy is that, with the exception of candy corn (which really kinda sucks), it's mostly candy that you get other times of the year. It's just specially packaged in spooky looking wrapping. Plus there's the problem that you're never really sure what you get when you trick or treat. Do you get stuck with people who want to hand out Almond Joys? Gross. Halloween gets positive points for the absolute quantity, but the quality just ain't there.
1. Easter. Now you're talking...cadbury cream eggs, chocolate bunnies, jelly beans (as long as there's no licorice) and all those tiny little chocolate eggs that sometimes have crunchy rice (does that make it healthy?). This is hands down the best holiday candy of all. And the great thing about it is that the other seasons all build up to Easter candy season, so we are saving the best for last.
I guess all the seasons are great...but for me, Easter candy is the best.
