To me, a real Fun Size candy bar would look a little more like this:
Now That's FUN!
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That’s what I call a good time!
With Halloween right around the corner, Fun Size treats are popping up all over the office. The treat that surfaced today was a Tootsie Roll pop.
Sign me up!
Let Me See That Tootsie Roll!
I love Tootsie Roll pops. They always remind me of that little owl from the commercials.
"Ah One, Ah Two, Ah Three. Three!"
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“How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll pop? Ah one, ah two, a three. <Crunch!> Three!”
Love it.
Not one to forgo candy that’s staring me in the face, I am currently on my third Tootsie Roll pop of the day.
Nom.
They complement morning snacks, lunch and afternoon snacks quite well. 😉
After my Tootsie Roll pop appetizer, I broke into my lettuceless salad that included a mix of the following:
- Roasted Brussels sprouts
- Red pepper
- Edamame
- Sweet corn
- Feta cheese
- Fresh Portobello mushrooms
- Italian dressing
Git Yer Veggies!
So Colorful
Alongside the salad, I also enjoyed a baggie of pistachios.
Nutty
I’ve been loving these nuts ever since I had them during the POM Harvest Tour. I forgot how delicious these little green guys taste!
I loved alternating a pistachio with a lick of my Tootsie Roll pop. I’m a sucker for the sweet and salty combo!
Question of the Afternoon
What was your favorite candy to receive when trick-or-treating on Halloween?
In order of preference, my favorite Halloween treats included:
- Almond Joy
- Kit Kat
- 100 Grand (Seriously underappreciated!)
(When I was a youngin’ Reese’s Pieces hadn’t made it to the market yet otherwise they would definitely be on my list.)
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Butterfingers were my favorite! I would hoard them all from my brother’s trick-or-treat “bag” (er, fake pumpkin with a handle?) and hide them for months and months. That is, after I ate my body weight in them on Halloween. I also loved Smarties.
Mounds are my fav! I remember always getting everyone else’s because so many kids don’t like coconut. SCORE!
haha i was the same way w/ almond joys! i collected everybody’s b/c no one else wanted them! sch-weet!
Same here! LOVED those babies!
Kit kat bars and Reese’s peanut butter cups were my favorites. Now I don’t really like Reese’s peanut butter cups much, but still like a kit kat from time to time.
Least favorite: Those chewy things with dried out peanut butter in the middle. Yuck.
I agree. What the heck are those? I always threw them out! lol
Apparently, they are “Peanut Butter Kisses.”
http://www.groovycandies.com/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=793
Looks like they are out of stock. Darn.
Definitely peanut butter cups 🙂 I never liked Snickers, and my brother loved them so we always traded!
I used to LOVE 100 grand. You don’t see that one around very often, eh?
Reese’s peanut butter cups and peanut m&m’s. I love Reese’s! They are by far my favorite. Chocolate and peanut butter the best combination. 🙂
haha, fun sized … I’m so short (5’1″) that people have called me fun sized!
I <3 pistachios! as far as candy… I like suckers every now & then, but I don't really have much of a sweet tooth.
Anything chocolate and FULL size was my favorite! Love snickers, reeses, TWIX, rolos, plain old hersheys.
Almond Joys were my fave also! And still are to this day! A close second would be Reese cups followed by Hershey’s chocolate. I loved that my brother didn’t want any of his Almond Joys so I usually had to trade him quickly before my dad got ahold of them – they are his fave also! 🙂
Im sorry i hate 100 grand. bleck.
Mine are/ were , in no order
reeces cups
snickers
milky way
skittles
mnm’s and butter fingers!
Too bad chocolate gives me headaches now! oh well.
bigger = fun size for me 🙂
I used to love that tootsie roll commercial when I was a kid. Thanks for the memory! I’m definitely all about the reese’s pbcups. Surprised those didn’t make your list. Although I guess the pieces did get a mention. 🙂
My favorite is popeye candy sticks!
1. Popeye candy sticks.
2. Molasses kisses
3. Soft caramels.
4. Crunchie
I rediscovered my love of pistachios about a month ago after not eating them for more than a year ;).
1. kit kat
2. twix
3. peanut butter cups!
100 Grand are underappreciated!
Reeses PB cups
Twix
KitKat
Snickers
No Reeses Pieces? That can’t be! I’m 25 and ate them all the time; don’t you remember in the movie ET he loved them??
i think they had them, but not in small packages to be handed out on halloween. at least i NEVER saw or received any!
It is a tie between Kit Kat and Snickers. Yummy!
This is so sad that I can’t remember! I think I really liked those root beer flavored bottlecaps and Dots–candy I didn’t get often throughout the year!
love love love your tank top! where did you find it? i am always hunting down cute tops that can do double duty-summer top and winter with a cardigan.
I love that Tootsie Pop owl. I used to have a t-shirt with him on it that read “How many licks does it take?”
Unfortunately, I don’t think everyone had seen the commercials and I got some very “interesting” comments. Awkward!
*cough*
That being said, favorite trick or treat candies:
1) Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup
2) Krackel bars or Crunch bars
3) Kit Kats
I disliked anything with coconut.
My favorites:
1)Reeses PB cups
2)Kit Kats
3)Snickers
And sad to say, those are all still my favorites. In that order. I was also that girl that gave away my Almond Joys…not a big fan of those lil guys.
small handfilled bags of candy corn and roasted peanuts..no questions…still the greatest
Hi Julie. Meant to write this yesterday, by far, one of the most memorable things from my Wedding was mine and Benjie’s time alone. We attended the cocktail hour but ducked out early to look at the reception tent. I wanted to see ALL of the details come together before all the guests came in. After we looked, we went, grabbed a drink and sat and watched (from a-far) everyone get their place card and get seated. It felt like HOURS of just us sitting there compared to the rest of the night, but it was probably a total of 15 minutes. Totally worth it 🙂
That picture above reminds me of the five-pound Hershey bar at Hershey Park for $40. My fiance laughs at me every time I say I want it, lol. 🙂
Reese’s and 3 Musketeers! My brother and sister and I used to sit for hours on Halloween “trading” after we got our pillow cases full of candy 🙂 such fun memories
ANYTHING chocolate. Double points if it’s chocolate and peanut butter!
Totally Love 100 Grand. Whatchmacallit is another very underappreciated candy, but I’m a sucker for a Baby Ruth. I’ll take anything that’s chocolate, really. In fact, wasn’t I just about your only reader that said she’d prefer chocolate over flowers? I don’t kid here. Serious business!
By far, Kit Kats and Reese cups!!!
Definitely Kit Kats, then Skittles then Reese Cups! But we all know that everything is oh so delicious! I miss those days!
~Sophia
Fit&FabLiving
I love 100 Grand! They were my favorite to get. That and crunch bars!
Haha, you’re so right! Fun size = the more the better 🙂
I liked anything chocolate and Dots.
Skittles!
I totally forgot about that little owl from the Tootsie Roll Pop commercials, I love him!
Now THAT is a fun size bar. 😀
My favorites are Butterfinger and KitKat. I love the crunchy chocolate. But they still come after the #1 love – candy corn.
YES I am so glad you appreciate 100 grand bars! EASILY my fave candy…in fact I always have a “fun size” package going!
What a FUN question! My favorite halloween candy as a kiddo were:
Twix
Hershey’s Dark
Milky Way
Totally with you on the 100 Grand…amazing!
Behind that:
Twix
Milky Way
Kit Kats
I always got so bummed when I went to the houses that gave out stuff like chips or animal crackers…I mean really? It’s Halloween! Pass on the CHOCOLATE! 😛
I totally agree that 100 Grand are way underappreciated. My other favorite (and I’m sure makes me show my age because they stopped making them a long time ago) was the full size Marathon bar my mother would give me. It was just a thin bar of chocolate filled with chewy caramel. Strawberry Charleston Chews were also good if you froze them before eating them.
Reese’s Peanut Butter Pumpkin. I’m not a huge fan of chocolate or candy, but every Halloween and Easter all I request is one Reese’s Pumpkin and one Reese’s Egg, respectively!
Oh my gosh, me too! My mom always buys me the big Reese’s holiday shaped chocolates (Pumpkin, Christmas Tree, Heart, Egg, etc.). I think the chocolate to peanut butter ratio is perfect in the bigger treats!
Reese’s and Twix! My sister and I used to trade, because she had different, gross favorites. I always counted mine and rationed them out so that they lasted way too long. I usually wouldn’t even finish them.
Can’t wait to have kids and take my favorite candies from their stash.
Last year I was visiting my parents on Halloween and I was so upset with my mom for not having any Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups to handout. (Not for the trick-or-treaters’s sake but my own.) I asked around and found out which house was giving out those babies and went up and asked for one. Luckily those neighbors had known me since I was a baby and they humored me. Needless to say those are my fav.
Reese cups and twix bars for sure top my list! Milky Way comes in close to the top as well.
For some reason I always get cuts in my mouth when I eat a totsie po! Probably becasue I eat it like a man and have no mercy on the poor thing. I takes me about 2.5 licks and ONE BIG BITE!
I used to love haribos and skittles when i was younger.
Nestle Crunch Bars…hands down!! Your salad looks especially good!
I was a Kit-Kat addict when I was a kid! These days Take 5 bars are totally where it’s at. 😉
almond joy, kit-kats, and peanut m&ms!
love love love 🙂
twix, snickers, aaaaand crunch bars. i don’t likee 100 grand bars, come to think about it, i havent seen them around.
Milky Ways! I love the dark now.
I would HAVE to go with butterfinger/Reeses now…although i don’t descriminate when it comes to chocolate 😉
As a kid…I LOVEEEEEEED baby ruth though.