Almond Joy dark. I wouldn’t turn down peanut butter M&Ms.

I don't know for sure what's up here this year yet. I used to do the snack-sized bars of plain M&Ms and Reese's, maybe Milky Ways. Go chocolate or go home. As a kid, there were some things I did like that only seemed to show up at Halloween, like Heath bars or Zagnut.

I like Halloween candy to be special. The Reese's Pumpkins and Bats fit that. Just putting a Halloween Candy label on candy that can be bought all year long is a minor but real annoyance . Then they slap a Xmas label on and then Valentines followed by Easter. So unimaginative. A lot of the candy bars today have changed so much they don't even resemble those of my childhood. I was really upset when Annabelle Rocky Roads took out the center layer of chocolate. LOL I like caramel apple pops and I miss those horrid but interesting wax lips and teeth and harmonicas. Tootsie Roll products seem to be the only thins that haven't changed so I like those too.

I'm definitely in the minority....Reese's P. B. cups are very low on the list. Years ago when my son came for a golf outing with his friends, he left behind a gigantic Reese bar. Everytime he came for a visit after that, I forgot to give it back to him. It sat in the refrigerator for about 2 years before I finally threw it out. Now if that had been a Milky Way, or a Snickers bar, it would have been gone before he got up the driveway. :-)))

P.S. I think you should tell the ingrates that you are paying for this candy out of your own pocket and if they would like to contribute to the cause, you will make sure to have their favorite candy on hand. Maybe you could decorate a jar with Halloween stickers for donations.

When the complainers start complaining you don't have their favorite candy, shove a piece of paper at them and have them write down what it is. Then hold out your hand, and say you'll be happy to pick up some for them but it will cost them. Or, they can help themselves to your FREE candy.

Wow, amylou321, that was a strange and childish conversation. Really weird.

Yes, I was particularly petty that day. I am not proud of it for sure.....

Mounds, Snickers, dark chocolate Milky Ways.

I also dislike Reese's peanut butter cups, but then I do not like peanut butter.

When I buy Halloween candy, I try to buy candy that I like, so that I won't mind eating it if it remains, although this is not really a good idea.

My favorite candies include Japanese Kasugai gummy candy in kiwi, mango, and muscat grape flavors. I also like Japanese ginger chews.

For more traditional candy, I like Kit Kats, Snickers (with almonds instead of peanuts only), Almond Joy, English Toffee (although I prefer what I make to what I can buy), and regular chocolate bars (mini size).

Candy is not on my diet, but I do occasionally make chocolate turtles at Christmas time, although it is easier to make toffee.

hmmmm I've never seen a Reese's bat?!! I give out full size Reese's pumpkins. The cups are ok but nuttin beats the shapes--I prefer the peanut butter/chocolate ratio in the shapes. Chocolate with nuts/caramel would always be my first choice.

Almond Joy for me, I don't care for Reese's. I do like other candies too.

Sue

Any of the following: Butterfingers, Snickers, BabyRuths, Reese's PB Cups, Mounds, Junior Mints.

I'm definitely in the minority, as anything chocolate would be way down my list. Give me anything licorice (black, please) or fruity. Usually our treat bowl is full of fun size chocolate bars--easy for me to ignore! This year? I'm guessing our treat bowl will stay empty, No trick or treating in our neighborhood, sadly.

Reeses and KitKats

I love the affectionate way the driver refers to your efforts and says he is looking forward to them. I can see why you would continue to do decorating and candy for the drivers even when some of the employees treat you like you are a Pez dispenser.

Amylou, great comebacks to your highly rude and clueless co-worker. I could use other less flattering words for her but I won’t. She does not deserve one piece of candy but I am quite sure she will take her fair share and then some.

I like the no-brand-name chocolate and peanut butter pumpkins! ☺

I used to work with a girl who stole a coworkers big Hershey bar, then alluded to seeing "me" do it. I'll NEVER forget her. She used to put chocolate Rolos in her bra or between her legs to "warm" her chocolate up. For shock effect she'd removed one when talking to you. ☺ Rita....Rita...Rita....☺

I am definitely in the minority here, I don’t care for sweets at all.

Chips! I'm not a sweets, chocolate girl. I like salty.

100 grand bar for me or pretty much anything with chocolate and caramel. Hersey's Nuggets with almonds or toffee are also at the top of my list.

I have a coworker that always has a candy bowl on her desk. I give here a $20 bill every couple months or buy a couple bags of candy to keep the bowl stocked. I have to walk to the other end of the floor to get to her office which is probably a good thing! I had to go into the office yesterday to pick up a new battery for my hot spot and the empty bowl was sitting on her desk :-(

I haven't seen my favorite Halloween treat in years, but I used to love popcorn balls. Our building hosts a big party in the lobby, with major decorations and refreshments. They schedule two hours for trick or treating and residents sign up ahead of time if they want to be on the candy giving list. I dress my cats in costumes and hold one when I answer the door. I like to give out foil-wrapped chocolate coins (AKA "Hanukah Gelt") and everyone flips over them. I usually start by giving each kid two coins. The parents like them, too. If there are a lot of coins left near the end, those lucky kids get more. I don't want leftover candy around -- too tempting!

I’m with Amy’s hubs. I love Twix. I could always eat Rolos, too. I love caramel.

I like the chewy gummy candy- good and plenty, swedish fish, gummy bears, starburst, mike and ike.

edited to add licorice - red and black

We have no trick-or-treaters as we are too far out in the country. I very rarely eat candy but if I do, I prefer a particular local chocolatier and something or other with caramel.

For me, it's Mounds, PayDay and BabyRuth.

I'd be seriously tempted to take most of the candy out of the bowl when it's time to go off-shift, and lock it up til I come back the next day. Those dayshifters would start out with candy, altho a small amount. I used to do a candy bowl when I worked in an office, nothing like what you do, tho. But I'd buy one or two bags a month and when it was gone, the bowl would get tucked away. That's when folks would start leaving $1 or so to encourage me to buy more. LOL With my crowd it wasn't that they wanted free candy, just the convenience of someone else making sure it was always available.

Peanut M&M's are my downfall! I could eat them till I feel sick! lol So... I am definitely NOT buying any! No one in my office buys candy but me and I stick with mints for visitors if they want one.
This year we're not having trick or treat so I'm not going to buy any Halloween candy. DH loves chocolate but he's trying to eat less sugar so no need to have the temptation around.

Loved the conversation you had with your co-worker! Good for you! I think I'd pack it up before I left and bring it out the next day when I was back! Gotta help her not be tempted! lol

We don't get many trick or treaters other than neighborhoods kids brought to doors for the cute visit. The houses in our otherwise conventional neighborhood are pretty spread out and the street is dark. A lot of walking for not too many doors. When our kids were little, we took them to other neighborhoods where the houses were closer together.

We don't eat much candy. In past years my wife would grab a couple of bags of whatever and that serves our needs.

I like chocolate but to me that is not Halloween candy. Halloween candy is things like Mary Janes, Molasses Chews but most I never knew the name. Like those pulled hard candies that were crispy if you bit into them but had a tiny bit of sweetened peanut butter. Living in the country there was no trick or treating but the grade school always had what I remember as being a chili supper where there was candy.

Jupidupi, I see popcorn balls every year! They are always in the same aisle as all the trick or treat candy! I have seen them this year too. NOT my favorite but I appreciate the tradition.

Jasdip, I always try to have some savory treats as well. Pretzels or chips in small bags. And always cheez balls. My non-candy treat bowl has a variety of savory and sweet stuff. Both because I know some people don't like sweets and because I know that a lot of these drivers that come through here have probably not been able to stop and eat all day or all night, and sometimes they just need a snack to hold em over until they can stop for a real meal or go home for one.

As for my candy decision, I will likely do what i did last year. That is, I WILL leave some candy here on my off days. If, when i come back after that first set of nights off, and there is little to no candy left and it is reported to me that the candy bowls were not CONTINUALY stocked, then I will flip my witch switch and only bring it when I am here. That woman actually had the nerve to blame "those greedy truck drivers" for eating all the candy and snacks when I was on my off days last year. Clearly, she was too high on a sugar rush to remember that my SO (one of those truck drivers she speaks of with such contempt) would come in there 6 days a week, and would tell me that when i was not there, all 3 of my treat bowls were always empty, but her desk and face were FULL of candy. But I always give her and the others a FAIR CHANCE every year not to be a greedy pig. If they blow it, well, no more candy for you swine.

To his credit, the other night minion usually buys a few bags of candy and puts it out on the nights he works. He is meaner than me though. He will wait until she comes in to relieve him, then will walk over there, get the candy and lock it up in his locker right in front if her.

Another funny story. Last year, I did just that. When I left for my nights off I took all my candy with me. The other night minion brought a big bag in and locked it in a cabinet. (He did not do THAT in front of her.) Anyway, when my SO came in to load one morning, she confronted him and told him to tell me that she FOUND where I hid the candy! She had noticed the cabinet was locked, surmised that there was candy in there, found a screwdriver and TOOK THE HINGES OFF THE CABINET to get to the candy, open the bag and binge. And then when she saw me she confronted me quite aggressively about it and asked me why did i hide "the" candy. (As if its community property) I DID start with a reminder that if a decide to lock up any candy that I buy, that is my decision that should be respected. But, when I told her that the candy that she detected like a truffle pig was not mine, but the other night minions, her face was quite priceless. They do not get along you see, and she was quite embarrassed. Why she wasn't embarrassed by such behavior if the candy had been mine I do not know. She and the other night minion are on shift when I am off. MY day shift counterpart does eat some candy, but not nearly to the same degree. And that's fine. The candy is for everyone, but with the understanding that my candy stash is NOT a food pantry, and as adults, its expected that you would be able to control yourself. If they cant do that, well, I cut em off!

This woman (the hinge remover) was my partner in the weight loss challenge, BTW. And I agreed to be her partner next year. I hated to lose the contest but took pleasure in the knowledge that I whooped her behind to the tune of 11 pounds, as I lost 17 and she lost 6, even with her weight loss surgery. ( I know I am TERRIBLE)

Oh dear, I've got a new favorite candy. M & M Fudgie Brownie M & M's. If you haven't tried them, don't. Leave them for me!!!

I love those!

That coworker had a real nerve breaking into a locked cabinet to get what was essentially someone else’s property. The other night minion could have reported her for theft- I’m surprised he didn’t. If he had wanted Miss Greedy-guts to have the candy, he wouldn’t have locked it up. She also has a real nerve badgering you for candy when she openly admits she won’t buy it for herself.

She is definitely........something.

Her reasoning was, and she still stands by this, that because it was going to be eventually put out for people to take, that she was also entitled to it because if we provide it, we have to provide it for EVERYONE, not just the lowly worms that are truck drivers and contractors and employees from other departments. SO i guess she figured that if we give it to them, that she, being superior in every way, should have it too and have it first, at that.

The other night minion was satisfied that she was absolutely mortified and showed her behind essentially. He was extremely annoyed but amused at her lack of control at the same time.

Again, I do not mind her or anyone else getting some candy. SOME. Not pounds of it. But she has a problem. A greed problem. A boundary problem. A personality problem. I feel sorry for her but that does not mean i cant be annoyed also.

because if we provide it, we have to provide it for EVERYONE

People do not realize that some discrimination is perfectly legal. One cannot in many circumstances discriminate against those in legally protected groups using the protected basis. However, anyone is free to discriminate on the basis that the other person is unlikeable, greedy, rude, etc.

As a fully trained, certified, and practicing professional in the field of absolutely nothing, I diagnose your candy obsessed coworker as one very sad case. Really sad.