Fun Size, Schmun Size
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.
Gavi @ GaviGetsGoing!
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Mounds are my fav! I remember always getting everyone else’s because so many kids don’t like coconut. SCORE!
Jamie @ Food in Real Life
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peanutbutterfingers Reply:
October 21st, 2010 at 2:51 pm
haha i was the same way w/ almond joys! i collected everybody’s b/c no one else wanted them! sch-weet!
peanutbutterfingers
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Jessica @ How Sweet Reply:
October 21st, 2010 at 3:03 pm
Same here! LOVED those babies!
Jessica @ How Sweet
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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.
Victoria (District Chocoholic)
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Alison Reply:
October 21st, 2010 at 8:18 pm
I agree. What the heck are those? I always threw them out! lol
Alison
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Victoria Reply:
October 21st, 2010 at 10:23 pm
Apparently, they are “Peanut Butter Kisses.”
http://www.groovycandies.com/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=793
Looks like they are out of stock. Darn.
Victoria
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Definitely peanut butter cups
I never liked Snickers, and my brother loved them so we always traded!
Jess
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I used to LOVE 100 grand. You don’t see that one around very often, eh?
Paige @ Running Around Normal
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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.
Hope
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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.
Brittany (A Healthy Slice of Life)
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Anything chocolate and FULL size was my favorite! Love snickers, reeses, TWIX, rolos, plain old hersheys.
Clare @ Fitting It All In
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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!
Katie
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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.
carlee
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bigger = fun size for me
Heather (Heather’s Dish)
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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.
Chicago Cuisine Critique
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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
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Charlie
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1. kit kat
2. twix
3. peanut butter cups!
erica
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100 Grand are underappreciated!
Michelle (The Runner’s Plate)
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Reeses PB cups
Twix
KitKat
Snickers
Shanna, like Banana
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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??
Sher
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peanutbutterfingers Reply:
October 21st, 2010 at 3:36 pm
i think they had them, but not in small packages to be handed out on halloween. at least i NEVER saw or received any!
peanutbutterfingers
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It is a tie between Kit Kat and Snickers. Yummy!
Cynthia
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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!
Amanda (Eating Up)
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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.
lauren
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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.
Alexa @ The Girl In Chucks
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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.
Carly
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small handfilled bags of candy corn and roasted peanuts..no questions…still the greatest
Nathan
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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
Kari
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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.
Maribeth
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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
Corey @ Runners Cookie
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ANYTHING chocolate. Double points if it’s chocolate and peanut butter!
Mary @ Fervent Foodie
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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!
Lindsay @ The Ketchup Diaries
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By far, Kit Kats and Reese cups!!!
Jessica @ The Process of Healing
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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
Sophia
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I love 100 Grand! They were my favorite to get. That and crunch bars!
Anna S. @ History Running Girl
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Haha, you’re so right! Fun size = the more the better
I liked anything chocolate and Dots.
Kacy
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Skittles!
I totally forgot about that little owl from the Tootsie Roll Pop commercials, I love him!
Lo
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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.
Tina @ Faith Fitness Fun
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YES I am so glad you appreciate 100 grand bars! EASILY my fave candy…in fact I always have a “fun size” package going!
Meghan
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What a FUN question! My favorite halloween candy as a kiddo were:
Twix
Hershey’s Dark
Milky Way
Kelly
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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!
Courtney @ Sweet Tooth, Sweet Life
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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.
Melanie
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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!
Rachel @ The Avid Appetite
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Caitlin (EatFeats) Reply:
October 21st, 2010 at 6:18 pm
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!
Caitlin (EatFeats)
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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.
Caitlin (EatFeats)
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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.
Holly
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Reese cups and twix bars for sure top my list! Milky Way comes in close to the top as well.
Melissa
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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!
Jaime
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I used to love haribos and skittles when i was younger.
Jemma @ Celery and Cupcakes
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Nestle Crunch Bars…hands down!! Your salad looks especially good!
Melissa (MelissaLikesToEat)
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I was a Kit-Kat addict when I was a kid! These days Take 5 bars are totally where it’s at.
Liz @ LBBakes
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almond joy, kit-kats, and peanut m&ms!
love love love
Gina G
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twix, snickers, aaaaand crunch bars. i don’t likee 100 grand bars, come to think about it, i havent seen them around.
angela
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Milky Ways! I love the dark now.
Lauren
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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.
Valerie C.
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Reeses Peanut Butter Cups were and always will be my favorite!! My other “fun size” favorites when trick-or-treating were Milky Ways, Snickers, & Peanut M&Ms. Oh, & I also love tootsie pops (except they sometimes scrape the roof of my mouth!)
Alison
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Julie~
How do you cook the edamame for your salad? I always forget about this protein source!
Alison
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Julie @ Peanut Butter Fingers Reply:
October 21st, 2010 at 8:32 pm
i buy it frozen! i just let it thaw in the fridge overnight!
Julie @ Peanut Butter Fingers
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No one mentioned the box of raisins?!?
Definitely Reese’s and Almond Joy
Mary Beth
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Reeses Peanut Butter Cups & Snickers
and i disliked the dentist who handed out toothbrushes
Babs
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butterfingers! and nerds. and gobstoppers!
Sarah K. @ The Pajama Chef
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No way, you love 100 grand too!?!?! Yesssss
Amanda
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Someone once gave me a toothbrush on Halloween. Needless to say I told my friends not to trick-or-treat there haha.
Jenny @ Enjoy Your Cheerios
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creative lunch. I love almond joys but my favorite is def snickers and reeses with 3 musketeers in 3rd
Whitney
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Our Chef in culinary school gives the top 3 test scores a tootsie pop. I.E. I had my first one in YEARS this week
Kristy
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You’re so cute Julie!! I was happy to find Wonderful Pistachios in the supermarket! It brought me back to Pomharvest : )
Gina @ Skinnytaste
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I always love Reeses. But I remember as a kid my sister (who is 15 yrs. older than I am) would drive me to the nicest neighborhoods to trick or treat! I was always looking for the FULL size bars not the fun size! And then I would go home and sort and count every last piece of candy. I took a full inventory so I knew if my brother took any from my bag. Btw I HATED getting pennies, apples, or old peoples hard candy.
Jane
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Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
Snickers
and definitely 100 grand!
Amber K
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Amber K Reply:
October 22nd, 2010 at 9:55 am
aw, except I just looked up 100 grand and they aren’t gluten-free.
I guess no more for me!
Amber K
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Ooooo I loveeeeeed one hundred grands too, seriously, what happened to those?!!
Jaclyn
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Reese. I’m surprised no one mentioned coffee crisp! Loved kit kat, crunch bars, whoppers,twix, cookies and cream bars, Aero chocolate bars, smarties, mini bounty bars,,, The hard minty clear candies were the worst!
Barbara
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