It’s nearing that time of the year again- finals week- when all you crave is the warm sun, a nice beach, and loads of candy from the candy wall to keep you sane until you can get to the first two! To ease your indecision over which type of candy to purchase, my accomplices (Katherine and Casey) and I set out on a mission to taste each of the 31 candies of the candy wall and now present them to you in an easy to read Definitive Ranking of Candy Wall Candy 2016.
1. Chocolate Covered Coffee: because for a tired college student nothing beats the sweet combo of chocolate + caffeine
2. Chocolate Covered Pretzels with Peanuts
3. Yogurt Covered Pretzels (only slightly inferior)
4. Peach Ring(by spring)s: The most divisive item on the list—you either love them or you hate them! (I love them. My co-tasters {unjustly} hate them).
5. Reese’s Pieces
6. Blue Gummy Bears: someone went through all the effort of picking out the best gummy bears and putting them in their own compartment :)
7. Mixed Gummy Bears
8. Big Multi-Colored Snowcaps: because bigger is better
9. Sour Patch Kids: Sour, Sweet, Gone!
10. Gummy Frogs: just like a pet, but you can eat it too!
11. Fruit Snacks
12. Sour Patch Watermelons: nom nom nom
13. Smarties: because we’ve all eaten a pack secretly hoping it would stay true to its namesake
14. Blow Pop: although the lollipop vs. sucker controversey is still hot, there’s no debate about the yumminess of these
15. Sour Gummy Worms
16. Regular Gummy Worms
17. Jolly Ranchers (Blue)
18. Swedish Fish
19. Mini Snowcaps: because size does matter!
20. Weird Fruit Flavored Hard Candy (What does that even mean? Nobody knows what it means but its provocative! No it’s not! It gets the people going!) #lovetheeND
21. Prepackaged Candy: It’s unoriginal and I don’t want to unwrap my own candy!!!
22. Cow tails: points for nostalgia; docked points because they are bad
23. Mini Sour Gummy Bears: “The texture is reminiscent of a cow hoof”—Katherine & Casey
24. Tootsie Rolls: what you always got on Halloween but never wanted (creepy hand included)
25. Cherry Balls?: We thought it would taste like Fireball. It did not.
26. Candy Corn (again, very divisive)
27. Raspberry Things: “The kind of things that if they were out on a table at a party you would keep eating them, but you wouldn’t actually like them” –Me
28. Mike n Ike (brand name jelly beans)
29. Jelly Beans
30. Gumballs: anything that makes you chew that much is just not enjoyable :/
31. Bird Feed
I hope this makes your finals week a bit sweeter! (I am now going to go recover from my sugar hangover).
XO,
HCND
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