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Step aside, Candy Corn: Arizonans prefer another candy
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Step aside, Candy Corn: Arizonans prefer another candy

  • Oct 10, 2017
  • Oct 10, 2017 Updated Oct 30, 2017

List will help you know which candy to offer to trick-or-treaters this Halloween. 

Mollie Muchna/Arizona Daily Star 

Arizonans love chocolate, apparently

Not sure which Halloween candy to buy this year? Here's a good hint. 

According to candystore.com, Arizona prefers the chocolaty goodness of (drum roll, please) Snickers. 

The candy distributor collected data from its sales across the United States and Canada over the past 10 years and found that it sold 904,633 pounds of the chocolate peanut candy in Arizona. 

"How many Snickers bars would it take to fill the Grand Canyon — over 9 million?" the distributor wrote in its online report. "That’s how many bars Arizonans ate over the course of our study."

Right behind Snickers in sales was Hershey Kisses, coming in at 817,463 pounds, and in third place at 527,843 pounds was Hot Tamales (because, Arizona.) 

Scroll down to find a full list of other state's go-to Halloween candy. 

More: Free Tucson-themed pumpkin carving stencils

Map

Source: CandyStore.com.

Alabama

Candy Corn: 55,274 pounds

Hershey's Mini Bars: 54,369 pounds

Tootsie Pops: 42,533 pounds

Alaska

Twix: 4,678 pounds

Blow Pops: 4,578 pounds

Kit Kat: 3,892 pounds

Arizona

Snickers: 904,633 pounds

Hershey Kisses: 817,463 pounds

Hot Tamales: 527,843 pounds

Arkansas

Jolly Ranchers: 225,990 pounds

Butterfinger: 215,897 pounds

Hot Tamales: 89,027 pounds

California

M&M's: 1,548,990 pounds

Salt Water Taffy: 1,345,782 pounds

Skittles: 1,034,527 pounds

Colorado

Milky Way: 5,620 pounds

Twix: 5,478 pounds

Hershey Kisses: 4,087 pounds

Connecticut

Almond Joy: 2,457 pounds

Milky Way: 1,985 pounds

M&M's: 1,023 pounds

Delaware

Life Savers: 20,748 pounds

Skittles: 18,072 pounds

Candy Corn: 10,217 pounds

Florida

Skittles: 630,938 pounds

Snickers: 587,385 pounds

Reese's Cups: 224,637 pounds

Georgia

Swedish Fish: 130,647 pounds

Hershey Kisses: 109,672 pounds

Jolly Ranchers: 55,049 pounds

Hawaii

Skittles: 267,872 pounds

Hershey Kisses: 264,728 pounds

Milky Way: 139,874 pounds

Idaho

Candy Corn: 85,903 pounds

Starburst 60,826 pounds

Reese's Cups 39,847 pounds

Illinois

Sour Patch Kids: 155,782 pounds

Kit Kat: 151,786 pounds

Reese's Cups: 95,627 pounds

Indiana

Hot Tamales: 95,092 pounds

Starburst: 78,920 pounds

Snickers: 34,589 pounds

Iowa

Reese's Cups: 58,974 pounds

M&M's: 53,982 pounds

Butterfinger: 25,782 pounds

Kansas

Reese's Cups: 231,476 pounds

M&M's: 230,082 pounds

Dubble Bubble Gum: 159,092 pounds

Kentucky

Tootsie Pops: 67,829 pounds

3 Musketeers: 60,273 pounds

Reese's Cups: 30,865 pounds

Louisiana

Lemonheads: 102,833 pounds

Reese's Cups: 89,738 pounds

Jolly Ranchers: 45,092 pounds

Maine

Sour Patch Kids: 58,290 pounds

M&M's: 45,938 pounds

Starburst: 16,782 pounds

Maryland

Milky Way: 38,782 pounds

Reese's Cups: 30,748 pounds

Blow Pops: 12,093 pounds

Massachusetts

Sour Patch Kids: 75,638 pounds

Butterfinger: 73,892 pounds

Salt Water Taffy: 45,982 pounds

Michigan

Candy Corn: 146,782 pounds

Skittles: 135,982 pounds

Starburst: 87,740 pounds

Minnesota

Tootsie Pops: 195,783 pounds

Skittles: 194,672 pounds

Almond Joy: 98,726 pounds 

Mississippi

3 Musketeers: 109,783

Snickers: 103,993

Butterfinger: 57,829

Missouri

Milky Way: 42,739 pounds

Dubble Bubble Gum: 34,751 pounds

Butterfinger: 24,780 pounds

Montana

Dubble Bubble Gum: 24,675 pounds

M&M's: 14,673 pounds

Twix: 13,784 pounds

Nebraska

Sour Patch Kids: 106,728 pounds

Salt Water Taffy: 78,624 pounds

M&M's: 23,674 pounds

Nevada

Hershey Kisses: 322,884 pounds

Candy Corn: 203,746 pounds

Skittles: 167,837 pounds

New Hampshire

Snickers: 63,876 pounds

Starburst: 62,468 pounds

Salt Water Taffy: 25,987 pounds

New Jersey

Skittles: 159,324 pounds

Tootsie Pops: 157,893 pounds

M&M's: 110,673 pounds

New Mexico

Candy Corn: 83,562 pounds

Milky Way: 65,682 pounds

Jolly Ranchers: 45,721 pounds

New York

Sour Patch Kids: 200,008 pounds

Candy Corn: 101,292 pounds

Reese's Cups: 56,776 pounds

North Carolina

M&Ms: 96,110 pounds

Reese's Cups: 95,763 pounds

Candy Corn: 62,308 pounds

North Dakota

Hot Tamales: 65,782 pounds 

Jolly Ranchers: 61,829 pounds

Candy Corn: 51,827 pounds

Ohio

Blow Pops: 150,324 pounds

M&M's: 146,782 pounds

Starburst: 105,752 pounds

Oklahoma

Snickers: 20,938 pounds

Dubble Bubble Gum: 10,283 pounds

Butterfinger: 8,892 pounds

Oregon

Reese's Cups: 90,826 pounds

M&M's: 67,626 pounds

Tootsie Pops: 42,774 pounds

Pennsylvania

M&M's: 290,762 pounds

Skittles: 281,847 pounds

Hershey's Mini Bars: 150,372 pounds

Rhode Island

Candy Corn: 17,862 pounds

M&M's: 13,894 pounds

Twix: 9,003 pounds

South Carolina

Candy Corn: 114,783 pounds

Skittles: 98,782 pounds

Hot Tamales: 41,892 pounds

South Dakota

Starburst: 24,783 pounds

Jolly Ranchers: 22,983 pounds

Candy Corn: 7,827 pounds

Tennessee

Tootsie Pops: 59,837 pounds

Salt Water Taffy: 34,859 pounds

Skittles: 20,938 pounds

Texas

Starburst: 1,952,361 pounds

Reese's Cups: 1,927,663 pounds

Almond Joy: 837,525 pounds

Utah

Jolly Ranchers: 475,221 pounds

Reese's Cups: 29,823 pounds

Tootsie Pops: 198,564 pounds

Vermont

Milky Way: 29,837 pounds

M&M's: 27,811 pounds

Skittles: 17,662 pounds

Virginia

Snickers: 26,783 pounds

Hot Tamales: 26,178 pounds

Candy Corn: 18,726 pounds

Washington

Tootsie Pops: 223,850 pounds

Salt Water Taffy: 210,981 pounds

Hershey Kisses: 78,662 pounds

District of Columbia

M&M's: 26,092 pounds

Tootsie Pops: 21,364 pounds

Blow Pops: 14,763 pounds

West Virginia

Blow Pops: 43,776 pounds

Hershey's Mini Bars: 23,554 pounds

Milky Way: 18,911 pounds

Wisconsin

Starburst: 116,788 pounds

Butterfinger: 115,982 pounds

Jolly Ranchers: 42,998 pounds

Wyoming

Reese's Cups: 32,889 pounds

Salt Water Taffy: 26,555 pounds

Skittles: 20,812 pounds

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