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Halloween Trivia 23
What You Didn’t Know
bout Halloween Candy
1.Candy In Weight:
Americans purchase nearly 600 million
pounds of candy a year for Halloween.
What does that look like? Imagine 16
billion fun size Snickers bars or 158 trillion
individual Candy Corns.
2. Biggest Candy Sales
A whopping 90 million pounds of
chocolate candy is sold during Halloween week,
taking a strong lead compared to other holidays.
Almost 65 million pounds is sold during the
week leading up to Easter and only 48 million
pounds during Valentine's week.
But really, how can they compete?
Halloween is the only time of year where the
sweet stuff is given away by the handfuls and
left in bowls on people's doorsteps, free for the
taking.
3. $2 Billion In Sales 11. Ultimate Candy Day without merit by virtue of its lack of comedic
Over 10 percent of annual candy sales The day of the year with the most candy value: there’s a lot of stuff about Michael
Jackson that’s funny, but there’s nothing funny
happen the days leading up to Halloween -- that sales? October 28th. And of all the 365 days in about abuse.
is nearly $2 billion dollars in sales. the year, the top five candy selling days are all in
October. Similarly, the Caitlyn Jenner costume
4. Chocolate Wins isn’t a send-up or a fun parody or an homage as
Chocolate is clearly the preferred choice 12. Halloween Splurgin' Spirit Halloween has suggested it is in its
Event though the economy is tightening defence of the outfit, saying that on Halloween
of sweets for many. Of the 1.9 billion sold in we often dress as heroes; so how is Caitlyn
Halloween candy each year, $1.2 billion was on everyone's budget, that does not stop them from Jenner any different than Batman? Answer:
chocolate candy and only $680 million on sugar splurging a bit on this one holiday. The average Caitlyn Jenner is a real person, through and
candy. American household spends $44 a year on through; Batman is just Bruce Wayne in a mask.
Halloween candy. Now, that's a lot of candy. The suggestion is that Jenner herself is wearing
5.Candy Corn A Clear Favorite a costume, donning the white bustier and
The top selling candy: Candy Corn. Caitlyn Jenner Halloween painted lips on the cover of Vanity Fair earlier
this year to reveal her “softer side” (actual text
Americans purchase over 20 million pounds of it costume is no laughing from one online description) when in actuality
a year, though it is unlikely that every last one of what was then and is now on display is her real
those millions of candies was actually matter side.
consumed.
There’s nothing like Halloween for making Worse still, one company’s descriptive
6. Top Chocolate Sellers people forget that there’s a difference between text, running alongside the costume on its
After the beloved Candy Corn, the being offensive and being funny. website, suggests that wearers will “be sure to
get a few laughs out of your friends.”
leading best sellers are as follows: Snickers, Think of last year’s spate of MH370-
Reese's, Kit Kat and M&M'S. themed costumes — men and women dressed in On Halloween we dress as characters:
bloodied flight attendants’ and pilots’ uniforms vampires, witches, ghosts, zombie versions of
7. Searching For Candy Corn? meant to evoke the Malaysian Air disaster from celebrities and “sexy” versions of everything.
Candy Corn is the most searched-for earlier in the year — or a 2011 costume worn by And that’s an important distinction. What the
Paula Deen’s assistant that saw him in Caitlyn Jenner costume does is reduce Jenner to
candy term in Google -- more popular than brownface as Desi Arnaz, or Prince Harry’s a character in a costume by virtue of her being a
candy apples, gummy worms and candy 2005 Nazi outfit. It’s an annual tradition, but this trans woman. It sends the clear — completely
pumpkins. Searches for Candy Corn are up 10 year’s key Halloween controversy (assuming false — message that members of the trans
pecent from October 2010. there won’t be others which, considering how community are playing dress-up, and that it’s
many frats are still doing dumb garbage on the okay to play along. It’s not drag — which is,
8. Who Loves Candy Corn? regular, is unlikely) has come a couple months generally, fun and fine. It’s mockery.
Out of all 50 states, Alabama searched early, in the form of a Caitlyn Jenner costume
marketed by Spirit Halloween and other Want to dress up like Caitlyn Jenner for
for candy corn the most! costume retailers. Halloween this year? Develop a little dignity,
and you’ll be well on your way. []
9. Candy By State Before we dig into this, it should be
Which state searched the most for noted that there is absolutely, unequivocally THE ‘X’ ZONE RADIO SHOW
nothing wrong with dressing up as famous with ROB McCONNELL
organic candy? Colorado. Oregon searched most people on Halloween (or any other day of the www.xzoneradiotv.com
for gluten-free candy and Kentucky took the year). Stars often have key, immediately
lead in sugar-free. recognizable looks — Michael Jackson’s
Thriller jacket, for instance, or any one of Nicki
10. Gluten-Free vs. Sugar-Free Minaj’s Anaconda outfits — that lend
This Halloween more people are themselves well to costumes. But there’s a
difference between dressing as MJ, and dressing
searching for gluten-free candy than sugar-free as MJ in a way that, say, references the pop
candy. Google searches for gluten-free candy star’s history of child abuse allegations. One is
are currently 20 percent higher than searches for fine, the other is offensive, insensitive, and
sugar-free candy.
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