Your Favorite Kind of Candy, Please Respond, Now

by Johnny Debacle

We are conducting some research, which we plan to analyze rigorously, produce a model from which to profit, front-run the publication of such a model and then, lastly, publish said model.

Please, answer these questions in the comments section

Favorite Candy when you were
6 years old:
16 years old:
26 years old:
And (if you are older than 30) today:

Thank you for your time.

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Comments

  1. Pixi Stix
    April 23rd, 2008 | 3:52 pm

    6 yrs old: pixi stix
    16 yrs old: skittles
    26 yrs old: circus peanuts
    32 yrs old: pixi stix

    I mean reverted…

  2. MGW
    April 23rd, 2008 | 3:54 pm

    6: Life Savers
    16: Reese’s Pieces
    26: Gummy Bears

  3. Dave
    April 23rd, 2008 | 3:59 pm

    Favorite Candy when you were

    6 years old: Sweetened condensed milk. Not usually though of as candy but you take a can and a can opener and hide from your mom while you eat it and it is good stuff.

    16 years old: Probably gummy bears or dulce de leche (my moms Cuban). I realized that I didn’t want to die of a heart attack at age 16 hence dropping the sweetened condensed milk.

    26 years old: Protein Bars. Of course it took a while to realize that a box of bars a day is not healthy. Even if they are pretty good.

    And (if you are older than 30) today:I am 30 With now and I pretty much just stick to gum now. Sad but I mainly save my sugar for good desserts. When i do eat regular candy it is honey candy from Queen Bee Gardens in Lovell, Wyoming. http://queenbeegardens.com really good stuff.

  4. April 23rd, 2008 | 4:06 pm

    Dave, we appreciate your feedback, but let’s keep it to normal candy here. This is research, not “Highlights from Deprivity”.

    Condensed milk? Really? Not a candy.

    Protein bars? Really? Not a candy.

  5. Kyle S
    April 23rd, 2008 | 4:15 pm

    6: Reece’s
    16: Skittles
    26: Eye

  6. April 23rd, 2008 | 4:18 pm

    6: Kit Kat bars
    16: Peanut butter cups
    26: Marijuana
    Now: Peanut M&M’s

  7. pman
    April 23rd, 2008 | 4:19 pm

    6: snickers
    16: cigarettes
    26: truffles
    30: whatever’s hiding in the back of the pantry.

  8. joe
    April 23rd, 2008 | 4:28 pm

    6 years old: Candy Cigarettes
    16 years old: Real Cigarettes
    26 years old: Jellybeans
    today: Tums

  9. HAM05
    April 23rd, 2008 | 4:29 pm

    6: kitkat
    16: kitkat
    Today: ginger candy
    32: nose candy?

  10. HAM05
    April 23rd, 2008 | 4:33 pm

    ps dave, you should try sweetened condensed breast milk aka the ultimate beverage. and its low in lactose.

  11. The Dryer
    April 23rd, 2008 | 4:43 pm

    6: Charleston Chew
    16: 3 Musketeers
    26: Krackel
    33: Dark Chocolate

  12. Bennett Kankuzi
    April 23rd, 2008 | 4:57 pm

    6: this is problem with you americans. all you think about is candy. when will you realize that you can’t have your candy and also eat?

    16: your candies are inferior to other candies so your corporations steal candy from poor countries with your army. you bomb other candies out of existence if they threaten us candys market shares.

    26:the bigheadedness and pomposity of your candies doesn’t taste good. i give a shit on your candies.

    30: chocolate colored ants.

  13. T Double
    April 23rd, 2008 | 4:58 pm

    6: Sour Patch kids
    16: Skittles
    26: Nose Candy
    30: Skittles

  14. April 23rd, 2008 | 5:08 pm

    6: chocolate, any

    16: eye (unoriginal, but true)
    interim: nose (also unoriginal, but also true)
    26: Verbose “africans” who ramble incessently anti-American nonsense

    30: Won’t candy be out-lawed by then?

  15. Cory
    April 23rd, 2008 | 5:24 pm

    6: Carob Chips (like chocolate chips only made of Carob powder)… we were not allowed to eat candy back then.
    16: Farley’s Gummy Dinosaurs
    26: Jelly Bellies.

  16. jagorev
    April 23rd, 2008 | 6:16 pm

    6 years old: Cadbury Dairy Milk
    16 years old: M&M’s
    24 years old (now): Lindt truffle balls
    30 years old: alcohol, I expect

  17. PBateman
    April 23rd, 2008 | 6:38 pm

    6: Krackel
    16: Whatchamacallit
    24: Dark

  18. Aspiring Mini-Baller
    April 23rd, 2008 | 7:16 pm

    6: Kit-Kats
    16: Gummy Bears
    26: Ice Cream (Chocolate)
    30: Sweetened condensed breast milk from Dave’s mom and/or Haitian Dirt Cookies (food inflation).

  19. Juan
    April 23rd, 2008 | 7:31 pm

    6: Neccos
    16: Cigarettes
    26(25): Orbit

  20. Arr-squared
    April 23rd, 2008 | 8:34 pm

    6: life savers
    16: Toffifay
    26: Reese’s Pieces
    Now: Reese’s Pieces

  21. bluesmobile_440
    April 23rd, 2008 | 8:43 pm

    6: chocolate covered cherries
    16: Twizzlers

  22. Agent00yak
    April 23rd, 2008 | 9:14 pm

    6: Jelly Beans
    16: Milk Chocolate and/or White Chocolate (HUGS)
    (26): Ice Cream Bars (Snickers, Twix, Dove..)

  23. Smaj
    April 23rd, 2008 | 9:28 pm

    6 years old: Jelly Beans
    16 years old: Blue Whales (before they changed them)
    26 years old: Swedish Berries

  24. linnea
    April 23rd, 2008 | 10:30 pm

    6 years old: Twizzlers
    16 years old: Jelly Bellies and Kookaburra Licorice
    26 years old: ask me in two years and four months.

  25. KOPI
    April 23rd, 2008 | 10:55 pm

    6. Swedish Fish
    16. Swedish Fish
    26. Gummi Bears
    30. Novacaine for during dental implant surgery

  26. Billy Ray Human
    April 23rd, 2008 | 11:05 pm

    6 years old: Now and Laters
    16 years old: Skittles
    26 years old: Snoochie Boochies
    And (if you are older than 30) today: Crystallized Ginger

  27. Luiz Felipe
    April 24th, 2008 | 12:39 am

    6: Crunchy bars
    16: Skittles (Apparently a post-puberty favourite)
    26: Dark Chocolate (If it nothing changes in the next few months)

  28. T. Man Esq.
    April 24th, 2008 | 1:04 am

    6: strangely, also sweetened condensed milk
    16: smokes
    26 (now): Swedish fish, John Powers Irish Whiskey

  29. clouds without water
    April 24th, 2008 | 1:33 am

    6: bottle caps
    16: candy corn
    26: sweet tarts
    now: dark chocolate bars

  30. c cross jubilee
    April 24th, 2008 | 4:20 am

    6: the filling of cadbury creme eggs
    16: jolly ranchers (esp cherry and lemon, which makes me sweat)
    26: butterfingers

    Dave – you should try better than sex cake — its an acceptable way to get your sweetened condensed milk fix as an adult
    http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Better-Than-Sex-Cake-II/Detail.aspx

    (note- this recipe calls for .5 can — definitely use the whole thing)

  31. wow
    April 24th, 2008 | 5:22 am

    cake that’s better than sex? hmm. doubt it. you should call it “better than hand job cake”. that’s at least believable.

  32. Doug
    April 24th, 2008 | 6:05 am

    Age 6 – Good & Plenty, or milk chocolate
    Age 16 – Reeces Peanut Butter Cups
    Age 26 – Swiss Chocolate bars
    Now – Dark chocolate (Belgian or French)

    Such is the circle of life.

  33. JCauto
    April 24th, 2008 | 7:01 am

    Age 6: People remember this shit?
    Age 16: Butterfingers
    Age 26: Starburst Fruit Twists (RIP)
    Now: Gummi Bears or Jelly Bellys

  34. Night Manager
    April 24th, 2008 | 7:40 am

    Age 6: Grape Bubblicious
    Age 16: Skor bars
    Age 26: Skittlebrau
    Age 30: Hazlenut Ritter bars

    ad #31: excellent. A long-standing naming problem is solved.

  35. fizter
    April 24th, 2008 | 7:51 am

    age 6: Nestea instant ice tea mix by the tablespoon
    age 16: 3muskateers – preferably frozen
    age 26: Lion
    age 30 (over): dark chocolate with real vanilla, not vanillan or essence (and belgian beer, sweet but that isnt really candy)

  36. CAG
    April 24th, 2008 | 8:37 am

    6: reese’s pb cups
    16: sweet tarts
    26: haribo gummi colas

  37. the baker
    April 24th, 2008 | 8:42 am

    what’s wrong with you people? since when are cake, condensed milk, dulce de leche, gum ice cream, or drugs (okay i make allowance for nose candy) considered candy?

    however, i am on the fence about tums. maybe this means i am getting old. i certainly feel grumpy.

  38. April 24th, 2008 | 9:01 am

    6: musk sticks (wikipedia it, fool)
    16: mars bars
    26: cigarettes
    30: musk sticks

  39. Vodka Blockage
    April 24th, 2008 | 9:15 am

    6: all candy
    16: Milky Way
    26: Afrika wafers
    30: dark chocolate (preferably See’s Candies)

  40. pirat 666
    April 24th, 2008 | 9:20 am

    6: Kit-Kat
    16: Toblerone
    26: Various Norwegian Chocolate
    30: A Swedish 23 year old treat/stunner, fittingly named Ms Candy (kid you not)!

  41. fyi
    April 24th, 2008 | 9:34 am

    6 years old: Necco wafers (chocolate)
    16 years old: Kit kat
    26 years old: (expensive) dark chocolate

  42. Mario
    April 24th, 2008 | 10:00 am

    6 years old: Got slapped if ate candy!
    16 years old: Lindt
    28 years old: Ecstasy

  43. Gin&Tonic
    April 24th, 2008 | 10:39 am

    6: Big League Chew
    16: Sour Patch Kids
    25 (Now): Almond Joy

  44. Platinumfinger
    April 24th, 2008 | 10:39 am

    6 years old: Smarties
    16 years old: Mars
    26 years old: more of both

  45. Mr. Obvious
    April 24th, 2008 | 11:01 am

    6 Sugar Loaf bubble gum
    16 Wax lips
    26 Jelly Bellies
    Now (38) Gummi peaches

  46. Jeremy
    April 24th, 2008 | 11:24 am

    6: none
    16: Coca-Cola
    26: skittles

  47. April 24th, 2008 | 1:11 pm

    6: Zephyr & Marmalade
    16: Ferrero Rocher
    26: Ice-Breakers Sours

  48. April 24th, 2008 | 1:55 pm

    How did I miss this?

    6- Snickers
    16- Snickers
    26- Damn thas old
    30- Only before a rigorous bout of lipo

  49. JasonL
    April 24th, 2008 | 2:34 pm

    6 – pixi stix
    16 – Whatchamacallit
    26 – Toblerone
    35 – Good Dark Chocolates / Dove Dark for convenience

    I have to say though, there is still a lot to be said for the whatchamacallit. It may be the best candy bar ever devised. They should sue Snickers Crunch for taste infringement.

  50. Half Azn
    April 24th, 2008 | 4:30 pm

    6: Coke Bottle Caps
    16: Coffee Crisp Choc Bar
    26: Dark Chocolate Almonds