Whether your trick-or-treat, trunk-or-treat, or just buy bag after bag of the discounted stuff the day after, Halloween is a time for candy. It’s also a time for heated candy opinions. For example, the never-ending candy corn debate – invariably a snide comment from one side or the other will hit my Facebook feed in mid-September and will escalate like a Wild West bar brawl.

So what do you think is New York’s favorite Halloween candy? I’m a Reese’s Pieces guy myself, but I’ll go for anything peanut butter. Fortunately, we don’t have to guess. We have the cold, hard-shelled candy facts. With an estimated $3 billion to be spend on Halloween treats alone this year, let’s see what candy is the top earner in New York State.

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Each year CandyStore.com, an online candy retailer, combs through its data to find out the top selling spooky-season sweets in all of America and by individual states. For 2022, purchases are anticipated to be at a historic high, partly due to inflation and supply chain issues and also the post-lockdown urge to make up for lost time.

A chart following growing Halloween candy purchases in America. This year, sales are expected to top $3b again.
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According to CandyStore.com, one of my favorites tops the list for the entire country – Reese’s Cups. Skittles are second, and the all-time-classic M&M’s are third. Looking at the top ten, it seems that most of America prefers sweet to sour. Does New York follow that trend with its top three?

A list of the top 10 bestselling candies in America for Halloween. Reese's Cups takes the top prize.
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Does New York Prefer Sweet Or Sour?

A map of America showing each state's most popular candy for 2022. New York is Sour Patch Kids
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Both, actually. New York’s number one Halloween candy of 2022 is Sour Patch Kids. New Yorkers buy 136,729 pounds of the little guys. At number two is Hot Tamales, and the ever-controversial candy corn rounds off the top three.

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So, are you going to stock up on the popular candies or maybe go against the curve? (More peanut butter candy, please.)  Just whatever you do, don’t grab a bag of circus peanuts; they were ranked America’s least favorite Halloween treat.

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