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Candy Tier List Maker
Rank candy from Snickers and Reese's to Skittles and Sour Patch Kids. Settle the best chocolate and best chewy candy once and for all.
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These 24 candies load into the maker above. Each write-up covers what the candy is and what to weigh when you rank it. Facts were last checked on .
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Snickers
A bar of nougat topped with caramel and peanuts, covered in milk chocolate. Mars introduced it in 1930 and named it after the Mars family's favorite horse. It's widely considered the best-selling candy bar in the world.
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Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
A peanut butter filling in chocolate, created on November 15, 1928, by H. B. Reese, a former dairy farmer and shipping foreman for Milton S. Hershey. Reese started his own candy business after losing his job.
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Skittles
Multicolored, fruit-flavored lentil-shaped sweets from the Wrigley Company, a division of Mars. Each hard sugar shell is stamped with a lowercase 'S,' and the flavor collections include Tropical, Wild Berry and Sour.
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M&M's
Sugar-coated chocolate candies made by Mars since 1941, each printed with a white lowercase "m." The original filling was semi-sweet chocolate, before other varieties were introduced.
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Twix
A chocolate bar from Mars made of a biscuit with toppings such as caramel and milk chocolate. It comes with one, two or four bars per wrapper, depending on whether you buy mini, standard or king size.
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Kit Kat
Created by Rowntree's of York, England, and now made by Nestlé except in the United States, where Hershey makes it under licence. Each finger has three layers of wafer and snaps off separately.
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Sour Patch Kids
Soft gummy candy coated in invert sugar and sour sugar. Tartaric and citric acids give a sharp burst of tartness, and the Extreme version adds malic acid and is considered the sourest.
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Starburst
A box-shaped, fruit-flavored soft taffy from the Wrigley Company, originally known as Opal Fruits. It was introduced in the United Kingdom in 1959, and the regular flavors include cherry, lemon, orange and strawberry.
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Milky Way
Malt-flavored milk chocolate-covered snack made by Mars since 1923, and Frank Mars's first chocolate bar. The American bar has nougat and caramel, and it is sold as the Mars bar outside the United States.
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3 Musketeers
A Mars candy bar sold in the United States and Canada, made of fluffy, whipped nougat covered in chocolate. It is similar to the American Milky Way, without the caramel topping.
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Twizzlers
A licorice-type candy first produced in 1929 by Young and Smylie, a company founded in 1845, making it one of the oldest confectionery firms in the United States. It is now part of Hershey.
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Haribo Gold-Bears
Haribo created the first gummy candy in 1922 in the form of little gummy bears, later reworked into the Goldbear, its flagship product. The company name stands for Hans Riegel Bonn.
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Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bar
The flagship bar of The Hershey Company, which calls it "The Great American Chocolate Bar." It was first sold in 1900, making it one of the oldest chocolate bars on this list.
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Nerds
Launched in 1982 by the Sunmark Corporation under the Willy Wonka Candy Company brand. The boxes usually hold two flavors, each in a separate compartment, and the candy rolled out nationally in 1984.
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Jolly Rancher
An American brand of sweet hard candy, gummies, lollipops and sour bites, originally created in Colorado in the 1950s. The Hershey Company has owned the brand since 1996.
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Swedish Fish
A fish-shaped, chewy candy first developed in 1957 by the Swedish candy producer Malaco for the U.S. market. It comes in a variety of colors and flavors.
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Butterfinger
A layered, crisp peanut butter core with a chocolate-like coating, which can't be called chocolate since it has no cocoa butter. Otto Schnering of the Curtiss Candy Company invented it in 1923.
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Warheads
A brand of sour candy known for an unusually intense sour taste, with an acidic outer coating. It became popular in the 1990s, and its mascot, Wally Warhead, has puckered lips.
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Airheads
A taffy candy brand created on August 7, 1985, by Steve Bruner, and now owned by Perfetti Van Melle. It is sold nationwide in the United States and Canada in 16 different flavors.
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Laffy Taffy
Small, individually wrapped taffy rectangles in fruit flavors such as banana, strawberry and grape. Each wrapper has a short question-and-answer joke printed on it, which explains the "Laffy" in the name.
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Tootsie Roll
A chocolate taffy candy made in the United States since 1907, with qualities of both caramel and taffy without being exactly either. It was the first penny candy to be individually wrapped in America.
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Mike and Ike
A brand of fruit-flavored candies first introduced in 1940 by Just Born. The origin of the candy's name remains unknown, despite plenty of conjecture.
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Peeps
A marshmallow confection made by Just Born since 1953 in the shape of chicks, bunnies and other animals. Promoted mainly at Easter, Peeps have been available year-round since 2014, with the arrival of Peeps Minis.
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Candy Corn
A candy typically divided into three sections of different colors, and a staple of the fall season and Halloween in North America.
Candy tier list questions
Which candies on this list are chocolate bars?
Snickers, Twix, Kit Kat, Milky Way, 3 Musketeers, Butterfinger and the Hershey's bar are the classic bar-style picks here. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and M&M's are also chocolate, but in cups and shells.
Are Milky Way and 3 Musketeers the same candy?
Not exactly. The American Milky Way has nougat and caramel, while 3 Musketeers has whipped nougat in chocolate without the caramel. The global Milky Way bar outside the United States is similar to 3 Musketeers.
How should I rank candy?
Flavor, texture, how well it holds up as a snack and nostalgia are the usual criteria. Many people split their candy tier lists into chocolate and fruity or sour categories, since those tastes are hard to compare directly.
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