It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another Eating Styles poll! This week’s theme: Halloween candy! What is your favorite type of candy to buy for the kiddies (or get dropped in your plastic pumpkin bucket, you adult wierdo)? Do you like the decadence of a Reese’s? The fresh pop of Skittles? The anticipation of a [...]

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It’s Wednesday, which means it’s Would You Rather time. Today we test the fortitude of your stomach against two of the nastiest Halloween candies known to man. Here is the scenario: you are locked in a windowless room with nothing but a case of bottled water and a toilet. You cannot leave until you complete one of [...]

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Preparing for Halloween and the unending conga line of costumed critters poised to beset your abode gets tougher every year. What constitutes a worthy handout in this day and age is vastly different compared to the quaint homemade snacks delved out decades ago. Popcorn ball? What are you, Amish? The sooner you realize you’re no [...]

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Method Man teams up with Sour Patch Kids for his latest song/video (the company has posted it on the official Sour Patch Kids YouTube page). Of course he’s not the only guy to rap about Sour Patch Kids.

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Despite their confusing, avant-garde commercials of late, Skittles’ well-established, slightly trippy presence alongside forerunners M&Ms, Snickers, and Milky Ways have made them a Halloween classic. In grade school, my friends and I engaged in a curious and meaningless practice – we would dump out our Skittles, organize them into rainbow order, and eat each color [...]

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Well, anyone, male or female can still buy it, but they have quite the in-your-face male targeted marketing campaign, all the way down to the wrappers. So what is prompting this post? While perusing the “international” aisle at my local Harris Teeter, I noticed a small section with candy bars from Britain. One bar in [...]

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Back in early 2009, Butterfinger, clearly hoping to jump on the energy drink bandwagon, introduced Butterfinger Buzz, a Butterfinger candy bar with”as much caffeine as the leading energy drink.” And then? Well I don’t know what happened then. Do you? The product was released with not enough fanfare for me to originally notice. They launched [...]

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It’s been more than 40 years since Tootsie Roll Pops first posed the question: “How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop?” Since then, countless children (and college students) have attempted to answer this question, with mixed results. Have any of you had the patience to find [...]

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Okay, so I was going to do a poll on how you eat your Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, but these early ’90s TV ads led me to realize the truth – there’s no wrong way to eat a Reese’s!

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