I however got some good use out of it. I tried to log each piece of candy the boys received. The main hurdles to overcome where cold hands and spider man/hulk masks preventing the boys from seeing what candy they received.
SweetSpot Maps
As entries were posted to the Candy Tracker app, pins were placed on the SweetSpot Real-Time Candy Tracker map. This allowed you to see where the best candy was being doled out. Below is a review of each of the spots that were logged.
We hit a total of four places Halloween night. I did have one other person log a few pieces of candy and also pasted his maps below.
First stop of the evening was the Trunk-or-Treak over at the Liberty Clinic. As you can see it was a pretty decent score. We received 2 bags of pretzels indicated by the red pins. You'll notice the first instance of my GPS being a little off with the wild Yellow pin (sucker) off in the distance.
We did score 2 Twix, a Snickers, and a Milky Way shown by the green pins. All and all not a bad haul. Some of the trunks were decorated really cool. We also scored 3 frisbees.
Second stop of the evening was the Liberty Square. The businesses around the square hand out candy, the fireman park a fire truck and the police help direct traffic. We really like the square because you get a good amount of candy, it starts when its still daylight, and is pretty easy to guide the kids around the block. You can tell my GPS was really struggling here because all of the business are located around that center green square labeled Liberty Square. You can see the pins are all over the board.
We found some great variety here and we had only one low rated candy with a sucker rated a 3.
The third stop of the evening was another Trunk-or-Treat located a couple blocks from the square. Here we landed a dreaded Peanut Butter Chew. Other than that we made out like bandits. Good quality candy here. Oh and we also scored some pumpkin bookmarks.
Final stop of the evening was Grandma's street. Lots of yellows here in Grandma's neighborhood. It may have been that my hands were getting cold and I was getting tired of chasing the boys around. Anyway again we had some good scores mixed in with some so-so candy.
Below are a couple maps from a friend. He logged 6 pieces of candy total.
Candy Tiers
We could argue about the best candy for a long time. Most normal people would agree that Reeses Peanut Butter Cups are the best and we have the Candy Bracket to prove it. In an attempt to truly gauge the awesomeness of the 2014 Halloween Haul I split the candy into groups as follows:
- Tier 1 - High Quality candy, the best of the best. Always chocolate. Nothing fruity makes this Tier. Strawberry Starburst is the only fruity candy that almost cracks Tier 1 barrier.
- Examples: Twix, Snickers, Milkway
- Surprises: Milk Duds, Reeses Pieces
- Tier 2 - The second best candy. You eat this candy when all the Tier 1 candy is gone. Every once in a while you spread in a Tier 2 piece among the Tier 1 consumption. The high end fruity candy is here.
- Examples: Skittles, Starburst, Tootsie Rolls
- Surprises: Butterfinger (get stuck in your teeth), Sour patch Kids, 3 Muskateers (chocolate but not good enough for Tier 1)
- Tier 3 - Starting to scrape bottom here. These are pieces you pick up and you actually try to convince yourself its a good idea to consume this candy
- Examples: Mike and Ikes, Air heads, Nerds
- Surprises: Dots (chewy fruit erasers), Sweet Tarts, Twizzlers (flavored plastic chews)
- Tier 4 - Just head straight to the garbage with these. No use trying
- Examples: Gobstoppers, Almond Joy, PB Chews
- Surprises: Banana Laffy Taffy, Peeps (just dont work on Halloween)
- Bags - Items that were in bags, but not in other Tiers.
- Examples: Pretzles, Fruit Snacks, Cheezits
- Surprises: Cheese Balls
- Suckers - All suckers were grouped together
- Tootsie Roll Pops
- Dum Dums
The good news is that we received a lot of Tier 1 candy. Most normal people bring out the good stuff for Halloween.
Findings
- A full 61% of all candy was in Tier 1 and 2.
- Suckers were pretty huge this year coming in as 14% of all candy received.
- 8.56% of the candy is going straight to the trash (Tier 4 stuff). We actually got 3 Sticks of gum.
- Hourly averages indicate the 6PM was the best time for scoring good quality candy
- 5PM Average Rating: 6.08
- 6PM Average Rating: 6.8
- 7PM Average Rating: 6.16
Candy Ratings
Here is how the candy rated over all. Milky Way scored the highest average rating. Not just because its my favorite, but because its the best. Laffy Taffy with a surprise 7 rating. I chalk this up to not knowing we landed a Banana Laffy Taffy.| Item | Avg Rating |
|---|---|
| Milky Way | 8.50 |
| Snickers | 8.14 |
| Twix | 8.13 |
| Tootsie Roll Pop | 8.00 |
| Reeses Pieces | 8.00 |
| Kit Kat | 8.00 |
| Crunch Bar | 7.40 |
| Laffy Taffy | 7.00 |
| Milk Duds | 7.00 |
| Butterfinger | 7.00 |
| Whoppers | 7.00 |
| Skittles | 6.75 |
| Tootsie Roll | 6.20 |
| Starburst | 6.00 |
| 3 Muskateers | 5.75 |
| Twizzlers | 5.50 |
| Other | 4.83 |
| Sucker | 4.78 |
| Popcorn | 4.50 |
| Dots | 3.00 |
| Almond Joy | 2.00 |
| PB Chews | 2.00 |
| Pretzels | 2.00 |
Non-Candy Notes
We scored a few pieces of non-candy. One of the best scores was the Glow in the Dark Skeleton. The pumpkin bookmarks were a hit with the boys, as well as the Ice/Heat packs we received from The Liberty Clinic. We also scored 3 new Orange Full Size Frisbees. This is easily one of the best Non-Candy Halloween nights we've had.
Candy Counts
Total Counts are show in the table below.
222 Pieces counted overall. This does not count a "few" pieces we enjoyed celebrating the epic Halloween Haul. Still its a good gauge of how much free candy the boys brought home.
Here are the counts for each Tier.
| Type | Count | Tier |
|---|---|---|
| Snickers | 19 | 1 |
| Milky Way | 16 | 1 |
| M & M | 5 | 1 |
| Kit Kat | 3 | 1 |
| Crunch Bar | 8 | 1 |
| Reeses Pieces | 1 | 1 |
| Twix | 24 | 1 |
| Reeses PB | 4 | 1 |
| Milk Duds | 1 | 1 |
| Butterfinger | 4 | 2 |
| Peanut M&M | 1 | 2 |
| Goodbar | 1 | 2 |
| Whoppers | 4 | 2 |
| Sour Patch Kids | 2 | 2 |
| 3 Muskateers | 8 | 2 |
| Starburst | 8 | 2 |
| Starburst Tropical | 1 | 2 |
| Laffy Taffy Straw | 2 | 2 |
| Laffy Taffy Apple | 1 | 2 |
| Laffy Taffy Cherry | 1 | 2 |
| Skittles | 6 | 2 |
| Wildberry Skittles | 2 | 2 |
| Tootsie Rolls - Midgees | 8 | 2 |
| Tootsie Rolls - logs | 4 | 2 |
| Tootsie Rolls - Skinny Logs | 3 | 2 |
| Twizzlers | 4 | 3 |
| Flavored Tootsie Rolls - orange | 2 | 3 |
| Flavored Tootsie Rolls - Blue | 1 | 3 |
| Flavored Tootsie Rolls - Green | 4 | 3 |
| Flavored Tootsie Rolls - yellow | 1 | 3 |
| Mike and Ike | 1 | 3 |
| Air head | 1 | 3 |
| Lemon Head | 1 | 3 |
| Nerds - grape | 2 | 3 |
| Nerds - strawberry | 1 | 3 |
| Scooby Sour Apple | 1 | 3 |
| Krispie Treat | 2 | 3 |
| Dots | 1 | 3 |
| Sweet Tarts | 1 | 3 |
| Gobstoppers | 4 | 4 |
| Gum Sticks | 3 | 4 |
| Peeps | 2 | 4 |
| Almond Joy | 1 | 4 |
| Mystery Pixie Stick | 2 | 4 |
| PB Chew | 1 | 4 |
| Banana Laffy Taffy | 1 | 4 |
| Life Save Gummy | 1 | 4 |
| Double Bubble | 2 | 4 |
| Bubble Yum | 1 | 4 |
| Peppermint | 1 | 4 |
| Pretzles | 3 | Bags |
| Fruit Snacks | 5 | Bags |
| Cheese Balls | 2 | Bags |
| Cheezits | 2 | Bags |
| Glow in the Dark Skeleton | 1 | Non Candy |
| Bookmarks | 2 | Non Candy |
| Ice/Heat Packs | 2 | Non Candy |
| Frisbee | 3 | Non Candy |
| Mini Tootsie Roll Pop | 12 | Sucker |
| Tootsie Pops | 2 | Sucker |
| Dum Dums | 15 | Sucker |
| Jolly Rancher Pops | 2 | Sucker |
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