The best Halloween candy according to our staff

As a Midwestern child, I discovered just a few exhausting classes about Halloween sweet alternate charges. Chocolate bars had been the dominant forex. To get your palms on, say, a 3 Musketeers, Milky Means or (my fave) Child Ruth bar, you needed to be keen to commerce two or three fun-size packages of Skittles, Life Savers or Smarties. My residing room-education in Halloween economics solely bolstered the concept that chocolate was the gold commonplace. All these years later, I’m nonetheless a sucker for a Child Ruth, allegedly named for President Grover Cleveland’s deceased daughter, although that was possible a intelligent ruse to keep away from paying royalties to the Sultan of Swat. People often examine Child Ruths to Snickers, however the former has a distinct structure altogether: The peanuts in a Child Ruth bar are usually not chopped and suspended in caramel; they’re complete and draped in chocolate, like a peanut cluster using atop a cloud of caramel-encased nougat, all gnarly and irresistible. — Tim Carman