Halloween candy is so expensive no one is buying it this year
There was a certain type of malt ball I would buy for mom. You know how it is, if you’re someone with a good relationship with your parents. The maltballs disappeared from stores for several months and then suddenly reappeared. I bring her these maltballs again and she’s thrilled. She guiltily texts me later to say she threw them away because they wouldn’t melt in her mouth.
Weird. Chocolate that doesn’t melt at 98.6?
I bought them again to try them. I don’t know what it is, but it’s not chocolate. And it doesn’t melt in the mouth, she’s right. Sugar wax, devoid of flavor. I too trashed the malt balls.
So what brand? No need to hide that, shame them and do everyone a favor.
No clue. Bulk food, by the pound item.
I dunno but I fucking hate milk duds because they suck. Maybe them.
Milk Duds aren’t malt balls, though. They’re chocolate covered caramels.
You might be thinking of Whoppers.
Whoppers taste like industrial waste, how that product still exists I cannot understand
I love those things, but I also really like malt powder in general. What i don’t understand is how Hershey Kiss still exists those taste like vomit.
Those suck too
Protien poweder my brother let me try from months if not more ago tasted like chocolate milk, got the same kind a few weeks ago and it tastes like tree bark.
you mean DIRT.
I too trashed the malt balls.
Both verbally and literally.
If you have a body temperature of 98.6F it might b a mild fever.
Haha, yeah, I thought this for sure was on the list of things everyone just knows. That list is shrinking every day
Yeah I mean it’s one of the few things that’s a pretty universal part of the human experience
Yeah I mean it’s one of the few things that’s a pretty universal part of the human experience
It’s not the correct body temperature for most people, hence my comment
My temperature is consistently 36.5-36.6 on waking. It only goes up to 37 when I’m sick or if it’s a hot day or I’ve had an intense workout
Check your temperature in the morning. I’d be shocked if it was 37C every day
How are you taking it?
Rectally then orally, the same as everyone else.
Armpit measurement
In this case, I don’t understand why it’s profitable to enshittify candy like this. The only reason to have it is for the good taste
I can’t believe I’m the only one who gave up on cheap candy because it just wasn’t good. While I don’t eat much good candy, I still eat some despite the higher price because it’s good. Aren’t people like this? Or do too many get stuck in then addiction and not realize it’s just no longer good enough to be worth it?
The point isn’t profit making through competitive better products, but rather taking existing products and making them as terrible as possible while gaslighting the public that it’s still a great product. That way we get worse of everything and the people making everything worse get richer via higher profit margins and the higher stock evaluations that buys them.
Basically, most people realize their product is no longer good, but participating in its consumption is more rewarding to our lizard brains than the product itself. So people buy crap products just to get the feeling of using them as they did in the past.
Unfortunately that’s just the way we’re wired. And every nepo baby with an MBA has driven a truck through that psychological loop hole, destroying anything of value that the US was capable of making best.
No joke. Everythings been in decline for over a decade, but we’re too in love with the ritual of consumption to care what we’re now consuming is no longer of any useful quality. Something our government now 100% reflects.
There will be a time when that ends. And it’s coming soon. As no one born into this mess gets joy from consuming something of so obvious low quality. They never got to enjoy the good product our rituals came from, just the corpse of what our rituals now lament.
Enshitification is the natural end result of treating companies as if they are sharks, that will die if they stop moving, instead of like people who have natural ups and downs. Our “anything other than growth is death” mindset by which companies are valued and run in spirit of is ridiculous. Its literally the societal equivalent of someone having a severe drug addiction. The underlying logic, or lack thereof, is the same: things cant always be better than they were five minutes ago. Refusing to accept that is how you end up destroying your body or destroying Americas favorite candy bar company or whatever else
I can’t believe I’m the only one who gave up on cheap candy because it just wasn’t good.
I pumped the brakes on a lot of things, including candy. Every once in a while when I try brands I had as a kid, I keep thinking something seems “off”, but I have little idea of what it is. This applies to cereal, too.
For cereal, I have a hard time getting past how small boxes are getting. How is it that I used to get cereal for the family and a box would last a while but now as a single person, most boxes cost way too much yet don’t last the week.
My selection of cereal is pretty limited these days, because I only select from the normal size, even if they’re now labeled “mega”. Cheerios are my favorite, and luckily they’re usually one of the few
cheapflation, using crappier ingredients to lower production costs.
Yep, fair warning if you see wording like chocolatey or chocolate flavored, it ain’t chocolate.
And even then, if it’s in the US, their definition of chocolate if fairly lax to begin with.
They still call Kraft Dinner “Mac and Cheese” hahaha
Kind of like the label “cheese food”.
This is why I always check the ingredients list.
with regards to Hershey’s chocolate, it might actually be an improvement.
i believe the hersheys one adds a chemical into thier chocolate to make it taste bad, i think butyric acid.
Surprised that the article didn’t mention Cadbury’s Marvellous Creations, which introduced and marketed as chocolate bars that contained more unconventional candy like jelly beans and popping candy.
In reality, it was a way to reduce costs by reducing the amount of actual chocolate in each product.
I bought a bunch of Halloween candy like I do every year to get ready for the holiday. And like I do every year like an idiot, I start eating this junk.
The biggest thing I’ve noticed this year is just how sugary sweet all the chocolate candies are.
It doesn’t matter if it’s KitKat, Twix, coffee crisp, aero or mars … they almost all taste the same amount of sugar sweetness and hardly any chocolate flavor.
It doesn’t matter if it’s KitKat, Twix, coffee crisp, aero or mars … they almost all taste the same amount of sugar sweetness and hardly any chocolate flavor.
All brand name bars seem to feel/taste kind of waxy, at least the ones I’ve tried again lately.
Also, it seems like there is more air? I don’t know what the weight used to be, but things like Reese’s Peanut butter cups seem to be less dense than I remember.
shrinkflation, or cheapflation, they use the air them to make them look fuller. sometimes you can taste the cheaper ingredients too, plus they use more sugar or a sweetner to hide how bad it taste.
Of course it doesn’t help that they’re all owned by like three giant candy corporations.
Last year I went to my local chocolatier, but they didn’t have anything suitable for giving out for Halloween, like nothing individually wrapped. I’d love to support and advertise a local business, but alas.
That’s the other loss over the years. You can’t hand out your own home-packaged or custom packaged candy.
Years ago, I used to see several people in the neighbourhood who handed out little packettes of their own candies. I was starting to think of doing the same thing but never had the chance. You buy candy in bulk, then just package it all into small portions to hand out. Some people would also throw in an apple, orange, muffins, little cakes, or their own home made candies or cookies. All that is banned now and parents won’t accept them when they bring their kids to the door. All candies have to be commercial grade store bought ‘Halloween’ candies. Anything else is treated like poison … parents freak out that strangers might put razor blades in custom packaged candy … but no one ever thinks that a factory can leave metal parts inside a tiny candy.
And they wonder why no one trusts each other any more.
BTW, what authority placed the ban? That’s incredibly authoritarian and pearl-clutchy. For everything wrong with my area we at least don’t do silly things like banning homemade treats (but only in the specific context of trick-or-treat on October 31st?)
Not officially banned … just a whole bunch of stuff from the 80s and 90s where everyone freaked out and thought strangers were putting razor blades, hyperdermic needles and metal scraps in food to poison kids … none of it was true (it might have happened in a few instances but not widely)
Since then, its recommended everywhere not to accept homemade treats unless you trust the people you get them from.
you dont even accept homemade food from a co-workers, to unsafe and unsanitary.
I don’t think that there’s any authority that “banned” it, but the whole “stranger danger” panic of the '80s has made sure that nobody will ever eat your homemade treats, and it might attract unwanted law enforcement attention if any kids do eat them and become sick (even if the sickness is unrelated). Too many tales of poison, razor blades, etc inserted into candy.
I do remember getting home with my Halloween haul, and my parents going through it, throwing out anything homemade and anything with a damaged wrapper.
Growing up in the 90s, I remember getting homemade treats. But then we also knew everyone on the street.
I also remember the “check the candy for drugs!” thing, as if anyone was giving away free ecstasy in Halloween candy. I think the only corroborated “razors in candy” story was the parent doing it to their own kids.
people dont want potentially drugs, poison, sharp objects laced with it thats why.
omg freshly made carmel apples.
I used to get those when I was a kid in the 80s. There was always two or three people that would make them and give them out … definitely a Halloween treat that is lost to people today.
Haven’t seen or tried them in years.
cheap too. apples and sugar are cheap. being fancy and adding the nuts probably doubles the price but its well worth it. ooh and then chocalate dip mmmmmm
What do you mean “ban”? Where is there some authority over Halloween? Do they cite you if you offer unapproved treats or wear unauthorized costumes?
You are right … it isn’t banned … it’s just not recommended.
Parents walking Halloween with their kids will refuse receiving anything that is custom packaged or homemade … most if not all parents will only accept store bought official ‘halloween’ candies and chocolates.
It is not banned in the formal sense, according to their comment to me above
Oh my local chocolatier doesn’t do that kind of candy. I go for their nice thick cup of sipping cocoa
they added alot more sugar or syrup. its the same with cookies, it so much sugar you can taste the granules. like trader joes gingersnaps originally sold in a plastic bag, now its in those tubs, its way more sugary.i dont eat those brand name chocolate, i eat pure 90%cacoa bars mostly. WF sells the “naturally sweetened” “twizzler” and gummy bear equivalent(imported from albanea) you can tell these are far less sweeter than the brand names ones.
“Milk brown cocoa type product”
Next year:
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Milkbrowncocoatype product”Brown cow water
I will never get the whole candy bar bit. Candy means hard candy to me. I guess I can’t call them chocolate bars anymore given this story.
its not really chocolate when its mostly “MILK, or white choclate” which most candy chocolate is. people cant tolerate dark chocolates bitterness.
Where I’m at candy just means sugary things that aren’t cake/pie/cookies. Could be chocolatey and/or fruity.
Good, dairy has no place in chocolate, or in any foods other than the calf who it was meant for.
Edit: Oh. They’re taking the chocolate out of the chocolate. Huh. Disappointing.
Ah my favorite: Brown Milk Bar inspired by chocolate
Trump sued John Milk into oblivion for the rights to his chocolate empire and part of the agreement is that he will quietly drop off the chocolate labels and Trump will quietly slide in. I hope you enjoy your new golden Trump Chocolate coming to a Hershey bar near you!
