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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wtf is this East Coast West coast Twizzlers v Red Vines?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

West Coast best coast once again.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No way people in Mississippi eat candy corn. It might be where all the candy corn from the rest of the country gets dumped, but no way anyone eats it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

It's the only time they eat any vegetables, so they have to fill up.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

There's no way this is accurate.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ferrero Rocher are candies? These are chocolate. It's a weird definition of candy to include them.

Anyway, the best candies for Halloween are Brussels sprouts.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Pretty soon, the kids won't have to worry about eating Brussels sprouts, because the Brussels sprouts will be eating them!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Wtf is Texas secretly bougie or something?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I grew up trick or treating in Texas. Never once did I get Fererro Rocher shit in my pillow sack.

I did get home made beef jerky on occasion. Spicy was always a disappointment, because my stomach can't handle much capsacin. I don't mean I don't like spicy stuff, I mean too much capsacin leads to ulceration and vomiting blood.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As someone from NM: what the hell are tootsie pops?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

A hard round lollipop with a tootsie roll center.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

What the fuck is wrong with Maine, New York, California, and Nevada?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Oh wow, look at Texas getting all bougie.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi-chew? If Alaska wasn't already detached I'd make a petition. Who the fuck likes hi-chew?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Who the fuck doesn't like hi-chew's?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sir we have Starbursts. We are civilized.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Starburst are the Great Value brand of Hi-Chew.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You have that backwards. Hi-chew are the hydrox of chewable fruit treats.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hydrox is the original. Oreo is the copycat

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Check asian grocery stores in your area they might have them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

It's a delicious fruit-flavored candy sort of like a Starburst, but softer and sweeter.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dum Dums so fitting for Florida

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Ah, the old folks home of America is finally getting hip for the youngsters by putting their hard candy on sticks.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Man. I. Tired. I kept reading it as Halloween candles and got so confused.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I mean this very sincerely and not as a joke. Just a friendly suggestion. You may want to get your eyes checked.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol. Yeah I actually am going to an optometrist soon.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good for you! I totally used to confuse "i" with "l" before getting my glasses. I was also shocked by how you can see individual leaves in a tree's foliage with glasses. Before that they just looked like one uniform green thing to me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I found out that I needed glasses while I was looking for a street.

Me: “Everyone keep an eye out for Willow Ave.”

Friend: “It’s right there. Next left.”

Me: “You can read that sign already?”

Friend 2: “You can’t? Why the fuck are you the one driving?”

I got glasses the next week.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Hawaiians are the only people who know what's up. Why is everyone else got bullshit and the Hawaiians are out there giving kids posh dinner party chocolate balls

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I once found Twizzlers in a german supermarket for a lot of money. I bought it out of curiosity.

Do you really like that stuff? I found it disgusting and threw it away.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Twizzlers; let's take the good things about red vines and make them all bad.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

A while back, I looked at a list of the most-widely-sold candy bars in the US, and it blew my mind how old they were.

Like, yes, they've seen formulas revised, and they aren't quite the same thing, but I'd have thought that the advent of technology would let people come up with new and interesting bars. Very few consumer products are as elderly as a lot of these and still selling widely.

I did a table with a list a while back -- the majority of popular bars are at least 70 years old. I don't want to do up a whole table right now, but let me pick a random one: Snickers.

Now, I've got nothing against Snickers. I like it. But Snickers hit the market in 1930. It's 93 years old. That means that in 93 years, we haven't been able to come up with anything sufficiently-better to displace it. That amazes me. In that period, we've seen radical changes to our diet and to technology. The refrigerator became widely deployed in the US, the freezer, the microwave. Automats came and went. Vending machines showed up. Year-round availability of many foods became the norm in grocery stores as transportation and storage capability improved. But the candy bar has remained surprisingly unchanging.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Also amazed, also content if Snickers survived for as long as possible.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's kind of how evolution works. Once you get something dialed in, it just kind of sticks around forever. Happens in other instances as well, like the fashion industry and Blue Jeans. Or Radio. When something works well, we just keep it as is.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Snickers: the crocodilian of snacks.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Op, you should add “uniquely” to the post title. That word in the title on the infographic is important. This is not showing the most popular Halloween candy, it’s showing candy that is much more popular there than the national average.

As an example, let’s say tootsie rolls are the 30th most popular candy in the us. But in the state of Stateland, it’s the 10th most popular, which makes it Stateland’s biggest deviation from the national popularity. This makes it Stateland’s most uniquely popular candy because it is much more popular there relative to the overall us. Snickers is actually the most popular in Stateland, but tootsie rolls show up on the chart as the state’s most uniquely popular Halloween candy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Georgia is my wife's fault for singlehandedly skewing the average.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Now, I do like candy corn, but if that's the favorite candy in your whole state, there's something wrong with your state

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Florida is Dum-Dums?! I love it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

So Alaska gives out Hi-Chews? As in the ones you find at convenience stores in Japan? (ハイチュウ)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm surprised people actually like candy corn

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I'd prefer it to licorice, which is on there in the form of Twizzlers and Red Vines.

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