C&B Debate: Whatโs the Best Halloween Candy?
29 Oct 2021
BUCK: Spooky times out there. Weโll be telling you some of our favorite Halloween movies and maybe even have a Halloween candy throwdown in the third hour. You candy corn fans better get ready for the noise, ready for the ruckus
CLAY: Are we gonna be the first show in history to go from the president to a candy debate in the space of, like, 10 minutes? I think we might.
BUCK: To go from? We mightโฆ
CLAY: Oh, we should ask Trump for his candy endorsements?
BUCK: I think we gotta have former POTUS weigh in. Iโm gonna tell you right now Trump is a Reeseโs Pieces guy โcause he knows whatโs up. Heโs got good taste. He knows. That is the best Halloween candy, all right?
CLAY: Oh, man. Iโm gonnaโฆ So are you saying like Reeseโs Pieces or Reeseโs Peanut Butter Cups?
BUCK: Ooooh. Iโm Team Reeseโs for the Halloween Candy, but Iโm not entirely sure whether I go cups or the little M&M candies.
CLAY: So, Iโm going cups. I think the Reeseโs Peanut Butter Cup is the greatest Halloween candy. Thatโs my first-round draft pick. My personal, Iโm a big peanut M&M guy. But if you told me, โHey, what is the overall best quality you can get in your Halloween bag? What are you gonna steal from the kids?โ the Reeseโs Peanut Butter Cups are way up there along with the M&Ms.
BUCK: You know what I always found was kind of a trap and not worth it? The same way that I think theyโre calls Peeps at Easter time, theyโre neverโฆ They look cool but you eat them, youโre like, โWhat is this?โ
CLAY: (laughing)
Below are my top four Halloween candies. Vote below which is the best or fight with everyone else about candy I disrespected in the comments.
โ Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) October 29, 2021
BUCK: Itโs like Iโm eating Styrofoam packing. Yeah, thatโs right, Iโm calling out the Peeps. But beyond that, Rolo. Rolos, you look at them and they look sort of gooey and yummy on the packaging and then you try to chew through those things, itโs like liquid cement in your mouth Iโm very anti-Rolos. So Reeseโs Pieces, obviously Skittles, anything in that realm for Halloween, fantastic. Snickers, Three Musketeers. I actually think Iโd take Three Musketeers over Snickers. Thatโs gonna upset some people.
CLAY: When do you think was the last time Trump himself actually gave out Halloween on Halloween was? Before he was president, could you knock on his door โ
BUCK: Yeah.
CLAY: โ in Trump Tower and get candy?
BUCK: Yeah, in Trump Tower in New York? Iโm sure he gave out or maybe some of the staff gave out candy.
CLAY: No, I mean himself. When was the last time? Iโm sure we can get Don Jr. on. I bet there was a point where you might knock on the Trump family door and Trump might come out. I mean, you went to prom with Ivanka. Did you get the boutonniere there for the picture?
BUCK: Stories for another time.
CLAY: (laughing)
BUCK: Stories for another time.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
CLAY: I put up my power ranking of top candies. You can go vote in it, Buck maybe can come up with his own four and put them out. Maybe we can have a head-to-head battle down the stretch run. My top four Halloween candies, by the way, Reeseโs Peanut Butter Cups, Peanut M&Ms, Snickers, and Twix. And thousands of you have voted in the first three minutes that this thing was up on Twitter โ Iโm @ClayTravis โ and the vast majority of you are saying Reeseโs Peanut Butter Cups are the best Halloween candy.
BUCK: So this is where we have, Clay, this chart that case from Influenster about the parts of the country that have, like, the highest preference for different candies. And Iโve gotta say this was interesting. First of all, California goes with Lifesavers, which, to me, hard candy?
CLAY: No. Poor choice. Poor choice.
BUCK: Get outta here. Gotta give credit to Montana. They give KitKat as their outlier โ
CLAY: You know, I just wrote down KitKat. I think I should have put that in there instead of Twix.
BUCK: Iโd take KitKat over Twix. I donโt think thatโs a tough call.
CLAY: Our producer, Ali, sent me a Twix โ sent us a Twix text; and I was like, โOh, Twixes are really good,โ but it distracted me from the KitKat. I disrespected the KitKat. I apologize.
BUCK: And then you got the Nestle Crunch bar.
CLAY: Thatโs also good.
BUCK: โ in Florida, Florida coming through big, I forgot โ it was huge. I can still eat that because itโs rice.
CLAY: Delicate diet boy here.
BUCK: Yeah, you gotta watch the gluten when you got celiac disease. Very important. Candy cornโs gluten-free; yet if I were on an island, and that is all I had to eat, you would see the Buckster losing some LBs. That is Texasโ choice.
CLAY: We love you, Texas. Great state, awful candy choice.
BUCK: I donโt know whatโs going on. I mean, we know itโs not our wonderful listeners in the Houston area, for example, theyโre not candy corn, folks, but the one that I have to throw the most shade toward, New York, my home state, is a Sweet Tart bastion. What kind of commie nonsense is this? Nobody wants Sweet Tarts to be the top candy in their bag when theyโre kids, when theyโre adults, you name it. Iโm just not buying it.
CLAY: I remember having Sweet Tarts when I was a kid in the movie theater and you remember what it was like when you get those bigโฆ I donโt know. They were bigger than, say, a half dollar โ you know, the circle Sweet Tarts. I think there were like three in a package, but if you lick those things for too long, then your tongue starts to bleed.
Itโs like the worst candy ever or you bite it and itโs kind of chalky. I think that I have disrespected KitKat. I would like to apologize to KitKat nation. I also think payday under rated, Iโm a big payday guy paydays are tough to beat I know thatโs a minority opinion.
BUCK: We got a problem, buddy. You know what the preferred candy of the state of Tennessee, your home state is? Candy corns, dude.
CLAY: No.
BUCK: You gotta a lot of work to do in Tennessee.
CLAY: This is really disappointing.
BUCK: And you go big for Halloween. We were all gonna be out there. Iโm sick and got my momโs birthday but we got producer Ali out there at the big party this weekend the Clay Travis household. You go all out on Halloween. You gotta spread the good news about Reeseโs Pieces and about Twix and about KitKat. You cannot have your fellow Tennesseans neck deep in candy corn. This is madness.
CLAY: My wife got a tent put in this year for the backyard for our Halloween party. It has spilled outside of the house itself and now is into the backyard, which is pretty wild.
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