C&B Debate: What’s the Best Halloween Candy?

BUCK: Spooky times out there. We’ll 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 might…

CLAY: Oh, we should ask Trump for his candy endorsements?

BUCK: I think we gotta have former POTUS weigh in. I’m gonna tell you right now Trump is a Reese’s Pieces guy ’cause he knows what’s up. He’s got good taste. He knows. That is the best Halloween candy, all right?

CLAY: Oh, man. I’m gonna… So are you saying like Reese’s Pieces or Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups?

BUCK: Ooooh. I’m Team Reese’s for the Halloween Candy, but I’m not entirely sure whether I go cups or the little M&M candies.

CLAY: So, I’m going cups. I think the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup is the greatest Halloween candy. That’s my first-round draft pick. My personal, I’m a big peanut M&M guy. But if you told me, “Hey, what is the overall best quality you can get in your Halloween bag? What are you gonna steal from the kids?” the Reese’s 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 they’re calls Peeps at Easter time, they’re never… They look cool but you eat them, you’re like, “What is this?”

CLAY: (laughing)

BUCK: It’s like I’m eating Styrofoam packing. Yeah, that’s right, I’m 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, it’s like liquid cement in your mouth I’m very anti-Rolos. So Reese’s Pieces, obviously Skittles, anything in that realm for Halloween, fantastic. Snickers, Three Musketeers. I actually think I’d take Three Musketeers over Snickers. That’s 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 —

BUCK: Yeah.

CLAY: — in Trump Tower and get candy?

BUCK: Yeah, in Trump Tower in New York? I’m sure he gave out or maybe some of the staff gave out candy.

CLAY: No, I mean himself. When was the last time? I’m 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, Reese’s 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 — I’m @ClayTravis — and the vast majority of you are saying Reese’s 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 I’ve 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 —

CLAY: You know, I just wrote down KitKat. I think I should have put that in there instead of Twix.

BUCK: I’d take KitKat over Twix. I don’t think that’s a tough call.

CLAY: Our producer, Ali, sent me a Twix — sent us a Twix text; and I was like, “Oh, Twixes are really good,” but it distracted me from the KitKat. I disrespected the KitKat. I apologize.

BUCK: And then you got the Nestle Crunch bar.

CLAY: That’s also good.

BUCK: — in Florida, Florida coming through big, I forgot — it was huge. I can still eat that because it’s rice.

CLAY: Delicate diet boy here.

BUCK: Yeah, you gotta watch the gluten when you got celiac disease. Very important. Candy corn’s 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 Texas’ choice.

CLAY: We love you, Texas. Great state, awful candy choice.

BUCK: I don’t know what’s going on. I mean, we know it’s not our wonderful listeners in the Houston area, for example, they’re 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 they’re kids, when they’re adults, you name it. I’m 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 big… I don’t know. They were bigger than, say, a half dollar — 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.

It’s like the worst candy ever or you bite it and it’s kind of chalky. I think that I have disrespected KitKat. I would like to apologize to KitKat nation. I also think payday under rated, I’m a big payday guy paydays are tough to beat I know that’s 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. I’m sick and got my mom’s 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 Reese’s 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.