Virginians Buy Over 26K Pounds Of Its Top Halloween Candy

MCLEAN, VA—We can assume people buy a lot of candy around Halloween to fill up trick-or-treaters' bags, but looking at the amounts are shocking. Candystore.com, an online candy seller, took sales data from 2007-2016 to determine just exactly how much each state buys and what their favorite candies are.

Snickers is a top seller in Virginia, which makes sense because it's the first state in the U.S. peanuts were grown in. It beat out last year's number one candy, Hot Tamales, for the top spot in 2017.

In all, Virginians bought 26,783 pounds of Snickers, 26,178 pounds of Hot Tamales and 18,726 pounds of candy corn. The top candy alone equates to the weight of over four average-sized cars.

DC sold an impressive amount of candy too. Consumers bought 26,092 pounds of M&M's, 21364 pounds of Tootsie Pops and 14,763 pounds of Blow Pops. (SIGN UP: Subscribe to a Virginia Patch News Alert and Newsletter. Or, if you have an iPhone, download the free Patch app.)

Compared to other states, these numbers are just a drop in the bucket. Virginia and DC are in the bottom 10 for the amount of its top candy sold, while Californians and Texans buy millions of pounds.

The online candy seller estimates Americans will buy $2.7 billion of candy this Halloween. Here's a map of each top-selling candy by state. See the full study here.

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