Candylicious: Round 6, Semifinals

[Rain Man]

Only 8 candies remain. Pick your preferred candy from each pair.

Heat 1: Rolo versus Peanut M&Ms

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Heat 2: Snickers versus 100 Grand Bar

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Heat 3: Starburst versus Reese's Pieces

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Heat 4: Reese's Peanut Butter Cups versus Dove Candy Bar

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[Simply Red]

Heath eliminated - fuck this place!

[Dartgod]

I think this is the first time I have voted for Starburst. I like love Reese's Pieces, but I'm only advancing one Reese's product into the Final Four and that would be PB Cups.

Also voted for Peanut M&M's and 100 Grand.

[Hydrae]

Heath eliminated - **** this place!

You usually seem so nice.

Not that I disagree with you

[Rain Man]

My votes:

Peanut M&Ms over Rolo. Rolos are good, but I'm not sure how they made it this far in the tournament. Peanut M&Ms are a legit contender for the crown based on their snackety goodness.

100 Grand Bar over Snickers. I maybe voting against Snickers out of habit now because I think it's overrated. It's definitely good and I have nothing against it. But I'd pick a 100 Grand Bar over it on most days, and this is one of those days.

Starburst over Reese's Pieces. This is a tough one. They're so different that one could make different choices on different days. Reese's Pieces are delightfully mellow while Starburst yells at your taste buds. But man, those pink Starburst are sooooo good. Gotta go Starburst.

Reese's Peanut Butter Cups over Dove Candy Bar. Dove Candy Bars are good, but I don't know how they've made it this deep into the tournament. They're just chocolate. RPBC by a mile here.

[Rain Man]

The peanut butter cup made the Reese family very wealthy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reese%27s_Peanut_Butter_Cups

The H.B. Reese Candy Company

The Harry Burnett Reese Candy Co. was established in the basement of Reese's house in Hershey, Pennsylvania.[1] Reese had originally worked at a Hershey dairy farm, and from the start he used Hershey Chocolate in his confections. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups were his most popular candy, and Reese eventually discontinued his other lines.

Reese died on May 16, 1956, passing the company to his six sons, Robert, John, Ed, Ralph, Harry, and Charles Richard Reese. On July 2, 1963, the Reese brothers merged the H.B. Reese Candy Company with the Hershey Chocolate Corporation in a tax-free stock-for-stock merger with the six Reese brothers receiving 666,316 Hershey common shares, valued in 1963 at $23.5 million. In 2013, after 50 years of stock splits, these original shares now represent sixteen million Hershey common shares valued in excess of $1 billion, paying $31 million in annual cash dividends.[2] The H.B. Reese Candy Company is maintained as a subsidiary of Hershey because the Reese plant workforce is not unionized, unlike the main Hershey plant. As of September 20, 2012, Reese's is the best-selling candy brand in the United States with sales of $2.603 billion, and is the fourth-best-selling candy brand globally with sales of $2.679 billion—only $76 million (2.8%) of its sales is from outside the United States market. Additionally, the H.B. Reese Candy Company manufactures the Kit Kat in the United States, which had 2012 U.S. sales of $948 million.[3]

[Fire Me Boy!]

Heath.

Rolo. Nothing special about either. Neither one is winning this thing.

100 Grand. Way better than Snickers.

Reese's Pieces. Same rationale as last round. I only like half a pack of Starburst, but I like 100 percent of Reese's Pieces.

Reese's here, too. I hate that dark chocolate won't be represented.

[DJ's left nut]

It's okay, Dove bar, you won't get skunked.

Dark chocolate is the best chocolate. Dove makes probably the best commercial chocolate around. As such, 'just chocolate' is kinda like saying 'just boobs'. Man has been felled by many a spectacular rack and with good reason.

The understated simplicity of a truly outstanding bar of chocolate should not go unrecognized.

Once more unto the breach, Dove bar. We'll close up the wall with our dead...

[Rain Man]

The potential extermination of dark chocolate now has me sad. How could such a thing happen? Of course, the best representatives of dark chocolate were Mounds and Riesens.

[Simply Red]

You usually seem so nice.

Not that I disagree with you

It should be up there still.

[Fire Me Boy!]

It should be up there still.



I still voted for it.

[Rain Man]

What's the deal with Rolo? Every round I think it'll get knocked out.

[Bugeater]

I'm hoping the 100 Grand can pull the upset.

[Mama Hip Rockets]

Rolo over Peanut M&Ms is the greatest travesty I've ever heard of.

[luv]

Rolo
100 Grand
Starburst
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups

[luv]

I'm hoping the 100 Grand can pull the upset.

Me too. Favorite candy bar ever.

[scho63]

What the hell happened to my Milk Duds? Too many heats

[patteeu]

Heat 1: Rolo versus Peanut M&Ms

Heat 2: Snickers versus 100 Grand Bar

Heat 3: Starburst versus Reese's Pieces

Heat 4: Reese's Peanut Butter Cups versus Dove Candy Bar

Starburst over Reese's Pieces was my hardest choice. RPBC is going to win it all.

[Rain Man]

Starburst over Reese's Pieces was my hardest choice. RPBC is going to win it all.

Ultimately, you made all of the right choices.

[Rain Man]

What the hell happened to my Milk Duds? Too many heats

Isn't a Rolo just a Milk Dud standing at attention?

[Hydrae]

Isn't a Rolo just a Milk Dud standing at attention?

With caramel inside!

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

Finally; the death of Starburst.

[Fire Me Boy!]

Rolo and 100 Grand are really putting up a fight!

[lewdog]

Only one actual "candy" makes the finals.

Thanks Grandpas.

[Bugeater]

Only one actual "candy" makes the finals.

Thanks Grandpas.
You've been awful cranky throughout this tournament, I think you're closer to being one of us than you think.

[Infidel Goat]

I voted:
1. Peanut M&M's
2. 100 Grand
3. Reese's Pieces
4. Reese's Peanut Butter Cup

I would still say Twix (which lost to Reese's Peanut Butter Cups) and Whatchamacallit (which lost to the 100 Grand bar) are better than anything in Heat 1 and Heat 3.

Also, if anyone cares... here are the top 10 selling candy bars in America:
10. Almond Joy
9. Milky Way
8. Hershey's Cookie and Creme
7. Three Musketeers
6. Twix
5. Kit Kat
4. Hershey's
3. Snickers
2. Reese's Peanut Butter Cup
1. M&M's (but I wonder if that includes both regular and peanut--regular does outsell peanut, fwiw)

[TomBarndtsTwin]

Peanut M&M's over Rolo (Rolo?!? . . . . seriously!?)

100 Grand over Snickers (snickers is most recognized candy bar, but overrated IMO)

Starburst over Reese's Pieces (pieces are good, but boring)

RPBC over Dove. (No contest here. RPBC is the favorite to win it all)

[cdcox]

Peanuts are a cheap filler. Peanut m&m's, snickers, Walmart and McDonalds. You think America is better than this, but perhaps not. A tear tricles down my cheek.

[scho63]

MY 10 favorite candies:

1. Skor Bar
2. Milk Duds
3. Mounds
4. Hersey Bar
5. Starburst
6. Butterfinger
7. Kit Kat
8. Ghiradelli Caramel Squares
9. Twizzlers Strawberry Licorice
10. Swedish Fish

[WhawhaWhat]

Peanut M&Ms
Snickers
Reese's Pieces
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups

[Rain Man]

Peanut M&Ms, Snickers, Reese's Pieces, and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups move on, making WhawhaWhat's dreams come true.

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

Motherfuck YOU, Starburst.