This article is excerpted from the Utah Eats newsletter, compiled this week by Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune’s enterprise editor. (Kolbie Peterson, Tribune’s food and drink reporter, is on vacation.
) To get the full newsletter in your inbox every Wednesday, become a subscriber by going to sltrib.com/newsletters . Hello, Eaters! We’re two weeks away from Halloween — as anyone who’s walked through a grocery store could tell you, amid the shelves full of “fun size” candy in spooky-themed wrappers.
For shoppers, Halloween candy raises so many questions: What candy should I buy to hand out to the trick-or-treaters in my neighborhood? What’s popular these days? Or should I just get what I like, since I’m having whatever’s left over? CandyStore.com compiles an annual state-by-state rundown of which candies sell the best on their site. For Utah in 2024, the site says the most popular candy is .
.. candy corn.
According to the website’s figures, Utahns bought 423,474 pounds of candy corn this year. Tootsie Pops came in second in Utah, and M&M’s ranked third. Utah is not alone in its love for candy corn; it also ranks No.
1 in Maryland, is the second-most popular candy in Maine, Michigan, North Dakota and New Mexico, and comes in third in Idaho, Nevada, New York and South Dakota.Nationally, candy corn ranks No. 7 in sales, the website reported — even though it often tops the lists for America’s least-favorite Halloween candy.
M&M’s this year overtook.