Cadbury Mini Eggs are milk chocolate egg-shaped candies coated in a sugar shell. In the United States this product is manufactured by The Hershey Company of Hershey, Pennsylvania. Each egg is about 3/4 inch long and about 1/2 inch wide at its base. The chocolate inside each egg has a buttery and slightly salty taste to it which makes eating a reasonable number of the eggs pretty much impossible.

The sugar shells are in a variety of pastel colors, with tiny purple speckles on the eggs to give them a robin’s egg appearance. If your hands are warm at all the sugar shell will very quickly dissolve in your hand, so be prepared to lick some sugar off your palm if you decide to hold onto them for any length of time. (Extra treat!)

Cadbury Mini Eggs are only sold during the Western Easter holiday, so it’s a good idea to stock up as soon as you see them in stores. If you participate in Lent and choose to give up chocolate just remember that Sundays are your feast days so you can totally eat these eggs on Sundays! Yay, you!

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An ice-cold Coke goes best with this chocolate. (See? We’re soda neutral here!)

Risky Business is the perfect movie to watch while you snack on this treat. It’s always fun to bite into these eggs while you watch Joel dive through the air to catch his mom’s Fabergé egg!

Popularity: 8% [?]

Never has a candy enjoyed such a rabid cult following as the Peeps Marshmallow Chicks that are manufactured by the Just Born Candy Company of Bethlehem, PA. The original chicks were colored yellow, but over the years the colors have expanded to include purple, green, blue, and Target stores exclusive red.

The candy itself is a simple marshmallow shaped like a chick and coated with colored sugar. While the granular coating provides a course initial texture, beneath is the familiar soft white squishiness of marshmallow that reveals itself as the sugar dissolves on your tongue. The taste is not really original or spectacular. It is uber-sweet and squishy, and marshmallow fans will enjoy it, but in the end it is a sugar coated marshmallow.

However their celebrity as a candy has resulted in a number of uses besides consumption, including what is called Peep Jousting. The basic premise is to lick the right side of two Peeps and stick a toothpick “lance” to its side. Then place both Peeps into your microwave facing each other, turn it on, and the winner is the Peep who does not explode or become deflated. I can think of no other candy that has been forced to fight its own for consumption. Nor can I think of any candy whose fans are crazed enough to think of such a concept.

Hence, while the candy is simple and plain, it has had enough power to inspire a culture around it and therefore I’m giving it around 2 buckets more than I normally would.

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The movie to watch while swallowing those little yellow chicks by the handful is Chicken Run! We can let the Peeps hope before placing them into the microwave arena of death… can’t we?

Popularity: 32% [?]

Raisinets are another classic candy that has persevered through the ages. Unfortunately, it hasn’t aged as gracefully as others. Introduced in 1927 by the Blumenthal Chocolate Company (the same company who introduced Goobers), Raisinets became a fast favorite at movie theater concession stands as it mixed the sweetness of chocolate with nature’s own sweet treat in the form of a raisin.

Unfortunately, over the years the raisins in Raisinets are found more often than not to be dehydrated and lacking any sign of juice. This transforms the candy from a moist chocolaty treat to a chewy one. Sadly, while Raisinets continues to be the premiere choice in movie theaters, there are fresher brands of chocolate covered raisins out there. If the lesser known brands can make a moist chocolaty treat, then why can’t the premiere choice?

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For a snack that is older than some dirt and has probably lost its juicy flair, we recommend the classic version of A Raisin in the Sun with Sidney Poitier. At least you’ll get some satisfaction from the screen if you end up dissatisfied with what was in the box.

Popularity: 6% [?]

For a candy that is over 80 years old (having been trademarked in 1925 by the Blumenthal Chocolate Company), Goobers have held up over the years exceptionally well. It’s strength is in its simplicity of two basic snacks mixed together… roasted peanuts covered with milk chocolate.

A classic movie treat, the roasted peanuts hold up especially well beneath the chocolate layer due to their natural oils. The fact that peanuts and chocolate appear in many forms together along numerous product lines helps keep Goobers a popular choice wherever concession stand registers may ring.

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While Goobers is a snack that is practically edible with almost all movies/dvds out there, I have to recommend the classic Peanuts - A Boy Named Charlie Brown to be eaten with a classic snack.

Popularity: 6% [?]

Reese’s Pieces have been a special treat of mine since way before a certain extraterrestrial made them popular. These candy-coated confections come in a muted color palate of yellow, orange, and black — like the leftover colors that kids don’t really want to eat, which I never understood, but to each his marketing own.

Pieces don’t have quite enough peanut buttery goodness inside to counteract the domination of the hard candy shell. Each Pieces should be twice as filled, or I should be more patient and let the outer shell dissolve on my tongue first. Also, for some reason it never seems like there’s quite enough Pieces in the single serving bag — better get two bags!

No mess, unless it’s a really hot summer day and you leave them in your hand for several minutes. But, who does that? Put them in your mouth, silly!

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I have two favorite beverages I enjoy with this delicious candy: Ice-cold milk and Coca-Cola. Both merry perfectly with the peanut butter to hit that refreshing spot. Besides, double-fisting your beverages is fun!

Of course the perfect film for these candies is E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (Widescreen Edition). Gertie bets her hamburger on it!

Popularity: 5% [?]

This is one of my personal favs. Butterfingers bars have a thin layer of Nestlé chocolate, and the perfect amount of crispy peanut butter layers inside which are pleasing in flavor but subtle enough so that there’s no overpowering aftertaste. Just enough salt hits your tongue to keep you wanting more. It’s a very flaky bar so the mess factor is slightly high. Might want to have a napkin handy to clean up the crunchy bits, or just brush them off you when no one’s looking.

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I recommend Tab for the best balance of acid and base.

No Country for Old Men has the perfect amount of suspense to keep you slowly munching on this delicious treat. Let’s hope the good guy doesn’t drop his gun.

Popularity: 4% [?]

Sno-Caps are semi-sweet chocolate drops covered in nonpareils and made by Nestlé. I bet your wondering what nonpareils is? Those are extremely small white balls of sugar that are used to decorate cakes, pastries, and of course candies.

Sno-Caps doubled edged sweetness have made them a popular movie time confection. In fact, it has been suggested that for a mix of sweet saltiness… to consume Sno-Caps and salted popcorn together.

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The word nonpareils is in fact a French word… so why not watch Two Days in Paris to honor the candy’s relatively snooty, yet comedic in its simplicity, origin.

Popularity: 5% [?]

This is an absolute favorite treat of mine that I’ve enjoyed yearly since I was a kid. The concept is pretty foreign to much of the world, but I guarantee that if you like snow and maple syrup this snack is delicious. And the only calories consumed are the ones in the syrup!

Ingredients
4 cups clean, unadulterated snow (yes, the stuff that falls from the sky, but you can substitute ice shavings à la sno cones if you must)
2 cups maple syrup — choose your favorite grade

Cooking Instructions
Heat maple syrup in a pan on the stove, stirring frequently until it reaches 238° F, so that it becomes a molasses-type consistency. Pour maple syrup directly onto snow.

Serve with dill pickle slices, plain or old fashioned donut holes, and hot coffee to your liking.

Feeds 1, 2, or 4 depending on your sweet tooth.

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With a movie like Groundhog Day you’re guaranteed snow every day for the rest of your life!

I recommend the biggest mug you have filled with Starbucks Extra Bold Italian Roast coffee (but don’t tell Popcorn I said so).

Popularity: 4% [?]

Who’s hungry for bacon? Me too!

Bacon is pretty fantastic all by itself, but coat it in sugar and bake it and… bacon candy perfection has just occurred. The sweet and salty of this treat hits every spot.

You’ll find this tastiness on the menu at many restaurants but you, too, can make your own bacon candy. Here’s how:

Ingredients
1 lb bacon (not thick-cut)
1/4 cup brown sugar

Cooking Instructions
Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Slice bacon into 1/2 inch strips and dredge in brown sugar until thoroughly coated. Crumple aluminum foil to allow for grease drainage and place it on a baking sheet. Lay out the bacon on this making sure not to overlap pieces. Bake until crispy. Allow to cool and harden before serving.

Thanks to AOL food for this yummy recipe. Don’t have brown sugar handy? Try using maple syrup instead. NOM NOM NOM!

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I shall be funny and recommend Porky’s — the Ultimate Collection, which truly are excellent adult films, even though there’s nothing sweet about them.

Popularity: 7% [?]

Wonka Everlasting Gobstoppers are a box of small jawbreakers you suck on… and suck on… and suck on. They were featured in the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, as a creation by zany candy maker Willy Wonka.

While these spherical candies do keep changing colors while you suck on them just like in the movie, they sadly are not the same strange jack shapes as in the movie nor do they last forever. Aside from those two drawbacks, the flavoring is fruity and they are indeed a longer lasting than usual fun candy to eat.

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Wonka Everlasting Gobstoppers are an excellent choice while watching Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005 Widescreen Edition) starring Johnny Depp as the mad confectioner.

Popularity: 4% [?]