Favorite Chocolate Candies In Michigan

Fact Checked by Jim Tomlin

With supermarkets putting out their displays of candy in anticipation of Halloween, many folks find themselves slowing down as they push their shopping carts past the aisles of chocolate treats.

Somewhere in their thinking, those shoppers are ruminating about which of those candies they’d prefer to have left over if, for some reason, they didn’t get to hand all of the Halloween candy to the Trick-or-Treaters. Not that they’d intentionally hold back out of self-interest, but sometimes a couple of candy bars manage to make it to early November.

So, keeping in mind that Halloween is approaching – as well as National Chocolate Day, which conveniently falls on Oct. 28 – BetMichigan.com decided to determine which popular candy is the most popular in the home of  Michigan sports betting promos. Here are our results:

Favorite Chocolate Candy In Every State

State Winner Second Third
Alabama Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Kit Kat Snickers
Alaska Snickers M&M’s Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
Arizona Kit Kat Snickers Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
Arkansas Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Snickers M&M’s
California Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Kit Kat Milky Way
Colorado M&M’s Kit Kat Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
Connecticut Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups M&M’s Twix
Delaware Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Milky Way Snickers
Florida Milky Way Kit Kat Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
Georgia Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Twix Kit Kat
Hawaii M&M’s Twix Snickers
Idaho Snickers Kit Kat Twix
Illinois Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Milky Way Snickers
Indiana Snickers Milky Way Butterfinger
Iowa Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Kit Kat Snickers
Kansas Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups M&M’s Kit Kat
Kentucky Butterfinger Kit Kat Twix
Louisiana Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups M&M’s Hershey’s Milk Chocolate
Maine Kit Kat Twix M&M’s
Maryland Milky Way Snickers Butterfinger
Massachusetts Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Snickers M&M’s
Michigan Kit Kat Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Twix
Minnesota Kit Kat Butterfinger Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
Mississippi Kit Kat M&M’s Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
Missouri Milky Way Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Kit Kat
Montana Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Twix Hershey’s Milk Chocolate
Nebraska Milky Way Twix Snickers
Nevada Kit Kat Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Twix
New Hampshire M&M’s Snickers Butterfinger
New Jersey Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Milky Way Snickers
New Mexico Kit Kat Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups M&M’s
New York Kit Kat Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Twix
North Carolina Snickers M&M’s Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
North Dakota Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Kit Kat
Ohio M&M’s Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Milky Way
Oklahoma Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Twix Kit Kat
Oregon Twix Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Butterfinger
Pennsylvania Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Milky Way Twix
Rhode Island Snickers Twix Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
South Carolina Kit Kat M&M’s Hershey’s Milk Chocolate
South Dakota Kit Kat Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Snickers
Tennessee Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Kit Kat Twix
Texas Snickers M&M’s Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
Utah Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Milky Way Twix
Vermont Kit Kat Twix M&M’s
Virginia Twix Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups M&M’s
Washington Kit Kat Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Butterfinger
West Virginia Snickers Kit Kat Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
Wisconsin Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Twix Butterfinger
Wyoming M&M’s Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Hershey’s Milk Chocolate

Top Chocolate Candies In Michigan

BetMichigan.com took a break from our Michigan sports betting analysis and used Statista’s research on the most consumed chocolate candy as a starting point. Then, we tuned to Google Trends to search the level of interest in each chocolate candy from Oct. 1, 2022 to Oct. 18, 2023. With this data, BetMichigan.com determined the top three chocolate candies of each state.

Imagine, this is like the Academy Awards but instead of fighting with an envelope to get to the winner, it’s a candy wrapper that’s being torn to get to the winning candy.

“And the winner in Michigan in the category of favorite candy to be eaten ravenously, preferably when no one is looking, is – (pause for drumroll) – the Kit Kat!!!” The audience rises to its feet, clapping furiously.

Supporters of the No. 2 choice, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, and No. 3 Twix wear tight smiles as they applaud politely. However, Michigan was hardly alone in its affinity for Kit Kat. In all, the Kit Kat was the favorite chocolate candy in 12 of 50 states.

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More About The Kit Kat Bar

Kit Kat, described as a “chocolate-covered wafer bar” falls under the corporate umbrella of Hershey’s in the United States. But it was created by Rowntree's of York in the United Kingdom. Elsewhere in the world, Kit Kat (sometimes spelled KitKat) is produced by Nestle.

As mentioned, in the chocolate calculations, Kit Kat was ranked No. 1 in 12 states, and it was also among the top three in 26 states. However, the national title, at least based on the metrics outlined above, is Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. That confection ranked No. 1 in 19 of the 50 states and was ranked among the top three candies in 40 states.

Other candy brands that were ranked No. 1 in at least one state were: Snickers; M&M’s (no specific color); Milky Way; Butterfingers (shout out to Bart Simpson) and Twix.

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Bill Ordine

Bill Ordine, senior journalist and columnist for BetMichigan.com, was a reporter and editor in news and sports for the Philadelphia Inquirer and Baltimore Sun for 25 years, and was a lead reporter on a team that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News. Bill started reporting on casinos and gaming shortly after Atlantic City’s first gambling halls opened and wrote a syndicated column on travel to casino destinations for 10 years. He covered the World Series of Poker for a decade and his articles on gaming have appeared in many major U.S. newspapers, such as the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald and others.

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