# What is the best classic American candy?

> Several of these predate the radio, and a few still taste like it.

*By YPB Team · Published October 16, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/what-is-the-best-classic-american-candy*

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## Current results (no votes yet)

1. **Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bar** — score 1000/1000
   The 1900 bar that made milk chocolate affordable in America.
2. **Peeps** — score 900/1000
   Marshmallow chicks made by Just Born since 1953.
3. **Candy corn** — score 900/1000
   A Halloween kernel made since the 1880s.
4. **Tootsie Roll** — score 866/1000
   A chewy chocolate roll first sold in New York in 1907.
5. **Good & Plenty** — score 692/1000
   Candy-coated licorice, one of the oldest US brands.
6. **Bit-O-Honey** — score 680/1000
   Honey-flavored taffy with almond bits, from 1924.
7. **Mounds** — score 680/1000
   Coconut and dark chocolate, sold since 1921.
8. **Butterfinger** — score 600/1000
   A flaky peanut butter bar introduced in 1923.
9. **Snickers** — score 507/1000
   A Chicago-made peanut bar launched by Mars in 1930.
10. **Baby Ruth** — score 507/1000
   A 1920 peanut and caramel bar from Chicago.
11. **Cracker Jack** — score 400/1000
   Caramel corn with a prize, sung about at ballparks.
12. **Necco Wafers** — score 400/1000
   Chalky pastel discs dating back to 1847.
13. **M&M's** — score 400/1000
   Candy-coated chocolates first sold to soldiers in 1941.
14. **Milky Way** — score 273/1000
   Frank Mars's first national hit, from 1923.
15. **Almond Joy** — score 273/1000
   Coconut, almonds and milk chocolate since 1946.
16. **Reese's Peanut Butter Cups** — score 273/1000
   Peanut butter cups invented in Hershey, Pennsylvania, in 1928.
17. **Circus Peanuts** — score 0/1000
   Orange, banana-flavored marshmallow peanuts from the 1800s.

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