{"id":1100,"date":"2018-10-31T15:40:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T21:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertmitchelldds.com\/blog\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2023-05-23T14:26:11","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T20:26:11","slug":"fun-halloween-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertmitchelldds.com\/blog\/fun-halloween-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"FUN HALLOWEEN FACTS"},"content":{"rendered":"

14 Mind-Blowing Things You Didn\u2019t Know About Halloween Candy<\/h1>\n
ARTICLE:\u00a0https:\/\/www.rd.com\/culture\/halloween-candy-facts\/<\/div>\n
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How much Americans really spend on Halloween, the history of \u201cfun size\u201d candy, and more sweet facts about your favorite Halloween treats.<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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A lot of people hand out Halloween candy<\/h2>\n\"\"\n

Of the 157 million people who participate in Halloween, more than 141 million buy candy. That\u2019s almost 45 percent of the entire U.S. population filling plastic pumpkins and pillowcases with sugary goodness. This is what\u00a0100 calories of your favorite Halloween candy\u00a0looks like.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n

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The most popular Halloween candy is\u2026<\/h2>\n\"\"\n

Reese\u2019s. According to\u00a0USA Today<\/em>, peanut butter cup sales neared $510 million in 2013. It\u2019s also the most popular candy in the most populated states: California and Texas. M&M\u2019s came in a close second with more than $500 million in sales in 2013.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n

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Halloween candy is expensive<\/h2>\n\"\"\n

Consumers spend an average of $2.1 billion on Halloween candy each year, or about $47 per American. As a comparison, they collectively spend $2.6 billion on costumes and $330 million dressing up their pets.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n

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Halloween is not the best holiday for candy sales<\/h2>\n\"\"\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"14 Mind-Blowing Things You Didn\u2019t Know About Halloween Candy ARTICLE:\u00a0https:\/\/www.rd.com\/culture\/halloween-candy-facts\/ How much Americans really spend on Halloween, the history of \u201cfun size\u201d candy, and more sweet facts about your favorite Halloween treats. A lot of people hand out Halloween candy Of the 157 million people who participate in Halloween, more than 141 million buy candy. That\u2019s almost 45 percent of the entire U.S. population filling plastic pumpkins and pillowcases with sugary goodness. This is what\u00a0100 […] (Read More)<\/a>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertmitchelldds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertmitchelldds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertmitchelldds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertmitchelldds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertmitchelldds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertmitchelldds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1343,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertmitchelldds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions\/1343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertmitchelldds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertmitchelldds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertmitchelldds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}