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# Candy we wait all year for
- URL: https://www.redeyebr.com/candy-we-wait-all-year-for/
- Published: 2026-10-30T02:01:09.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-30T02:01:09.000Z
- Author: Mukul Verma
- Tags: Last Call

Many of us spend 11 months of the year keeping a distance from sugar. Then October comes, the porch lights go on, and the bowl by the door starts to look like a replacement for dinner. It helps that the candymakers play along. They save some of their best ideas for the season.

So we asked around. Here's what some of Baton Rouge's residents reach for when nobody is counting sugar by the gram.

- Lauren Crump Wilson, owner of Autology, a leadership coaching and consulting practice: Candy corn.

She doesn't take to sugar the way the rest of us do, which makes her pick both obvious and surprising. Obvious, because the stuff is not sweet. Surprising, because, well, it's candy corn. "It's nostalgic and has a sugarness that I can tolerate around Halloween," she says. Lauren eats it the patient way, one layer at a time.

- Mayor-President Sid Edwards: Reese's White Cream Peanut Butter Pumpkins.

The mayor has given this one some thought. "They are thicker and more robust in flavor than the regular Reese's Peanut Butter Cups."

- Brock Kantrow, BRCC athletic director: Candy corn.

Some loves don't need explaining. "I don't know why," he says.

- BREC Superintendent Brooks Williams: Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, the Halloween specials

Williams eats Reese's all year, so this is less a fling than a long-term relationship. But October is when the shapes change and the peanut butter gets the bigger share of the candy, and that's when he enjoys them most. "I've loved them since I was a kid."

And from the *RedEye* newsroom:

- JR Ball: Vanilla Tootsie Rolls and Butterfingers "While no fan of the traditional Tootsie Roll, there's a chewy goodness to the limited edition vanilla run. As for the Butterfinger, it's a chocolate, peanut butter crunchy delight that was a Trick-or-Treat top get on the mean streets of Rodgers Forge as a child."
- Mukul Verma: Smarties "I've been ridiculed for loving Smarties, but I stand by them. Sweet Tarts are the better candy, but Smarties were the cheaper Halloween handout in Baton Rouge's suburbs. Tangy and sweet, and they are chalky, but I feel superior for being loyal to them."

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