There's A Machine Where You Can Trade In Your Trash Halloween Candy For Reese's Cups
CNN - Whether you hate tootsie rolls or licorice, the truth is we’ve all received Halloween candy we don’t like. But this year, Reese’s is coming to the rescue with their very own candy exchange machine. The machine allows people to trade in the candy they don’t want for Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. “As the #1 Halloween candy (with over half of candy buyers purchasing Reese’s), Reese’s has come up with a solution — give us your unwanted candy, and we’ll give you what you actually want — Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups,” Lingeris said.
Unfortunately, New Yorkers will be the only ones getting their candy wishes granted this year. This Wednesday at exactly 4 p.m., Reese’s candy converter — a huge orange machine you can’t miss — will be set up outside Washington Square Park on 5th Avenue in New York, and remain in place until 9 p.m. Reese’s is expected to give out up to 10,000 peanut butter cups, Lingeris said.
I cannot wait to see how many people wait in line for this god damn thing:
You can buy Reese’s Cups for 99 cents year-round, but people will wait in line for freaking anything as long as there is a strong marketing campaign behind it. It’s like when those poor losers wait in line for 4 hours for 1 cent IHOP pancakes. Like get a grip people, pancakes might be the cheapest food to make, it just ain’t worth the wait. But yet today at 4pm in Washington Square Park you know there will be a line down to the Empire State Building just so someone can put a candy corn into this machine in exchange for a Reese’s Cup.
And you know what, here’s a take: Reese’s Cups- not that good on their own. Good in milkshakes, good as a topping at your local FroYo shop, can be made decent after put into the freezer, but a warm, dry Reese’s Cup? Average at best. That chalky weird peanut butter? Not that delicious. Kind of makes my teeth tingle a bit thinking about biting into one. Reese’s Pieces though, delicious.
Also, just while on the subject, I don’t think I ever see a 3 Musketeers bar for 364 days, but then it’s all I see on Halloween. Those things come out of the woodwork every October 31st like they are throwing a surprise party. Do people actually buy these on any other day? Do they even exist on any other day? I highly doubt it. I’m very woke to big 3 Musketeers.
