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Stacy Conradt
Sweet Talk: The Big Day
by Stacy Conradt - October 31, 2007 - 11:47 AM

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For the past week, I’ve been offering up trivia treats about sweets you’re likely to encounter on Halloween. Our last featured candy is Sixlets, with lots of links below. Happy Halloween, everybody!

sixlets_bulk_candy1.jpg1) Sixlets include red, brown, green, yellow and orange. White, pink and blue are added for Easter (brown is removed).

2) The center of the candy is made from a mixture of carob and chocolate, which gives them that distinct malted flavor.

3) Special edition dark chocolate Sixlets have recently been released.

4) The Sixlets mascot is a glasses-wearing caterpillar with body segments that look suspiciously like Sixlets. So he’s (she’s?) basically encouraging consumers to eat him.

5) If you’re wondering why they are called Sixlets, be prepared for disappointment. While there are several theories, including that they used to be sold in tubes of six candies for a penny, there doesn’t seem to be a concrete explanation offered anywhere.

6) Hershey owned the Sixlets brand until 2003, when it was bought by the Canadian company SweetWorks.

A few additional Halloween links:

• Here are two sweets we covered last year: Good Old Candy Corn and The True Ethnicity of Swedish Fish.

• Don’t miss your chance to win a Gummi Bear-inspired light!

• What’s your Halloween Giveaway Strategy?

• Ten Epic Costumes, Gruesome Party Food and DIY Decorations.

• Sweet Talk Week-in-Review…Yesterday: Popcorn Balls. Monday: M&M’s. Friday: Candy Apples. Thursday: Tootsie Rolls. Wednesday: Snickers.

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Comments (6)

  1. This was my favorite candy as a child, somehow that was a little embarrassing as an adult… But I’m overcoming it as I get older. Now that you tell me they’ve got a dark chocolate one, I’m going to be scouting the stores for them.
    Thanks!

    posted by tibby on 10-31-2007 at 12:46 pm

  2. “wednedsay”?

    posted by Sophia on 10-31-2007 at 1:23 pm

  3. Oops. My fault, not Stacy’s.

    That’s how I spell it.

    posted by Jason on 10-31-2007 at 2:05 pm

  4. Ah, Sixlets. Once, my sister and I had a “dolls” party in which we purchased a bunch of Sixlets and Hot Tamales, then watched the movie Valley of the Dolls. Whenever someone in the movie referenced “the dolls” (aka pills), we’d devour some Sixlets and Tamales. Because they most closely resembled ’60s-style movie pills, in our opinion. It was a funny, tummy-achy night.

    posted by Jenny on 10-31-2007 at 6:11 pm

  5. I used to argue with my siblings that the orange ones indeed had an orange flavor.

    posted by D on 10-31-2007 at 7:50 pm

  6. I thought I was the only person who ate these things…I found them in a milk carton container once and nearly overdosed on them…while they aren’t as tasty as M&M’s, I like their size and the thin shell…yum…

    posted by donner on 10-31-2007 at 9:22 pm

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