Candy in costume

Werther’s Original

Getting a cartload of bulk hard candy in our trick-or-treating sack is total party foul. And yet there’s something about these German goodies. Maybe it’s the disco-dazzling gold skin; maybe it’s the complex blend of cream and sugars, which tastes like something between caramel, butterscotch and toffee with butter all over. Then there’s the nostalgia-inducing commercial of a spectacled grossvater handing a shiny coin of Werther’s to his grandson. Call us saps, but it gets us every time.