Ranking Reese’s Cups for the perfect Reese’s experience
I’ve teamed up with Gram’s Diner co-owner Kyle Burdick-Hayes to determine how to best get your fix of peanut butter and chocolate.
The world is covered in Reese’s Cups. Wrapped and unwrapped. Big Cup and Mini. Eggs, a different variety of eggs and, wow, even more eggs. (No egg shortage here.) Will Arnett was right when he says you can buy a Reese’s Cup just about anywhere. But which one gives you the perfect Reese’s experience?
For the inaugural edition of Ranked!, I’m joined by Kyle Burdick-Hayes. Kyle and I overlapped for three years at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York, where we spent a ridiculous number of hours together working on our college paper. (RIP, Cardinal Courier.) After graduation, Kyle and his now husband, Chad, purchased Gram’s Diner in Adams, New York.
I don’t want to do the math on how long ago we graduated, but since then, Kyle and Chad have poured themselves into turning Gram’s Diner into not just a staple of their community but also crafting drool-worthy creations like Fruity Pebble donuts, deep dish chocolate chip cookies and an Ultimate Chicken Parm Wrap. (I’ve been told that that D.C. area is out of their Uber Eats range.)
I might be a guy who writes a newsletter about snacks in his free time, but Kyle is a professional. He can actually say that he’s used Reese’s Cups for work, which makes him the perfect person to help me rank a bunch of Reese’s Cups variants. (It turns out this is a pretty divisive topic ... especially when it comes to Reese’s Thins!)
Here’s how this edition of Ranked! works. We found eight widely available variants of the Reese’s Cup. (It helped that it’s Easter time.) Every version had to be milk chocolate with only peanut butter inside. Sorry, white chocolate Reese’s Cups and Spring Sprinkles. With that criteria, we asked the question: Which one of these eight varieties is the best delivery of the Reese’s experience?
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