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Start free trial →The Jesse Kelly Show · US Politics · November 2026
Kelly was setting up his Halloween-night experiment: he handed out an assorted tray of candy to trick-or-treaters and watched which pieces went first. It's a plain-language case for revealed preference over stated preference.
…I get this exactly correct, the candy options were Hershey's Bar, straight Hershey's Bar, Twix, Snickers, Starburst. Four different kinds of Skittles, including the Sour Skittles. We'll come back to that. The original Skittles, these weird tropical ones. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and Kit Kats.
All right?
Hershey's Twix, Snickers, Starburst, Skittles, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, and Kit Kats. Now, you know my thing on candy. People don't lie. I mean, the way they vote don't lie. People will verbally lie to you, but then the proof is in the pudding. If there's an assorted tray of candy on your secretary's desk, the last thing in that bowl will be the Three Musketeers, and everybody knows it. Everyone knows it. People will tell you straight that they love Three Musketeers, it's a good candy bar, but the votes don't lie. I decided to figure out What do kids want today? What's going to be popular? Now, you want to know what happened? Shocking results. At least a little bit shocking. First of all, nobody wanted Snickers. Nobody wanted Snickers. No one. I couldn't give a Snickers away until it was towards the end of the night and everything else was gone. Nobody wanted Snickers. But it gets crazier than that. Kit Kat, too. Kit Kat and Snickers were probably the very, very bottom of it. Kit Kats, can you believe that, Chris? Look, this is the kids voting, not me. Don't look at me. I held out the tray and said, pick…