Anna Rinaggio, Campus Carrier opinions editor
They say that necessity is the mother of invention, and I’d like to thank whatever beautiful soul decided that the world needed 1) Reese’s cups and 2) Reese’s cups but in fun shapes. I am an absolute fiend for chocolate and peanut butter, and there is no better way to combine the two than a silly shape inside an iconic orange wrapper.
Reese’s has a wide variety of fun shapes, and while the original cup is of course great, there is something about the shapes that makes them infinitely better. That “something” is without a doubt the peanut butter to chocolate ratio. The cups are all chocolate and hardly any peanut butter, while the shapes have the perfect amount of peanut butter with just enough chocolate to top it off. Liking the shapes more than the cups isn’t enough for me, though – there must be a best shape. Therefore, I decided to conduct some research to answer the age-old question: what Reese shape is the best?
I will be ranking the following shapes: pumpkin, ghost, bat, heart, christmas tree, football and egg. Rankings will be based on the peanut butter to chocolate ratio and vibes. My qualifications? Reese’s are my favorite candy, and I would rather die than live a desolate life in a world without them.
Starting out with the lowest ranking Reese, the ghost most certainly takes the cake. The wrapper indicated that I would be seeing a pair of eyes and a mouth, but what came out of the wrapper ended up being a blob that maybe had stubs for arms on the side. As a lover of Halloween, I was devastated to see this cute shape butchered so terribly. While the peanut butter to chocolate ratio is pretty good, the poor vibes take away too much. 6/10.
Next is the heart. While the idea is great in theory, the execution is just mid. If I’m being totally honest, the point at the bottom freaks me out. The chocolate to peanut butter ratio suffers because of it, and I’m really just not a fan. 6.3/10.
The football has admittedly been troubling me. The chocolate to peanut butter ratio is one of the best out of all these shapes; however, its shape is far too close to that of the egg, and it feels like plagiarism. Will I buy it? Absolutely. Does it deserve a higher ranking? I don’t think so. 7/10.
I’ll probably catch some flack for putting the Christmas tree on the bottom half of the list, but this is where it deserves to be.The vibes are great, and it gets extra points for actually looking like the shape it’s meant to be, but the cutouts for branches take away from the peanut butter ratio. Eating Reese’s is all about optimizing your amount, and with so many cutouts, that’s just not possible with the tree. I’m sorry, but it had to be said. 7.8/10.
Bats are the newest Reese shape on my palate, and I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised with them. The shape is truer to the wrapper than I would have expected, and it is actually an adorable little treat. The peanut butter to chocolate ratio is better than I thought it would be despite the cutouts, but I think the points are really coming from how cute it is. 8/10
As much as I want to put the pumpkin in first place, I believe that its rightful spot is in second. The vibes are absolutely there, and the shape is usually true to the wrapper. The chocolate to peanut butter ratio is certainly decent, but it doesn’t quite eek out to first place. 9/10.
Finally, our winner: the egg. With no cutouts and perfectly round edges, there is no better chocolate to peanut butter ratio out there than the egg. It’s simple and immaculate; I know what I’m getting into every time, and I never have to worry about being disappointed about it not looking like the wrapper. It’s the perfect combination and everything I want. It’s the best, and we all know I’m right. 10/10.
