I found a groovy little list of candy profiles in my morning paper (the Houston Chronicle) and had to share. Basically, it defines your personality based on your sweet tooth. Do you almond joy or bit-o-honey? It could be the difference between being happy-go-lucky and two-faced. What flavor are you? I'm a Three Musketeers and my husband is a Twizzler. Scary combination!

Three Musketeers: Does well in groups but is somewhat pompous. Prone to fancy costumes and arcane weapons. Wears hats in public that are ill-advised. Created in 1932 by Mars, the candy bar got its name because it originally had three pieces in one packet: vanilla, strawberry and chocolate.

Almond Joy: I'm going to put aside my aversion to coconut in praising these folks as happy-go-lucky. Introduced in 1946 by the Peter paul Candy Manufacturing Co. in New Haven, Conn. It's a companion to the Mounds bar which arrived in 1920.

Bit-O-Honey: They have contradictory personalities, hoping to express generosity but also having the passive-agressive desire to damage the fillings of trick-or-treaters. The honey-flavored taffy was first manufactured in 1924 by the Schutter-Johnson Co. of Chicago. It is now made by Nestle.

Butterfinger: Evasive, slippery, not necessarily to be trusted. Invented in 1923 by the Curtiss Candy Co. of Chicago, the crunchy bar wrapped in chocolate is now made by Nestle.

Candy Corn: Purely deluded people.  They don't get that candy shouldn't attempt to imitate other food groups, particularly corn. Invented in the 1880s, it was first manufactured commercially by the Wunderle Candy Co. in Philadelphia and by the turn of the century at the Herman Goeliitz Candy Co. in Cincinnati.

Good & Plenty: Optimistic, perhaps overly so. A little bit of Weimar energy. Strong advocate of gay rights; acquainted with the bitterness at the center of most lives. The licorice candy was first produced in 1893 by the Quaker City Confectionery Co. in Philadelphia and is considered the oldest branded candy in the country.

Reese's Peanut Butter Cups: Generous souls. Those who understand the salty in life, as well as the sweet. Created by Harry Burnett Reese in the 1920s. Reese was a former dairy employee of Milton Hershey, founder of the Hershey Co. in 1963, the Reese candy company was sold to Hershey for $23.5 million.

Snickers: Just going with the crowd, the safe candy choice, guaranteed to please the masses. Not ambitious, but dependable. Created in 1930 by Mars, Snickers bars sold for a nickel. The Fun Size was introduced in 1968.

Twix: Both brittle and supple in social situations; sort of trapped between personality types. A Mars product, caramel-and-cookie Twix bars were created in the United Kingdom in 19967 but weren't sold in the US until 1979.

Twizzlers: Sickos. Truly demented. Plastic people living plastic lives. The Twizzlers brand was introduced in 1929. The red licorice strips are manufactured by Y&S Candies, a company established in 1845 that is now a Hershey subsidiary.