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Mr. Goodbar

**Mr. Goodbar** is a candy bar containing peanuts and chocolate, whose packaging is identifiable by its yellow background and red text. It is manufactured by The Hershey Company and was introduced in 1925. Although the Hershey Milk Chocolate Bar with Almonds had been produced since 1908, Milton Hershey initially did not want the Hershey brand name associated with a chocolate bar that contained peanuts, so it was introduced as being produced by the "Chocolate Sales Corporation" (a fictitious company name created by William Murrie). It is currently available both as an individual product and as one of the varieties of Hershey's Miniatures.

## Ingredient changes to reduce production costs

The formula was modified in 1995 to add more peanuts.

In 2008, Hershey replaced cocoa butter with cheaper oil substitutes. Hershey changed the description of the product and altered the packaging slightly along with the ingredients. Though the formula contained chocolate, according to United States Food and Drug Administration food labeling laws, these modified recipes that do not contain cocoa butter cannot be legally described as milk chocolate.

By 2014, milk chocolate returned as the primary ingredient.

## Cultural references

*Looking for Mr. Goodbar* was a novel by Judith Rossner, published in 1975 and adapted as a film in 1977. Lacey Fosburgh, appropriating Rossner's title, published *Closing Time: The True Story of the "Goodbar" Murder*, an "interpretive biography" of the real-life murder of Roseann Quinn, which had inspired Rossner's fiction. The phrase was only mentioned in an episode of the American animated sitcom "The Simpsons".
Orange jelly candy

**Orange jelly candy** are finger-sized sticks of soft jelly candy generally sold in food specialty stores in Hong Kong. A great deal of candy available in Hong Kong is imported from Europe, mainland China, United States and other regions around the world. Orange jelly candy is one of the few that have historically been manufactured locally in Hong Kong.

## History

The 1980s version of the candy came with a thin transparent layer that is basically an edible wrapper. The candy is made at Smith's confectionery factory (史蜜夫糖果廠) at Kwun Tong. The jelly sticks are very soft and sweet. It does not have much of an orange taste despite the name.

## Related products

In the early 1990s, the company produced a hard candy named **Orange Arm-Cicle** (a play on the words icicle and arm because of its pointed shape and use of locomotion, much like a spinning or rotating lollipop). The actual candy, like the jelly candy, does not taste like orange; it does, however, come in a variety of flavors, often changing color during certain Public holidays in Hong Kong.
Trolli

**Trolli** is a German confectionery brand used by Trolli GmbH (formerly Mederer GmbH) worldwide and by Ferrara Candy Company in the United States. Trolli GmbH sells gummy candies, marshmallows, and soft licorice gums in over 80 countries and has factories in Germany, Spain, Indonesia, China and the Czech Republic.

## History

In 1948 Willy Mederer founded Willy Mederer KG, a company producing pasta in Fürth, Germany. When sugar rationing regulations were lifted the company changed production from pasta to confectionery.

The company grew in the 1950s and 1960s, widening the product range and rising to 150 staff. Candies were sold under the Wilmed brand, a portmanteau of **Wil**ly **Med**erer. Sales offices in Münich and Stuttgart were opened. In 1975 the company registered the 'Trolli' brand name that became the trading name for the company in 2012.

Willy Mederer died in 1984 and was succeeded by his son Herbert.

Trolli varieties were added, including sour flavours, double layered gummies with foam made using starch mogul machines and the 'Trolli-Burger'. Mederer received the 1993 Candy Kettle Award. A subsidiary, Trolli Iberica S.A., was founded in Valencia, Spain, in 1994. A production site was opened in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 1997. The Mederer Group later opened a packaging plant in Pilsen, Czech Republic.

eFruti, a fruit gummy brand from Neunburg vorm Wald, was acquired by the Mederer Group in 1998 and its name used, slightly altered to eFrutti, as a brand. Gummy Bear Factory of Boizenburg was bought in 2000.

## In the United States

In the 1980s Trolli exports to North America grew to 40 tonnes per day. In 1986 Mederer built a production facility in Creston, Iowa. Trolli's US operations were sold to Favorite Brands International in 1996 and subsequently owned by Nabisco (1999), Kraft Foods (2000), Wrigleys (2005), and Farley's & Sathers Candy Company (2006) which was merged with Ferrara Candy Company in 2013.

In 2004 Trolli introduced a roadkill themed gummy candy in the shape of chickens, squirrels, and snakes with tire tracks on them. Kraft Foods, then the owner of the Trolli US brand, pulled the candy from the market in 2005 in response to protests.

## Manufacturing plants and factories

Trolli GmbH has its headquarters in Fürth and has factories in Boizenburg, Neunburg vorm Wald and Hagenow.

In 2001 Mederer built a production site in Guangzhou, China in a joint venture with the Spanish company 'Multi Joyco'. in 2004 Mederer took over 100% of the enterprise. From China Trolli exports its products to nations in Asia, Australasia, North America and the Middle East.

In Europe Trolli has a manufacturing plant in Valencia, Spain, Italy and a packaging plant in Pilsen, Czech Republic.

They Also have Production plant in south América, Colombia under the manufacturer called Aldor.
Dum Dums Gingerbread

**Dum Dums Gingerbread** was a flavor of Dum Dums that was only available in the 2013 Dum Dums Holyday Pops Pack as a limited edition for Christmas. The lolipop was brown and it do tasted like gingerbread and the paper showed a gingerbread man on it. They also selled a similar flavor in the pack that was Dum Dums Sugar Candy.
Sour Punch

**Sour Punch** is a brand of sour candy, manufactured by American Licorice Company. As one of the first brands to enter the sour candy market in the 1990s, it comes in 5 forms: Straws, Bites, Bits, Ropes, and Twists. Sour Punch comes in 5 different flavors. Like many other sour candies, they are coated with sour sugar to supply the familiar sour flavor. One serving size of Sour Punch twists contains 150 calories. It is often a popular candy for those who are lactose intolerant, as it contains none.

## Original flavors

* Chargin' Cherry
* Strikin' Strawberry
* Zappin' Apple
* Zip Zappin' Watermelon
* Blue Razzmatazz (Blue raspberry)
* Discontinued flavors: Lemon (reintroduced in 2015 in the "Rainbow Straws" pack), Grape
PB Max

**PB Max** was a candy bar made in the United States by Mars, launched in 1989 or 1990. They were made of creamy peanut butter on top of a square-shaped whole grain cookie, enrobed in milk chocolate.

The peanut butter in PB Max was sweetened with sugar and combined with hydrogenated vegetable oil to prevent separation. The label's serving suggestion was "1 piece" weighing 42 g, containing 240 calories, 5 g protein, 20 g carbohydrates, 16 g fat, and 150 mg sodium.

Early television commercials for PB Max declared that the "PB" in its name didn't stand for things such as *piggy banks, polka band, portly ballerina, platinum blonde, penguin black-belt, pig basketball, plow boy, pure bliss, parachuting buffalo,* or *pink baboon* — but that it in fact stood for *peanut butter.*

According to former Mars executive Alfred Poe, PB Max was discontinued due to the Mars family's distaste for peanut butter, despite $50 million in sales.

## Ingredients

Peanut butter (peanuts, sugar, hydrogenated vegetable oil, salt), milk chocolate (sugar, cocoa butter, milk, chocolate, soy lecithin, vanillin), partially hydrogenated vegetable oil (canola, soybean and cottonseed), oats, flour, sugar, mono and diglycerides, baking soda, high fructose corn syrup, TBHQ.
Prince Polo

**Prince Polo** is a Polish chocolate bar. It is sold in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Lithuania and Ukraine under the name **Siesta**, and is also sold in Iceland, where it is colloquially known as “Prins Póló”. According to measurements shown by Nielsen, the bar has been the most sold chocolate bar for decades in Iceland and was for many years one of the few chocolate bars available in the country. It has long been Poland's top-selling candy brand.

Prince Polo was introduced in 1955, during the early years of the Polish People's Republic, by Olza S.A. in Cieszyn. It is a chocolate-covered wafer, with four layers of wafer joined by three layers of chocolate-flavored filling; it was easily identifiable by its metallic gold-colored wrapper.

The company, which was founded in 1920, was purchased by Kraft Jacobs Suchard in 1993. In 1995 the Prince Polo packaging was revised with a new logo; the bar was no longer wrapped in paper and was instead sealed in plastic. Subsequently, several new varieties of Prince Polo were introduced, beginning with Hazelnut (*Orzechowy*) in 1996, and later milk chocolate, coconut, and Premium (claimed to be a more luxurious version). A larger XXL (52 g) size was also added.

## In popular culture

* Prins Póló is an Icelandic indie-pop band/solo project/moniker of Svavar Pétur Eysteinsson, member of Icelandic alternative-rock band Skakkamanage
* "Prins Póló" is an Icelandic song by Sumargleðin performed by Magnús "Bjössi Bolla" Ólafsson, where he is nicknamed *Prins Póló* because of his love for the chocolate bar
Boost

**Boost** is a brand of chocolate bar currently manufactured by Cadbury. The bar is sold in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa by Cadbury Ireland and UK. The wrapper says that it consists of milk chocolate with a caramel and biscuit filling. The wrapper also states that Boost is "charged with glucose".

## History

Boost was launched in 1985 as a tough coconut and caramel bar coated in chocolate. It was then relaunched in a further two variants: a peanut and caramel version (a rebranding of the previously available Starbar) and a biscuit version. The coconut version is no longer available and the peanut version has again been rebranded as Starbar. The biscuit version is now the standard Boost bar. A further version was launched in the UK in 2002 with a green wrapper containing guarana. It was marketed alongside the biscuit Boost and advertised with the slogan "Boost Guarana: One Step Ahead". However, this was eventually discontinued.

For a while Boost was advertised on television by comedy duo Reeves and Mortimer. This led to the unconventional advertising slogan "It's slightly rippled with a flat under-side."

In Ireland, Boost bars are known as Moro bars. A peanut Moro bar is part of the range. In 2007, there was a limited-edition coconut Moro on sale in Ireland. As of 2015, Moro brand is being phased out and replaced with the Boost brand.

The Boost bar has been released in New Zealand under the popular Moro brand as Moro Gold.

In 2009, the Boost packaging was redesigned and now includes the Cadbury name on the front. The Boost Duo was also launched; two smaller Boost bars in one wrapper. 2013 saw Cadbury's elliptical device scrapped on the standard Boost bar, this was however replaced by a new triangular logo device.

In late 2010, the Boost Stix bar was introduced in Australia and is a two finger bar much like a Twix bar (by Mars).

In 2013, Boost Max Choc was introduced to Australia. The bar is coated in Cadbury chocolate and made of chewy chocolate caramel surrounding a mixed smooth chocolate and crispy chocolate biscuit centre. The bars are 58g each.

Following increased commodity prices and legislation from the Government, the Boost bar in the United Kingdom was shrunk from 60g down to 48.5g in 2013.

In 2014, the Boost Duo version also shrank by 10g to 68g. The wrapper was notably updated to reflect the new Reference Intakes and use of Palm and Shea fat in the product.

In 2017, the United Kingdom multipack version stood at 40g, though it now stands at 34g, as of 2020.
Butterfinger

**Butterfinger** is a candy bar manufactured by the Ferrara Candy Company, a subsidiary of Ferrero. The bar consists of a layered crispy peanut butter core covered in chocolate.

## History

Butterfinger was invented by Otto Schnering in 1923. Schnering had founded the Curtiss Candy Company near Chicago, Illinois, in 1922. The company held a public contest to choose the name of this candy. In an early marketing campaign, the company dropped Butterfinger and Baby Ruth candy bars from airplanes in cities across the United States as a publicity stunt that helped increase its popularity.

The candy bar also was promoted in *Baby Take a Bow*, a film from 1934 featuring Shirley Temple.

In 1964, Standard Brands, Inc., purchased the Curtiss Candy Company. It then merged with Nabisco in 1981. RJR Nabisco was formed in 1985 by the merger of Nabisco Brands and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.

In December 1988, RJR Nabisco was purchased by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. in what was at the time, the largest leveraged buyout in history. In February 1990, Nestlé, a Swiss multinational food and beverage company, bought Baby Ruth and Butterfinger from RJR Nabisco. When measured by revenues, Nestlé is considered the largest food company in the world.

Butterfinger was withdrawn from the market in Germany in 1999, because of consumer rejection when it was one of the first products to be identified as containing genetically modified ingredients (GMOs) from corn. Butterfinger sales ended after a successful campaign by Greenpeace pushed Nestlé to remove the product from German supermarkets.

With sales in 2010 of $598 million, Butterfinger had become increasingly popular and was typically ranked as the eleventh most popular candy bar sold in the $17.68 billion United States chocolate confectionery market between 2007 and 2010.

In January 2018, Nestlé announced plans to sell over twenty of its confectionery brands of the United States (including Butterfinger) to chocolatier of Italy, Ferrero SpA, for $2.8 billion. This deal was finalized in March 2018, and the newly acquired brands were folded into the operations of the Ferrara Candy Company.

## Recipe change

Ferrara reformulated the Butterfinger in January 2019, with labels displaying "Improved Recipe". "Better" Butterfinger, as it is identified in advertising, uses larger runner peanuts in the bar's core that are roasted at the manufacturing plant. The new bar also uses a higher percentage of cocoa and milk in the chocolate coating and cuts ingredients such as the preservative TBHQ and hydrogenated oils.

The package itself has also been upgraded to avoid spoilage.

Despite representatives of the brand claiming sales have "significantly improved with the new recipe, specifically after posting a double digit sales decline prior to the brand revamp", social media users have criticized the new recipe and consider it inferior to the previous recipe.
Toffee

**Toffee** is a confection made by caramelizing sugar or molasses (creating inverted sugar) along with butter, and occasionally flour. The mixture is heated until its temperature reaches the hard crack stage of 149 to 154 °C (300 to 310 °F). While being prepared, toffee is sometimes mixed with nuts or raisins.

## Creation

The process of making toffee requires the boiling of ingredients until the mix is stiff enough to be pulled into a shape that holds and has a glossy surface. The resulting mixture will typically be poured into a shallow tray and allowed to cool to form a slab. Different mixes, processes, and most importantly, temperatures, will result in different textures and hardnesses, from soft and often sticky to a hard, brittle material. A brown color, and smoky taste, is imparted to the toffee by the caramelization of the sugars.

## Variants and applications

A popular variant in the US is *English toffee*, which is a very buttery toffee often made with almonds. It is available in both chewy and hard versions. Heath bars are a brand of confection made with an English toffee core. Although named *English toffee* it bears little resemblance to the wide range of confectionery known as toffee currently available in the United Kingdom. However, one can still find this product in the UK under the name "butter crunch." Conversely, in Italy they are known as "mou candies".

Another variant is *honeycomb toffee*, which is an aerated version with bubbles introduced by adding baking soda and vinegar while mixing. These react to form carbon dioxide, which is trapped in the highly viscous mixture. In the UK and Canada, the best known honeycomb confection is the Crunchie bar. A similar Australian chocolate bar is the Violet Crumble. In New Zealand, vanilla ice cream with pieces of honeycomb in it is called *hokey pokey*.

A particular application of toffee is in toffee apples, sometimes called candy apples, which are apples coated with hard toffee mounted on sticks. Toffee apples are similar to taffy apples and caramel apples, which are both covered in caramel.

Toffee used in confectionery can be mixed with many different ingredients to produce a variety of flavors: rum and butter, chocolate covered, vanilla and chocolate, rum and raisin, raspberry, and honeycomb.

## Etymology

The origins of the word are unknown. Food writer Harold McGee claims it to be "from the Creole for a mixture of sugar and molasses", but which creole language is not specified. The *Oxford English Dictionary* dates the first publication of the word to 1825 and identifies it as a variation of *taffy* (1817), both of which are first recorded as English dialectical words.
Crunch

**Crunch**, known outside the U.S. as **Nestlé Crunch**, is a chocolate bar made of milk chocolate and crisped rice. It is produced globally by Nestlé with the exception of the United States, where it is produced under license by the Ferrara Candy Company, a subsidiary of Ferrero.

## History

Nestlé Crunch was first introduced to market in 1928.

In January 2018, Nestlé announced plans to sell its U.S. confectionery brands (including the U.S. rights to Crunch) to Italian chocolatier Ferrero SpA, maker of Nutella, for US$2.8 billion. Ferrero folded the acquired brands into the operations of the Ferrara Candy Company and will increase investment in marketing into 2020.

## Other products

* Buncha Crunch are candy pieces made of milk chocolate with crisped rice mixed in. Released in 1994, they were originally only sold exclusively in movie theaters, but as of May 2012, they have become available in most grocery stores.
* Crunch White is a candy bar made with white chocolate instead of milk chocolate.
* Crunch Ice Cream Bars have a firm, vanilla-flavoured ice cream center, surrounded by a milk chocolate coating with crisped rice mixed in.
* Crunch with Caramel is a candy bar made with milk chocolate and crisped rice mixed in, containing a caramel center.
* Crunch with Peanuts is a limited edition candy bar made with milk chocolate and crisped rice mixed in, containing peanuts.
* Dark Crunch with Caramel is a limited edition candy bar made with dark chocolate and crisped rice mixed in, containing a caramel center.
* Crunch Stixx is a variant of Crunch, which consists of wafers and *Crunch Candy Creme*
* Crunch Dark Stixx is a variant of Crunch, which consists of wafers and *Crunch Dark Candy Creme*
* Crunch Dark and Buncha Crunch Dark consisted of crisped rice and dark chocolate. Crunch Dark was available in single-bar packages. Bunch Crunch Dark was available in resealable stand-up bags and concession box sizes. The products were launched in collaboration with Candytopia. These products were available for a limited time, through July 2018.
* Crunch Mocha is a discontinued candy bar made with mocha instead of milk chocolate.
* Crunch Crisp is a full size candy bar made with wafers and chocolate creme.
* Crunch Cereal is chocolate breakfast cereal with crispy rice and wheat clusters.
* YoCrunch brand yogurt features Crunch mix-ins in both Strawberry and Vanilla yogurt flavors. The pieces themselves resemble Buncha Crunch.
* Crunchettes "Bite Size" Pieces of Crunch
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Mamba

**Mamba** fruit chews are a brand of fruit chew candies, produced by August Storck KG. They are available in the following flavors: strawberry, orange, lemon, raspberry and cherry. Mamba also does not contain nuts, but there is a risk of cross-contamination in the factory. Mamba was launched in the German market in 1953 and in the US in 1986. They are sold in packages of 6, 18, or 24 soft chews and the flavors within each package are selected at random.

*Mamba Sour* Fruit Chews were first released in 2007.

*Mamba Cola & Friends* are a mix of cola and fruit flavors (lemon, cherry, pineapple, orange) sold in the German market.

*Mamba Tropics* was released March 2017, featuring the flavors, Peach-Passionfruit, Pineapple-Coconut, Mango-Orange, and Apple-Kiwi.
Fudge (chocolate bar)

**Fudge** is a brand of chocolate bar manufactured by Cadbury. It is a bar of fudge in a semi-circular cross-section covered in a layer of milk chocolate. Produced in small bite size bars and in larger bars, the Fudge continues to be produced and sold in countries such as the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was launched in 1948, originally under the name *Milk Fudge* which later became simply Fudge.

## Production

In November/December 2010, production of Fudge was transferred to Cadbury's new plant in Skarbimierz, Poland from the Keynsham Cadbury's plant in Somerset. Labels for these products do not state a country of origin, instead stating "Made in the EU under licence from Cadbury UK Ltd".
Spree

**Spree** is a candy manufactured by The Willy Wonka Candy Company, a brand owned by the Ferrara Candy Company unit of Ferrero SpA. Spree was created by the Sunline Candy Company, later renamed Sunmark Corporation, of St. Louis, Mo., in the mid-1960s. Spree was an idea of an employee named John Scout. In the 1970s the brand was bought by Nestlé, which markets the candy under the Willy Wonka brand.

Spree is classified as a compressed dextrose candy, covered in a colored fruit-flavored shell. Depending on the market it is available in 1.77-ounce (50 g) rolls or thin 5-ounce (140 g) movie theater-size cardboard boxes. It is billed as "a kick in the mouth".

A variety called Chewy Spree, which has a candy shell and a chewy center, comes in 12-ounce (340 g) pouches, rather than rolls. There is a Mini Chewy Spree as well that comes in a 1.73-ounce (49 g) dispenser. The Chewy Spree Mixed Berry flavor was discontinued in 2015.

## Flavors

### Spree (Original)

* Red (Cherry/strawberry)
* Orange (Orange)
* Yellow (Lemon)
* Green (Lime - changed to Green Apple following Nestle's buyout and cheaper production costs, a decision that has been met with severe criticism from consumers that continues on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter which Nestle continues to defend as an alleged "market survey" result.)
* Purple (Grape)

### Chewy Spree

* Red (Cherry)
* Orange (Orange)
* Yellow (Lemon)
* Green (Green Apple - see above)
* Purple (Grape)

### Chewy Spree Mixed Berry

* Cherry
* Strawberry
* Blue Raspberry
* Mixed Berry

At Christmas time, Spree markets packages of candy canes in a mixed sour Spree flavor
Hello Panda

***Hello Panda*** is a brand of Japanese biscuit, manufactured by Meiji Seika. Each biscuit consists of a small hollow shortbread layer, filled with either vanilla, strawberry, double chocolate, matcha green tea or chocolate filling. Packets can also be bought containing a mixture of flavours.

It was first released in Japan during the Summer of 1979. Printed on the biscuits are cartoon style depictions of giant pandas doing various activities, such as fencing and archery.

Hello Panda was originally baked in Japan by Meiji Seika, but production later began in Singapore and Indonesia. The Singapore bakery facilities started producing other Meiji products in 1974. The biscuits are exported to most developed countries, such as the United Kingdom (by Unisnacks), most European countries, the United States, the Middle East, Australia and Canada.

The biscuits are commonly sold in a tall, hexagonal box with 2oz or 57.5g. In some countries, Hello Panda biscuits are available in small 21 and 35g aluminum pouches, 50g as well as 260g boxes and limited edition packagings.
Lindor

**Lindor** is a Swiss truffle product line manufactured by Lindt & Sprüngli. It comes in many flavors (pictured), but the main idea of the chocolate is the chocolate in the center and the soft chocolate (truffle) in the middle.

The chocolate's smoothness is uses in advertising and is promptly quite smooth. Lindor was introduced as a chocolate bar in 1949 and later in 1967 as a truffle. The ball is sold in a variety of flavors, ranging from Milk Chocolate to Candy Cane.

Most of the US Lindt truffles are produced in Stratham, New Hampshire.
Tupla

**Tupla** is a Finnish chocolate bar made by Cloetta. It consists of milk chocolate with a nougat-flavoured filling, coated with bits of almond.

The name "Tupla", meaning "double", comes from the fact that there are always two Tupla bars in a single wrapper. Unlike Twix, however, the bars are placed end-to-end, not parallel.

The original Tupla dates back to the 1960 and is still one of the most popular chocolate bars in Finland. In the 1990s and 2000s two variants have been introduced: Tupla White, with a coating of white chocolate instead of milk chocolate, and Tupla Black, with bits of liquorice added into the filling.

There were even Tupla Easter eggs available in the 1990s. Despite the name, however, there weren't two chocolate eggs nested inside each other.

## Ingredients

Glucose syrup, sugar, vegetable fats (palm, shea), skimmed milk powder, cocoa butter, almonds, whole milk powder, cocoa mass, fat reduced cocoa powder, whey powder (milk), hydrolyzed milk protein, salt, flavourings, emulsifier (sunflower lecithin).

## Nutrition information

Per 100g: 1954 kJ /463 kcal (Energy), 19g (Fat) of which 10g (Saturates), 64g (Carbonhydrate) of which 57g (Sugars), 6,3g (Protein), 0,47g (Salt).

## Bar weight

Bar weights are 50g TUPLA MAXI and 85g TUPLA KING SIZE.

## Tupla Sport

In 2008 a new side-brand was issued, Tupla Sport. Tupla Sport has a high fiber content and comes in two flavours: apple and raspberry. Its main ingredients are chocolate, muesli, almonds and nougat.

## Advertising

### Easy to open at any time

In 2019, Tupla ran ads which featured a variety of shots where the packaging was being opened using hands showing the new "Easy to open" feature. The ad was companied by a slogan - "Easy to open at any time", the ads ran in Estonia and Latvia.
Nestlé Chunky

**Nestlé Chunky** is a candy bar with milk chocolate, raisins, and roasted peanuts — using a sectioned and truncated pyramid shape. Chunky is produced by Ferrara Candy Company, a division of Ferrero SpA.

## History

The Chunky candy bar was introduced in the late 1930s by New York City candy maker Philip Silvershein, at the time made with milk chocolate, raisins, cashews and Brazil nuts. Silvershein, a friend of William Wrigley, Jr., distributed the bar by the Wrigley Gum Company. When Nestlé assumed rights to the brand in 1984, the ingredients were changed to milk chocolate, raisins and peanuts . In 2018, Ferrero SpA purchased Nestlé's U.S. candy line, which included Chunky.

In the 1950s, a Chunky could be purchased for five cents (as could most candy bars), with a smaller version, the Chunky Cutie, available for two cents.[*citation needed*]

## Advertising

"Chunky Square", a pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair, featured a glass-walled automated factory, where visitors could watch the manufacturing of Chunky candy bars.

An early 1970s TV commercial for Chunky showed a young boy watching TV with his father. The boy amused viewers by claiming that Chunky was "THICKER-ER".

Other Chunky advertising slogans included "Chunky, What a Chunk o' Chocolate", intoned by the nasal voice of Arnold Stang, and "Open Wide for Chunky".

## Varieties

* Original - milk chocolate, peanuts and raisins - silver wrapper
* Pecan Chunky (discontinued) - milk chocolate, pecans only - gold wrapper
* Dark Chunky (discontinued) - dark chocolate, peanuts and raisins - gold wrapper
* Deluxe Nut (discontinued) - milk chocolate, peanuts, almonds, cashews, and hazelnuts - gold wrapper
* Solid Milk Chocolate (discontinued) - milk chocolate only - brown wrapper
* Miniatures ('Cuties') - (discontinued) - same as originals but 1"x 1"x 3/4"thick, (individually wrapped) in a poly-bag
Sugar Babies

**Sugar Babies** are bite-sized, pan-coated, chewy milk caramel sweets which are relatively soft to chew. They are a Jamaican confection originally developed in 1935 by the James O. Welch Co. Sugar Babies were named after a song called "Let Me Be Your Sugar Baby."

The company was purchased by Nabisco in 1963. The Welch family of products changed hands a few more times, going from Nabisco to Warner-Lambert (in 1988) then to Tootsie in 1993, who makes them to this day. Tootsie Roll Industries now makes Sugar Babies. Welch produced them along with the rest of the Sugar Family (Sugar Daddy and Sugar Mama).

A website called The Candy Blog rated Sugar Babies as a 9 out of 10 ("yummy").
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups

**Reese's Peanut Butter Cups** are an American candy consisting of a chocolate cup filled with peanut cream, marketed by The Hershey Company. They were created by H. B. Reese, a former dairy farmer and shipping foreman for Milton S. Hershey. Reese left his job at The Hershey Company to start his own candy business.

## The H.B. Reese Candy Company

In 1923, **The H.B. Reese Candy Company** was established in the basement of Reese's home in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Reese had originally worked at a Hershey dairy farm, and from the start he used Hershey Chocolate in his confections. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups were his most popular candy, and Reese eventually discontinued his other lines. H. B. Reese died on May 16, 1956, in West Palm Beach, Florida passing the company to his six sons, Robert, John, Ed, Ralph, Harry, and Charles Richard Reese. On July 2, 1963, the Reese brothers merged the H.B. Reese Candy Company with the Hershey Chocolate Corporation in a tax-free stock-for-stock merger. In 2019 after 56 years of stock splits, the Reese brothers' original 666,316 shares of Hershey common stock represented 16 million Hershey shares valued at over $2.5 billion that paid annual cash dividends of $49.4 million. In 1969, only 6 years after the Reese/Hershey merger, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups became The Hershey Company's top seller.

The H.B. Reese Candy Company is maintained as a subsidiary of Hershey because the Reese plant workforce is not unionized, unlike the main Hershey plant. In 2012, Reese's was the best-selling candy brand in the United States with sales of $2.603 billion, and was the fourth-best-selling candy brand globally with sales of $2.679 billion—only $76 million (2.8%) of its sales were from outside the United States market. Additionally, the H.B. Reese Candy Company manufactures the Kit Kat in the United States, which had 2012 U.S. sales of $948 million.

As of October 2017 in the U.S. convenience store channel, Reese's was the largest confection brand by far: it was 62% larger than the next brand, with more households purchasing Reese's than any other confection brand across the United States. Reese's includes the overall top-selling confection item—the Reese's Peanut Butter Cups King Size—as well as six of the top 20 chocolate/non-chocolate items. Additionally, the Reese's brand accounts for over 47% of all seasonal sales within the U.S. convenience store channel, including the top two items in the largest four commercial seasons: Valentine's, Easter, Halloween, & Christmas. As a comparison, the next largest brand accounts for only 10% of seasonal sales
Turkish Taffy

**Turkish Taffy** Is a "chewy" (usually hard and crunchy) taffy-like candy bar, which comes in several flavors.

## History

Turkish Taffy was invented in 1912 by Austrian immigrant Herman Herer, who sold the rights to M. Schwarz & Sons of Newark, New Jersey, which were acquired in 1936 by Victor Bonomo, a Sephardic Jew whose father, Albert J. Bonomo, had emigrated from Izmir, Turkey and founded the Bonomo Company in Coney Island, New York in 1897 to produce saltwater taffy and hard candies.

According to Tico Bonomo, son of Victor, Turkish Taffy "was not really a taffy, but what is technically known as a short nougat," consisting of a batter of corn syrup and egg whites that was cooked and then baked. It was also not Turkish, but created after World War II in the Bonomo factory. It has been marketed in vanilla, chocolate, strawberry and banana flavors.

Turkish Taffy was originally sold in large sheets to Woolworth's stores, where pieces were broken off with a ball-peen hammer at the counter and sold by weight. In the late 1940s the company released a version in candy-bar size which the purchaser could whack against a hard surface to break into bite-sized pieces. This property of being shattered or broken by sudden shock, but still pliable and soft when chewed is possible because the candy is a non-Newtonian fluid.[*citation needed*] Since the pieces were both chewy and slow-melting in the mouth, it was a favorite for the frugal customer. A bar still cost 5¢ in the 1960s. By that time, it was marketed by Gold Medal Candy Corporation of Brooklyn, New York.

In 1949 Turkish Taffy became one of the first forms of candy advertised and marketed on television, when Bonomo created and sponsored *The Magic Clown* on NBC Television. Tico Bonomo specifically cited the decision to use television as instrumental in the popularity of the candy-bar sized taffys.

In 1980 the candy became part of the Tootsie Roll Industries of Chicago line of candies, and it was discontinued in 1989.

## Return of Bonomo's Turkish Taffy

In 2003 Bonomo Turkish Taffy, LLC created a website proclaiming the return of Bonomo Turkish Taffy and accepting advance orders. A press release issued by The Warrell Corporation on April 8, 2010, said the product would be available in stores in July 2010, and samples were available for preview to the confectionery industry at the National Confectioners Association's annual "Sweets and Snacks Expo" May 23–27, 2010.

Bonomo's Turkish Taffy made its official re-debut to the general public July 2, 2010, at IT'SUGAR in Atlantic City.

## Flavors

Current flavors of Bonomo's Turkish Taffy include chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, and banana.

In 2012 Bonomo introduced two new flavors, Blue Raspberry and Wild Cherry.

## Kosher certification

Bonomo's Turkish Taffy is certified kosher by the Orthodox Union, the world's largest kosher certification agency.
Sixlets

**Sixlets** are small round candy-coated, chocolate-flavored candy made by Oak Leaf Confections, a Chocolat Frey company based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The chocolate centers are made from a mixture of cocoa and carob, giving them a "malted" taste. They are often sold in thin cellophane packages that hold them in a tube-like formation. The ball-shaped candies come in colors that include red, brown, yellow, green, blue and orange. An Easter variation of the candy adds white, pink, and blue pieces while removing red and brown ones from the mix. A Christmas variation has only red, green and white; and the Valentine's Day variation has red, pink, and white. Halloween versions are also sold, having only orange and black candies. At some specialty candy stores, Sixlets can be found sold loose by weight in individually sorted colors not found in the typical variety- lime green, black, pink, etc.- in the same way that M&M's are popularizing designer color selection. They are also packaged for sale as decoration for baked goods.

## History

Sixlets have existed since at least 1960 and were originally made by Leaf Brands. A candy brand with a similar name that was also made by Leaf in the 1960s was called Fivesomes. Fivesomes were a miniature version of Whoppers that, like Sixlets, also came in cellophane wrapping. In 2003, Hershey Foods Corporation sold their rights to the Sixlets brand name to SweetWorks Confections LLC.

One hypothesis for the name's origin is that the candy, when originally manufactured, was sold six for a penny in a bubble gum-like machine. Although the candies are currently sold in a variety of packages, the most comparable to the original is an eight-ball cellophane pack sold in bags containing several servings. A six-ball tube was introduced in 2017.
Now and Later

**Now and Later** is a brand of fruit-flavored taffy-like candy manufactured by Ferrara Candy Company. The candy is formed into squares packaged in colorful paper. Nineteen flavors are currently available in both the Traditional and Chewy variety.

## History

Now and Later was created in Brooklyn, New York in 1962 by The Phoenix Candy Company.

The name Now and Later was meant to suggest to customers that they are going to like them now and then want some more later. They also sold several candy-and-a-toy products.. In 1978, the Phoenix Candy Company was sold to Beatrice Foods.

The company merged with Leaf in 1983, and sold it to Nabisco in 1992. Farley's & Sathers Candy Company bought it in 2000 following Kraft/Philip Morris' acquisition of Nabisco In 2012. Farley's & Sathers Candy Company merged with Ferrara Pan Candy Company and the name of the company was changed to Ferrara Candy Company.
Tempo

**Tempo** was a chocolate bar produced by Cadbury South Africa, described as a "Shortcake biscuit and caramel covered in Cadbury's dairy milk chocolate".

## About

The chocolate bar was unique to South Africa. Cadbury's South Africa also produces other bars only available in South Africa, such as "P.S", "Astro's" and "Question". The shortcake biscuit is surrounded by smooth, creamy caramel then smothered in Cadbury milk chocolate. Tempo was developed by Barry Fern and marketed by Lois Wagner in 1986 and was the most successful new product introduction into the snack market that decade. The Tempo was superseded by a bar called 5 Star in 2017.
Mike and Ike

**Mike and Ike** is a brand of fruit-flavored candies that were first introduced in 1942 by the company Just Born, Inc. The origin of the candy's name remains unknown, but there are many conjectures. Mike and Ikes were originally all fruit flavored but now come in several different varieties which have been introduced over the years.

## History

The Mike and Ike brand was first introduced in 1940 by Just Born, Inc., which is located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Its origin uncertain, the name may have come from the comic strip Mike and Ike (They Look Alike), which, however, had ended by the 1940s. Or the name may have referred to the Matina Brothers, two of whom, nicknamed "Mike" & "Ike," were billed as circus midgets and had roles as Munchkins in the 1939 film *The Wizard of Oz*; the author Dean Jensen wrote without cited evidence that the two became so popular in America that a boxed candy was named after them. Other proposals include a company-wide contest, a vaudeville song titled “Mike and Ike”, and Dwight D. Eisenhower, whose nickname was "Ike." Just Born acquired the *Rodda Candy Company* in 1953 and produced new flavors of the candy, such as cotton candy. Additional flavors such as Root Beer came in the 1960s, and others have been introduced on and off since.

## Varieties

* Butter Popcorn
* Cherry Cola
* Original colors
* Berry Blast
* Tangy Twister
* Tropical Typhoon
* Italian Ice
* Lemonade Blends
* Jolly Joes
* Zours
* Red Rageous
* Strawberry Reunion
* Sweet Paradise
* Mega Mix

* Mega Mix Sours

Retro/limited varieties include:

* Lem and Mel (Lemon and watermelon) flavor (launched 1991; reissued 2013)
* Cherri and Bubb (Cherry and bubble gum) flavor (launched 1989; reissued 2013)
* Strawbana (launched 1991)
* Mike and Ike – Strawberries n' Cream (launched 2000)
* Mike and Ike – Oranges n' Cream (launched 2000)
* Cherry Cola (launched 2004, reissued 2016)
* Buttered Popcorn (launched 2004, reissued 2016)
* Mike and Ike Minion Mix – Blueberry and Banana flavors (launched 2014)
* Mike and Ike Valentines Mix (Seasonal)
* Mike and Ike Mummy's Mix (Seasonal)
* Mike and Ike Merry Mix (Seasonal) (launched 2015)
* Mike and Ike Sundae Sweets (Limited edition)
* Mike and Ike Cotton Candy (Limited edition)
* Mike and Ike Rootbeer Float (Limited edition)

There are also seasonal packages for Easter in which the Mike and Ike flavors are formed as jelly beans

## Media

In April 2012, the company ran an ad campaign based on the premise that Mike and Ike were "breaking up" due to "creative differences"; the packaging showed one or the other name scratched out. The campaign was intended to capture the interest of younger consumers. In 2013 the company announced Mike and Ike would reunite. In addition to a re-designed packaging and juicier tasting candy, a trailer for a movie was released, entitled, *The Return of Mike and Ike.*
Bubble Tape

**Bubble Tape** is a type of Hubba Bubba bubble gum produced by Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, and introduced in 1988. It experienced its greatest popularity in the early 1990s due to its unique packaging and direct marketing to preteen children ("it's six feet of bubble gum - for you, not them"—"them" referring to parents or just adults in general). At the peak of its popularity, over 1 million containers for Bubble Tape were being manufactured a week. Today, it is still a common find in most supermarkets, although advertising campaigns for it have subsided significantly.

Bubble Tape comes in a small, round, plastic container similar in size to a hockey puck. This contains six feet (1.8 m) of gum wrapped in a spiral. The container functions much like a tape dispenser, although the top half can be removed or broken off.

## Flavors

Most flavors are those available from the regular Hubba Bubba chewing gum line:

* Awesome Original
* Sour Green Apple
* Sour Watermelon
* Sour Blue Raspberry
* Cotton Candy
* Strapping Strawberry
* Juicy Fruit
* Gushing Grape
* Snappy Strawberry
* Triple Treat (also titled 'Triple Mix') – A mix of strawberry, blueberry, and watermelon
* Sugar Free Very Berry – A dentist-recommended version of Bubble Tape, a mix of grape and blue raspberry
* Candy Cane – A seasonal flavor
* Tangy Tropical
* Cola Party

### Also available in

* Mega Roll – 10 feet (3.0 m) of Bubble Tape gum
* King Size – 9 feet (2.7 m) of Bubble Tape gum
Reese's Whipps

**Reese's Whipps** is a candy bar made of peanut butter nougat and a layer of peanut butter coated with milk chocolate. It was introduced in 2007.

The Whipps is marketed as a lower fat candy bar (similar to the 3 Musketeers) due to it mainly being composed of nougat. But of the 9g of fat, 7g are saturated and the bar contains 230 calories, which is in the same range as most similarly-sized candy bars.
Cadbury Eclairs

**Cadbury Eclairs** are a confectionery currently manufactured by Cadbury. Invented by the Liverpool based confectionery company Taverners in 1932, they were adapted into a Dairy Milk version of Eclairs in 1965. They are available in bags or rolls and can be found in the Cadbury Heroes selection. Eclairs are currently available in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, Kenya, Hong Kong, South Africa and India, where they are known as "Dairy Milk Eclairs". In 2013 Mondelēz International updated the UK ingredients list to add in the inclusion of palm oil in the recipe. In 2013 Cadbury rebranded its product to Choclairs in India.

## Current products

* **Cadbury Eclairs:** Cadbury milk chocolate encased in a chewy caramel. Launched 1965.
* **Cadbury Eclairs Orange Twist:** Orange flavour Cadbury milk chocolate encased in a chewy caramel. Launched 2013.
* **Cadbury Eclairs Hazelnut Twist:** Hazelnut flavour Cadbury milk chocolate encased in chewy caramel. Launched 2013.
* **Cadbury Eclairs Velvets:** soft caramel with a chocolatey centre, encased in Cadbury milk chocolate. Launched 2014.
* **Cadbury Eclairs Velvets Coffee:** soft coffee flavour caramel with a chocolate centre, covered in Cadbury milk chocolate. Launched in 2014, exclusive to Tesco.
Mallo Cup

Mallo Cups are a brand of chocolate candy produced by Boyer. The candy consists of coconut covered in milk chocolate, and is made in a cup shape, similar to a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup.

## History

Mallo Cups were introduced in 1936. It is marked as being the first cup candy in the United States.

## Varieties

The Mallo Cup comes in two other varieties, one is the same as a normal Mallo Cup but instead coated with dark chocolate instead of milk chocolate. There is also a Mallo Cup with a peanut butter filling instead of a coconut filling, more similar to a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup.
Pixy Stix

**Pixy Stix** is a sweet and sour colored powdered candy usually packaged in a wrapper that resembles a drinking straw. Pixy Stix is a registered trademark of Société des Produits Nestlé S.A., Vevey, Switzerland.

The candy is usually poured into the mouth from the wrapper, which is made out of plastic or paper. Pixy Stix contain dextrose, citric acid, and artificial and natural flavors.

## History

Pixy Stix was invented by Sunline Inc. in St. Louis, Missouri. The concept for this powdered candy originated in 1942 and was derived from a penny drink mix sold as Fruzola Jr. by the Fruzola Company in Salt Lake City, Utah. When J. Fish Smith found that children were eating the sweet and sour powder straight from the package, he modified the formula and branded it as Lik-M-Aid.

An affiliated company, Fruzola Company of St. Louis, which later became Sunline, Inc., was founded in 1952 by Menlo F. Smith to manufacture and market Lik-M-Aid nationwide. In 1959, the product was packaged in color-striped straws and introduced as Pixy Stix. Several years later, Lik-M-Aid was modified with a multi-compartment package containing two flavors and a candy stick used to dip the candy out of the package, thereby dubbed Fun Dip. Pixy Stix are currently manufactured by Nestlé Candy Shop (formerly Wonka Confections), a division of Nestle.

## Flavors

* Grape
* Maui Punch (blue)
* Orange
* Cherry
* Raspberry
* Strawberry
* Cucumber watermelon
* Mango Lime
* Pineapple
Jet-Puffed Marshmallows

**Jet-Puffed Marshmallows** are a product of Kraft Foods, first introduced in 1958. It was sold as a national brand in 1959. It has more than 30 different flavors to its brand name.

## History

It was first a simulated space ship, of one made by Aerojet-General Corporation, for Kraft to sell because it was in a limited market the first year. Nineteen U.S. cities had young people waiting in long lines for their chance to sit at the control panels they had from them. Kraft gave away the space ship as the top prize in the "Name the Space Training Ship" promotion they had going on.

In 1964 Jet-Puffed marshmallows began making Easter candies, cookies, and cupcakes. Kraft has offered a replica of the marshmallow dispenser that Spock used in the movie *Star Trek V: The Final Frontier*.

## Flavors

* Orange
* Chocolate
* Original

Other flavors include

* Strawberry
* Lemon
* Lime