Reese's Peanut Butter Cup
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Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are peanut butter-filled chocolate cups. They were created in approximately 1928 by H. B. Reese, a former dairy farmer and shipping foreman for Milton S. Hershey. Reese established the H. B. Reese Candy Co. in the basement of his house in Hershey, Pennsylvania, which went on to merge with The Hershey Company in 1963 due to the ever-growing popularity of Reeses' Peanut Butter Cups.
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, (now produced by The Hershey Company, Reese's division), are the most popular and most widely recognized brand of peanut butter cups in the world. In the United States, they come in two-, three-, four-, and six-packs in distinctive orange packaging. In Canada, where they are known as Reese Peanut Butter Cups, the cups come in a standard pack-size of three cups, or the king-size variation with four cups. In the United Kingdom, they were originally available only in two-packs, and are now only available in three-packs.
The cups also come in miniature sizes, in a brown paper cup and gold foil wrapper, that are usually sold in bags of 12 ounces or more, or individually. Hershey's currently puts out "limited edition" variants of the original version, such as one for "peanut butter lovers" (peanut-butter filling in a peanut butter cup), for "chocolate lovers" (peanut-butter-flavoured chocolate filling and chocolate coating), white chocolate coated, and the "Inside Out" with peanut-butter-flavored chocolate on the outside, and chocolate on the inside. There have also been "BigCups", larger versions of the original cups with more peanut butter than the regular sizes.
They are well known for their ad campaign stating, "There's no wrong way to eat a Reese's," accompanied by some creative way of consuming it.
Other products of the Reese's division of Hershey include: Reese's Fast Break, Reese's Pieces, Reese's Pieces with Nuts, Reese's NutRageous, and ReeseSticks.
Varieties
Reese's
- Regular
- Snack Size
- Miniature
- Large Size
- King Size
- Inside Out
- White Chocolate
- Honey Roasted
- Marshmallow (limited edition)
- Big Cup
- Big Cup with Nuts
- Big Cup White Chocolate
- Big Cup with Caramel
- Chocolate Lovers
- Caramel
- Crunchy
- Crunchy Cookie
- Dark Chocolate
- Extra Smooth and Creamy
- Fudge
- Holiday Versions (Hearts, Eggs, Pumpkins, and Trees)
- Peanut Butter Lovers
- Peanut Butter and Jelly
- Reese's Puffs Cereal
Reese's Pieces
- Regular
- With Nuts
- Mini-Pieces
- Godzilla
- Lost World
Reese's Swoops
- Regular
- White Chocolate
Products
- Reese's
- Reese's Puffs
- Reese's Snackbarz
- Reese's Pieces
- Reese's Swoops
- Reese's Fast Break
- Reese's NutRageous
- ReeseSticks
- Reese's Ice Cream
- Reese's ChipIts
- Reese's Klondike bar
- Reese's Bites
- Reese's Egg
- Reese's Pieces Carrot
Ingredients
"Milk Chocolate Miniatures" (original flavor) from U.S.: Milk chocolate (milk chocolate contains: sugar; cocoa butter; chocolate; nonfat milk; milk fat; lactose; and soy lecithin and PGPR, as emulsifiers); peanuts; sugar; dextrose; salt; and TBHQ (preservatives)See also
External links
| Confectionery products of The Hershey Company | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Chocolate-based | |||
| 5th Avenue | Almond Joy | Bar None (discontinued) | Cherry Blossom | Glosette (Canada only) | Heath bar | Hershey bar | Hershey's Kiss | Hershey's Kissables | Hershey's Bar None | Hershey's Cookies and Cream | Hershey's Pops | Hershey's S'mores | Kit Kat | Krackel | Milk Duds | Mounds | Mr. Goodbar | Oh Henry! (Canada only) | PayDay Chocolate (Limited Edition) | Rolo | Reese's Fast Break | Reese's Peanut Butter Cup | Reese's Pieces | ReeseSticks | Skor | Take 5 (Also known as Max 5) | Whoppers | York Peppermint Pattie | |||
| Non-Chocolate | |||
| Bubble Yum > Ice Breakers | Jolly Rancher | Koolerz | PayDay | ZAGNUT | |||
| Other | |||
| Good & Plenty > Snack Barz | Swoops | Twizzlers | Whatchamacallit | |||
| Hershey also manufactures Cadbury-branded products in the US and military chocolate for the US armed forces | |||
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