The company chose to drop Butterfingers and Baby Ruths from airplanes in cities across the United States to increase their popularity. The Butterfinger bar was one of the first heavily-marketed candies with a product placement in the 1934 Shirley Temple film Baby Take a Bow and the literal dropping of Butterfingers on cities across the country. Founder Otto Schnering came up with this masterpiece in 1923 through a naming contest the company had held the year before. The sweet and crunchy Butterfinger bar, like the Baby Ruth, is another invention of the Curtiss Candy Company. We may never know the truth, but that doesn’t sour the taste of this delicious creation. Did the Curtiss Company use baseball player Babe Ruth’s name without providing royalties? Or was the bar named in honor of President Grover Cleveland’s daughter, Ruth? This seems to have been a smart choice, since Baby Ruth hit it big, becoming the single best-selling 5-cent candy bar of the Roaring Twenties. In 1920, the Curtiss Candy Company redesigned its Kandy Kake confection and rebranded it as the Baby Ruth bar.
That’s how much America treasures its sweets. Mounds bars stayed in production throughout World War II despite sugar shortages and compromised supply lines.
Then, in 1929, the Peter Paul Manufacturing Company purchased rights to the treat, and large-scale production began. This sugary creation from the 1920s hails from West Haven, Connecticut.Ĭandy maker Vincent Nitido originally sold them for just 5 cents each. Mounds bars are packed with sweetened, shredded coconut and coated in rich chocolate. While we may never know what gives these creamy milk chocolate bars their unique flavor, Milton was right when he said, “There’s a smile in every Hershey Bar.” They keep us smiling to this day. That’s pretty much all we know about this process because the rest of the recipe is a closely guarded trade secret. Created by Milton Hershey using his “Hershey Process,” the first bars blended in fresh milk from local farms. This turn-of-the-century treat, considered the best American chocolate, was the first mass-produced chocolate bar in the United States. “The Great American Chocolate Bar”) was first released in 1900.
The OG of the bunch, the Hershey’s Milk Chocolate bar (a.k.a. Now, this is some fun-and mouthwatering-history to read. We wanted to find out, so we dug deep into candy bar history and built a timeline for you to enjoy. But where did these treats originate? What’s their story? Candy bars are everywhere, and there’s an endless variety of them. One of the most interesting history lessons (or the best one, if you’re a chocolate fan) is the candy bar. Learn the story behind your favorite chocolate candy bars in this timeline of the most beloved and craved treats, over a century in the making.
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