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Candy Bar Trivia

Candy bars have a rich history in American culture. Nestle candy has been around for a hundred years and many candy bars have historical significance. So take our candy bar quiz on candy trivia and fun candy facts on Slashfood.

Candy Bar Trivia

This candy bar was named after the family horse:

  • Snickers
  • Milky Way
  • Butterfinger
  • Fast Break

When introduced in 1932, 3 Musketeers had three pieces of candy in one package, each with separate flavors. These three flavors were:

  • Vanilla, chocolate and strawberry
  • Chocolate, malt and toffee
  • Vanilla, chocolate and peanut
  • Strawberry, vanilla and nougat

Until 1990, the Snickers bar was sold under which name in England and Ireland?

  • Snickers
  • Fast Break
  • Crunchie
  • Marathon

In what year was the original Hershey's milk chocolate bar introduced?

  • 1890
  • 1900
  • 1917
  • 1932

For whom is the Baby Ruth candy bar named?

  • Babe Ruth
  • Ruth Cleveland
  • Ruth Chris
  • Ruth Davis

Which has chocolate, raisins and peanuts in a four-square bar?

  • Reggie candy bar
  • Chunky Bar
  • Nutty Raisin Bar
  • Baby Ruth

What was the Twix candy bar known as in several European countries before the name was standardized in 1991?

  • Curly Wurly
  • Raider
  • Cookie Crunch
  • Aero Caramel

Which of the following candy bars is no longer in production in the U.S.?

  • 100 Grand Bars
  • Breakaway
  • Mallo Cup
  • Mars Bar

Who invented the candy bar?

  • Milton S. Hershey
  • Joseph Fry
  • Henri Nestle
  • John Cadbury

How much did the standard size Hershey Milk Chocolate Bar sell for in 1900?

  • $1.00
  • 75 cents
  • 5 cents
  • A Penny

Limited edition Snickers bar

A Snickers candy bar cut in half with the package behind it.
I have only recently discovered Candyblog, but I love it. The candy always looks so yummy and the reviews are extensive and helpful.

As I was perusing the site, drooling as per usual, I found this recent post about a limited edition Snickers bar that they had just gotten samples of. It's the Rockin' Nut Road Bar, and they gave it a really good review (an 8 out of 10). Candyblog didn't get any press materials with the samples, so they have no idea if/when the bar is available. However, the amount of samples they got was astronomical, so they're giving the samples away! Just head on over to Candyblog to see how you can win some Snickers candy. Hope this will help perk up your weekend!

Forget the crack. Kids are dealing Snickers

kids and candy
And you thought the green-beret'd Girl Scouts and their cookies were enterprising little kids?

In Victorville, CA, the latest trend at schools is an underground sugar trade. With candy and other "bad" snacks banned from school campuses, kids are selling contraband Snickers and Twinkies right out of their backpacks.

According to Jim Nason, principal at Hook Junior High School in Victorville, it's become quite a lucrative business for the dealers. Kids bring things like candy bars, soda, and even energy drinks from home in their "sack lunch" and turn around and sell them for a healthy profit, with some kids walking around school with upwards of $40 in cash.

While I understand this is a bit of a problem for the schools and parents, I have to hand it to the kids -- at least we can count on them to be very good businesspeople when they grow up.

Heart of Darkness brownies will warm your soul



After an arduous search for a dessert to bring to a V-Day dinner party, I was thrilled to stumble upon the gorgeousness and gorgeosity that is reader Amanda's Heart of Darkness brownies. (The treats were adapted from Jill O'Connors Sticky Chewy Messy Gooey).

Amanda details the recipe on her site, but heed my warning: there's tons of chocolate and butter involved (and M&Ms for that great blood red color). But oh, so worth it. Amazingly, the original recipe called for Snickers bars, marshmallows, and a caramel sauce on top. Either that, or we could just invite Ms.O'Connor to our house and have her inject the calories directly into our upper thighs. The latter is probably easier...

But I digress. Valentine's Day is not a time to be worrying about calories. It's a time to be indulging. Specifically, indulging yourself with Amanda's freakishly good brownies.

Snickers Brownies: make them now or with leftovers tomorrow

snickers brownies
One of the best things about Halloween is that you end up with a surplus of chocolate and candy that you can use in baking. Leading up to Halloween, it's oh-so appropriate to make things like cupcakes, cookies, and brownies with pieces of chocolate candy bars. After Halloween, you'll have so much leftover (if your kids are good at trick-or-treating, that is) that you won't know what to do with it all. Every year, I do the easiest thing: bake my favorite brownie recipe and throw a little slice of a Snickers bar on top. To be quite honest, the addition makes you look like a rockstar in the kitchen, even though you didn't do much. You can even cheat and use a mix out of a box, but if you're fancy like that, you can use a recipe from Epicurious for Candy Bar-Topped Brownies that use caramel or ganache-filled squares as toppers.

Mars is not going to change its chocolate

Remember all the hoopla about several chocolate companies who were planning on changing the way they made their chocolate? Well, don't include Mars in all that talk.

The company (which makes Milky Way, M&Ms, Snickers, Dove Chocolate, and other chocolate candies and bars) has announced that they are going to keep making their chocolate with 100% cocoa butter. Some have been pushing for the industry to change to cheaper, healthier vegetable oils and fats. One thing I didn't realize is that the FDA says that if a company changes to those oils, they can't call it "chocolate."

The company says that even though they could have saved money by switching, that would hurt the taste of the chocolate. Thank you Mars!

Limited editions you don't want to see...

I always keep an eye out for new and limited edition candies when I'm at the store. The candy companies love putting them out and, frankly, most of us know what the originals taste like. It's interesting to compare old and new to see what works and what doesn't. But even I will admit that things are getting a little out of hand when you can venture into what was once the candy aisle and see that not only has it been replaced entirely with different kinds of limited edition Hershey's Kisses, but that it has been expanded to cover four aisles, making room for all the other new varieties of old candies.

How far can manufacturers and retailers go with this trend? Cotton and Sand , getting more than a little annoyed with the overload of not-so-special releases, came up with some as-yet-unrealized (thankfully!) candy bar concepts that poke fun at the overwhelming selection candy consumers now face. Kit Kat Malt Liquor sounds like the best of the bunch, but I think I'll pass on Vegetable Skittles, Seafood Gumbo Reeses Peanut Butter Cups and Snickers Bacon Bars.

Mini Snickers Brownie Cupcakes

Mini Snickers Brownie Cupcake
A whole day about candy and we haven't talked about a Snickers bar?!?! For shame.

Good thing they're so easy to add to baked goods, particularly brownies. I simply used my favorite brownie recipe, added a little more egg to make the brownies more "cake-like," ladled them into mini muffin tins, and tossed a half-inch-thick slice of a Snickers bar on top. I was originally going to make regular brownies, but realized that the Snickers would disintegrate away if they had to sit in the oven for as long as brownies need to bake. The mini cupcakes meant that the baking time was less than half. Even still, the Snickers melt and lose a little of their original shape, but hey, they still taste like caramel and nuts!

Snickers Almond face off

When a company changes the packaging on a product, it is usually because they are hoping to increase sales by having a more-eyecatching design, whether that means that they add color, simplify the layout or increase the size of the font they use. In the case of the Snicker's Almond, the new bar was labeled as "Now More Satisfying!" Bob tried one a while back, but couldn't find a difference. Cybele from the Candyblog was able to get a hold of both the new and old bars to see if she could determine what the difference really was.

As it turns out, the difference is that the new bar has peanuts as a main ingredient and a bit more caramel/less nougat than the previous version. Cybele says that it tastes more like the regular peanut-laden Snickers bar than anything else. It also has five more calories per ounce than the old almond bar.

It's up to your own personal tastes to say whether this makes it more satisfying than before, but going on looks alone, the old Snickers Almond, which used to promise the "maximum amount of almonds," looks more substantial.

If I had a Hammer (Bar)

With the taste of Jelly Belly's Sport Beans still in my mouth, I've got energy food -- you know, the stuff you eat when you exercise -- on the brain.

As I see it, the problem with energy food is one of extremes: either it tastes like cake icing (energy gels are a good example) or it tastes like something from a '70s-era power-to-the-people co-op (i.e. healthy but gross).

With this spectrum in mind, I took a recent look at the Hammer Bar. Made by Montana's sports supplement powerhouse E-Caps/Hammer Nutrition, the Hammer Bar does a pretty good job of reconciling taste and nutrients.  It's got all the right stuff (it's full of phyto-nutrients and enzymes and essential fatty acids from flax, quinoa, sesame seeds, and almond butter; on top of that, it's non-GMO, vegan, non-dairy kosher, organic, and it may just own an Ani Difranco album). And the chocolate chip bar I tried -- made with real Belgian chocolate -- tasted good. Mind you, it didn't taste Butterfinger good, nor Snickers good, nor even Baby Ruth good. But it tasted good.

My next problem? Finding energy. That may prove even harder than finding decent energy food.

Jelly Belly's Sport Beans

New from Jelly Belly -- the company that got Ronald Reagan through all those cabinet meetings during the Iran-Contra affair -- is the sweet tooth's answer to Gatorade: Sport Beans.

The company has been sponsoring a professional bike racing team for the last few years, and working with those athletes, Jelly Belly has developed a jelly bean that's certifiably good for you. It's fortified with electrolytes, carbohydrates and Vitamins B and C.

The idea, apparently, is to provide athletes an alternative to the nutrition products that bike racers and other endurance types use: sports drinks, like Gatorade, which are sticky; and energy gels, like Gu, which seem just plain gross.

A cool idea, to be sure. But when is somebody going to make an athletic version of Snickers

Candy rockets

I recently came across a Popular Science article about candy rockets, model rockets that use sugary foods like Pixy Stix and Oreo filling as their fuel. By adding an oxidizer like potassium nitrate or potassium perchlorate to the sweet stuff, you can get it to burn with the speed and intensity needed for things like launching a small rocket. The Popular Science article features a link to a page of "Candy Propellant Experiments," with descriptions, photos and video of rockets fueled by Snickers, Oreo creme and Pixy Stix. There's also a link to another group that's in the process of trying to launch a sugar-powered rocket into space.

Snicker's Pie follow-up

snickers candy barColumnist Tim Dowling of the Guardian undertook the challenge of making a Snickers Pie, also known as the unhealthiest recipe ever, to see how it tasted. According to the comments from our last post, many readers think that the pie should taste fantastic - an opinion based solely upon the fat and calorie content of the dessert. Mr. Dowling's article supports the fact that this is not always the case. The dessert, which baked into something of a cross between a quiche and a souffle, was not more than the sum of its parts. In fact, he said that not only did the Snickers bars not improve after 30 minutes in a hot oven, but "quite apart from anything else, it has peanuts in it." Chunks of nuts in a melting, not quite homogenous mixture just doesn't seem to work as well as the endorsers of ultra-decadent desserts would have liked to believe - even with a high fat and calorie content.

[Thanks to Mark for the tip]

Unhealthiest recipe ever?

snicker's pie chef Worrall ThompsonThis particular dessert deserves a place of honor on the list of the worst foods you can eat. Snickers Pie, an ultra-rich dessert developed by Chef Antony Worrall Thompson (pictured), has over 1250 calories per slice and over 100 grams of fat. Though the chef himself has written a book advocating healthy eating and a healthy lifestyle, he insists that customers willingly and knowingly put taste before healthy in restaurants and that they deserve to "get their taste-buds tickled." He insists that the dessert is meant to be an occasional snack for children, but with over half the recommended daily amount of calories for an adult in each serving, it still seems difficult to recommend it. It's easier (and healthier) just to eat a Snickers bar alone.

Continue reading Unhealthiest recipe ever?

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