Candy bar

"Candy bar" is the most popular term in the U.S. for confectionery usually packaged in a bar or log form, often coated with chocolate, and sized as a snack for one person. But within that term, a wide variety of products exist, ranging from solid chocolate bars to multiple layerings or mixtures of ingredients such as nuts, fruit, grains in various forms, coconut, marzipan, marshmallow, caramel, nougat, toffee, fondant, and fudge. In British English the term chocolate bar is used, as the word candy is rare in describing sweets.

Up to and including the 19th century, candy of all sorts was typically sold by weight, loose, in small pieces that would be bagged as bought. The introduction of chocolate as something that could be eaten as is, rather than used to make beverages or desserts, resulted in the earliest bar forms, or tablets. At some point, chocolates came to mean any chocolate-covered candies, whether nuts, creams (fondant), caramels, etc. The candy bar evolved from all of these in the late-19th century as a way of packaging and selling candy more conveniently, for both buyer and seller. This "convenience" did not include price, of course, as the buyer had to pay for the packaging. It was considerably cheaper to buy candy loose, or in bulk.

Although chocolate bars and candy bars had their beginnings in the 19th century, it was in the early-20th century that this confectionery commercial venture grew most rapidly. A number of the bars developed then still exist in relatively unchanged form. In the U.S., most candy bars started out priced at a dime, went to a nickel during the Depression, and went back to a dime after World War II. This price remained stable until the late 1960s.

During the first half of the century in the U.S., there were literally thousands of different candy bars being manufactured and distributed locally or regionally by small candy companies. Some of these survive, but a few major manufacturers have taken over the marketplace, buying up smaller companies and reproducing the most popular of their candy bars. Today candy bars are made and consumed all over the world, and manufactured to local tastes and environmental conditions.

Candy bars are one of the common items available from a vending machine.

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**Candy Bars**
Name	Where	Manufacturer	Type	Note
3 Musketeers	USA	Mars	Aerated chocolate nougat with milk-chocolate coating	Originally three flavors of filling – chocolate,vanilla and strawberry (1932)
5th Avenue	USA	Hershey	Peanut butter and crunchy toffee with milk chocolate	William H. Luden (1936)
100 Grand Bar	USA	Nestlé	Caramel and crisped rice with milk chocolate	(1966)
Abba Zaba	USA	Annabelle	Taffy w/ peanut butter center
Abba Zaba (sour apple)	USA	Annabelle	Apple taffy w/ peanut butter center
After Eight	USA	Nestlé	Dark chocolate with mint cream filling	Bar form of a European after-dinner mint
Almond Joy	USA	Hershey	Milk-chocolate covered coconut with whole almonds	The original version by Peter Paul
Almond Joy (Dark)	USA	Hershey	Almond Joy with dark chocolate
Almond Joy (Pina Colada)	USA	Hershey	Pineapple-flavored coconut in chocolate	White chocolate variant
Aero	Canada	Nestlé	Frothy chocolate with flavor "bubbles"	Variants - green/mint;
Baby Lobster				Extinct
Baby Ruth	USA	Nestlé	Caramel center with peanuts in milk chocolate	Curtiss Candy Co. (1920)
Balisto
Big Hunk		Annabelle	Chewy nougat with peanuts
Bit O' Choc	USA	Schutter Candy Co.&	Chocolate-flavored taffy	Extinct
Bit O' Honey	USA		Honey-flavored taffy with almond bits	Schutter Candy Co. (1924)
Bonomo's Turkish Taffy	USA	Gold Medal Candy Co.	Hard, flavored "taffy" - vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, banana	(c. 1945) Extinct. Not Turkish, not taffy
Boost		Cadbury-Schweppes
Bournville	USA, UK, Middle East	Cadbury-Schweppes		Named for the corporate home of the company
Breakaway	Australia	Cadbury-Schweppes	Wafers with chocolate cream in milk chocolate
Brown Pudding	USA	Lucy Ellen Candy Co.	Brown sugar, coconut, cherries, peanut butter, raisins, and spices in milk chocolate	Extinct
Bun Bar	USA	Pearson's Candy Co.	vanilla, maple or caramel center with milk chocolate peanut coating	Wayne Bun Candy Co.
Butterfinger	USA	Nestlé	Honeycombed peanut butter center with milk chocolate	Curtiss Candy Co.
Butterfinger BB's	USA	Nestlé	Butterfingers in small round drop form
Butterfinger Crisp	USA	Nestlé	Butterfinger with wafer layers
Cadbury Marble	UK et al.	Cadbury-Schweppes	Milk and white chocolate with hazelnut/almond praline filling
Cajeta Elegancita	USA	Hershey Foods Corporation
Caramac
Caramel Peanut Bar	Germany	Mauxion Schokoladefabrik	Caramel, peanuts and nougat in milk chocolate	German answer to Snickers
Caramello	EUR	Cadbury-Schweppes
Caramello Koala	Australia	Cadbury-Schweppes
Caravelle	USA	Peter Paul	Caramel in milk chocolate with crisped rice	Extinct
Caramilk	EUR	Cadbury-Schweppes
Carlos V	Latin America	Nestlé		Also a white chocolate variant
Charleston Chew	USA. ME	Tootsie Roll Industries	Chocolate, Vanilla and Strawberry variants	Fox-Cross Candy Co. (1922)
Cherry Blossom	Canada	Lowney's Chocolates	Milk chocolate and coconut shell with liquid cherry center
Cherry Cocktail	USA	Idaho Candy Company	Cherry center, covered with chocolate and peanut bits
Cherry Mash	USA	Chase Candy
Cherry Ripe	Australia	Cadbury-Schweppes	Cherry and coconut bits in chocolate	(1924)
Choclairs Bar		Neilsen	Chocolate-covered wafers and filling
Choco-Mallow	Philippines
Choco-Nut	Philippines
Chokito	Australia	Nestlé	Chocolate-covered caramel fudge with crisped rice
Chicken Dinner	USA	Sperry Candy Co.		extinct
Chick-O-Stick	USA	Atkinson Candy Co.	Honeycombed peanut butter filling with toasted coconut
Chomp	Australia		Wafers and caramel in chocolate
Chubby's CheckerBar	USA	The Last Twist, Inc.	Milk and white chocolate in a checkerboard pattern
Chunky	USA	Nestlé	Milk chocolate with peanuts and raisins	Silverstein Candy (mid-1930's); named after the owner's "chunky" baby granddaughter
Chum	China
Cloud Nine	Philippines
Club Mint	UK	Jacob's	Chocolate-covered cookie with mint cream
Club Sandwich	USA	Sperry Candy Co.		Extinct
Coffee Crisp	Canada	Nestlé	Milk chocolate with wafer crisps and coffee flavoring
Coffee Crisp Orange	EUR	Nestlé
Cold Turkey	USA	Sperry Candy Co.		extinct
Collision			Milk chocolate with pretzels
Cookies 'n' Creme	USA	Hershey
Cow Tales	USA	Goetze's Candy Co.	Chewy caramel with a cream center	Packaged like a cow tail - long thin tube with extra fringe of paper at one end
Curly Wurly	UK	Cadbury-Schweppes	Chocolate-covered caramel twirl
Daim	EUR, Middle East	Kraft Foods	Chocolate over crisp toffee	Made in Sweden
Dairy Milk	UK	Cadbury-Schweppes		Numerous variations
Denver Sandwich	USA	Sperry Candy Co.		Extinct
Dolfin Hot Masala	Belgium	Dolfin	Milk chocolate with coarsely ground spices: cinnamon, cardamom, pepper, clove and ginger
Dolfin - others	Belgium	Dolfin	Dark chocolate with: mint leaves; ground coffee; green aniseed; fresh ginger; crystallized orange peel; pink peppercorn; Earl Grey tea; et al.
Double Decker	UK	Cadbury-Schweppes
Dove Bar	USA		Milk chocolate
Dream with Coolies	Australia	Cadbury-Schweppes
English Crunchie	USA	Cadbury-Schweppes		"Crunchie" in Australia
Fast Break	USA	Hershey	Peanut butter and nougat filling in milk chocolate	Reese association. In Canada the same bar is called "Sidekick"
Five Star Caramel	USA	Lake Champlain Chocolates	Caramel with almonds and dark chocolate in milk chocolate
Five Star Fruit & Nut	USA	Lake Champlain Chocolates	Raisins and pecans with gianduja chocolate
Five Star Hazelnut	USA	Lake Champlain Chocolates	Hazelnut filling with crushed hazelnuts and feuillettine in milk chocolate
Five Star Peanut	USA	Lake Champlain Chocolates	Peanut butter with white chocolate, peanuts and crisped rice, in milk chocolate
Flake	UK, USA, Australia	Cadbury-Schweppes
Forever Yours	USA	Mars	Vanilla nougat and caramel in dark chocolate	(early 1930's) Extinct. Once billed as the Vanilla Milky Way, now resurrected as Milky Way Midnight
Fruit and Nut	UK, Middle East	Cadbury-Schweppes
Fry's Turkish Delight	Australia		Fruit jellies in milk chocolate
Fudge	UK	Cadbury-Schweppes
Galaxy	Worldwide	Mars	Milk chocolate bar
Galaxy Caramel	Worldwide	Mars
Gardena		A. Loacker Co.	Chocolate-orange or hazelnut cream filling in wafers covered with milk chocolate
Golden Rough	Australia	Nestlé	Milk chocolate round with coconut
Goobers	USA	Nestlé	Milk-chocolate covered peanuts
GooGoo Cluster	USA	Standard Candy Co.	Marshmallow and caramel in peanuts and thick milk chocolate	(1912) Reputedly the first "combination" bar
Gusto Limone	EUR
Guylian Praliné	EUR, Middle East	Guylian
Hail	USA	Hollywood Candy Co.	Hazelnuts and milk chocolate	Extinct
Halls	Philippines
Haviland Thin Mint	USA	NECCO	Peppermint cream filling in dark chocolate
Haviland Wintergreen Patty	USA	NECCO	Bright pink wintergreen-flavored cream filling in dark chocolate
Hawaii		Grandour
Hay Hay	Turkey
Heath bar	USA	Hershey	Crunchy English-style almond toffee with milk chocolate coating	Heath Candy Co. (1928)
Hershey bar	USA	Hershey	Solid milk chocolate	also Hershey Almond bar (both - 1894)
Hershey Almond Toffee Bar	USA	Hershey
Hershey's Creamy Caramel	USA	Hershey
Hi-Chu	Japan			Yoghurt, strawberry, apple and grape variants
Highland Toffee	UK	Cadbury-Schweppes
Idaho Spud	USA	Idaho Candy Co.	Chocolate marshmallow covered with chocolate and coconut	(1918) Potato-shaped
Ivory Mountain	UK	Cadbury-Schweppes	Chocolate with macadamia nuts
Jacek	EUR	Wavel
Junior Mints	USA	Hershey	Small peppermint creams in dark chocolate, boxed	James O. Welch Co. (1949)
Kit Kat	Worldwide	Nestlé	Wafers in chocolate
Kit Kat Green Tea	Japan	Nestlé
Kit Kat Orange		Nestlé	Wafers in orange-flavored chocolate
Kit Kat Strawberry	Japan, Canada	Nestlé	Wafers in strawberry-flavored chocolate
Triple-Chocolate Kit Kat	Worldwide	Nestlé	Chocolate wafers with chocolate filling in chocolate coating
Krackel	USA	Hershey	Milk chocolate with crisped rice	(1938)
Liaison	UK	Mars	Chocolate with hazelnuts	Galaxy Liaison
Lion	EUR, Middle East, Australia	Nestlé
Lion Peanut	EUR, Middle East	Nestlé	Chocolate-covered nougat, crisps and peanuts
Lobster Patty				extinct
Maestro	Saudi Arabia	Ülker	Chocolate over peanut butter nougat
M&M's	USA	Mars	Small rounds of milk chocolate in candy shells	Also a dark chocolate variant
M&M's Almond	USA	Mars	Milk-chocolate covered almonds in candy shells
M&M's Peanut	USA	Mars	Milk-chocolate covered peanuts in candy shells	Also a dark chocolate variant
M&M's variants	USA	Mars	Peanut butter; dulce de leche; crisp; mint;
Mallo Cup	USA	Boyer Candy Co.	Whipped marshmallow-cream filling in milk chocolate cups	Mallo Play Money included in package
Marathon	USA		Twisted caramel in milk chocolate	(1974) Extinct
Marathon	UK		Peanut butter nougat with caramel and peanuts in milk chocolate	(1990) Extinct, now Snickers
Mars Bar	USA, Australia	Mars	Vanilla nougat with almonds and milk chocolate	(1936) Extinct in USA - Snickers Almond substituted
Mars Bar	UK	Mars	Nougat-like chocolate mousse topped with caramel and coated in chocolate
Mars Bar Lava	Australia	Mars	Orange-flavored nougat center
Mary Jane	USA	NECCO	Peanut butter and molasses	Charles N. Miller Co. - named after Miller's aunt (1914)
Max	Philippines
Milka	Germany	Suchard Tobler Vertriebs	Milk chocolate with hazelnut, peanut and almond pastes incorporated	"Alpine Milk"
Milka Wafelini	EUR, Middle East	Kraft Foods	Milk-chocolate covered, filled wafers	Example at hand is made in France
Milk Shake	USA	Hollywood Candy Co.	Chocolate nougat and caramel in milk chocolate	(c. 1920s) Extinct
Milky Way	USA	Mars	Chocolate nougat with caramel in chocolate coating	(1923)
Milky Way	UK	Mars	Whipped nougat in chocolate coating
Milo Bar	Australia	Nestlé
Mint Crisp	Africa	Cadbury-Schweppes
Mint Pattie	Australia	Nestlé	Soft mint nougat in milk chocolate
M-Mazing	USA	Mars	Milk chocolate with mini-M&M's	Variant with peanut butter M&M's
Mountain Bar
NECCO Wafers	USA	NECCO	Sugar wafers in assorted flavors and colors, packed as a tube	(1912)
Nestlé Crunch	USA	Nestlé	Chocolate with crisped rice	(1938)
Nestlé Milk Chocolate	USA	Nestlé	solid milk chocolate	also Nestlé Milk Chocolate with Almonds (both - 1919), originally Swiss
Nestlé White	USA	Nestlé	White chocolate
Nougat Honey Log	Australia	Europe
Nut Goodie	USA	Pearson's Candy Co.		(1912) Just after the GooGoo
Nipi	Philippines
Nut Lovers	USA	Hershey
Nutrageous	USA	Hershey	Peanut butter, caramel, and peanuts in milk chocolate	Reese association
Nutter-Butter	USA
Oh Henry!	USA	Hershey	Caramel fudge center with peanuts and milk chocolate coating	Williamson Candy Co. (1920), Now with a white chocolate variant
Old Faithful	USA	Idaho Candy Company	Marshmallow center, covered with chocolate and whole peanuts
Mounds	USA	Hershey	Coconut covered with dark chocolate	Peter Paul (1922)
Mr. Goodbar	USA	Hershey	Peanuts in granular milk chocolate	(1925)
PayDay	USA	Hershey	Caramel fudge center with salted peanuts	Hollywood Candy Co. (1932)
Peanut Chew	USA	Goldenberg Candy Co.
Penguin	UK	McVitie's	Milk-chocolate covered biscuit filled with chocolate cream	"Make your Penguin last longer - refuse to eat it until it learns algebra"
Pep	Canada	Neilsen	Dark chocolate with peppermint cream filling
Peppermint Crisp	Australia	Nestlé	Peppermint "cracknel" in milk chocolate
Picnic	Australia	Cadbury-Schweppes	Peanuts, caramel, wafers and crisped rice in milk chocolate	"Unpack a Picnic"
Planters Peanut	USA		Peanuts in hard toffee	(c. 1930)
Polly Waffle	Australia	Nestlé	Marshmallow-filled wafers in milk chocolate
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups	USA	Hershey	Peanut butter filling in milk chocolate	Variants - white or dark chocolate coating
Reese's Pieces	USA	Hershey	Small rounds of peanut butter filling in candy coating	Made famous in 1978 when Stephen Spielberg couldn't get M&M's for E.T.
Reggie bar	USA		Peanuts and caramel in a mound shape, in milk chocolate	Extinct; named after baseball player Reggie Jackson
Relax	Syria		Chocolate-covered wafers with hazelnut cream
Rolo	USA	Hershey	Individual soft caramels coated in milk chocolate, packed as a tube
Safari	Malaysia, Saudi Arabia	Grandour
Sahara	Malaysia, Saudi Arabia	Grandour	Chocolate covered wafer with peanuts
Sesame Bar	Australia	Europe
Shore Dinner	USA	Lucy Ellen Candy Co.	Pecans, cashews and coconut in milk chocolate	Extinct
Skor	USA	Hershey	Crunchy butter toffee in milk chocolate	Hershey's Heath bar before it bought Heath
SkyBar	USA	NECCO	4 sections: caramel, vanilla, peanut butter and fudge fillings, milk chocolate coating	(1937)
Smoothie	USA	Boyer's Candy Co.	Peanut butter filling in a crunchy peanut butter cup	By the makers of Mallo Cups
S'mores	USA	Hershey
Snickers	Worldwide	Mars	Peanut butter nougat with caramel and peanuts in milk chocolate	(1930) Named after a horse. Current variants – almond, hazelnut, "Cruncher"
Squirrel Nut Zipper	USA	NECCO	Caramel peanut chew	aka Squirrel Nut Chew, Squirrel Brand Co. (1888)
Stork	Philippines
Striker	Middle East
Sudan	Saudi Arabia	Grandour	Chocolate-covered nougat with peanut and caramel center
Sugar Babies	USA	Tootsie Roll Industries	Soft caramel balls	James O. Welch Co. (1935)
Sugar Daddy	USA	Tootsie Roll Industries	Caramel sucker	James O. Welch Co. (1926)
Sugar Mama	USA	James O. Welch Co.	Chocolate-covered caramel sucker	(1935) Extinct
Summer Roll	Australia	Europe	Peanuts and nougat rolled in milk chocolate and coconut
Take Five			Layer of caramel and peanut butter over pretzels and peanuts in milk chocolate	White chocolate variant
Time Out	Australia	Cadbury-Schweppes	Wafers with a Flake center, covered in milk chocolate	Variant with dark chocolate
Tin Larin	Latin America	Nestlé	Wafers and peanut butter in chocolate
Toblerone	France
Toffee Crisp	UK	Nestlé	Crisped rice and soft caramel in milk chocolate
Toffifay	Germany	Storck	Caramel with nougat and hazelnuts in milk chocolate
Tofi Luk	Saudi Arabia
Toggi	Switzerland, EUR, Middle East	Kägi Söhne, AG	Wafers in chocolate	Also Toggi Coco variant
Top Deck	Africa	Cadbury-Schweppes		White and Dark Chocolate
Topic			Hazelnuts, nougat and caramel in milk chocolate
Tortina Mini	Italy
Twin Bing	USA	Palmer Candy Co.	Cherry cream center with chocolate/peanut coating	(1931 - Bing Bar) Sold in pairs since the 1950s
Twix		Mars
U-NO Bar
Valomilk	USA	Sifers Candy Co.	Liquid marshmallow filling in milk chocolate cups
Violet Crumble	Australia	Nestlé	Honey-combed sugar center in milk chocolate	"It's the way it shatters that matters! Originally, Hoadley's Chocolates (1923)
Walnettos	USA		Walnut toffee chews	Originally a penny candy (c.1920)
Welch's Fudge	USA	James O. Welch Co.	Chocolate fudge bar with chocolate coating	(1927) Extinct
Whatchamacallit	USA	Hershey	Chocolate peanut crisp and caramel in milk chocolate
White Night	Australia	Nestlé	Chewy mint nougat in milk chocolate
White Rabbit	China, Philippines
Wispa	UK/Ireland	Cadbury-Schweppes		(2003) Extinct (successor: Dairy Milk Bubbly)
Wonka Mud Sludge	Australia		Fudge center in chocolate
Wunderbar	Canada	Cadbury-Schweppes	Caramel and crunchy peanut butter filling in milk chocolate	"C'est carachidébile!"
York Peppermint Pattie	USA	Hershey	Peppermint cream filling in dark chocolate
Zagnut Bar	USA	NECCO	Peanut butter crunch with toasted coconut	D. L. Clark Co.
Zero Bar	USA	Hershey	Chocolate nougat, almonds and caramel in white coating	Hollywood Candy Co. (c. 1930) Coating originally white chocolate

This list is incomplete.

Manufacturers

Annabelle Candy Company (http://www.annabelle-candy.com)
Cadbury-Schweppes
Dolfin (http://www.dolfin.be/cadreinterneuk.htm)
Goldberg Candy Company (http://www.goldenbergcandy.com/story.html)
Grandour (http://www.Grandour.com)
Hansel (http://hansel1.com/)
Hershey Foods Corporation
Idaho Candy Company (https://www.idahospud.com/products.htm)
Kraft Foods
Lake Champlain Chocolates (http://www.lakechamplainchocolates.com/default.aspx)
Loacker (http://www.loacker.it/en_cioccowafer.html)
Mars
Nestlé
NECCO (http://www.necco.com/)
Sifer's Valomilk (http://www.valomilk.com/)
Tootsie Roll Industries (http://www.tootsie.com/)

References

Almond, Steve (2004) Candyfreak, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill ISBN 1-56512-421-9
Broekel, Ray (1982) The Great American Candy Bar Book, Houghton Mifflin Co. ISBN 0-395-32502-1

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