The other day I saw a candy bar: Hershey’s with Peanuts
Isn’t Mr. Goodbar a Hershey Bar with Peanuts? Has Hershey fazed out Mr. Goodbar? Wiki’s Mr. Goodbar page says nothing on the matter. Nor does the page on the List of Hershey Products.
Hershey’s website is also suspiciously mute.
If it counts for anything, I saw it at the 99c Store which candy companies seem to use for test marketing (I see candy bars there that I never see anywhere else, e.g. Twix Java, PayDay Avalanche).
Mr. Goodbar is still in the Hershey miniatures.
Mr. Goodbar is a sweeter, milkier chocolate than Hershey bars. Peanut, eh? Have to look for it.
I’ve also seen them as the pound chocolate bars, but never as a regular size bar.
Hmm. I always assumed candy in a dollar store are actually for foreign markets, but weren’t shipped before the expiration/were rejected for too many rat hairs/etc. I never buy food from a dollar store.
Hmmm. I actually really like the PayDay Avalanche (Chocolate covered PayDay candy bar). I prefer to think they’re being test marketed and choose to hold my hands to my ears and cry “LA! LA! LA! LA! LA! LA!” at your rat hairs suggestion.
My hazy memory tells me that Hershey with Peanuts has more or less whole peanuts, or at least peanut halves, whereas Mr. Goodbar has little peanut chunks. But it’s been a while since I’ve had either, so I could be mistaken.
See this post on Candy Blog:
http://www.typetive.com/candyblog/item/hersheys_milk_chocolate_peanuts/
Probably the best topic-addressing link available (thanks!), and yet it made me dizzy with confusion.
It seems like the answer to the question:
“What is Hershey doing here?”
is:
“Uh, Hershey doesn’t even know what Hershey is doing here.”
Full size Mr. Goodbars are stocked in our vending machines at work.
I have heard it said that Mr. Goodbar’s no longer contain milk chocolate, but a vegetable-oil based substitute that is more inexpensive. Several candy bars got downgraded thusly last year.
This seems to match the info in Green Bean’s link. The article derisively uses the term “mockolate”.
The bulk foods section at the grocery has Hershey’s miniatures in a bin, with milk and ‘special dark’ mini bars, and Mr. Goodbars.
Shame.
I wonder why Hershey’s would lower the quality of the chocolate as opposed to raising the price. Aren’t they already some of the least expensive chocolate on the shelves? It seems counterintuitive.
I think you need to do a goodwill mailing of Mr. Goodbar pronto.
As a result the miniature Goodbars in the Hershey Miniature Assortments went from ‘mediocre’ to ‘nearly unedible’ and Krackle, my longtime favorite of the bunch, became ‘vaguely unpleasant’.
Damn, that’s too bad. It’s a really good movie, she’s great in it (beautiful too), Richard Gere was hot and kinda creepy, it’s got a killer soundtrack, and it’s very, very, VERY VERY disturbing. I’ll bet the candy company hated it when it came out. To this day if I hear the words “Mr. Goodbar” I think of cheap, self-loathing sex and violent sex crimes, so it’s a good thing you clarified your Subject Line.