[More of a MPSIMS, but it’s food (of a sort), so here it goes.]
Browsing through the candy shelves at the local Walgreens, I ran across the “limited edition” Reese’s Big Cup, a single 1.3-ounce cup with caramel and peanuts added to the peanut butter filling. Oh boy, is that good. I feel like Calvin after three bowls of Chocolate-Frosted Sugar Bombs. How did they manage to squeeze a quarter pound of sugar into a 1.3-ounce candy bar?
Yep, the Big Cups are addictive, if you can find them, the Mixed Nuts ones are even better…
Caramel and peanut butter? :dubious:
I thought about getting a Big Cup, but the pleasure of your basic Reese’s is that they are two in every package. Finish the first, and you still have one left to go! Alas, I cannot partake of the Big Cup.
You could buy two of them and then bundle them together in some kind of package yourself before eating them.
Oh god yes. Think of the Take 5 bar: caramel, peanut butter, pretzels, peanuts enrobed in chocolate. When the laws of nature change, I will live off of those bars; until then, I have one about three times a year.
I haven’t seen the Big Cup, but the husband is a big fan of Reese’s cups. I’ll look for it.
I’ll have to consider that, but I’m not sure if it will be the same. It would seem somehow like, betrayal.
(Me and Reese’s go way way back).
I admit to being a sucker for this “variations on a classic candy bar” ploy. In the same trip, I picked up, among other essential provisions, a package of dark chocolate M&Ms, a white chocolate Kit-Kat, and a Payday with peanut butter in it (haven’t tried that yet).
The original Reese’s Cup, created in 1928, was a largish entity (2 or 3 oz, IIRC) meant for sale in candy shops and counters (but contained no caramel, peanuts or other add-ins). A penny version, about the size of today’s, followed in the early '30s.
I like the regular-sized Reese’s with marshmallow the best but they’re very hard to find.
I’m a purist. I like the standard 2-cup Reeses presentation. The Big Cup is very upsetting to me. The texture is all wrong. Nope…gotta be the 2-cup Reeses, and with no add-ins. Just peanut butter and chocolate.
The dark chocolate Kit Kat is a thing of beauty. I once found a whole stash of them in a “second hand groceries” store. I bought a bunch. Man, they were good, easily twice as good as the standard Kit Kat. But I haven’t been able to find any full bars since. There are these bags of mixed Kit-Kat minis, which are about half as big as a single Kit Kat stick, and these are mixed milk chocolate, white chocolate and dark chocolate. Seems a bit wasteful to buy a whole bag and throw out the white and milk ones though.
My mom almost left me at a gas station in Arkansas (on the way to St. Louis from Florida) over one of those big Kit Kat bars. So supersized candy is a sore spot.
What the hell happened to crispy M&Ms? And I also saw no mint ones this winter…was very depressed. Those are the only 2 variations I’ve ever really liked on a classic candy.
See, I’ve never heard of that before, but it sounds totally disgusting to me.
Okay, I’m eating it now. “Limited Edition PayDay Avalanche!” (Exclamation point theirs.) It actually is a PayDay with a peanut butter coating. Not bad, pretty salty, a little dry. Have they ever brought back the Big Pay, which was a chocolate-coated PayDay?
Big Cup is good, but it suffers from the same problem that plagues the regular cup - too much chocolate, not enough peanut butter, percentage-wise. That’s why I MUCH prefer the holiday things Resse’s does - the easter bunny or egg, the Hallowe’en pumpkin, etc.
Joe
Only for you poor, deprived Americans. The true pleasure of Reese’s is that there are three cups in every package, as all Canadians know.
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The crispy M&Ms are an abomination, but we had the mint ones here over Christmas. The two pound bag lasted about three hours amongst the horde.
And a big salute to the new candy-cane Hershey Kisses this year! 
They did cripple one of my favorites though. The Watchamacalit bar (80s sometime) was originally just chocolate and ambrosia-mystery-crisp. It was heavenly, I ate whole grocery stores out of months of back-orders.
Then they had to go and add a caramel layer to it. Bllleeeeechccccchh!
The chocolate-covered PayDay is now the PayDay Avalanche (not the Limited Edition, of course).