# Reese's Big Cup **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 6, 2007, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reeses-big-cup/391126 "2007-02-06T20:39:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2007, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reeses-big-cup/391126/1 "2007-02-06T20:39:10Z")
[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? ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2007, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reeses-big-cup/391126/2 "2007-02-06T20:46:47Z")
Yep, the Big Cups are addictive, if you can find them, the Mixed Nuts ones are even better… ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2007, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reeses-big-cup/391126/3 "2007-02-06T20:50:58Z")
Caramel and peanut butter? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2007, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reeses-big-cup/391126/4 "2007-02-06T21:08:10Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2007, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reeses-big-cup/391126/5 "2007-02-06T21:10:03Z")
[QUOTE=Fiddle Peghead] 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. [/QUOTE] You could buy two of them and then bundle them together in some kind of package yourself before eating them. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2007, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reeses-big-cup/391126/6 "2007-02-06T21:12:51Z")
[QUOTE=OpalCat] Caramel and peanut butter? :dubious: [/QUOTE] Oh god yes. Think of the [Take 5](http://www.hersheys.com/products/details/take5.asp) 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. ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2007, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reeses-big-cup/391126/7 "2007-02-06T21:13:17Z")
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). ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2007, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reeses-big-cup/391126/8 "2007-02-06T21:14:15Z")
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). ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2007, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reeses-big-cup/391126/9 "2007-02-06T21:21:33Z")
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. [History of the Reese family and company](http://www.reeseweb.com/ReeseFamilyHistory.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2007, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reeses-big-cup/391126/10 "2007-02-06T21:50:24Z")
I like the regular-sized Reese’s with marshmallow the best but they’re very hard to find. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2007, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reeses-big-cup/391126/11 "2007-02-06T21:59:08Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2007, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reeses-big-cup/391126/12 "2007-02-06T22:31:39Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2007, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reeses-big-cup/391126/13 "2007-02-06T22:39:03Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2007, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reeses-big-cup/391126/14 "2007-02-06T22:39:52Z")
[QUOTE=GingerOfTheNorth] Oh god yes. Think of the [Take 5](http://www.hersheys.com/products/details/take5.asp) bar: caramel, peanut butter, pretzels, peanuts enrobed in chocolate. [/QUOTE] See, I’ve never heard of that before, but it sounds totally disgusting to me. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2007, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reeses-big-cup/391126/15 "2007-02-06T23:21:25Z")
[QUOTE=Biffy the Elephant Shrew] Payday with peanut butter in it (haven’t tried that yet). [/QUOTE] 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? ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2007, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reeses-big-cup/391126/16 "2007-02-06T23:26:59Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2007, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reeses-big-cup/391126/17 "2007-02-06T23:27:31Z")
[QUOTE=Fiddle Peghead] 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. [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2007, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reeses-big-cup/391126/18 "2007-02-06T23:35:02Z")
[QUOTE=Shagnasty] You could buy two of them and then bundle them together in some kind of package yourself before eating them. [/QUOTE] [Guiness Guy]\* Brilliant! \*[/GG] > [@myskepticsight](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2007, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reeses-big-cup/391126/19 "2007-02-06T23:56:31Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reeses-big-cup/391126/20 "2007-02-07T00:04:44Z")
[QUOTE=Biffy the Elephant Shrew] 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? [/QUOTE] The chocolate-covered PayDay is now the PayDay Avalanche (not the Limited Edition, of course). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reeses-big-cup/391126.md?page=2)