# Reese's Peanut Butter Cups question **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [October 27, 2014, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reeses-peanut-butter-cups-question/702699 "2014-10-27T23:51:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2015, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reeses-peanut-butter-cups-question/702699/201 "2015-10-12T21:45:42Z")
Do we make the same distinctions (or lack thereof) for round cookies and bar cookies? I know I do. If you said, hand me a cookie and there were chocolate chip round cookies and lemon bars on a plate, I’d hand you the choccy chip one. Anyone else? ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2015, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reeses-peanut-butter-cups-question/702699/202 "2015-10-13T12:21:47Z")
> [@stillownedbysetters](#): > > Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups are a sublime candy treat, but on the basis of geometry alone, they are not a bar. Actually they’re not even cups. They’re the the \*contents of \*cups so . . . I got nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2015, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reeses-peanut-butter-cups-question/702699/203 "2015-10-13T12:48:29Z")
I have considered the matter carefully over the past year, and have reached the conclusion that the Peanut Butter Cup is actually a form of praline. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2015, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reeses-peanut-butter-cups-question/702699/204 "2015-10-13T13:21:57Z")
> [@stillownedbysetters](#): > > Do we make the same distinctions (or lack thereof) for round cookies and bar cookies? > > I know I do. If you said, hand me a cookie and there were chocolate chip round cookies and lemon bars on a plate, I’d hand you the choccy chip one. Anyone else? I know the full term is bar cookie but to me, it’s cookies and bars and if you wanted a lemon bar, you need to say, ‘Hand me a bar’. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2015, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reeses-peanut-butter-cups-question/702699/205 "2015-10-13T13:45:52Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > I have considered the matter carefully over the past year, and have reached the conclusion that the Peanut Butter Cup is actually a form of praline. :eek: I can’t decide if you’re genius or mad as a hatter. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2015, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reeses-peanut-butter-cups-question/702699/206 "2015-10-13T22:40:08Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Well, both. And Reese’s fail for both reasons. Reese’s isn’t chocolate candy? > [@stillownedbysetters](#): > > Do we make the same distinctions (or lack thereof) for round cookies and bar cookies? > > I know I do. If you said, hand me a cookie and there were chocolate chip round cookies and lemon bars on a plate, I’d hand you the choccy chip one. Anyone else? No, cookies can be different shapes. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2015, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reeses-peanut-butter-cups-question/702699/207 "2015-10-13T23:19:39Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Reese’s isn’t chocolate candy? Of course it is. I was thinking of “functional” in the sense of how I eat them, as I’ve mentioned before in this thread. A candy bar is easy to eat while doing something active, because of its bar shape. You roll down the wrapper, hold it in one hand, and eat one bite at a time. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2016, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reeses-peanut-butter-cups-question/702699/208 "2016-10-28T11:38:15Z")
Halloween is upon us so I wanted to resurrect (pun?) this thread about this very important question ---
**Author:** ![GunnarFranz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/da6949/32.png) [@GunnarFranz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GunnarFranz)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2016, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reeses-peanut-butter-cups-question/702699/209 "2016-10-28T12:17:36Z")
I asked several people where Reese’s ranked in their favorite candy bars and not one questioned their designation as a bar, or a candy for that matter. The question was leading I know. If language is more about apprehension than diction, which the majority of people will agree to be the case, Reese’s is not only a candy, as all confectionary chocolate is, but also a bar. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2016, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reeses-peanut-butter-cups-question/702699/210 "2016-10-28T18:35:09Z")
If tomatoes can be considered a culinary vegetable (as opposed to a botanical vegetable) … Peanut butter cups can be considered a culinary candy bar. ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reeses-peanut-butter-cups-question/702699/211 "2016-10-29T19:06:55Z")
> [@MovieMogul](#): > > No, cookies can be different shapes. Cookies are generally blobs of dough that spread out while cooked. Lemon bars are cut out of a sugary lemon matrix. It’s a pretty clear distinction. Even if the bars are cut into trapezoids. However, shortbread Chessman cookies are bar shaped, so are they considered cookie bars? ---
**Author:** ![tenacious\_j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@tenacious\_j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tenacious_j)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reeses-peanut-butter-cups-question/702699/212 "2016-10-29T20:46:34Z")
> [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](#): > > Cookies are generally blobs of dough that spread out while cooked. Lemon bars are cut out of a sugary lemon matrix. It’s a pretty clear distinction. Even if the bars are cut into trapezoids. > > However, shortbread Chessman cookies are bar shaped, so are they considered cookie bars? No, they were baked individually, not cut from a larger batch. Lemon bars, even when round, are still bars, not cookies. Cookie dough baked as bars and cut is a cookie bar, not a bar cookie. That’s a whole different conversation than the candy bar thing. I am eating a Reese’s right now, since I don’t expect a lot of trick-or-treaters and it will be hours til dinner, and if someone asked me I’d say I’m having a candy bar. 2 years and I still vote yes. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reeses-peanut-butter-cups-question/702699/213 "2016-10-31T21:59:06Z")
Does nobody but me remember the [old TV commercials](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWMM7HPeTHQ) with the jingle “You get two great tastes in one candy\*\*\* bar\*”\*\*? If Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups self-identify as bars, we need to respect that. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reeses-peanut-butter-cups-question/702699/214 "2017-10-08T10:15:05Z")
Resurrecting this for the time of candy is once again upon us. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2017, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reeses-peanut-butter-cups-question/702699/215 "2017-10-09T06:58:41Z")
> [@johnpost](#): > > it is a candy. it is not a bar (uniform cross-section smaller than its length). > > it is a candy conical section. A candy frustrum, if you will. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2017, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reeses-peanut-butter-cups-question/702699/216 "2017-10-09T07:18:53Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Peppermint Patty is obviously a character from Peanuts. Which is ironic because the candy involves no peanuts, just coconut. Is coconut a nut? Or a fruit? And what do you call those cacao things? Is chocolate a vegetable or a fruit? > [@Irishman](#): > > I just came to point out that York Peppermint Patties do not have any coconut in them. Given the frequency with which Sparky Schulz’s depictions carried the implication that he considered it a vile substance, it’s probably safe to assume that _Peanuts_’s Peppermint Patty also seldom had coconut inside, and then only accidentally. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2017, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reeses-peanut-butter-cups-question/702699/217 "2017-10-09T07:26:00Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > Resurrecting this for the time of candy is once again upon us. It’s the Halloween version of the _Rudolph_ thread! ---
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2017, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reeses-peanut-butter-cups-question/702699/218 "2017-10-09T09:22:22Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Technically no, but for all intents and purposes that matter yes, so yes. Technically no, for all intents and purposes yes, so no. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2017, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reeses-peanut-butter-cups-question/702699/219 "2017-10-09T13:51:43Z")
If not asked already, would the Reese’s peanut butter cup sell better or worse as a bar? Who remembers the original commercials for it? ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reeses-peanut-butter-cups-question/702699/220 "2017-10-10T11:04:33Z")
Reese’s PBCs are just flattened buckeyes. In comparison, they are certainly more like a candy bar, but in my view that doesn’t mean they are. In the three years this thread has been extant, I note that a relevant question remains unasked: Is a Sugar Daddy a candy bar? According to some definitions ( general shape; hold in one hand, steer with the other) it is. What say the Teeming Millions? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reeses-peanut-butter-cups-question/702699.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reeses-peanut-butter-cups-question/702699.md?page=12)