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?
Actually they’re not even cups. They’re the the *contents of *cups so . . .
I got nothing.
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.
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’.
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I can’t decide if you’re genius or mad as a hatter.
Reese’s isn’t chocolate candy?
No, cookies can be different shapes.
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.
Halloween is upon us so I wanted to resurrect (pun?) this thread about this very important question
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.
If tomatoes can be considered a culinary vegetable (as opposed to a botanical vegetable) …
Peanut butter cups can be considered a culinary candy bar.
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.
Does nobody but me remember the old TV commercials 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.
Resurrecting this for the time of candy is once again upon us.
A candy frustrum, if you will.
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.
It’s the Halloween version of the Rudolph thread!
Technically no, for all intents and purposes yes, so no. 
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?
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?