50 Fun Facts About Chocolate Bars

Fry's Chocolate Cream, the world's oldest chocolate bar brand, was launched in which year?

Its fondant centre made it the first mass-produced combination bar; George Lazenby advertised it as 'the Big Fry'.

Cadbury Dairy Milk was first made in 1905 in which city?

During development it was variously called Highland Milk, Jersey and Dairy Maid.

Cadbury's 1928 'glass and a half' slogan advertised its flagship bar's high content of what?

In the US the bar is made under licence by Hershey with a different recipe.

Which was Frank Mars's first bar, launched in 1923 and named after a malted milk drink, not the galaxy?

Outside the US the same nougat-and-caramel bar is sold as the Mars bar.

The Mars bar was first made in 1932 by Forrest Mars Sr. in which English town?

He modelled it on his father's Milky Way, adjusted for European tastes, with a staff of twelve.

Snickers, introduced in 1930, was named after what?

It was sold in Britain and Ireland as Marathon until 1990.

Until 1990, Snickers was sold in Britain and Ireland under what name?

Morrisons sold a Marathon retro edition for three months in 2019.

The name Twix is a portmanteau of what?

It was made in Slough from 1967 and sold as Raider in mainland Europe until 1991.

3 Musketeers originally contained three pieces in which flavours?

Wartime sugar restrictions killed off all but the chocolate piece.

KitKat was launched in York in 1935 under what name?

It followed a suggestion-box request for a bar 'a man could take to work in his pack up'.

Which company makes KitKat in the United States, under a licence Rowntree's first agreed in 1970?

Everywhere else it has been Nestlé's since the 1988 takeover of Rowntree's.

KitKat's slogan 'Have a break... have a Kit Kat' dates from its first British TV advert in which year?

During the war the bar had briefly gone dark-chocolate in a blue wrapper.

Toblerone's name combines the founder's surname Tobler with 'torrone', the Italian word for what?

Emil Baumann, Tobler's cousin, devised the recipe of milk chocolate, nougat, almonds and honey in 1908.

Toblerone was made exclusively in which Swiss city until 2022?

Some production then moved to Bratislava in Slovakia.

Milton S.'s 'Great American Chocolate Bar' from Pennsylvania first went on sale in which year?

Milton Hershey had sold his Lancaster Caramel Company that August to concentrate on chocolate.

Before creating Reese's Peanut Butter Cups in 1928, H. B. Reese had worked for Milton S. of chocolate fame as what?

He lost his job when the Round Barn he managed was shut to save money.

Curtiss Candy insisted Baby Ruth was named after the daughter of which president, not the ballplayer?

Ruth Cleveland had died 17 years earlier; the company was on the same street as Wrigley Field.

How did Curtiss famously promote Baby Ruth in the 1920s?

By 1925 it was the most popular candy bar in the US, sold under 'Everything you want for a nickel'.

Which cartoon character advertised Butterfinger from 1988 to 2001?

The bar's name was chosen by public contest after Otto Schnering invented it in 1923.

The PayDay bar, launched by the Hollywood Candy Company in 1932, got its name because of what?

The classic bar has no chocolate at all: salted peanuts around a caramel centre.

Almond Joy shares packaging and a logo with its nut-free sibling but uses which colour scheme?

Its sibling bar is red; the Peter Paul company was founded by six Armenian immigrants.

Nestlé's 100 Grand bar was originally sold under what name?

Radio DJs have repeatedly used the name to prank giveaway 'winners'.

Charleston Chew, created in 1922, is named after what?

Founder Donley Cross was a stage actor; the bar is famously eaten frozen.

Which Cadbury honeycomb bar was launched by Fry's in 1929?

Its cinder toffee centre is now made in Poland.

Cadbury's Wispa, discontinued in 2003, returned in 2007 after what?

Fans even invaded the stage at Glastonbury 2007 with a 'Bring Back the Wispa' banner.

Rowntree's launched Yorkie in 1976 to fill a gap in the market for what kind of bar?

The 'Yorkie bar trucker' starred in its adverts until 1992.

The Curly Wurly's ladder shape came about when a Cadbury confectioner experimented with what?

David John Parfitt's creation launched in 1970.

Cadbury's Double Decker takes its name from what?

It combines nougat with a hint of coffee and crisp cereal, and dates from 1976.

The Cadbury Flake was discovered by chance in 1920 when a Bournville worker noticed what?

Half-length Flakes for ice-cream cones, the 99, were on sale by 1930.

Rowntree's patented which bubbly bar in 1935, launching it in the North of England as 'the new chocolate'?

Nestlé has made it since 1988; the bubbles collapse as the bar melts.

Forrest Mars designed the Bounty bar in 1951 as an imitation of which American bar?

Milk chocolate Bounty comes in a blue wrapper, dark in red.

The Freddo frog was invented in 1930 after Harry Melbourne's employer rejected designs for which animal?

He argued women and children were afraid of mice; MacRobertson's sold to Cadbury in 1967.

Fry's Turkish Delight, launched in 1914, is flavoured with what?

Fry merged with Cadbury in 1919 but the Fry's name survives on the wrapper.

The name Kinder Bueno mixes German and Spanish words meaning what?

Ferrero launched the hazelnut-cream wafer in 1990.

Ritter Sport is square because Clara Ritter wanted a bar that would fit where?

It had to weigh the same as a normal bar without breaking; the brand launched in 1932.

Which Rowntree's wafer, caramel and cereal bar was launched from Fawdon, Newcastle, in 1976?

Nestlé now owns it.

Cadbury's Boost was introduced in Britain in 1985 with which flavour prefix in its name?

The coconut version was dropped in 1994; it is sold as Moro Gold in Australasia.

Which food company funded 1971's Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory to promote a real Wonka Bar?

It then chose not to market the bars and sold the brand to its manufacturer.

Britain's Galaxy chocolate is sold in the US and Canada under which name?

In 2014 it was the UK's second-best-selling chocolate bar behind Dairy Milk.

William Neilson Ltd, inventor of the Coffee Crisp wafer bar, was based in which city?

Rowntree's later took the firm over; Nestlé still makes the bar in Canada.

Marabou created Sweden's Daim bar after which American company refused to license its recipe?

Marabou tested its own version in Stockholm in 1952; the bar was long sold in the UK as Dime.

Milka, launched by Suchard in 1901, has since that year been produced in which German town?

Mondelez has owned the lilac-wrapped brand since 2012.

Kinder Surprise eggs are barred from the US under a 1938 law prohibiting confectionery containing what?

Kinder Joy, with the toy in a separate half, has been sold there since 2017.

Which fruit-shaped product did Terry's drop in 1954 to make more Chocolate Oranges?

The Chocolate Orange itself dates from 1932 and has been made in Strasbourg since 2018.

Whittaker's, maker of the Peanut Slab, is the largest chocolate brand in which country?

James Henry Whittaker started it in Christchurch in 1896; it is now made in Porirua.

Dancers dressed as which Tunnock's product appeared at the 2014 Commonwealth Games opening?

Thomas Tunnock founded the firm in Uddingston in 1890.

Which chocolate biscuit bar told 1970s TV viewers to 'p-p-p-pick up' one when feeling 'p-peckish'?

Asda's lookalike Puffin led to a passing-off court case in 1996.

Which bite-sized, flat-bottomed conical chocolates did Milton S. of Pennsylvania introduce in 1907?

The street lights in Hershey, Pennsylvania, are shaped like them.

The company that makes Snickers and Twix is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, and is owned by whom?

Forbes ranked it the fourth-largest private company in the US in 2022, with $45 billion in sales.

Chocolate lozenges sold by Fry & Sons in the 1820s were marketed as what?

Fry's Chocolat Délicieux à Manger of 1847 is often called the first modern chocolate bar.