candy bar
{{Short description|Sweet confectionery in the shape of a bar}}
{{About|candy in bar form}}
File:Planters-Peanut-Bar.jpg Peanut Bar. Some candy bars do not contain any chocolate.]]
A candy bar is a type of portable candy that is in the shape of a bar. The most common type of candy bar is the chocolate bar,{{Citation needed|date=January 2021}} including both bars made of solid chocolate and combination candy bars, which are candy bars that combine chocolate with other ingredients, such as nuts, caramel, nougat, or wafers.
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Chocolate bars
{{Main article|Chocolate bar}}
File:Goo-Goo-Cluster-Split.jpg, a combination chocolate candy bar.]]
File:Cadbury-Dairy-Milk-Caramel-Bar.jpg Caramel bar in its foil wrapper]]
A chocolate bar is a bar-shaped piece of chocolate, which may also contain layerings or mixtures of other ingredients. A wide variety of chocolate bar brands are sold. A popular example is a Snickers bar, which consists of nougat mixed with caramel and peanuts.
The first chocolate tablets were produced in the early 19th century.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2k9DEAAAQBAJ | title=Du cacao au chocolat: L'épopée d'une gourmandise | publisher=Éditions Quæ | author=Barel, Michel | year=2021 | pages=102 | isbn=9782759233793 |quote=Le premier est François-Louis Cailler, l'inventeur de la tablette de chocolat telle que nous la connaissons aujourd'hui.|trans-quote=The first is François-Louis Cailler, the inventor of the chocolate tablet as we know it today.}}{{cite news | url=https://www.ouest-france.fr/pays-de-la-loire/la-fleche-72200/menier-une-dynastie-pour-le-chocolat-3091047 | title=Menier, une dynastie pour le chocolat | work=Ouest-France | date=29 December 2014 | access-date=22 May 2022 | author=Petit, Élisabeth | quote=Les premières formes de tablettes, enveloppées de papier blanc, voient le jour. En 1836, Menier lance une tablette à six divisions semi-cylindriques. Le succès est au rendez-vous. | trans-quote=The first chocolate tablets, wrapped in white paper, are created. In 1836, Menier launched a tablet with six semi-cylindrical divisions. Success is on the way. | archive-date=22 May 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220522145133/https://www.ouest-france.fr/pays-de-la-loire/la-fleche-72200/menier-une-dynastie-pour-le-chocolat-3091047 | url-status=live }} In 1830, Kohler started producing hazelnut chocolate.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=di-3DwAAQBAJ | title=Le Larousse du chocolat | publisher=Editions Larousse | author=Hermé, Pierre | year=2019 |page=44 | isbn=9782035981820 |quote=Les noisettes furent les premiers fruits à être ajoutés dans le chocolat solide, une innovation suisse due à Kohler en 1830. |trans-quote=Hazelnuts were the first fruits to be added to solid chocolate, a Swiss innovation due to Kohler in 1830.}} In 1866, Fry's Chocolate Cream became the first mass-produced combination chocolate bar.{{cite book|last=Mintz|first=Sidney|title=The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets|date=2015|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=157}} The Goo Goo Cluster was the first mass-produced combination bar in the United States, including marshmallow, nougat, caramel, and roasted peanuts.{{Cite book|title=Candy: A Century of Panic and Pleasure|last=Kawash|first=Samira|publisher=Faber and Faber|year=2013|isbn=9780374711108|pages=152–153, 156–157, 163}} In some varieties of English and food labeling standards, the term chocolate bar is reserved for bars of solid chocolate, with candy bar used for products with additional ingredients.
Non-chocolate candy bars
Candy bars containing no chocolate include:
- Abba-Zaba: taffy with a peanut butter center
- AirHeads: a taffy based candy that comes in multiple flavours
- Big Hunk: nougat center covered with peanuts
- File:Bit-O-Honey-Bar.jpgBit-O-Honey: honey-flavored taffy with almond bits
- Cajeta Elegancita: caramel center covered with goat's milk
- Carambar: caramel-based candy
- File:Caramac bar (cropped).jpg candy bar]]Caramac: caramel-based candy
- Chick-O-Stick: peanut butter center covered with coconut
- Choo Choo Bar: liquorice-based candy
- Hershey's Cookies 'n' Mint: mint-flavored Hershey candy bar with mint-flavored cookie bits
- Hershey's Gold: caramel-flavored Hershey candy bar with peanuts and pretzels
- Kendal Mint Cake: peppermint-based candy
- Laffy Taffy: a taffy based candy that comes in multiple flavours
- Mantecol: a peanut butter nougat bar
- Mr. Tom: peanuts and caramel
- Munch: peanut brittle-like candy
- File:Candy-PayDay-Broken.jpgPayDay: peanuts and caramel
- Pecan log roll: cherry-laced nougat center covered with caramel and pecans
- Planters Peanut Bar: peanut brittle-like candy
- Salted Nut Roll: nougat center covered with caramel and peanuts
- Turkish Taffy: taffy-based candy
- Wazoo: taffy center covered with sprinkles
- Yeot-gangjeong: hangwa center covered in toasted seeds, nuts, beans or puffed grains mixed with mullyeot (rice syrup)
- Zagnut: peanut brittle wrapped in toasted coconut
See also
{{portal|Food}}
- Candy making
- Dessert bar – dessert similar to a bar cookie (traybake)
- Energy bar – snack food
- Granola bar – snack food similar to granola (muesli) cereal in a bar shape
- List of candies
- List of chocolate bar brands
References
Further reading
- Cadbury, Deborah, Chocolate Wars: The 150-Year Rivalry Between the World's Greatest Chocolate Makers (PublicAffairs, 2011)
- Mazze, Edward M. and Michman, Ronald D., The Food Industry Wars: Marketing Triumphs and Blunders (Praeger, 1998)