Nestlé Chunky

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A Chunky broken in half

Nestlé Chunky is a candy bar known for its trapezoidal shape and consists of milk chocolate, California raisins, and roasted peanuts. It is produced by Nestlé.

History

The Chunky candy bar was introduced in the late 1930s by New York City candy maker, Philip Silvershein. It was then made with cashews, chocolate, raisins and Brazil nuts. The composition of the bars was changed to peanuts, raisins, and chocolate when the Nestlé company assumed rights to the brand.

Silvershein, a friend of William Wrigley, Jr., originally had his Chunky bars distributed by the Wrigley Gum Company. It was acquired by Nestlé in 1984.

In the 1950s, a Chunky could be purchased for five cents, with a smaller version, the Chunky Cutie, available for two cents.

Advertising

"Chunky Square," a pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair, featured a glass-walled automated factory, where visitors could watch the manufacturing of Chunky candy bars.^[1]

An early 1970s TV commercial for Chunky showed a young boy watching TV with his father. The boy amused viewers by claiming that Chunky was "THICKER-ER."

Other Chunky advertising slogans included "Chunky, What a Chunk o' Chocolate", intoned by the nasal voice of Arnold Stang, and "Open Wide for Chunky".

Varieties

Original - peanuts and raisins - silver wrapper
Pecan - pecans - gold wrapper
Dark Chunky - dark chocolate with peanuts and raisins - bronze wrapper

References

↑ Cotter, Bill. "Chunky Candy". World's Fair Photos. Retrieved 30 March 2011.

Nestlé

Brands

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Milo	Milo granules Milo Chocolate Bar Milo Cereal

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People

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¹ Currently manufactured by General Mills in the United States. Produced by Cereal Partners under the Nestlé brand elsewhere.
² Brand owned by General Mills; U.S. and Canadian production rights controlled by Nestlé under license.
³ U.S. production rights owned by The Hershey Company.
⁴ Canadian production rights owned by The Hershey Company.
⁵ U.S. rights and production owned by Smarties Candy Company, with a different product.
⁶ U.S. rights and specific trade dress owned by Nestlé; rights elsewhere owned by Associated British Foods.
⁷ Produced by Cereal Partners, branded as Nestlè.
⁸ Produced by Cereal Partners, and Branded Nestlé in The United Kingdom, and Ireland. Produced by Post Foods, elsewhere.

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Commons

In the film "Throw Mama from the Train," Billy Crystal's character announces that he is about to kill Danny DeVito's character's mother, and asks if he wants anything. Devito replies, "Get me a Chunky?"

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