Posted on 04/24/2017 10:36:18 AM PDT by grundle
America’s most iconic chocolate, Hershey’s, is slimming down. Hershey announced earlier this week that half of its candy bars and candy products will drop to 200 calories or less. They expect the shift to be fully in place by the year 2022.
In a press release, the company stated that it expects to meet the goal in two ways. First of all, they will be reformulating their products. Additionally, they will adjust the size of certain items.
The changes will affect standard and king-sized items.
We can’t help but wonder if this means they’ll merely be getting smaller, which at first is like, not cool. We’ll have to buy more candy bars to make it through our eighteenth bingeing of Buffy. But it’s probably a good idea, though.
By the end of 2018, the company aims to apply easy-to-read caloric information to the front of all of its products.
“We aim to delight our consumers and these steps will provide an even wider range of portion options and clear information to help them select treats that fit their lifestyle,” Hershey president and CEO Michele Buck said.
The changes were inspired by customer feedback, according to Hershey.
“We’re calling it informed choice — where I can walk up to the display and if I want a king size, that’s my choice, but I want to know what I’m buying and how many calories are involved,” spokesman Jeff Beckman told USA Today.
We like the sound of choice and freedom of information. As long as our Hershey bars still taste like our childhood dreams, we’re cool.
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I hope the were asking customers of other chocolate makers and not their own.
ML/NJ
The chocolate ration will be increased from 30 grams to 20 grams.
The chocolate ration is being increased to 30 grams per week.
Never trust Hershey’s marketing department. The marketed the Hershey’s Air Delight product, was just plain Hershey’s chocolate with air holes in it. An regular bag of Hershey’s kisses was 12 oz the Air Delight kisses was 9 oz for the same price. I think it bombed out, because it should have.
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I haven’t bought a Hersey product for decades.
Milk chocolate is crap!
I hope they go under quickly; shelf space is needed for worthy products.
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You bet!
So companies must pay whoever to tattle whenever you write their name down [on another site] and then the follow you around the internet with big boxes of chocolates!
Need I say more?
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Cadbury is just as crappy as Hersey.
All sugar, no coco.
Quality begins at 75% coco.
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Your endorsement thanks is in the mail.
Since Hersey bought Cadbury, the quality evened out.
“they’re increasing the wax content?”
I was just thinking the same thing. More Carnuba please!
I shouldn’t complain because I really do not eat much chocolate at all. It kind of burns my throat, I think it’s the sugar content. But I’m not sure. As a result I’ve stayed away from chocolate for years and if I do have a piece of chocolate or a bite of chocolate cake, that’s about as much as I feel comfortable eating.
Hershey is at the bottom of the cholate barrel.
Yup!!
Lindt.
The 75% or 85% is the best, I think the 93% is like eating sheet rock though...
They should make them bigger, who has bought bags of the mini bars for Halloween you eat hands full of those, but a full size bar is satisfying.
They changed their chocolate in such a terrible way over 15 years ago, that I stopped eating it. It tastes horrible now.
No, they stuck with it a year or more. Nobody liked it and their sales plummeted.
They hurt the overall brand badly. Many executives lost their Jobs, and a lot more when some bottlers closed shop. I had a friend who worked for a Coke bottler and lost his job for sure.
I don’t think Classic Coke came out for at least a year after New Coke replaced it.
Tcho Mokaccino SeriousMilk™ + Blue Bottle Coffee
or my personal favorite Milk Chocolate Toffee + Sea Salt Bites
I love Dove and Ghiradelli, especially for baking.
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