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When Vivian de Walque, a 37-year-old Reddit user, reached for a five-pack of Reese's peanut butter cups to ease her workday stress, she wasn't prepared for what would become a viral candy catastrophe. "I figured it was a one-off, so I bite into the next one. Nope, no peanut butter. Well, there's no way I could get three in a row... right?" humorously recounting her quest through all five cups, each solid chocolate, "without a trace of peanut butter," she told Newsweek. Sharing her experience on Reddit's "mildly interesting" sub, Vivian's story struck a chord with 100,000 upvotes. De Walque,...

ROCKFORD, IL — After tragedy struck a local family last night, local dad Jordan Duckworth bore the unenviable task of notifying his children that a burglar had broken into their home and stolen all of the Reese's peanut butter cups they had received while trick-or-treating. "I'm sorry, kids. Our house was robbed last night," Mr. Duckworth said sadly after gathering his kids in the kitchen this morning. "Fortunately, the thief didn't take your mother's jewelry, our television, or the bar of pure gold we keep on the coffee table for some reason. Kids, I'm afraid he only took…your Reese's peanut...

Everyone has their favorite candy for the different holidays, but it appears nothing satisfies people quite as much as the combination of peanut butter and chocolate. A RetailMeNot survey shows 32% like Reese’s Peanut Butter Chocolate Eggs the best. Next up on the list are Cadbury Creme Eggs and jelly beans, with 17% and 16% respectively. The survey says 10% say chocolate bunnies are best, but only 6% picked Peeps.

A Lorain, Ohio, Sunoco is having trouble with a “Reese Cup bandit.” A repeat thief has stolen $400- to $600-worth of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups from the Sunoco in the past several months, according to Lorain Police. He returned to the Oberlin Avenue store at 1 a.m. Tuesday and stole an unknown amount of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and a bag of chips. The clerk working at the Sunoco Tuesday blocked the door but the thief pushed his way past him, police said. The clerk was not injured. Employees of the Sunoco have nicknamed the thief the “Reese Cup bandit.”...

The Reese's Cup generation at Faith Community Lutheran Church in Longmont, Colorado has come up with the next version of their now locally famous sign to attract the younger folks into their church. === Previous version of their sign using the Mountain Dew angle === Faith Community Lutheran website: http://faithcommunitylutheran.org/ === Previous thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1385800/posts