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—>In case you were planning on getting your recommended daily allowance of calcium from Hershey's Syrup + Calcium, you may want to think twice. As reader Samuel has pointed out, the label on the fortified corn syrup says it contains "0%" of your suggested daily calcium. On the bright side, it probably doesn't taste like chalk. More »
—>The food companies say we are on the brink of a sugar shortage that will wreak havoc on your candy bars and all that. According to the WSJ several large food companies including Kraft Foods Inc., General Mills Inc., Hershey Co. and Mars Inc. sent a letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack warning that the US could run out of sugar if we don't get rid of some tariffs. More »
Hershey is closing its online store (www.hersheygifts.com) at the end of the month, saying they can't keep it running in this economy. If you like their "chocolate" products, everything on the site is on sale for 25% off. [LA Times] (Thanks to Robert!) More »
—>Well, we've been saying it would be more honest to just raise prices instead of shrinking the product, and Hershey has taken us up on that. On Friday, only months after a 13% hike back in February, Hershey announced a price increase of 10-11% across the product line, citing higher costs for ingredients. More »
—>The Candy Blog noticed that Hershey's "Kissables" have been reformulated, and can no longer be legally labeled "milk chocolate" because of FDA regulations. The new package looks the same, except for the ingredients and the label which now says "Chocolate Candy" instead "Candy Coated Milk Chocolate." More »
—>Reader Leo writes in with some helpful information that will allow you to avoid stale candy:
I work at a small-volume store in the midwest, and the other day my supervisor asked us to check all of the candy in the checkout lanes to see if it had expired. M&M Mars and Hershey brand candy both had different, indecipherable codes on the back which tell the expiration date. After calling the 1-800 number and finding out what the codes meant, we discovered that most of our candy stock was expired by a year or more. We even found candy that went bad from 2004. I figured I should share the codes, so people won't buy expired candy, because it's out there. More »
—> On Monday, Mars Snackfoods US—makers of "pokin' at you pokin' at you" Snickers bars, M&Ms, and other popular office meal replacement systems—announced that it would not seek FDA permission to replace its cocoa butter with cheaper vegetable oil, which is what the rest of the industry is lobbying for. Okay, first of all, yech, just... vegetable oil? But second of all, yay for Mars for drawing a line somewhere on poor product quality. More »
—>Simon & Schuster have settled an injunction against them made by the Hershey Company over inappropriate use of the Hershey trademark for the book cover of Hershey : Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams, "the story of 'a gambler, raconteur, despot and servant'." The settlement will allow Simon & Schuster to keep the strikingly attractive cover to the left as long as Simon & Schuster slap an "Unauthorized" sticker on every cover. More »
