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Mounds is a candy bar made by the Hershey Company, consisting of shredded, sweetened coconut coated in dark chocolate. The company also produces the Almond Joy, a similar bar topped by whole almonds and covered in milk chocolate. The two products share common packaging and logo design, with Mounds using a red color scheme and Almond Joy blue.
The Mounds bar became a hit with the U.S. military during World War II, who by 1944 purchased 80% of their production for use in rations (5 million bars/month). [4] The Almond Joy bar was introduced in 1946 as a replacement for the Dreams Bar, which was introduced in 1934, consisting of diced almonds and coconut covered with dark chocolate. [ 5 ]
During World War II sugar and coconut shortages forced the company to abandon the Dreams bar in favor of concentrating on the better selling Mounds. Fortuitously, the Mounds became a hit with the U.S. military, which purchased 5 million bars per month (equivalent to 80% of their production) by 1944 for use in rations.
These 4-Ingredient Coconut Cream Bars are an easy, irresistible, no-bake candy that tastes like a Mounds bar! We make these every year! Get the recipe: 4-Ingredient Coconut Cream Bars.
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This is a list of chocolate bar brands, in alphabetical order, including discontinued brands.A chocolate bar, also known as a candy bar in American English, is a confection in an oblong or rectangular form containing chocolate, dark chocolate, or white chocolate, which may also contain layerings or mixtures that include nuts, fruit, caramel, nougat, and wafers.
Copycat Starbucks Cranberry Bliss Bars These chewy blondies are studded with white chocolate chips and cranberries and then get a sweet orange cream cheese frosting and an extra drizzle of white ...
One of the two bars in a Bounty, split Bounty is a coconut -filled, chocolate -enrobed candy bar manufactured by Mars Inc. , introduced in 1951 in the United Kingdom and Canada. It is a direct emulation of the Mounds bar introduced by Peter Paul in 1936, and also copies the milk chocolate enrobing of Hershey's Almond Joy , introduced in 1948.