The cakes (three iced with vanilla frosting and three iced with chocolate, each garnished with a chocolate candy disc) arrived frozen, from Virginia, in an attractive gift box.
In addition to chocolate and candy, Mars also owns consumer and pet food brands such as Uncle Ben's Rice and Pedigree.
Ms. SUSAN YANG(ph): My name is Susan Yang, and the worst gift, in plural, I would have to say, are probably are those of--although I love chocolate and candy--those are probably the worst kinds of gifts because it's just temptation looking me in the face every day.
Or that Racine, Wis. boasts SC Johnson and that Tacoma, Wash. lays claim to where, in 1911, Frank and Ethel Mars began making buttercream candy and later chocolate out of their kitchen.
It was almost Easter, and a person dressed as a bunny hopped down the corridors, promoting a candy store by handing chocolate eggs to children.
Kotb had singled out their signature PMS bar (Peanut Butter, Milk Chocolate, Salty Potato Chips) as her favorite candy bar, but they make plenty of other stuff.
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Another foreign company with a big profile in the U.S. is Switzerland-based Nestle (otc: NSRGY - news - people ), which is well known in the States for its Crunch and Butterfinger candy bars, Toll House cookies and Nesquik chocolate mix.
Beer candy represents an attempt to patch the gender gap by the specialty chocolate market, which represents about 10% of the industry total, Ms. Mogelonsky said.
Originally called Cherry Chase, it was renamed Cherry Chaser before becoming the Cherry Mash, but whatever you called it, the candy features a quarter-pound mound of chopped roasted peanuts blended with chocolate over a smooth cherry fondant center.
For years, dietetic candy tasted as though it had been designed as a torture device by the Swiss Chocolate Police: dry, dull and about as exciting as chewing on bark.
Petra also distributes third-party candy brands such as Toblerone and Mars, which means that more than half of the chocolate bought in Indonesia is either made by Petra or distributed by it.
Six chocolate lovers trying to indulge their sweet tooths, uh, teeth, will find a GPS tracker instead of a candy bar when they rip into their treats.
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