Candy bars

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Kendal Mint Cake

Kendal Mint Cake

Kendal Mint Cake is a glucose-based confection flavoured with peppermint. It originates from Kendal in Cumbria, England. Kendal Mint Cake is popular among climbers and mountaineers, especially those from the United Kingdom, as a source of energy.

Kendal Mint Cake is based on a traditional recipe known as mint cake, peppermint tablet and various other similar names. Kendal Mint Cake is well known to mountaineers and explorers for its high energy content. There are currently two companies that still produce Kendal mint cake in Kendal. The origin of the Mint cake is allegedly from a batch of Peppermint creams that went wrong. The mixture was left overnight and the solidified 'mint cake' was discovered in the morning.

Romney's was founded in 1918 and used an old recipe to create Mint Cake. This Mint Cake was sold in Kendal and sent by train to other areas of the north west for sale. In 1987, Romney's bought Wiper's Mint Cake from Harry Wiper, who had inherited ownership of Wiper's in 1960 when his father died.

In 2016 Romney's collaborated with fashion site Lyst to create a limited run of "Kendall Mint Cakes" to celebrate Kendall Jenner's 21st Birthday on November 3. 200 limited edition cakes were given away on social media.

Quiggin's Mint Cake is the oldest surviving mint cake company. The Quiggin family had been making confectionery since 1840 in the Isle of Man and when one of the four sons moved to Kendal in 1880, the mint cake company was formed.

In the BBC TV programme Great British Menu, series 5, Lisa Allen visited Quiggin's factory and used Quiggin's Kendal Mint Cakes in her Strawberries with Meringue & Kendal Mint Cake Water Ice dessert.

In the BBC TV programme Great British Railway Journeys (Series 7, Episode 2), Michael Portillo visited Quiggin's factory.

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Kismet (chocolate bar)

Kismet is a Finnish chocolate bar produced by Fazer.

Kismet is a flat, rectangular bar. It is about 15 cm long, 5 cm wide and 1 cm thick. It is divided into four sections that are easy to break from each other. It weighs about 55 g and contains an estimated 283 calories with 17 g of total fat.

Kismet is made of crisp waffle and nougat covered in milk chocolate.

In late 2009, early 2010 Fazer began an advertising campaign for the new Raspberry flavoured Kismet bar.

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Kit Kat

Kit Kat

Kit Kat is a chocolate-covered wafer bar confection created by Rowntree's of York, England, and is now produced globally by Nestlé, which acquired Rowntree in 1988, with the exception of the United States where it is made under license by H.B. Reese Candy Company, a division of The Hershey Company. The standard bars consist of two or four fingers composed of three layers of wafer, separated and covered by an outer layer of chocolate. Each finger can be snapped from the bar separately. There are many different flavours of Kit Kat.

Use of the name Kit Kat or Kit Cat for a type of food goes back to the 18th century, when mutton pies known as a Kit-Kat were served at meetings of the political Kit-Cat Club in London.

The origins of what is now known as the Kit Kat brand go back to 1911, when Rowntree's, a confectionery company based in York in the United Kingdom, trademarked the terms Kit Cat and Kit Kat. Although the terms were not immediately used, the first conception of the Kit Kat appeared in the 1920s, when Rowntree launched a brand of boxed chocolates entitled Kit Cat. This continued into the 1930s, when Rowntree's shifted focus and production onto its Black Magic and Dairy Box brands. With the promotion of alternative products the Kit Cat brand decreased and was eventually discontinued. The original four-finger bar was developed after a worker at Rowntree's York Factory put a suggestion in a recommendation box for a snack that "a man could take to work in his pack". The bar launched on 29 August 1935, under the title of Rowntree's Chocolate Crisp (priced at 2d), and was sold in London and throughout Southern England.

The product's official title of Rowntree's Chocolate Crisp was renamed Kit Kat Chocolate Crisp in 1937, the same year that Kit Kat began to incorporate "Break" into its recognisable advertising strategy. The colour scheme and first flavour variation to the brand came in 1942, owing to World War II, when food shortages prompted an alteration in the recipe. The flavour of Kit Kat was changed to dark chocolate; the packaging abandoned its Chocolate Crisp title, and was adorned in blue. After the war the title was altered to Kit Kat and resumed its original milk recipe and red packaging.

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Kit Kats in Japan

There have been more than 300 limited-edition seasonal and regional flavors of Kit Kats produced in Japan since 2000.Nestlé, which operates the Kit Kat brand in Japan, reports that the brand overtook Meiji Chocolate as the top-selling confection in Japan from 2012 to 2014. The company's marketing campaign, which partnered with Japan Post to sell the bar in 20,000 post offices, won an award in 2010. That campaign encouraged associations of the product's name to the coincidental cognate Kitto Kattsu (きっと勝つ^?), translated as "You will surely win," and could be mailed as a good luck charm for students ahead of university exams.

Kit Kats were introduced to Japan in 1973 when Rowntree's made an agreement with Fujiya. In 2014, they were the top-selling confection in the country. The Kit Kat brand took the number one sales position from Meiji chocolate in 2012, though Meiji remains the leading confection company in Japan overall.

Since 2000, the product has been sold in more than 300 seasonal and regional flavors. The top-selling flavor of the candy bar in 2010 was soy sauce. Nestlé attributes the success of the flavor varieties to the tradition of omiyage, in which regional specialties are packed for family and co-workers after trips. The company believes the limited-edition seasonal models create a "scarcity and rarity of value" for customers.

The business model was created to solve a problem the company found in Japanese convenience stores, which frequently rotated items and flavors off of shelves. By producing smaller runs of flavors, the company was better able to control its production costs. It was also economically viable in Japan because there is no initial product fee for listing new products in Japanese convenience stores.

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Krackel

Hershey's Krackel

Krackel is a chocolate bar made by The Hershey Company.

Krackel contains milk chocolate and crisped rice and is a competitor to Nestlé Crunch, a chocolate bar made by Nestlé. Krackel originally sold as an individual chocolate bar product until 1997, and for 17 years available as one of the four varieties of Hershey's Miniatures until it was reintroduced as an individual candy bar in 2014. Introduced in 1938, Krackel used to have almonds in its formula, until peanuts were then added in the recipe in 1939, but both the almonds and peanuts were removed in 1941 to be replaced with the new crisped rice balls that measure approximatley 2mm. The product's packaging can be identified by its distinctive red background, white lettering, and yellow fine print.

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Kvikk Lunsj

Kvikk Lunsj (Norwegian for "Quick Lunch") is a confection created by the Norwegian chocolate brand Freia in 1937.

It consists of a thick bar, composed of wafer covered with milk chocolate, and divided into four fingers. Each finger can be snapped from the bar, one at a time. The Kvikk Lunsj XXL introduced in 1999, has one large finger, approximately 2.5 cm wide. In shape and composition, Kvikk Lunsj is almost identical to Kit Kat, which was introduced two years earlier, in 1935. On average a Norwegian eats approximately nine Kvikk Lunsjs every year, three of them at Easter. This means 4,500 tonnes of chocolate during the holidays. During the 1960s, Freia printed fjellvettreglene (Norwegian for “mountain sense/hiking sense”) on the back of the chocolate. Kvikk Lunsj is strongly associated in Norway with family hikes and (cross-country) ski trips in the mountains, which accounts for the increased consumption during Easter, when families often get together and ski trips are traditionally compulsory.

Both the name and image of the Kvikk Lunsj as the ultimate Norwegian hiker bar, was determined by a German man in 1887, 50 years before the first Kvikk Lunsj plate was produced in Freia Chokolade-Fabric in 1937.

On his very first hike in Nordmarka outside Oslo, an autumn day in 1887, lightly dressed with summer shoes, Johan Throne Holst began to walk. He wanted to impress a German business associate with a tour of Norwegian nature, but inexperienced as he was, he had neither brought a map, compass or provisions for the trip. In the book "Sjokoladekongen" Holst says that his companion was a much more experienced hiker than himself, and he complained that Holst only had brought some chocolate for the trip - it was in fact a completely normal provision in the German's homeland. They walked and walked and walked, it was wet and gray and bad weather, and when Holst finally admitted that he had no idea where they were and how they would get home, the German exclaimed "Und Sie haben nicht einmal keine quick lunch mitgebracht? "

During and after World War 2, the production of the chocolate was paused for a few years because of a shortage of sugar and the quality of the flour.

Kvikk Lunsj is produced by Kraft Foods Nordic, and is mainly sold in Norway and Denmark.

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Lion Bar

Lion Bar is a chocolate bar made by Nestlé, previously a Rowntree's product. It originated in Fawdon, England.

The Lion Bar was originally designed by Alan Norman, Experimental Confectioner, at a factory in Fawdon, Tyneside, England.

It consists of a filled wafer, caramel (32%) and crisp cereal (26%) covered in milk chocolate (42%). It was introduced by Eric Nicoli of Rowntree's in the 1970s, after a trial in the Dorset area in 1977. It was in some areas known as Big Cat until the late 1990s. When Nestlé acquired the brand in 1988, the recipe was changed, as was the packaging.

In the United Kingdom, both White Lion and Peanut Butter Lion limited edition bars have also been available, as well as a "king size" variety. The bar is occasionally found in the U.S., Canada, Tajikistan, Brazil, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand in European import shops, although a similar bar, Mr. Big, is made by Cadbury in Canada.

In recent years, the Lion Bar has been dramatically reduced in size, which has caused controversy among fans.

A Lion Bar cereal, called "Lion Cereal", is made and is sold in Europe, later the UK and Ireland, as well as the Middle East. It is produced in France by Nestlé. It was first produced in the early 2000s until 2003. In 2011, a slightly different version was released.

Sugar, Glucose-fructose syrup, Sweetened condensed milk, Skimmed milk powder, Peanuts, Cocoa butter, Nuts, Lactose, Crisped cereals [5%] (Wheat flour, Sugar, Wheat starch, Vegetable fat, Raising agent: Sodium carbonate, Salt, Caramelised Sugar), Cocoa mass, Whey powder, Butterfat, Wheat flour, Emulsifiers (Soya lecithin, E476), Flavourings, Stabiliser (Carrageenan), Salt, Raising agent (Sodium carbonate).

Typical values per Bar:

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Answer 8

M-Azing

M-Azing

M-Azing is a candy bar manufactured by Mars, Incorporated. M-Azing is a milk chocolate candy bar with M&M's Minis chocolate candies inside. It has been available in crunchy and peanut butter flavors, in singles and miniatures varieties.

The product was originally introduced in Singles and Funsize formats in 2004. In 2005, a Minis format was launched. In 2006, the company discontinued all but the Crunchy Singles variety of the candy bar, and now has a "Now with better taste" sticker on it. Mars, Incorporated stated that they planned to rebrand the bar in 2008, but this did not happen.

In 2013, M-Azing was relaunched under the name M&M'S Chocolate Bar.

The advertisements for M-Azing bars included people doing amazing things such as a man balancing a washing machine on his teeth.

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Marco Polo Chocolate Bar

The Marco Polo Chocolate Bar is a chocolate covered hazelnut wafer candy which is sold in 1.2 ounce (34 g) bars at some candy retailers. The candy is easily identified by its distinctive green and white wrapper. The chocolate bar is produced in Poland. In Canada, the bar is imported and marketed by Omega Food Importers of Mississauga, Ontario. It is recommended that the bar be kept in a cool, dry place.

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Mary Jane (candy)

Mary Jane is a peanut butter and molasses flavored taffy-type candy. Originally made in 1914 by The Charles N. Miller Co., and later by Stark Candy Co., it is now manufactured by Necco. Charles Miller named them after his favorite aunt, Mary Jane, and the candy has used the same "little girl" illustration on the wrappers since its inception. Mary Jane candies are currently made in the city of Revere, Massachusetts.

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