First New Hershey's Bar Since 1995

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First New Hershey's Bar Since 1995

The first new candy bar to carry the Hershey's name in more than two decades is set to hit shelves next month, the AP reports.

The Hershey, Pennsylvania-based candy maker says Hershey's Gold will go on sale Dec. 1.
It's described as a caramelized cream bar embedded with salty peanut and pretzel bits.
Hershey's says the bar is a response to trends that it says show "the rising popularity of crunchy multi-textured candy."

Hershey's Gold will be the fourth flavor for the brand and the first new one since Hershey's Cookies 'n' Creme was introduced in 1995.

The original milk chocolate Hershey's bar was released in 1900 and was followed up by the dark chocolate Special Dark variety in 1939; the Cookies 'n' Creme bar is a white chocolate bar.
The new bar is ... a golden color ...

As Food & Wine explains, there's no actual chocolate in the new bar, which its taste testers say has "a satisfying crunch" and Hershey's "signature creaminess,"
making it taste "like a Hershey's product even if there isn't any chocolate in it."

[PoliticAverse]

1. I guess all the shrinking ones don't count as 'new'. n/t

[radical noodle]

2. My mother couldn't eat chocolate

so she would have loved something like this.

[DFW]

3. No actual chocolate at all?

I'm not sure I would want that.

Even when it's white chocolate, I want SOMETHING resembling cacao in there, such as this: http://www.kaffeeshop24.de/product/cafe-tasse-weisse-schokolade-kaffee-10-taefelchen-a-9-g.709.html

or #8 on page 2 (with raspberry pulp):https://www.wittamer.com/sites/default/files/tarifs/Wittamer_TARIF2016_CHOC_EN.pdf

[OilemFirchen]

4. No actual chocolate in the new bar?

That's a bold step.

There's an infinitesimal amount of actual chocolate in a Hershey's chocolate bar.

[MrScorpio]

5. Uhhh, nope.

[dr.strangelove]

6. Sounds amazing

I love the salty and sweet mix. I can't wait to try it.

[LeftInTX]

7. I love pretzels covered with white chocolate or chocolate

Not sure where the gold color comes from ...is it a peanut butter? ...or are there peanuts in the bar?

I'll have to buy one and try it out.

Gives me something to look forward to in this bleak world.