Butterfinger
| Butterfinger | |
|---|---|
| Owner / user | Ferrero |
| Products | chocolate bar |
| Markets | United States |
| Website | www.butterfinger.com |
Butterfinger is a brand name for a candy bar and some similar foods made by the Ferrero company .
A bar with this name was first sold by the Curtiss Candy Company in the United States in 1923 . The brand came to Nestlé via Standard Brands and Nabisco . There it is considered to be one of the best-selling sweets. It consists of a peanut brittle topping on peanut butter cream with a chocolate coating.
The ingredients are sugar , glucose syrup , roasted peanuts , vegetable fat , molasses , corn flakes , soy lecithin , condensed milk , flavoring , coloring agent Allura red AC , corn starch and citric acid .
In the production is genetically modified corn used. This led to protests by consumer advocates and Greenpeace , which led to the discontinuation of direct sales in Germany in July 1999.
On April 1, 2008, Nestlé published an April Fool's joke on its website announcing the change of name from Butterfinger to Finger .
Other foods that have a similar composition and taste are manufactured and sold under the Butterfinger brand :
- Butterfinger BB's
- Butterfinger Crisp
- Butterfinger Stixx
- Butterfinger ice cream bars
- Butterfinger ice cream nuggets
- Butterfinger Hot Chocolate
In January 2018, Nestlé agreed to sell its US confectionery business, including the Butterfinger brand, to Ferrero .
advertising
From 1988 to 2007 a total of 150 commercials were produced with the character Bart Simpson from the animated series The Simpsons in the lead role.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Terms & Conditions. Accessed April 10, 2020 (English).
- ^ A brief history of Butterfinger. Nestlé , archived from the original on February 25, 2005 ; Retrieved October 13, 2013 .
- ↑ Food . Nestlé takes "Butterfinger" off the shelf. In: Spiegel Online . July 14, 1999 ( HTML [accessed October 13, 2013]).
- ↑ http://www.thefingerbar.com/overview/aspx ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Nestlé agrees to sell US confectionery business to Ferrero
