About Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
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The story of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
Nobody makes it last
You peel the paper off slowly, nibble round the edge first, and tell yourself this one is going to last. It is not. It never has. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups were introduced on November 15, 1928, and the trick still works every single time. The man behind them was H. B. Reese, and his story starts with a lost job and a basement in Pennsylvania.
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From the dairy to the basement
Harry Burnett Reese was born on May 24, 1879, in York County, Pennsylvania. He managed Hershey's experimental Round Barn dairy until 1919, when it was shut down to save money and he was let go. In 1923 he founded the H. B. Reese Candy Company in Hershey, Pennsylvania, starting out in the basement of his own home. The cups were first called 'Penny Cups', for the plain reason that they sold for one cent each. Honest naming, that.
All the eggs, one cup
In 1942, with wartime rationing on and the Peanut Butter Cup as popular as it was, Reese discontinued all his other candy lines to focus on it. Bold. You are holding the result. He died on May 16, 1956, and is buried in Hershey Cemetery, Hershey, PA. In 1963 The Hershey Company acquired the H.B. Reese Candy Company, which is how a company started by a man Hershey let go ended up back with Hershey.
Where they live now
They are still made at a large plant in Hershey, Pennsylvania, said to produce about a quarter of the world's supply. The long-running slogan was 'Two Great Tastes that Taste Great Together.' At home they live where the good sweets live: the high cupboard, the glovebox on a long drive, the film night bowl that is somehow empty before the opening credits finish. And the last one in the packet is always somebody else's fault.