Sweet History: Peanut butter cups

Welcome readers to Sweet History. This is a series for sweet candy history. Each hub of Sweet History will feature a different candy and it's history. This hub is featuring peanut butter cups.

What are peanut butter cups?

Peanut butter cups are chocolate cups filled with peanut butter.

History of Reese's.

Reese's were created in 1928 by Harry Burnett Reese. He was a former dairy farmer and shipping foreman for Milton S. Hershey. He gave up being a dairy farmer to become a candy maker and open up his own candy shop. He established the H.B. Reese Candy Co. in his basement in the town of Hershey, Pennsylvania.

Reese had so much success with Reese's, he discontinued his other candies.

Then, in 1963, several years after Reese died, the company was sold to Hershey's for $23.5 million.

Today, the H.B. Reese's co. is maintained as a subsidiary of Hershey's due to the face that Reese's plant workforce is not unionized.

Ingredients

Reese's are made from Hershey's chocolate and peanut butter.

Variations

Variations include miniatures, dark chocolate, white chocolate, big cups, peanut butter lovers, chocolate lovers, inside out, caramel, marshmallow, peanut butter and banana creme, crunchy cookie cup, honey roasted, fudge, hazelnut creme, sugar free, and double crunch.