12 Facts That Will Change the Way You Look at Candy

1. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups were originally called Penny Cups because they only cost a few pennies.

2. Instead of cleaning the machine after each flavor, Dum Dum’s combines those two flavors to create the coveted mystery flavor.

3. Butterfingers contain TBHQ, a form a butane gas that is used in welding and portable gas stoves.

4. The Snickers candy bar was named after the Mars’s favorite racehorse.

5. Sour Patch Kids went with their name to capitalize on the success of Cabbage Patch Kids.

6. Papa Suckers are what we used to call Sugar Daddy candy bars on a stick.

7. One factory in New Jersey produces 2 billion M&Ms every 8 hours.

8. Milky Way candy bars aren’t named after the galaxy but a malted milkshake.

9. The actual flavor of circus peanuts is banana.

10. Baby Ruth’s weren’t named after the presidents’ daughter or the baseball star, the candy company made up the story because the athlete was never able to negotiate an endorsement deal.

11. In 1949, M&Ms switched their purple M&M to tan. It wasn’t until almost 50 years later that the company changed the tan candy to blue.

12. Butterfingers are not sold in Germany.