The new specialty Reese’s cups are perfect for the nuanced Reese’s palate

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The only good news is candy news, so it’s wonderful that two new Reese’s cups will hit shelves soon.

Chocolate Lovers and Peanut Butter Lovers cups, which will be available beginning mid-April of this year, cater to those who crave slightly more chocolate or slightly more peanut butter from their Reese’s experience. They’re not shaped differently than a standard cup — we have seasonal Reese’s for that — but they are fun little variations on an already good candy.

Let’s break them down:

Chocolate Lovers

Chocolate Lovers.

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I have never sought out a Reese’s cup for the chocolate. It’s the peanut butter that sets the candy apart. So I was not particularly excited for the ” thicker chocolate shell,” which I felt would further ruin the chocolate-peanut butter ratio, nor the “richer, darker milk chocolate.” Read more…

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You can bid on a war hero’s century-old chocolate in an online auction

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It appears a distinguished World War I soldier,   Richard Bullimore, only ate one of his 10 Cadbury chocolate bars while awaiting battle in the war’s notorious trenches, according to the online auction company Eddisons CJM. The chocolate tins were apparently a wartime Christmas present to troops. 

Eddisons CJM, which also auctions off massive pieces of industrial equipment, will offer Bullimore’s 103-year-old chocolate in a package with his other belongings on Tuesday, June 5. 

Just the chocolate tin itself is rare, noted CJM’s Paul Cooper, “but to find the chocolate still inside is just unreal.” Read more…

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