Hershey's Candy Empire: The American Snacks UK Shoppers Love
Ever Noticed How Many Candy Bars Say "Hershey's" on the Label?
Here's a fun one for your next quiz night: Reese's, Kit Kat (the American one), Milk Duds, Twizzlers and Jolly Rancher are all made by the same company. That's right — one giant American sweet maker is behind half the chocolate aisle you've been raiding from us for months.
We're talking about The Hershey Company, the Pennsylvania chocolate giant that's been making American mouths (and now British ones) happy since 1894. If you've ever wondered why so many of our bestselling imports taste like they're from the same family, it's because — in a lot of cases — they genuinely are. Let's dig into the empire, one wrapper at a time.
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Meet The Hershey Company: America's Biggest Sweet Shop
Hershey isn't just one chocolate bar — it's a whole empire of flavours, textures and nostalgia. In the US, the company either makes or licenses an enormous chunk of the snack aisle, including:
- ✅ Hershey's milk chocolate, Kisses and Cookies 'n' Creme
- ✅ Reese's peanut butter everything
- ✅ Kit Kat — yes, the American version is a Hershey product under licence, while the UK bar comes from Nestlé
- ✅ Milk Duds, the chewy caramel classic
- ✅ Twizzlers, America's answer to liquorice
- ✅ Jolly Rancher, the hard candy that could outlast a UK winter
Basically, if you've been building an American snack box from our full shop, there's a decent chance half of it already comes from one address in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Let's meet the family properly.
The OG: Hershey's Own Bars and Treats
Starting with the name on the building. These are the purest expression of classic American chocolate — sweeter, milkier and a bit more crumbly than what you'll find from a UK chocolatier, and that's exactly the point.
Hershey's Mr. Goodbar
Think of this as America's chunkier cousin to a peanut chocolate bar — milk chocolate studded with whole roasted peanuts for proper crunch in every bite. It's been around since the 1920s, which makes it basically a chocolate antique.
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Hershey's Cookies 'n' Creme
White chocolate loaded with crunchy cookie bits — it's the bar you reach for when you want dessert but can't be bothered with an actual dessert. Sweet, crunchy and dangerously easy to finish in one sitting.
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Hershey's Kisses
The little foil-wrapped drops that basically invented "sharing size" (even though nobody actually shares them). They're the most recognisable chocolate shape in America — pure, melt-in-your-mouth classic milk chocolate, one little tug of foil at a time.
Reese's: The Peanut Butter Royalty of the Family
If Hershey's is the founder, Reese's is the favourite child. Peanut butter and milk chocolate shouldn't work this well together, and yet it's one of the best-selling sweets in American history. The Peanut Butter Cups Trio gives you three proper-sized cups rather than the tiny UK minis — so you actually get to taste the peanut butter centre instead of just the wrapper.
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Kit Kat USA: Yes, It's Actually a Hershey Thing
Here's the bit that trips people up. In the UK, Kit Kat is a Nestlé product through and through. But in the US, Hershey has held the licence to make and sell Kit Kat since the 1970s — which means the American Kit Kats landing in our warehouse are a genuinely different recipe, made by a genuinely different company, under the same name. Confusing? A bit. Delicious? Absolutely.
Kit Kat Vanilla
Same crispy wafer snap you know and love, but wrapped in a smooth white vanilla coating instead of milk chocolate. It's lighter, sweeter and a proper change of pace from the usual bar.
Kit Kat Churros
One of the wildest US-only flavour twists going — cinnamon-sugar churro flavour wrapped around the classic wafer crunch. It genuinely tastes like a Spanish street-food stall decided to make a chocolate bar, and it absolutely should not work. It does.
Milk Duds and the Rest of the Hershey Family
Milk Duds
Chewy caramel wrapped in a thin shell of milk chocolate — these are the cinema candy of choice for generations of Americans, and once you've tried the Big Box, you'll understand why they've survived nearly a century on shelves.
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The Hershey family tree keeps going too. Twizzlers and Jolly Rancher are both part of the same empire — proper American classics that deserve a shout here, even though our current batches are between deliveries right now.
Twizzlers Strawberry
America's chewy, fruity twist on liquorice — long twisted ropes that are softer and sweeter than anything in a UK pick 'n' mix. ⏳ Currently restocking — check availability before you order.
Jolly Rancher Hard Candy Original
Bright, bold fruit flavours in a hard candy that properly lasts — a lunchbox and glovebox staple across America for decades. ⏳ Currently restocking — check availability before you order.
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Keep an eye on our full snack shop and our Whatnot lives — restocks tend to land fast and sell faster.
Why This Hershey Rabbit Hole Actually Matters for Your Snack Box
Knowing the family tree isn't just pub-quiz trivia — it genuinely helps you shop smarter. If you love the sweet, milky, slightly waxy profile of classic Hershey's chocolate, you'll probably also love Reese's, Milk Duds and American Kit Kat, because they all share that same unmistakably American chocolate DNA (yes, it really is made differently to UK chocolate). Build a mixed box around this one family and you've basically got a crash course in why American candy tastes the way it does.
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Shop the Snacks in This Post
- Hershey's Mr. Goodbar 49g
- Hershey's Cookies 'n' Creme 40g
- Hershey's Kisses Peg Bag 4.84oz
- Reese's Peanut Butter Cups Trio 63g
- Kit Kat Vanilla 42g USA
- Kit Kat Churros USA
- Milk Duds Big Box 141g
- Twizzlers Strawberry 70g (restocking)
- Jolly Rancher Hard Candy Original (restocking)
Fancy building your own Hershey-family snack box? Browse the full shop, grab a mystery box for a surprise mix, or catch us live on Whatnot where we unbox fresh American drops in real time. Either way, your sweet tooth is about to have a very good week.
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