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Did you know that when you're craving a Hershey's bar, you're actually participating in a 100+ year-old practice? Those babies have been around forever, and they're not the only ones to stake their claims on the chocolate bar world for a century already.
From Hershey's to Toblerone, here are eight of the oldest candy bars in the world, all of which are still around and available for purchase today.
$7.82 at Walmart
Debuted: 1879
What’s inside: Chocolate in various flavors
Lindt is your typical hoity-toity Swiss chocolate, but I’m a big fan. Never met a flavor I didn’t enjoy. Wanna know a secret? Toss half a bar of Lindt’s spicy dark chocolate into a crockpot when you’re making chili. Trust me.
$2.37 at Walmart
Debuted: 1928
What’s inside: Peanut butter, chocolate
Less than 30 years into Hershey’s dominant run, they decided to switch things up. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups were born and life has truly not been the same. No candy is more synonymous with the changing of the seasons, and as far as I’m concerned there are few bites of anything in this world more rewarding than a mini peanut butter cup.
$7.99 at Walmart
Debuted: 1920
What’s inside: Peanuts, caramel, fudge
You’ll find peanuts, caramel, and fudge inside an Oh Henry! bar, and for fans of simplicity like myself, that’s the most you’ll ever need. Plus, how many candy bars have punctuation?
Psst, this song has nothing to do with the candy bar as far as I’m concerned, but it’s been stuck in my head since the minute I started writing this paragraph. So, now it's stuck in yours too.
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$5.38 at Walmart
Debuted: 1900
What’s inside: Chocolate
Classic, right? For 124 years, Hershey has probably been the most household name in the chocolate game. Though I’m never going to be the one to eat a plain chocolate bar, stick me in a room with a bowl of Hershey’s Kisses (which have been around since 1907) and watch those suckers disappear.
Related: Everything You Wanted to Know About M&M's But Were Afraid to Ask
$21.99 at Amazon
Debuted: 1914
What’s inside: Milk chocolate-covered, rose-flavored Turkish delight
I can’t think about Turkish Delight without thinking of Narnia, and the famous treat that lured Edmund to the White Witch. Obviously she was not out here offering him a bright pink candy bar, but man, that’d be way funnier.
$35.99 at Amazon
Debuted: 1917
What’s inside: Crispy peanut butter and spun taffy
These are still common all over Pittsburgh, where they were invented by Irish entrepreneur David L Clark. You can also get them on Amazon, where you get everything else.
Do you hear Tom Hanks’ voice in your head when you hear Clark Bar? I do.
$2.28 at Walmart
Debuted: 1875
What’s inside: Milk chocolate
Nestlé tried its hand at plain milk chocolate but realized that most people aren’t gonna pick them over Hershey. So what did they do? They dropped the Crunch Bar, loaded with beautiful little crunchy rice morsels, on us in 1938. I have so much gratitude for that.
$2.84 at Walmart
Debuted: 1908
What’s inside: Chocolate
People love Toblerone, and I’ve never fully understood why. You gotta have the strength of the Hulk to break off one of those little triangles. I guess I’m the weirdo who prefers my chocolate in non-jagged shapes.
