5th Avenue (candy)

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5th Avenue
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A candy bar with layers of crunchy peanut butter covered in milk chocolate
Product type Chocolate Bar
Owner The Hershey Company
Produced by The Hershey Company
CountryUnited States
Introduced1936;88 years ago (1936)
MarketsUnited States
Previous owners Luden's
Tagline
  • "It'll Make You Go Crunch"
  • "More Bunches of Crunches"
  • "The Right Taste, at the Right Time"
  • "It's Everything It's Cracked Up to Be"[ citation needed ]
Website hersheyland.com/5th-avenue

The 5th Avenue is a candy bar introduced in 1936, consisting of peanut butter crunch layers enrobed in chocolate. [1] It is currently produced and marketed by The Hershey Company. [2]

Contents

The bar is similar to the Clark Bar which was first produced in Pittsburgh in 1917 by the D.L. Clark Company, now produced by the Boyer Candy Company of Altoona, Pennsylvania. It is also similar in composition to the Butterfinger candy bar, [3] first developed and manufactured by Curtiss Candy Company, later manufactured by successors including Nestlé and Ferrara.

History

The candy bar was introduced in 1936 by Luden's, at the time a subsidiary of Food Industries of Philadelphia. [1] [4] [5] The name was an attempt to associate the candy with fashionable 5th Avenue in New York City. [6] Hershey Foods Corporation acquired Luden's brands from the Dietrich Corporation, a successor to Food Industries of Philadelphia, in 1986. [4] Despite not being advertised since 1993, the candy bar is still available in many smaller retailers.[ citation needed ]

The original candy bar was topped with almonds, but these were removed in the 1990s as a cost-saving measure. [7] [8] [9]

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