 Oh Henry! bar | |
| Type | Candy bar |
|---|---|
| Place of origin | United States |
| Created by | George Williamson |
| Invented | 1920 |
| Main ingredients | Peanuts, caramel, and fudge |
| Ingredients generally used | Chocolate |
Oh Henry! was an American candy bar containing peanuts, caramel, and fudge coated in chocolate, [1] sold in the U.S. until 2019. [2] A slightly different version of it is still manufactured and sold in Canada. [3] The original version is still sold in the U.S. by Hershey, under the name Rally. [4]
There are multiple versions of the Oh Henry! bar origin story. The manufacturer Nestlé says that the bar was introduced by George Williamson and his Williamson Candy Company of Chicago in 1920 in the United States. [1] The most popular alternate story, aside from the Canadian origin claimed by chocolatier Wilson McCutchan, is that Thomas Henry, manager of the Peerless Candy Co. in Arkansas City, Kansas, invented a bar he called the "Tom Henry Bar" in the late 1910s, and sold the recipe to George Williamson in 1920. There is no credible documentation of this story. [5]
There are other alternate accounts of the origin of the name of the bar. One theory is that of a boy named Henry who frequented George Williamson's second candy shop. He became a favorite of the young girls who worked there, who would say "Oh Henry!" when speaking to or about him, and Williamson used this phrase to name his new confection. The other story is that the name is based on the pen name of William Sydney Porter, O. Henry. Williamson was thought by some to have been a fan of O. Henry stories, and an O. Henry story about peanuts might have been read by Williamson. [6]
The Williamson Company was sold to Warner-Lambert in 1965, which soon sold Oh Henry! to Terson, Inc. Nestlé acquired the U.S. rights to the brand from Terson in 1984. [7] In 2018, Nestlé sold the rights to its U.S. confectionery products to Ferrero SpA. [8] Ferrero still produces an Oh Henry! branded bar in small production runs.
In Canada, the bar is currently sold by the Hershey Company and was manufactured at their Smiths Falls, Ontario facilities prior to their closure. The bars are different in appearance: the Canadian version is one bar with the fudge in the centre, the fudge surrounded with a thin layer of caramel, and the nuts surrounding that layer before it is surrounded in the coating. [9] Hershey sells Oh Henry! bars made in Canada on a very limited basis in the United States as Rally bars, using the trademark of a Hershey product introduced in the 1970s and later discontinued. [10]
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