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 A candy bar with a peanut butter center covered in a layer of coconut. | |
| Product type | Confectionery |
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| Owner | The Hershey Company |
| Produced by | The Hershey Company |
| Country | United States |
| Introduced | 1930 |
| Related brands | Mounds |
| Markets | United States |
| Previous owners | |
| Website | Zagnut Candy Bar |
Zagnut is a candy bar produced and sold in the United States. Its main ingredients are peanut butter and toasted coconut. [1]
The Zagnut bar was launched in 1930, [1] by the D. L. Clark Company of western Pennsylvania, which also made the Clark bar. [2] [3] [4] Clark changed its name to the Pittsburgh Food & Beverage company and was acquired by Leaf International in 1983. [5] The Zagnut brand was later part of an acquisition by Hershey Foods Corporation in 1996. [6]
Bon Appétit , in a story about nostalgic candy, said, "We’re honestly flummoxed that Zagnuts aren’t more popular." [1] Conversely, a columnist in The Des Moines Register compared it to a Rose Art crayon, saying "No one would ever purposely choose a Zagnut." [7]
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David Lytle Clark was an Irish entrepreneur who founded the D. L. Clark Company confectioners in 1886 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, now part of Pittsburgh. He was born in County Londonderry, Ireland, the son of Samuel and Jane Clark. He had come to the U.S. with his family from Ireland when he was eight years old, and educated in the public schools. He began making candy in a one-room location in Allegheny City at the age of 19, and later expanded into making gum when learning in 1886 of a new approach using chicle. This he would use bright food coloring and flavor it with extracts of woodland leaves he had chewed as a boy. He is best known for his creation of the D. L. Clark Company, a confectionary, and for creating some of its best known products, including the Clark bar and the Zagnut, as well as for its spinoff, the Clark Chewing Gum Company with its Clark's Teaberry gum.
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