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Hershey's Special Dark

A mildly sweet chocolate candy bar made with dark chocolate.
Type	Chocolate bar
Inventor	The Hershey Company
Inception	1939; 85 years ago (1939)
Manufacturer	The Hershey Company
Available	Available
Current supplier	The Hershey Company
Models made	bars, nuggets, miniatures, chips, kisses, cocoa powder, zero sugar, organic
Website	hersheyland.com/special-dark

Hershey's Special Dark is a chocolate bar manufactured by The Hershey Company.

History

In 1894, before the introduction of the milk chocolate Hershey bar in 1900, the Hershey Chocolate Company manufactured and marketed "vanilla sweet chocolate" a semi-sweet chocolate. This bar has been described as the "first" American candy bar. The company continued to provide semi-sweet chocolate products and in the 1930s a Not-So-Sweet bar and in 1939, added the Bitter-Sweet bar to Hershey's Miniatures. The Hershey's Semi-Sweet bar was being sold in the market in the 1960s.

Miniatures

Hershey's Special Dark is a component of the traditional Hershey's Miniatures assortment first sold in 1939, when the Special Dark was called Bitter-Sweet.

In 2006, Hershey's began selling Hershey's Special Dark Miniatures, which included the plain Special Dark bar, along with dark bars with peanuts (similar to a Mr. Goodbar) and with crisped rice (similar to a Krackel).

Hershey's Extra Dark

Hershey's Extra Dark, a product very similar to the Special Dark, was introduced in 2009, and discontinued in 2012. Three varieties produced were solid chocolate; chocolate with macadamia nuts and dried cranberries; and chocolate with cranberries, blueberries, pomegranate, and almonds. Hershey's marketing emphasized the antioxidant qualities of these bars' ingredients. Additionally, Hershey's Extra Dark contained 60% cocoa solids, while Hershey's Special Dark contains 45% cocoa solids.

Ingredients

Special Dark is similar to a standard Hershey bar, but is made with a dark (or semi-sweet) variety of chocolate, and contains a higher percentage (45%) of cocoa solids, chocolate liquor and cocoa butter than milk chocolate.

Full ingredients include: Sugar, Chocolate, Cocoa Butter, Cocoa Processed With Alkali, Milk Fat; Lactose (Milk), Soy Lecithin, PGPR, Natural Flavor, Milk

References

1. "Origins of Hershey's Milk Chocolate – Hershey Community Archives". Hershey Archives. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
2. "Retro Candy Timeline - Candy Favorites". www.candyfavorites.com. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
3. "Samuel F. Hinkle, 1900-1984 – Hershey Community Archives". Retrieved 5 December 2021.
4. "If at First You Don't Succeed, Try a New Name – Hershey Community Archives". Hershey Archives. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
5. "Hershey's Special Dark". OldTimeCandy.com. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
6. "If at First You Don't Succeed, Try a New Name – Hershey Community Archives". hersheyarchives.org. The M.S. Hershey Foundation.
7. "Archive of Hershey corporate web site". Archived from the original on 2011-07-30. Retrieved 2011-07-30.
8. Archive of Hershey corporate web site
9. "HERSHEY'S SPECIAL DARK - Mildly Sweet Chocolate Bar - SmartLabel™". smartlabel.hersheys.com. Smart Label. Retrieved 2 December 2021.

External links

• Official website

• Hershey Trust Company
• The Hershey Company brands
• Chocolate bars
• Products introduced in 1939