Ever since Milton Hershey introduced the Hershey milk chocolate bar to the world in 1900, he never looked back. The company, products, town and institutions that bear his name were well positioned to continue and grow. The Hershey Chocolate Corporation has evolved into Hershey Foods Corporation, a profitable company encompassing a range of products found in homes throughout the world.

The Curtiss Candy Company has traditionally claimed that the Baby Ruth candy bar was named after President Grover Cleveland's daughter, Ruth Cleveland. Skeptics, however, are quick to point out that not only did Ruth Cleveland die 16 years before the introduction of the Baby Ruth bar, but the company had originally negotiated a failed endorsement deal with legendary baseball player Babe Ruth. Some have suggested that secretly naming the candy bar after Ruth was a way to tie him to their product without paying any royalties. Always a shrewd advertiser, company founder Otto Schnering chartered a plane in 1923 to drop thousands of Baby Ruth bars over the city of Pittsburgh -- each with its own mini parachute. His marketing plan must have worked -- Baby Ruth has gone on to become a top confectionary brand. Today, the Baby Ruth bar is owned by Nestlé.

The Kit Kat bar was originally introduced in the UK as "Rowntree's Chocolate Crisp" in 1935. Two years later, it was renamed "KitKat." Consisting of several thin bars of chocolate-soaked wafer coated with chocolate, the Kit Kat bar would go on to become the number one selling candy bar in the UK. In 2002, Kit Kat Limited Edition White Chocolate and Dark Chocolate bars hit the market, and in 2003, the limited edition line was expanded to include mint and orange flavors.

When it was first introduced in 1932, the 3 Musketeers bar was packaged to include three separate pieces of candy flavored vanilla, chocolate and strawberry -- thus the name THREE Musketeers. Causing some confusion to tourists worldwide, the 3 Musketeers bar is called a Milky Way in European countries, and the U.S. version of the Milky Way is called a Mars Bar.

The Milky Way bar was created in 1920 by Frank C. Mars and was the first filled candy bar. Its taste was inspired by the chocolate-malt milkshake that was popular at the time.

The Twix candy bar, first introduced in 1979, was known as a "Raider" bar in France, Germany and several other European countries until 1991 when Mars decided to standardize its name. The change was not well accepted in countries such as Germany where customers mocked the name change as a transparent attempt to sell more candy bars by simply updating the name. The Twix bar consists primarily of a cookie center topped with caramel and coated with milk chocolate.

Originally introduced in 1929 by Frank and Ethel Mars, the Snickers bar
was named after their family horse. The original Snickers bars were
sold for a nickel and consisted primarily of chocolate, peanuts and
caramel.

The "Oh Henry" name has nothing to do with Hamerin' Hank the baseball player or O. Henry the author. This Henry was the name of a young man who used to come to the Williamson Candy Store in Chicago where chocolate was being made and sold.

Henry would kid around with the young ladies who made the candy. After awhile, they began asking Henry to do little jobs and favors. "Oh Henry, do this" or "Oh Henry, will you get me that?" Later that year (1921) "Oh Henry" became the name of the new candy bar.

The Butterfinger candy bar was invented by the Curtiss Candy Company of Chicago in 1923. A Butterfinger bar consists of a flaky/crispy orange-colored peanut-buttery center covered with a chocolate coating. The Butterfinger of today may not, however, be quite the same as the original bar -- according to some reports, the original Butterfinger recipe was somehow lost when Nabisco acquired the Curtiss Candy Company. None of the old employees claimed to remember how to make the bars, so a new recipe had to be developed that customers would accept.

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15. Mars
14. 100 Thousand Dollar Bar (100 Grand)
13. 3 Musketeers
12. Strawberry Charleston Chew
11. Pay Day
10. Heath
9. Zagnut
8. Caramelo
7. Whatchamacallit
6. Nutrageous
5. Milky Way
4. Hershey Bar with Almonds
3. Almond Joy
2. Snickers
1. Marathon (no longer made)

By Phil Van Ess, aka Fishman Via Diotsports

Sam Altshuler, a Russian immigrant who arrived in the United States in 1917, founded Annabelle Candy Co., Inc., in 1950. He learned the art of candy making, and after years of perfecting his recipe, finally achieved success with his Rocky Road candy bar. He named his business the Annabelle Candy Company after his daughter, and began manufacturing Rocky Road in San Francisco. The item quickly gained popularity throughout the western United States where it has its strongest hold today, and is currently ranked highly among the top best selling chocolate bars on the West Coast.

In 1972, the Company purchased Golden Nugget Candy Company, of San Francisco, the makers of Big Hunk and Look candy bars, and began manufacturing those products. In 1978, Annabelle acquired of the Cardinet Candy Co., which manufactured U-No and Abba Zaba candy bars.

What started as a family business continues today as the one of the largest independently owned candy bar manufacturers in the United States, producing some of the most popular and traditional West Coast items available on the market today.