Milk Duds ? ?Old Time? Favorite Candy
Milk Duds are a caramel candy historically enrobed with milk chocolate and
currently enrobed with a confectionery coating made from cocoa and vegetable oil.
They are currently manufactured by the Hershey Company....
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Milk Duds ? ?Old Time? Favorite Candy
Milk Duds are a caramel candy historically enrobed with milk chocolate and
currently enrobed with a confectionery coating made from cocoa and vegetable oil.
They are currently manufactured by the Hershey Company.
According to the manufacturer, the word ?Milk? in the name refers to the large
amount of milk in the product; the use of ?dud? came about because the original aim
of having a perfectly round piece was found to be impossible.
In 1926, F.
Hoffman and Company, Chicago, tries to manufacture a perfectly round,
chocolate-covered caramel candy, but despite numerous tries and due to
manufacturing limitations, it was impossible to create a round candy and thus all
of their tries produced nothing except irregular shaped pieces that they called ?
duds.
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In 1928, Milton J.
Holloway took over F.
Hoffman & Company of Chicago and the brand
passed through many other hands in subsequent years and is now owned by Hershey.
Despite changes of ownershi
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