Reese's Pieces consists of bite-sized pieces of candy filled with a peanut butter center in a crunchy shell.

The ingenious flavor combination in each of these treats can be traced back to 1928, when H.B. Reese, an employee of The Hershey Company, created REESE'S Peanut Butter Cups in his basement. The Hershey Company supplied Reese with the chocolate coating for his candy and eventually purchased his business in 1963.

Ingredients: Sugar, partially defatted peanuts, hydrogenated vegetable oil (palm kernel oil, soybean oil), corn syrup solids, dextrose, contains 2% or less of: palm kernel oil, corn syrup, salt, artificial color (including yellow 5 lake, yellow 6 lake, red 40 lake, blue 1 lake), modified cornstarch, confectioner's ...

Milk chocolate (sugar, cocoa butter, chocolate, nonfat milk. Milk fat, corn syrup solids, soy lecithin, PGPR (emulsifier), peanuts, sugar, dextrose, salt, TBHQ (preservative).

REESE'S Chocolates is the number one candy brand in the United States and the biggest confectionery brand in the whole world… yet we can almost smell the peanut-buttery deliciousness being created just down the road here in Hershey, Pa.

Then the cups cool for 30 minutes before they're wrapped up and shipped across the globe. And get this Reese's. Makes enough peanut butter cups. In one year to circle the Earth sept.

History. The H.B. Reese Candy Company was established in 1923 by H. B. Reese in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The official product name was "Penny Cups" because they could be purchased for one cent.

8 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Reese's

• Harry Burnett Reese's First Attempt in the Candy Business was a Total Fail.
• Reese's Second (and Wildly More Successful) Shot at the Candy Business Began in His Basement.
• You Can Purchase Half-Pound Reese's Cups.
• E.T. Was Supposed to be Eating M&Ms, Not Reese's Pieces.

Today, Reese's makes enough peanut cups each year to feed one cup to every person in the USA, Japan, Europe, Australia, China, Africa and India! Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are made in Hershey, PA, Stuarts Draft, WV and in Monterrey, MX.

Reese's Peanut Butter Cups

Hershey, Pa That's right – Direct from the Factory to your mouth just days after being made. REESE'S Chocolates is the number one candy brand in the United States and the biggest confectionery brand in the whole world… yet we can almost smell the peanut-buttery deliciousness being created just down the road here in Hershey, Pa.

Today, Reese's makes enough peanut cups each year to feed one cup to every person in the USA, Japan, Europe, Australia, China, Africa and India! Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are made in Hershey, PA, Stuarts Draft, WV and in Monterrey, MX.

Reese's Peanut Butter Cups Reese's Peanut Butter Cups were invented by Hershey's employee and father of 16 H.B. Reese in 1928. For the past 91 years, they've been the standard for all things peanut butter and chocolate. Not surprisingly, as the original, they're still the bestselling Reese's product.