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.

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 ...

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.

Reese's Pieces are small, delicious candies, popular for their distinct peanut butter flavor encased in a crispy, colorful candy shell.

Hershey's originally called its 1978 foray into a soft peanut candy with a hard shell PBs, but soon changed the name to Reese's Pieces. Despite the catchy name, the candy didn't make it big, perhaps because Reese's Peanut Butter Cups already had such a lock on the flavor.

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.

Hershey's originally called its 1978 foray into a soft peanut candy with a hard shell PBs, but soon changed the name to Reese's Pieces. Despite the catchy name, the candy didn't make it big, perhaps because Reese's Peanut Butter Cups already had such a lock on the flavor.

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.

Launched in 1978, Reese's Pieces (1) were an extension of Hershey's wildly popular Peanut Butter Cups, but even though they were a novel innovation of peanut penuche with a candy shell (2), sales began slipping not long after.

Reese's are 89 years old. Who invented Reese's? "Harry Burnett 'H. B.' Reese was a businessman [who started as a dairy farmer], working for the Hershey Company in the early 1900's. Reese began making candies in his home, and by 1923 he created the H. B. Reese Candy Company.

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.

According to some Spoon U research, the confection was named after H.B. Reese, and since these are his candy cups, the wrapper dons the name Reese's: which means the candy's name is still confined to the boundaries of the English language.