Pennsylvania-based The Hershey Company is facing a lawsuit seeking $5 million in damages over the wrappers on Reese's peanut butter candies.

HERSHEY, Pa. (CBS) – A Florida woman is upset about the lack of designs on Reese’s holiday-themed peanut butter candy - and now she’s taking parent company Hershey to court over it.

Cynthia Kelly filed a federal class-action lawsuit Thursday in the U.S. District Court in the Middle District of Florida, alleging several Reese’s products don’t match their photos as depicted on the wrappers.

For example, Reese’s peanut butter pumpkins are merely pumpkin-shaped hunks of peanut-butter-stuffed chocolate, and the actual product has no Jack O’lantern-style carvings as the wrapper depicts, Kelly alleges.

  • insomniac_lemon
    2•11 months ago

    That has something to do with the way that milk and chocolate is processed

    I’m pretty sure it’s just that it’s mostly sugar (low cocoa %). At least the higher % stuff (like special dark) tastes much better to me. With holiday versions it might have more chocolate than the basic cups (or maybe even just lower cocoa % particularly for easter).

    In other countries they have actual standards for cocoa %.

    • @JustAManOnAToilet
      22•11 months ago

      Butyric acid is a compound found in milk products and is also present in rancid butter and vomit, which is why it might evoke a “sick” taste association. Some American chocolate manufacturers add butyric acid during production to give the chocolate a longer shelf life.

      • @Tangent5280
        8•11 months ago

        It’s a self serving idea, because they know that chocolate with butyric acid added in is going to be sitting on the shelves a loooong time.

    • @[email protected]
      -4•11 months ago

      Interesting little factoid I learned after we got dogs. While still not good for them, most American chocolate like Hershey’s is not as toxic as most people think it is for dogs.

      This is because of the low cacao content, it’s a lot of fat and sugar but not a lot of cacao which is really toxic part of chocolate for dogs.

        • @[email protected]
          1•11 months ago

          No, but the sugar is not good for dogs either.

          The United States requires a lesser percentage cacao in their chocolates, ten percent to be exact, while in Europe anything considered “chocolate” is twenty percent or higher. Less cacao means less theobromine (and caffeine) which is the chemical in chocolate toxic to dogs.