Sweet Sweet Baby Ruth Joke
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It was another Payday and I was tired of Mr. Goodbar. I saw Miss Hershey standing behind the Powerhouse on the corner of Clark and Fifth Avenue when I whipped out my Whopper and whispered, “Hey Sweetheart, how’d you like to Crunch on my big hunk for a Million Dollar Bar?” Well, she immediately went down on my Tootsie Roll, and it was like pure Almond Joy! I couldn’t help but grab her delicious Mounds because it was easy to see that this little Twix had the Red Hots. It was all I could do to hold the Snickers and Crackle as my Butterfinger went up her tight little Kit Kat and she started to scream “Oh Henry, Oh Henry!” Soon she was fondling my Peter Pan and ZagNut and I knew it wouldn’t be long before I blew my Milk Duds clear to Mars that gave her a taste of the old Milky Way. She asked me if I was into M&M, but I said, “Hey Chicklet, no kinky stuff.” I said, “Look you little Reese’s Pieces, don’t be a Zero, be a Lifesaver. Why don’t you take my Whatchamacallit and slip it up your Bit ’O’ Honey?” (What a piece of Juicy Fruit she was, too!) She screamed, “Oh Crackerjack, better than the Three Musketeers!” as I rammed my Ding Dong up her Rocky Road and into her Peanut Butter Cup. Well, I was giving it to her Good ’N’ Plenty, when all the sudden… my Starburst! Yeah, as luck would have it, she started to grow Chunky and complained of a Cadbury Egg in her stomach. Sure enough, nine months later, out popped? Baby Ruth! Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bar was invented in 1900. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups was invented 1923. Butterfinger was invented in 1923. Snickers Bar was invented in 1930. 3 Musketeers Bar was invented in 1932. Kit Kat was invented 1933. Nestle's Crunch was invented 1938 M&M's were invented in 1940. Kandy Kake (original name of Baby Ruth) invented in 1920's The Three Musketeers bar was introduced in 1932. The original 3 Musketeers had 3 bars in one wrapper, each with a different flavor.
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The Baby Ruth candy bar was not named after a baseball player but the daughter of US President Grover Cleveland.
The Three Musketeers bar started out as a single bar with three flavors easily divided into three pieces. Then it was just one flavor, but indented across the top so each of three segments could be broken off. Much later, when candy bars because smaller (at the same price or greater) because of the rising price of chocolate, there was only one division and the slogan became "Big enough for a friend and you." Now they no longer bother to pretend it is big enough for more than one person.
In similar fashion, when many US soda makers switched to metric sizes, the price per unit did not go down, but the amount of content in each bottle got smaller. When there was a rise in sugar prices, soft drink prices also went up. Not sure they ever came back down, but curiously– I cannot figure out why but maybe you can-- "diet" sodas, which are sugar free, also got a price increase at the same time.