Hershey, Reeses

The Reese's Peanut Butter Cup is a peanut butter-filled chocolate cup created around 1928 by H. B. Reese, a former dairy farmer and shipping foreman for Milton S. Hershey. Reese established the H. B. Reese Candy Co. more...

in the basement of his house in Hershey, Pennsylvania, which went on to merge with The Hershey Company in 1963 due to the ever-growing popularity of the Peanut Butter Cup.

Reese's (now produced by The Hershey Company, Reese's division), are the most popular and most widely recognized brand of peanut butter cups in the world. In the United States, they come in two-, four-, and six-packs in distinctive orange packaging. In Canada, where they are known as Reese Peanut Butter Cups, the cups come in a standard pack-size of three cups, or the king-size variation with four cups.

The cups also come in miniature sizes, in a brown paper cup and gold foil wrapper, that are usually sold in bags of 12 ounces or more, or individually. Hershey's currently puts out "limited edition" variants of the original version, such as one for "peanut butter lovers" (peanut-butter filling in a peanut butter cup), for "chocolate lovers" (peanut-butter-flavoured chocolate filling and chocolate coating), white chocolate coated, and the "Inside Out" with peanut-butter-flavored chocolate on the outside, and chocolate on the inside. There have also been "BigCups", larger versions of the original cups with more peanut butter than the regular sizes.

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