Milk Duds

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Milk Duds are a milk chocolate-covered caramel candy. They are currently manufactured by The Hershey Company.

1 History
2 Timeline
3 Ingredients
4 External links

[edit] History

According to the manufacturer, the word "Milk" in the name refers to the large amount of milk in the product and the word "Duds" came about because the original aim of having a perfectly round piece was found to be impossible. [1]

[edit] Timeline

1928: Milton J. Holloway took over F. Hoffman & Company of Chicago, the original manufacturer of MILK DUDS chocolate covered caramels.
1960: Holloway sold the business to Beatrice Foods.
1986: Leaf purchased the business.
1992: Production of MILK DUDS candy moved to Leaf's Robinson, Illinois, plant.
1996: Hershey Foods Corporation acquired the Leaf North America confectionery operations from Huhtamaki Oy of Helsinki, Finland.

[edit] Ingredients

Corn syrup; milk chocolate (sugar; cocoa butter; chocolate; nonfat milk; milk fat; lactose; soy lecithin; salt; and vanillin, artificial flavor); sugar; partially hydrogenated soybean oil; nonfat milk; dextrose; brown sugar; contains 2% or less of; mono- and diglycerides; sodium bicarbonate; artificial flavors; salt; tapioca dextrin; resinous glaze; and soy lecithin.

[edit] External links

Hershey's Official Milk Duds Page
AAA Recipes - Three recipes involving Milk Duds

Confectionery products of The Hershey Company
Chocolate-based
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Non-Chocolate
Bubble Yum \| Ice Breakers \| Jolly Rancher \| Koolerz \| PayDay \| ZAGNUT
Other
Good & Plenty \| Snack Barz \| Swoops \| Twizzlers \| Whatchamacallit \| ZERO
Hershey also manufactures Cadbury-branded products in the U.S. and military chocolate for the U.S. armed forces