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Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are peanut butter-filled chocolate cups. They were created ca. 1928 by H. B. Reese, a former dairy farmer and shipping foreman for Milton S. Hershey. The H. B. Reese Candy Co., established in the basement of Reese's house in Hershey, Pennsylvania, went on to merge with The Hershey Company in 1963 due to the popularity of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.

Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (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 one-, two-, three-, 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 two cups, three cups or the king-size variation with four cups. In the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, they were originally available only in two-packs, though are now only available in three-packs, imported from Canada. In 2007 Reese's Peanut Butter Cups were made available in Denmark by HydroTexaco and 7-Eleven.

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The candy also come in tiny sizes, in a dark 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, including:

Big Cups - oversized version of the traditional cup (also available with nuts and with a combination of nuts and caramel)
Peanut Butter Lovers - layered cup with top peanut butter layer, thin chocolate layer and peanut butter filling
Chocolate Lovers - thicker chocolate cup with thinner layer of peanut butter
White Chocolate - peanut butter filling in a white chocolate cup
Inside Out - chocolate filling in a peanut butter cup (a reversal of the traditional version)
with Caramel - the traditional cup with an added layer of caramel filling
with Marshmallow - the traditional cup with an added layer of marshmallow filling
Peanut Butter & Banana Creme - layered cup with top chocolate layer, bottom banana creme layer and peanut butter filling; released in summer 2007 in tribute to Elvis Presley; available in standard, Big Cups and Miniatures sizes
Honey Roasted
Dark Chocolate

Other products of the Reese's division of Hershey include: Reese's Pieces, Reese's Pieces with Nuts, Reese's Fast Break, Reese's NutRageous, Reese's Take Five bars (pretzels, peanuts, peanut butter, and caramel contained in a milk chocolate coating), Reeses Peanut butter bars (with either chocolate or fudge coated), ReeseSticks, and Reeses Crispy Crunchy Bar and Reese's jarred peanut butter.

General Mills (under license from Hershey) produces Reese's Puffs, a brand of peanut butter and chocolate flavored breakfast cereal.

In September of 2007 Hershey's began producing a new Reese's bar called Reese's Whipps. Featuring peanut butter-flavored nougat with a chocolate coating, it has been likened to a peanut butter-flavored 3 Musketeers bar.

The ingredients in the original Reese's cup. Milk chocolate (sugar; cocoa butter; chocolate; High Fructose Corn Syrup; nonfat milk; milk fat; lactose; and soy lecithin and pgpr, emulsifiers); peanuts; sugar; dextrose; salt; and tbhq (preservative).

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• In the Family Guy episode "PTV", the main character Peter Griffin notes that some inventions would never have come about without impulsiveness. A flashback comes up that is a parody on Reese's ad campaigns, involving two apparently intoxicated drivers in a car accident of which one is eating chocolate, and the other one peanut butter. The collision is quickly followed by the arrival of a police officer named Reeses, who asks what happened. The drivers quote the lines from the original advertising, the officer tastes the chocolate and peanut butter combination, then murders the two men and takes the idea for himself, seemingly leading to the invention of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.
• In the NewsRadio episode "Complaint Box", the main character Dave Nelson (played by Dave Foley) reads a number of joke complaint cards. Three, which are read consecutively, say "He got chocolate in my peanut butter", "He got peanut butter on my chocolate" and "Together they taste like crap".
• In the Dinosaurs TV series episode "Power Erupts," Robbie goes through several ideas for a science project. Among them includes the combination of chocolate and peanut butter (when his chocolate bar accidentally falls into a jar of peanut butter; without tasting it, he puts it aside in disgust), mixing sneakers with a tire pump, and finally a jello mold and a volcano.
• At the beginning of "A Pinky and the Brain Halloween", Pinky, who has been eating a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, falls onto Brain's transmitter and gets pieces of the chocolate on it, causing Brain to yell, "No! Pinky, you got chocolate on my Jacko-lantronic transmitter!" Pinky replies, "You got Jacko-lantronic transmitter on my chocolate! Yummy!"
• Amy Ray mentions Reese's Peanut Butter Cups in her song "Driver Education."
• At the beginning of the TaleSpin episode "All's Whale that Ends Whale", while fishing, Baloo accidentally hooks a jar of peanut butter and causes it to land in his bucket of bait. Kit yells, "You got tuna in my peanut butter!", with Baloo replying, "You got peanut butter in my tuna!"
• An online article from US News and World Report, dated May 21, 2004, uses the famous Reese's Peanut Butter Cup as an analogy to illustrate how advances in technology, used together, give scientists a better understanding of how the human brain functions. The article refers to the "Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Effect", because as chocolate and peanut butter create a better result than either one alone, brain imaging and biotechnology create a much clearer understanding of the brain.
• In the movie 50 First Dates, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are referred to in a number of scenes.
• In the American Dad! episode Black Mystery Month, after a group of people first hear about Steve Smith's plot to prove the world that George Washington Carver did not invent Peanut Butter, one of the people phones someone else, saying "We've got Chocolate in our Peanut Butter" .
• In the Spongebob Squarepants episode "Sandy's Rocket," Spongebob has peanut butter floating in outer space. Patrick squirts toothpaste into it and Spongebob exclaims "You got your toothpaste in my peanut butter!"
• In a This Hour Has 22 Minutes episode, a mother with her baby walks by and drops her baby in a passerby's peanut butter bowl, saying "You got peanut butter on my baby" then he proceeds to say "You got your baby on my peanut butter", then they both begin to taste the baby and exclaim how good it tastes.
• An episode of Muppets Tonight! has Gonzo the Great running into the control room with a Buena Vista Home Video release of Muppet Babies and Zippety Zap runs into the same room with a recorded episode of Seinfeld, crashing into each other, and their tapes are mixed with each other, just like in the commercials. There is even a quoted reference to Reese's Peanut Butter Cups before the sketch, "Seinfeld Babies", starts.

There is now a ride in Hersheypark named after this candy. It is called the "Reese's Xtreme Cup Challenge," and it is a form of mounted laser tag with participants riding an indoor dark ride while firing upon targets throughout the ride.

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• Official Reese's Peanut Butter Cup site
• Reese Family History
• Reese's Historical Timeline
• Reeses Product Listing

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* This product is marketed in a number of countries, but is produced by the Hershey Company only within the United States. † This product is marketed in both the United States and Canada, but is produced by the Hershey Company only within Canada. Hershey also manufactures Cadbury-branded products in the U.S. and military chocolate for the U.S. armed forces.