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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
World’s Largest Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
So that brings me to the World’s Largest Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. It looks like an amped up version of the regular package. Same proportions, just bigger. Hershey’s has been making variations on the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup for over 50 years. Big Cups, Miniatures ... shapes for different holidays like the Eggs, Trees and Pumpkins. (And of course all the other flavors, chocolate coatings & inclusions.) But this, is obviously different.
The package is 10.5 inches long and 5 inches wide. Inside are two peanut butter cups, each is 8 ounces. So for $9.99 at CVS I was able to buy a pound of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. (Actually, a careful shopper would just buy the 40 ounce “Club Size” bag of miniatures for about $8.99.)
They’re 4” around on the top and 3” around at the base. As you can already imagine there are some strange proportions at work here when dealing with gigantism. In order to structurally contain the peanut butter I found that they’d fortified the chocolate. I tried biting one but found that the sides and corners were quite thick milk chocolate. Almost a half an inch thick in some places.
It’s really not a product for nibbling on. (Mostly because I simply don’t just munch on pieces of candy that weigh a half a pound. Like giant chocolate Easter rabbits, there’s a sanitary issue.)
This violates one of my primary rules of candy, which is that it requires some sort of tool. In this case it’s a knife to portion it. Most large chocolate bars are scored and can be broken into pieces. There is no other way to eat this other than huge bites ... which pretty much means you’re not sharing or you’re intimate enough with the other folks or so wasted you don’t care. When sliced though, I have to say it’s rather charming. The triangles are like little slices of pie. Since each cup is 8 ounces, it’s easy to score it into 1 ounce slices ... or just quarter it for hefty 2 ounce pieces. Technically the nutritional panel suggests that a single serving is 1/6th of a cup, but I’ve always found cutting things into sixths harder than quarters/eighths. The chocolate tastes much sweeter and slightly cool on the tongue than I get from a regular Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup. The center peanut butter filling is dry and crumbly with a good salty note and only slightly sweet component.
I admit it’s a fun novelty and kind of a no-brainer inexpensive gift for a Reese’s Peanut Butter lover. I see it as a great option for social events, but hard to present as a “real” Reese’s peanut butter cup, since there’s no branding on it. (Maybe a disk to serve it on.) In the end though it’s no replacement for the tried and true classic. So all it really does in the end is prove that the regular cups are ideal. From the reports from the dear readers who alerted me to this monstrosity, they seem to be exclusive to CVS ... anyone else see them? (I’m hoping they’ll stick around for Christmas, as I think they’re a fun gag gift that’s actually functional.) Related Candies
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haha, this post cracked me up!! “or so wasted you don’t care” !! haha! i love it. the ratio seems off to me. i think i’d want more peanut butter!
Someone needs to make a YouTube video of them eating one of these…Oh wait, it’s been done already.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMmToZgAdWo
This must be a guy thing—something huge to wolf down. I know exactly the Christmas stocking this is going into.
“...or so wasted you don’t care.”
Hahaha!
I’ve been trying to figure out if the regular Reese’s cups are smaller than they were in the 70s and 80s. It seems to me they are a lot smaller, but then, I know I’ve gotten bigger since then. Does anybody know?
Jennifer - they did used to be bigger, but not by much. In 2003 or so they went from 1.6 ounces per package to 1.5 ounces ... so each cup went from .8 ounces to .75.
While i’ve never seen these Reese branded huge cups, i’e seen and tasted some other brands of artisan or home made over sized peanut butter cups before. A lot of the local chocolate shops around here make their own house brand of gigantor cup in various flavors and i’ve found I don’t like them much, despite being a huge peanut butter cup fan.
Anything that requires me to whip out a knife or a saw (other than fudge, my one exception given it’s nature) to eat it is less than fun. I actually hurt my teeth trying to get through the impenetrably thick shell of one of these independent ones, and it proved resilient to gnawing.
The local ones are sometimes a bit cheaper too- $8-15 lb for chocolate depending on where you go. This would be a fun Yankee swap gift for me, and that’s about it.
These are awesome. My husband, who has a pathetic sweet tooth, does love PB cups. He’ll never eat the giant ones, but that won’t stop me from buying them for him anyway.
I was in the CVS today in Martinsburg,WV and saw a tag that read Reese Cup 9.99. To my amazement behind the regular ones were these monsters. Ok, I usually dont spend that on Reese Cups. But buying those little quarter size cups/snack packs are enough to make you mad. So, I thought what the heck. Its a novelty. Im a chocoholic, and this is awesome. I cut that baby in quarters. Would like some for gifts at Christmas. When everything else has been going wrong, it made my day!
that. is. heaven.
I like to think that, after the apocalypse, the “cup” will be the new currency and these will be grudgingly traded for fuel and bullets.
whoa, each cup has 1144 calories. damn!
Eww, compared to the normal ones, the chocolate on these giganto-peanut-butter-cups looks a really unappealing grey!
i want one!!!!
Does anyone know where you can order these online that delivers to Canada? Hershey’s online carries them, but they don’t ship internationally. I really would like to get my hands on one or two of these as a present for my nephew that lives in England and loves Reese’s peanut butter cups. My email is sarahsidleATgmail.com if you do. Thanks!
I bought a package at the Hershey Store in downtown Chicago. I bought it for my brother (a huge Reese PB fan) for a Chistmas “gag” gift that he hopefully will really enjoy! You could check with them to see if they ship to other locations. Good Luck!
Those reese’s where humungis I LOVED THOSE I wish I could have those!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I got mine at the times square Hersheys store around Christmas time. I paid about 15 bucks for it though! Everything is more expensive in the city I suppose…I think it was worth it, though, to see the look on my brother’s face when he saw a pound of Reese’s sitting in his stocking.
HHHHHHHHHHHMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now i craving chocolate( my mom has 2 boxes of reese’s, but if i touch it she goes wacko!!!)
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