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Oh Henry! is an American
Oh Henry! from Nestlé USA
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Oh Henry! is an American candy bar
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containing peanut
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s, caramel, and fudge
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coated in chocolate.
History
There are multiple versions of the Oh Henry! bar origin story. The manufacturerNestlé
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says that the bar was introduced by George Williamson and his Williamson Candy Company of Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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in 1920 in the United States. The most popular alternate story is that Thomas Henry, manager of the Peerless Candy Co. in Arkansas City, Kansas, invented a bar he called the "Tom Henry Bar" in the late 1910s, and sold the recipe to George Williamson in 1920. There is no credible documentation of this story.
There are other alternate accounts of the origin of the name of the bar. The story supported by Nestlé is that there was a boy named Henry who frequented George Williamson's second candy shop. He became a favorite of the young girls who worked there, who would say "Oh Henry" when speaking to or about him, and Williamson used this phrase to name his new confection. The other (undocumented) story is that the name was changed from the Tom Henry Bar to Oh Henry! when it was purchased by Williamson. Popular myths are that it was named after O. Henry or Henry Aaron.
The Williamson Company was sold to Warner-Lambert in 1965, which soon sold Oh Henry! to Terson, Inc. Nestlé
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acquired the United States
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rights to the brand from Terson in 1984. In 2018, Nestlé sold the rights to its U.S. confectionery products to Ferrara Candy Company, a subsidiary of Ferrero SpA
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. Ferrara quietly discontinued the US version of Oh Henry! in
2019.
Differences between Ferrara and Hershey versions
InCanada
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, the bar is currently sold by the Hershey Company
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and was manufactured at their Smiths Falls, Ontario, facilities prior to their closure. The bars are different in appearance: the Canadian version is one bar with the fudge in the center, the fudge surrounded with a thin layer of caramel, and the nuts surrounding that layer before it is surrounded in the coating. Hershey sells Oh Henry! bars made in Canada on a very limited basis in the United States as Rally
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bars, using the trademark of a Hershey product introduced in the 1970s and later discontinued.
In popular culture
*In the '' Seinfeld'' episode "The Caddy
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Plot
Harvey Miller, whose father was a famous golf pro, is ...
", the fictional character Sue Ellen Mischke is the heiress to the Oh Henry! candy bar fortune.
*Whenever former MLB
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outfielder Henry Rodríguez hit a homerun, fans would throw Oh Henry! bars onto the field.
See also
*List of chocolate bar brands
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References
External links
Oh Henry! from Nestlé USA
{{Hershey Chocolate bars The Hershey Company brands Products introduced in 1920 Peanut dishes