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: Werthers Echte) is a brand of
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candy owned by the German company ''
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KG'', based in
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. The candy is popular in
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History

The sweet brand is named after the town of
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in
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, where the company was founded in 1903. In 1969, the sweet began marketing under the brand name Werthers Echte. The brand name Werther's Original was adopted in the 1990s for the international market. They are now manufactured nearby, in
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Product

The original ''Werthers Echte'' was a caramel
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. Later variants included chewy
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s, and a soft, waxy form which melts easily inside the mouth called "butterscotch-melts." A variant with
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filling is also available, as well as three sugarless variants that use
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as a sugar substitute: the original
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flavour, a butterscotch
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swirl, and a butterscotch mint swirl. A product available in the United Kingdom is "Werther's Chocolate," a dark and milk chocolate with
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running through it, sold in the same packaging and wrappers as Werther's Originals. A variant available in Canada and the United States, "Butterscotch Apple Filled," has a green-apple-flavored filling.


Commercials

Well-known TV advertisements in
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from the late 1980s featured an older man offering Werther's butterscotch to his grandson.The actor
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appeared in them. In the
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commercials, TV actor
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played the kind-hearted grandfather. The grandson was played by Raymond Hewitt. One of these ads was dubbed into Japanese and aired in Japan in the early 2000s. Its off-putting voice acting led to it becoming an Internet meme in Japan on sites such as
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and Nico Nico Douga. One
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advertisement consisted of a montage of the grandfather and grandson bonding together (for example, pointing at animals out of train windows). The lyrics of the song which accompanied this ended: "When one who loves you says to you: You're someone very special too."


References


External links

* — Official Werther's Original website
Official USA Website
— Storck USA L.P.'s Werther's Original Butterscotch website
Official Japanese website
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