A Klondike bar is a

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ice cream novelty consisting of a square of

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coated with a thin layer of

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History

The Klondike bar was created by the

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in the early 1920s and named after the

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, Canada. Rights to the name were eventually sold to

, a division of

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. The first recorded advertisement for the Klondike was on February 5, 1922, in the ''

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''. The bars are generally wrapped with a silver-colored wrapper depicting a polar bear mascot for the brand. Unlike a traditional frozen

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, or traditional ice cream bar, the Klondike bar does not have a stick due to its size, a point often touted in advertising. In 1976, Henry Clarke, owner of the Clabir company, purchased the rights to the Klondike bar, which had been manufactured and sold by the Isaly's restaurant chain since the 1930s. Clarke introduced Klondike bars to consumers throughout the United States during the 1980s. Under Clarke, sales of the Klondike bar increased from $800,000 annually at the time of the 1976 acquisition by Clabir to more than $60 million. In 1986, the US

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prohibited

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from using a wrapper resembling the distinctive Klondike bar wrapper (its "

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") for Kraft's "Polar B'ar" brand ice cream bars. The following year, the

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declined to hear an appeal of the lower court ruling. In 1988, Kraft settled a

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dispute with Ambrit Inc., as the former Isaly Company, Inc. was then known, for $8.5 million. Klondike bar Original with vanilla filling

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* {{Unilever Ice cream brands Unilever brands Youngstown, Ohio Products introduced in 1922

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