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A Klondike bar is a
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ice cream novelty. The product is made with frozen dairy dessert and a chocolatey coating.


History

The Klondike bar was created by the Isaly Dairy Company of
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in the early 1920s and named after the Klondike River of
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, Canada. Rights to the name were eventually sold to
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, 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
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mascot for the brand. Unlike a traditional frozen
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, or traditional
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, 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 11th Circuit Court of Appeals 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.


See also

* Choc ice, the British English name for this type of product *
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References


External links

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