Butterfinger

Butterfinger is a brand name for a chocolate bar and some similar food company Nestlé.

For the first time a tie with this name in 1923 by the Curtiss Candy Company was sold in the United States. About Standard Brands and Nabisco got the brand to Nestlé. He is considered one of the best selling confectionery. It consists of a Erdnusskrokantdecke on peanut butter cream with a chocolate shell.

The ingredients are sugar, glucose syrup, roasted peanuts, vegetable oil, molasses, corn flakes, soya lecithin, condensed milk, flavoring, coloring Allura Red AC, cornstarch and citric acid.

In the production of genetically modified corn will be used. This led to protests from consumer advocates and Greenpeace, which led to the discontinuation of direct sales in Germany in July 1999.

On 1 April 2008 Nestlé published on its website an April Fools joke, in which the change of name was announced by Butterfinger on finger.

Under the brand Butterfinger more food is produced and sold, which have a similar composition and similar tastes:

• Butterfinger BB's
• Butterfinger Crisp
• Butterfinger Stixx
• Butterfinger ice cream bars
• Butterfinger ice cream nuggets
• Butterfinger Hot Chocolate