#2-Milk Duds
Vote for Your Favorite Movie Candy…and Why Are They Called Milk Duds?
Want to vote for your favorite movie-eating candy? I’m doing a poll. You can vote below.
My favorite? Milk Duds.
Dud is a great word. It means something that fails to work properly or is otherwise unsatisfactory or worthless.
“The firecracker was a dud. It didn’t explode or anything.”
It can also refer to a person.
“Our quarterback is such a dud. He can barely throw a pass.”
Since the word is so negative, why would a candy maker name its product Milk Duds?
This is what the box looked like when Granpa was a kid
I looked it up, and it’s because back in the 1920s the company that invented them wanted perfectly round caramels coated with milk chocolate…and no matter how hard they tried, they couldn’t make them look like that. So they called them Milk (chocolate) Duds.
Granpa ate Milk Duds at the movies when he was a kid. The package was different then because they were made by a different company. I wondered if today’s Milk Duds were the same as in the olden days, so I gave him one of mine to taste. Here is his review:
“Not like I remember. The caramel’s the same, but I don’t know…the chocolate tastes different.”
So Granpa and I did some research and found out that Hershey’s doesn’t use cocoa butter (that’s the oily part of the cocoa bean) anymore. Now they use vegetable oil. Without cocoa butter—the government says—chocolate isn’t really chocolate. So Hershey’s is not allowed to say Milk Duds are covered with chocolate. All they can say (look at the box at the top) is “chocolatey covered.”
Granpa says that proves they really are duds.
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I made a word up
It’s called
kreakeyo it means brain.
I like the way it sounds.
I like airhead extremes
I’ve never tried them. I’ve heard they’re REALLY sour.
Wow that was really even. I like starburst
Milk duds are very yummy !
One of my faves!
Your books are awsome and imazing. I like reeses penut buter cups
Why doesn’t anyone like junior mints there the best Halloween candy in the world
Reason one. They make your breathe smell like heaven
Plus there just amazing
Maybe if they called them SeniorMints…people would like them more.
I like jolly ranchers and livesavers
my candy is snickers
No, but I’m obsessed with them.
By the way i was talking about the person wizard
I knew that.
She is a wizard because she made wizard things (potions,spell book,ingredients,and a map)out of paper.And now she wants people to call her wizard.
That makes sense.
i love Reese that’s my favorite chocolate candy
They are very tasty.
I like sour patch kids. I like them because they’re so sour! I also like gummy worms/gummy bears. Because they’re so chewy.I also like jolly ranchers. Because they have a lot of flavor.
Very good reasons.
Hi Cheesie!!!I like junior mints and Reese cups and kit kats.Those are my fav types of candy.
I once ate too many Reese’s and got kind of sick.
Cieesie did you know I loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooove Riesies as my favorite candy?
Of course I did not. But now I do.
my favorite candy is gummy worms!!!!!!!!!!!
Ewwww. (You must be very brave to eat worms.)
My favorite movie candy is Sour Patch Kids!!!
Sour is good (as long as it’s sweet, too).
My favorite candy is Watermelon Jolly Ranchers and Starbursts!
Are you really a wizard?
I really really love SNICKERS!!!!!!!!! and SOUR PATCH KIDS!!!!!!!!!!!
I like candy with nuts, too.
My favorite candy is skittles.
I like them, too.
My favorite candys are jelly beans and reese’s penut butter cups and sour candys
What if you mashed some jelly beans into a Reese’s?
Ew that’s really weird