You know what goes great with popcorn? That would be chocolate. And for trick-or-treaters, this next candy bar is a popular treat. In fact, it’s America’s most popular candy bar. It’s Snickers, so let’s watch.
In 1930, candy man Frank C. Mars created an unforgettable sweet and salty combination, the Snickers bar. Mars at the time already had a Three Musketeers bar, which was based on a milkshake. What better to put on a milkshake than peanuts and caramel and that rich milk chocolate?
As for the history behind the name… It was named after the horse that was owned by the Mars family. In the early days, Snickers sold for just a nickel. Seven decades later, the price has gone up, but so have sales. Mars tops $2 billion every year by selling Snickers on six continents. One thing that hasn’t changed is the recipe.
At the 600,000-square-foot Master Food Plant in Waco, Texas, Mars is working hard to keep up with the Snickers demand. Every day we produce enough bars to reach from Waco to Houston and back. And it all starts with that creamy milk chocolate. The chocolate is put into a mixer, which we call a conge, and in there it’s mixed and mixed with more cocoa butter, and that creates that creamy milk chocolate. Here’s a fun fact for you.
It takes nearly 7,550 cows to produce enough milk for the Snickers caramel and chocolate every day. The other key ingredients into a Snickers bar are those fresh roasted peanuts. And they really pack them in. Mars uses over 71 acres of peanuts in just one day of Snickers production. We put approximately 28 peanuts in each and every Snickers bar, and that creamy caramel mixed with those salty peanuts really gives Snickers its unique characteristic. The peanuts and caramel combo drops from the mixer and spreads thin onto a cooling roll. The creamy Snickers nougat does the same. The nougat is actually made from milk and sugar and eggs, and that creates the bottom layer of the Snickers bar. After the caramel and nougat sheets cool down, it’s time for them to beat up. The creamy caramel that’s mixed with the fresh roasted peanuts is rolled on top of the nougat, and that creates a slab that goes then into our slitter area.
The slitter machine slices the candy sandwich into 38 long strips. The next machine cuts in the opposite direction, creating the individual Snickers bars. That uncoated bar then goes through a bottomer enrober, where it puts on a bottom layer of that creamy chocolate, and then into a full enrober, which coats the entire bar with chocolate. The final touch on this popular candy bar is its secret signature swirl.
A quick cool down, and the Snickers are ready to be packaged. Even though Snickers bars fly off the shelves, Mars continues to come up with new takes on the old favorite. Besides the different sizes of Snickers, such as king size, regular singles, fun size, and minis, we also have Snickers almond, and this year we’re introducing Snickers dark.
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| trick-or-treater | csokit kéregető gyerekek halloweenkor |
| candy bar | csoki (amerikai) |
| unforgettable | felejthetetlen |
| to be based on | valamin alapul |
| to be named after | valamiről elnevezve lenni |
| nickel | 0,05 US dollár |
| to keep up with | lépést tartani |
| demand | kereslet, igény |
| key ingredient | kulcsfontosságú összetevő |
| fresh roasted peanuts | frissen pörkölt földimogyoró |
| acre | hektár, angol hold |
| approximately | megközelítőleg |
| to spread | kenni, elteríteni |
| slab | tábla |
| slitter | vágógép |
| strip | szalag, csík |
| opposite direction | ellentétes irányban |
| uncoated | bevonat nélküli |
| enrober | csomagoló |
| signature | itt: jellegzetes |
| swirl | csavar |
| to fly off the shelves | fogy, mint a cukor |
| to introduce | bevezetni, piacra dobni |
