Hershey's: Air Delight (2024)

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Is Hershey Air Delight discontinued? ›

The Air Delight Hershey's Bars were discontinued in 2017.

Hershey's Air Delight is an aerated Hershey's Milk Chocolate bar - filled with tiny bubbles!

When The Hershey Company decided to change some of the ingredients in 2007 in order to save some money, less people began to purchase Hershey's Kissables. This decrease in popularity sadly resulted in the discontinuation of Hershey's Kissables in 2009.

The Hershey Company is facing a cocoa scarcity in West Africa due to drier weather, which could impact sales and margins. Hershey's strong position in the US confectionery market provides protection against competitors, making it a safe investment.

By 2008, four years after it was introduced, the Mars Delight was discontinued - and for no apparent reason. Chocolate lovers were left distraught at the time and even to this day, the reason for its disappearance remains unknown.

That parchment paper strip is called a “plume”. Originally the paper plumes were also referred to as identification tags, possibly because they looked like miniature brand flags.

"This is a class action against Hershey for falsely representing several Reese's Peanut Butter products as containing explicit carved out artistic designs when there are no such carvings in the actual products," the lawsuit says.

Chocolate has three main ingredients: cocoa butter, cocoa liquor and sugar. These three components represent 80-90% of chocolate ingredients. Hence, a big portion of chocolate costs come from two commodities: sugar and cocoa. Any significant change in the price of these commodities directly affects chocolate prices.

The Bar tasted very salty and very sweet. However, when a person on Reddit toured to the factory in 2020, they were told the candy was no longer in production. It is still on Hershey's official store, but it is listed as out of stock.

Why is Hershey's so waxy? ›

American chocolate is often perceived as waxy due to the use of cheaper vegetable fats, such as palm or soy oil, as a substitute for cocoa butter. These vegetable fats have a higher melting point than cocoa butter, resulting in a less creamy texture and a waxy mouthfeel.

Because of this airy chocolate, it could crumble somewhat quickly due to it's design, which made it easy to eat and swallow. It was light like air when chewed on. This chocolate bar was discontinued in 2017, presumably due to low sales figures.

Calls to boycott Hershey are spreading on Twitter in response to the chocolate company's International Women's Day Canadian campaign, which includes a trans woman. It's the latest example of a brand generating a strong but mixed reaction to a promotional campaign that touches on cultural or societal issues.

The bar prompted some immediate backlash, especially from the political right, to Johnstone's participation in the campaign as a trans woman. The campaign has renewed heated discussion over gender identity and trans rights online, and led the hashtag #BoycottHersheys to jump to the top of Twitter trends on Thursday.

Last week, Nestlé confirmed Breakaway and Yorkie Biscuit bars will soon be discontinued. This follows the decision to stop making Caramac bars after 60 years.

For many adults, there existed a fear these candies could become a choking hazard in a delicious, chocolatey disguise. In 2007, following outspoken concern these candies could be dangerous, Hershey discontinued the Reese's Bites product before removing the entire line of Hershey's Bites in the following year.

This project represents a significant investment and will ensure that we continue to make Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bars, Hershey's Kisses Milk Chocolates, Hershey's Syrup and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups as well as a wide range of other products in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

The advertising for the Whatchamacallit peaked in the 1980s; after this period Hershey Company ran noticeably fewer advertisem*nts for this product. However, despite the lack of attention the company gives it compared to its other products, the Whatchamacallit is still in production as of 2024.