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What was the old Butterfinger slogan? ›

The name was chosen by a popularity contest. Crispety, crunchety, peanut-buttery!, "better butter finger", "Dig it!" and "Nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger!"

Controversy exists as to why the poppable Butterfinger BB's were dropped from the Nestlé line of confections. One theory is that the chocolate's quick melting point was what determined the candy's fate. The chocolate seemed to slip off the candy and onto your fingers more quickly than it could reach your mouth.

Butterfinger's contains a whopping 4 grams of fat and 85 calories in just one “fun-sized” candy bar. While its fat content could partially be attributed to the nuts inside Butterfinger's, this may be the least healthy of all candy bars.

This product is still available. You can use our product locator to find some near you. There's nothing like the crispety, crunchety, peanut-buttery taste of Butterfinger.

The words "Nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger!" appear above the Butterfinger. The screen disappears and Milhouse looking around and Bart eats the Butterfinger.] Bart: [voiceover] Nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger!

Meaning of butterfingers in English

a person who drops things they are carrying or trying to catch: [ as form of address ] "Butterfingers!" she called as I dropped the hot plates.

The Chocolate Cream bar created by Joseph Fry in 1866 is the oldest candy bar in the world. Although Fry was the first to start pressing chocolate into bar molds in 1847, the Chocolate Cream was the first mass-produced and widely available candy bar.

A butterfingers is someone with a clumsy tendency to drop things they're holding. Being a butterfingers is considered a particularly bad trait in baseball, for obvious reasons. The common use of this term by sportscasters in the 1920s inspired the name for the newly-invented candy known as Butterfinger.

Butterfinger, now manufactured by the Ferrara Candy Company, was a candy bar invented in 1923 by Curtiss Candy Company owner, Otto Schnering. It was literally launched to the general public via a marketing campaign where this and other chocolate bars were dropped from airplanes over cities to promote new products.

Fun Size Twix Bars

Not only do Twix bars have the most calories, but they also have the highest amount of fat, making them the least healthy candy for your child to eat. Just one Fun Size Twix contains 250 calories, 17 grams of sugar and 14 grams of total fat.

What candy bar is most like Butterfinger? ›

Clark Bar

Clark Bars are similar to Butterfingers, because they are both milk chocolate peanut butter bars, but Clark Bars are like Butterfingers' better tasting, classier cousin.

The 5th Avenue is a candy bar introduced in 1936, consisting of peanut butter crunch layers enrobed in chocolate. It is produced and marketed by The Hershey Company.

Similar to the Clark Bar, a Butterfinger is a chocolate bar with a crunchy peanut butter middle that has been rolled and mixed with a sugar candy. The main difference between this candy bar and the Clark Bar (aside from the candy-laced center) are the ingredients and texture.

The children seem confused until a voice from the back pipes up and the crowd parts to reveal a very real alien, who warns the homeowners that "nobody lays a finger on our Butterfinger," before summoning said candy straight out of their hands and into its grasp.

Many of the commercials featured Homer trying to get Bart's Butterfinger, but would be one-upped by Bart each time. Each commercial closes with Bart saying the catchphrase, "Nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger!".

Butterfingers

You can be a tad hyperactive and always want to be out doing something adventurous. You're the first to try the new restaurant for lunch or whatever the new microbrew is at the local bar. You have no clue what's popular in movies or on TV because you don't watch either of them.

BRING HOME THE BACON

Meaning: The person who “brings home the bacon” is someone who is earning the most money. Example: "Simon took another job so he could bring home the bacon."

to be especially annoying, surprising, etc. or to be the worst or best of its kind: And you say she's opening your letters now? Oh, that really takes the biscuit!

Candy magnate Frank Mars named the Snickers bar after one of his horses.

M&M stands for Mars and Murrie - named after Forrest E. Mars Sr. – the founder of Mars – and Bruce Murrie, the son of Hershey Chocolate's president William F. R. Murrie. The story behind how M&Ms came to be, begins after Mars had a fall-out with his father and travelled to Europe.

What candy bar is named after a street? ›

The History of 5TH AVENUE Bars

In 1936, Luden's Inc. of cough drop fame introduced 5TH AVENUE Candy Bars, named after New York City's stylish Fifth Avenue. The original bars contained a crunchy peanut butter center, topped with toasted almonds and coated in chocolate. The Hershey Company purchased Luden's Inc.

You have never tasted a Butterfinger candy bar as good as this!

butterfingers {plural}

mani di burro {m pl} [fig.]

The Butterfinger Investigators aka (BFI) is a humorous new video series that mirrors the television crime detective series CSI. The videos star two wise-cracking agents Hugh Dunnit and Ali Byes, played by actors Amir Arison and Alexandria Benford, whose mission is to track down thieves that have stolen Butterfingers.

The popular candy was created in 1922 by Otto Schnering, who also developed the Baby Ruth. His Curtiss Candy Company, based in Chicago, ran a contest to name the bar. At the time sportscasters began using the term “butterfingers” to describe players who couldn't hold onto the ball.

It has the slogan 'It's a finger thing' and it was sponsored by Channel 5 during the movie premiere until 2005.

The Butterfinger Group is the first Butterfinger commercial. It originally aired in 1988, the year when The Simpsons shorts were still on the Fox program The Tracey Ullman Show.

The boy, whose name was Henry, was constantly doing favors for the girls who worked in the store, responding over and over to their requests that usually began with "Oh, Henry, would you..." Apparently, "Oh Henry" became such a catch-phrase in the shop that it eventually found its way onto a candy bar!