Whoppers
- For the hamburger at Burger King, see Whopper. For the porn actress, see Wendy Whoppers. For other meanings, see Whopper (disambiguation).
Whoppers are chocolate-coated malted milk balls produced by The Hershey Company. The candy is a small, round ball about 3/4 of an inch in diameter. They are typically sold either in a small cardboard candy box, in a larger box that resembles a cardboard milk carton, or the “Fun Size” variety which is a tube shaped plastic package sealed at the sides, containing twelve whoppers weighing 21 grams (0.75 Oz).
In the year 2000, The Hershey Company introduced Mini Whoppers. Traditionally chocolate in flavor, a new strawberry milkshake flavored variant became available in 2006.
In other countries, such as the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Australia, Japan and Austria, a similar product, known as “Maltesers”, are manufactured by Mars, Inc. Other very similar products include the NECCO “Mighty Malts Malted Milk Balls”.
 Individual pieces |
 Inside a Whopper |
 Milk carton style box |
History
The Overland Candy Company introduced a malted milk candy product called “Giants” in 1939. In 1947, Overland merged with Chicago Biscuit Company, Leaf Gum and Leaf Machinery. Leaf Brands reintroduced malted milk balls in 1949 under the name of “Whoppers”. The Whoppers brand, along with all other products manufactured by Leaf Brands, was purchased by W.R. Grace in the 1960s. The brands were later repurchased by Leaf in 1976. Hershey Foods Corporation acquired the Leaf North America confectionery operations from Huhtamaki Oy of Helsinki, Finland, in 1996. Whoppers are marketed as “The Original Malted Milk Balls” despite Maltesers (originally known as “Energy Balls”) having been invented by Forrest Mars Sr. in 1936.
Whoppers were first sold unwrapped, two for one cent. After the creation of cellophane wrapping machines, smaller Whoppers were packaged in cellophane and sold five for one cent. These were called “Fivesomes”. Soon after, Sam Shankman of Leaf introduced the first confectionery milk carton package. In the early 1970s, different flavors were tried and sometime between 1949 and 1952 an egg-shaped Whoppers malted milk candy was introduced for Easter. A few years later, Robin Eggs were added to the line.
Ingredients
Listed in decreasing order by weight: sugar, fractionated and partially hydrogenated palm kernel oil, reduced protein whey (milk), corn syrup solids, whey (milk), corn syrup, malted milk, barley malt (containing wheat, milk, sodium bicarbonate, salt), cocoa, carob, sorbitan tristearate, soy lecithin, resinous glaze, natural and artificial flavors, tapioca dextrin, calcium carbonate, and salt.
External links
| Confectionery products of The Hershey Company | |
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| Chocolate-based: | 5th Avenue • Almond Joy • Bar None (discontinued) • Cherry Blossom • Fast Break • Glosette • Heath bar • Hershey bar • Hershey Kiss • Hershey's Kissables • Hershey's Cookies 'n' Creme • Hershey's Pops • Hershey's S'mores • Kit Kat* • Krackel • Milk Duds • Mounds • Mr. Goodbar • Oh Henry!† • Rolo* • Reese's Peanut Butter Cup • ReeseSticks • Skor • Snack Barz • Take 5 (Also known as Max 5) • Whatchamacallit • Whoppers • York Peppermint Pattie • Swoops |
| Non-chocolate: | Bubble Yum • |
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marketed in a number of countries, but is produced by the Hershey Company only within the United States. † This product is marketed in both the United States and Canada, but is produced by the Hershey Company only within Canada. Hershey also manufactures Cadbury-branded products in the U.S. and military chocolate for the U.S. armed forces. |
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