Junior Mints is a pun on an old Broadway play, Junior Miss, meaning the candy is great to eat while watching a show. Kit Kat: the Nestle company says it was named after the Kit Ka ...
Chocolate maker Milton Hershey misheard someone say "That's a good bar." He thought he heard "Mr. Goodbar," and he liked the sound of it for a new candy bar.
Which poses an interesting question: How well do you know the stories behind the names of America’s beloved candy bars? We begin with the Kit Kat bar. One day in the 1930s, a worker at a large ...