Oops!"Swoopa are the essence of your favorite chocolate candy," explains the package. "The unique shape envelops your mouth in chocolate bliss." It's comforting to know that someone in corporate America has done what it takes to bring us chocolate bliss. True, the Swoops' Pringle-like shape meant that Hershey had to overpackage them, in groups of six, inside three plastic containers tucked inside a cardboard box cardboard box n → caja de cartón cardboard box n → (boîte f en) carton m cardboard box card n → . But when a nation needs chocolate shaped like potato chips, someone's got to step up to the plate. Of course, many Americans have had more than their share of gastronomic gas·tro·nom·ic also gas·tro·nom·i·cal adj. Of or relating to gastronomy. gas  tro·nom bliss, chocolate or otherwise, making us one of the fattest countries on Earth. Apparently that's not enough to stop Hershey from cramming 180 to 200 calories, seven or eight grams of saturated fat saturated fat, any solid fat that is an ester of glycerol and a saturated fatty acid. The molecules of a saturated fat have only single bonds between carbon atoms; if double bonds are present in the fatty acid portion of the molecule, the fat is said to be (a third of a day's worth), and 18 grams of sugar (more than four teaspoons) into each six-Swoop pack. And the creative minds at Hershey Foods gave Swoops instant name recognition by dubbing dubbing removal of most of the comb of day-old chickens. See also decombing. them Almond Joy An Almond Joy is a small candy bar manufactured by Hershey's. It consists of a coconut-based center topped with an almond and coated in a layer of milk chocolate. It is very similar to Mars Inc.'s Bounty chocolate bar. , Hershey's Milk Chocolate, Reese's (Peanut Butter Cups), and York (Peppermint Patties). Too bad many customers won't notice that two of the Swoops--York and Reese's--have two to three times more sat fat than their namesakes. Swoops? Oops is more like it. Hershey: (800) 468-1714. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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