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Reese Peanut Butter Oh Henry! is not kidding around. Despite appearing to be about the same size as your average candy bar (if not slightly smaller), one bar weighs in at a whopping 85 grams and contains 440 calories, which means it’s about twice as heavy as the norm.

Suffice it to say, that old slogan of “Oh Hungry? Oh Henry!” definitely applies here. If you’re hungry, this bar will take care of that.

The wrapper describes the bar as “crunchy peanuts, peanut butter, creamy caramel, covered in a chocolaty coating.” It’s basically identical to a standard Oh Henry!, but with the chewy fudge in the middle replaced with peanut butter.

It’s predictably tasty. I mean, the original Oh Henry! is delicious and peanut butter is delicious, so obviously. Why wouldn’t this be good?

The peanut butter has a decent amount of saltiness, which helps to round out the very sweet bar, which is chewy, crunchy, and creamy. I wish the chocolate were real instead of mockolate (the dreaded “chocolaty” coating), but with so much else going on, it doesn’t make a huge difference.

Manufactured by: Hershey
Nutritional info (1 bar, 85 grams): 440 calories, 28 grams of fat (9 grams of saturated fat, 0.1 grams of trans fat), 0 mg of cholesterol, 170 mg of sodium, 44 grams of carbohydrates, 4 grams of fibre, 36 grams of sugar, 9 gram of protein.
Ingredients: Peanuts, sugar, modified palm oil and modified vegetable oil (shea, sunflower and/or safflower), modified palm kernel oil, high fructose corn syrup, unsweetened chocolate, modified milk ingredients, dextrose, sorbitol, salt, corn syrup, lecithin (soy), artificial flavour, TBHQ, mono and diglycerides.

I should probably mention that the Oh Henry! bar that I’m reviewing probably isn’t the Oh Henry! that you’re used to – unless, that is, you’re a Canadian. In the U.S., Oh Henry! is made by Nestle, while here in Canada it’s manufactured by Hershey. This is one area in which I’m definitely glad to be a Canadian; while I don’t remember the American Oh Henry! well enough to talk about it in any amount of detail, I do recall eating it and thinking that the Canadian version is clearly better.

The first thing I noticed is that the bar is covered in fake chocolate (the wrapper states that it contains “crunchy peanuts, chewy fudge, [and] creamy caramel covered in a chocolaty coating” (emphasis mine). The word “chocolaty” is a sure sign that shenanigans are afoot. Sure enough, a quick peek at the ingredients reveals no sign of chocolate of any kind. I’m not sure if this is a result of the recent Hershey cheapening, or if Oh Henry! bars have always been made like this. Though I have to admit, in this kind of candy bar I don’t think the absence of real chocolate particularly hurts it that much.

I like Oh Henry. It’s always been one of my favourites, and though it isn’t the most exciting bar you can buy, it gets the job done. It’s definitely one of the chewier bars around – the “chewy fudge” (which seems more like a thick nougat to me) combined with the caramel and peanuts definitely give this bar some real substance. If you want value for your money, Oh Henry is one of the better bars around, just because of how much you have to chew that sucker to make it go down. The bar also isn’t stingy with the peanuts; it’s completely covered in nuts, which helps give Oh Henry its distinctive taste, and adds to the sense that this is a bar with substance. It’s not an overtly sweet candy bar, and has a nice vanilla-y taste thanks to the fudge/nougat.

Manufactured by: Hershey
Calories (62.5 g bar): 300

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