Today is a first for Candy Addict – we have a guest writer! Long-time Candy Addict reader and commenter, Rhea from The Boomer Chronicles, shares with us one of her favorite candies from her childhood: Butter Nut:
How does one describe a candy last tasted in, like, 1967? With great difficulty. But I can assure you that — as the daughter of a man who owned a candy store featuring every kind of candy bar known to humankind — I chose the erstwhile Butter-nut bar, made by Hollywood Candy, as my favorite. I adored these things.
The Butter-nut bar consisted of caramel and peanuts surrounded by milk chocolate. I mostly remember the crunch of the peanuts. I don’t know what it was about them. Maybe the way they sliced them up? Like many of the candy bars made by Hollywood Brands, the Butter-nut is gone forever.
Here’s a bit of history. The Hollywood Candy Company was founded in Hollywood, Minnesota, in 1912. The company also made the Milk Shake, the Top Star, the Big Time, the Hail, the Zero and the Pay Day. The Pay Day and the Zero are the only ones that are still being made today.
–Rhea
Wow – sound like good stuff. Thanks for sharing, Rhea! (If anyone else wants to guest write for Candy Addict, drop us a line with your article idea and we’ll see if we can get you published on the site!)
i passed a gas station on my way home from school everyday. i would spend my allowance on butternut candy bars. my favorite. i couldn’t remember the name until i saw the picture. i remember i didn’t like the other hollywood candy bars, but oh that delicious butternut candy bar. it made that last 2 blocks heaven. Bring it back!
Where if anywhere can I find a butternut candy bar? This was my favorite candy bar.
Butternut was one of my favorite candy bars. Does anyone remember the commercial? “They’re buttery, nuttery, buttery, nuttery, Butternut!” It was animation and featured an elephant, if I remember correctly.
They need to bring back the Choc-o-lite bar, too.
All the pleas to Hollywood Candy Co. probably are in vain.
As they are defunct.
However since Hershey bought out the rights to ZERO maybe they also bought the rights to Butternut.
Somone (maybe Hershey) bought Pay Day or as I called it a “Naked Baby Ruth”.
Zero is still delicious but I think they fooled with it some.
I think we should inquire to Hershey.
I always thought the bar had black walnuts or black walnut flavoring, but I had no facts to back that up. Maybe it was a butter flavoring that made them so much better.
It is insane that they are gone. I pray someone kept the formulas for some future venture.
Butternut and Zero my alltime Movie theatre favs.
Nowhere in New Orleans that there is a store or vendor that carries Butter Nut Candy Bar. If anyone knows where to purchase this candy bar, please let me know. I found Zero’s and Baby Ruth but not Butter Nut. this was the famous candy in the 70′s.
PLEASE BRING BACK THE BUTTER NUT. THAT IS THE ONLY CANDY ADULTS WILL BUY. I HAVE LOOK EVERYWHERE. EVERYTIME I GO TO DIFFERENT CITIES I LOOK FOR THAT CANDY.PLEASE MAKE A OLD LADY LIFE A LITTLE MORE PLEASANT.
Everyone that wants Butternut to come back PLEASE write/call the Hershey candy co. I emailed them and they do have the rights to Butternut but do not have plans at this time to bring them back. Maybe if they got a lot of emails/calls they would bring them back for awhile anyway. It’s worth a try.
The Hollywood candy company should bring back the Butternut candybar. This candy bar is awesome.
PLEASE CONSIDER SELLING THIS CANDY AGAIN
I am 36 years old, and I loved the butternut candy bar! It was my favorite and if I could buy it again, I would do so in a heart beat. I’d never buy another type of candy again if I just had a butternut! I loved eating them by the river with a bag of salty chip, the combo went together so well, and wash it down with an A & W Rootbeer. Please bring them back
Dang! I’m so heartbroken they stopped making Butternut candy bars! Why?! Guess we’ll have to make them ourselves? What about the Butternut recipe? Anyone has it? Thanks in advance.
I have to say that the Butternut was and to me still is the best candy bar that was ever created. The combination of nuts, chocolate and caramel was heavenly. I would vote to bring them back!
Oh, I so long for a Butternut Candy Bar. I remember them from the sixties when i was in school. They were the best tasting candy. I hope someone bring them back.
I am fifty years old,and the last time I had a butternut was in 2000, at a factory in Indiana. It was the best candy bar ever, I wish they still made it, bring it back.
The butternut candy bar is the best, bring it back
i want the butternut candy bar and i want it now i promise to clean my room lol getting ready to call the hershey company and request it all of you do the same lets bombard them with phone calls lets high jack there phone system .lets all call five times it that should do it.
I am 47 and man i miss the butternut candy bar. i told my wife about them, she is 10yrs younger and had not had one, we look every were1 i can’t believe its gone.
I live in Miami, Florida but i am from a little country town monticello, florida. I grew up loving and eating butternut candy bars , hey peeps it was by far the best candy bar ever i miss it and would to know where to look for this special candy bar. Why something so good don’t last forever?
I remember before going to school every morning I would meet my friends at the store about 2 blocks away from my house. I would use my lunch money to buy me 2 butternut and one chocolate ice cream sundae in the cup. The butternut cost 5 cents then and the ice cream was 10 cents, that was my meal for that day every day. When I tell my kids who are in there 30′s now they would tell me eat snickers, but the butternut, taste is so different from the chocolate nutty candy’s now that
Thank god I’m not alone, in 66 thur 68 that candy bar was it for me. boy i would love to get my hands on a few bars today. please please if you can spare one let me know. by the way do you think snicker had anything to do with them going away.
Longing for Butternut bar
Well hello all,
First I need to say thank GOD for such memories. I was a kid in Baytown Texas in the mid 60’s when I had my last Butter Nut. I remember getting my behind busted for spending my church money to buy 6 of them bad boys. That was the best switchin I ever got and well worth it.
The only Candy bar that could come close to it is the all mighty Oh Henry.
Jerome
In junior high (’59-’61) I rode my bike to school every day, passing a small mom & pop store, where I’d stop for my sugar fix. Butternut and Top Star, made by the same company, were my favorite candy bars. They were actually also available in the school cafeteria at lunchtime. It’s crazy what you remember from the past: Reed’s lifesavers (no hole in the middle…root beer and cinnamon flavor.. were my favorites). Black-jack chewing gum, and Black Crows; I see Dots for sale, but not Black Crows.
In 1967 my family moved from Brooklyn to a suburb of Indianapolis. It was quite a culture shock for a 10 year old. We had one car which my father took to work – which was fine because my mom didn’t have a driver’s license. Sometimes I would walk to the grocery store which was quite a distance and she rewarded me by telling me I could buy a butternut candy bar for the walk home. I loved that candy.
I should explain that the “culture shock” was that there wasn’t a store on every corner like there is in Brooklyn. Most people drove because there wasn’t a bus or subway to take…..etc. I still don’t get why that grocery store had to be so far away! Butter Nut made me forget about the distance : )
Like all other responders said, the Butternut is the Very Best candy bar I have ever had and the only one I would buy today! So many scrumptious yummy memories! Bring it back…PLEASE!
Butternut is still the best tasting candy bar ever!!! The taste can’t be beat! I was born in 1953 and it was a childhood staple. Miss it!
I have told my kids about Butternut candy bars so many times that they would do anything to have one. “We may have only had three TV stations, but it didn’t mater. We had Butternuts.”
Born in 1959, my favorite candy bar was the butternut. The only candy today similiar to it is the snicker bar which uses a darker chocolate then the butternut. I often wonder why the people at butternut stopped producing that candy when so many people enjoyed the candy.
i bought this candy bar in the late 50s and 60s at my school, and our own little country store, it was delicious, don’t they realize that a kids taste don;t change it was good then and it would still be good today i wish they would at least try it again but i think it’s gone forever.
In 1959 when I was 11 years old and living in Augusta, GA I would walk every day across the street to a train station and buy a Butter Nut candy bar out of the vending machine. It cost a nickel. I would also get a coke in the small bottle from a vending machine there and it cost a nickel, then later I had to put in a penny before the nickel. Over the years I have drooled often thinking of the unbeatable taste of the Butter Net bar. I’m surprised to see the comments here of so many others who remember the Butter Nut bar as the best of all candies. BUTTER NUT RULES!!!
I’m do glad someone. Still remembet the butternut it was by far the best candy bar out there there is none today in mine mine compares to it I absolutely loved butternut me and my friends to this day I still remember talk about butternut is there anywhere in the states that they can be bought