Today is: I love Reese's Day

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Reese's Peanut Butter Cups were created by Harry Burnett Reese, who worked at a Hershey candy factory before forming his own business.
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups were created by Harry Burnett Reese, who worked at a Hershey candy factory before forming his own business.

Today we celebrate the candy that brings chocolate and peanut butter together, the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, as well as the man who created it, Harry Burnett Reese. In 2010, Hershey sponsored an online petition to declare May 18 as I Love Reese's Day, and it was signed by 40,000 fans. May was chosen as the time because the holiday would then be sandwiched between National Peanut Butter Lover's Day in March, and Chocolate Day in July.

In the 1920s, H.B. Reese started working at a Hershey candy factory. At that time he began making candy in his basement, in part because he was well on his way to having 16 children and needed to make some extra income. He used various fresh ingredients and coated them in Hershey's chocolate. He quit Hershey's and formed the H.B. Reese Candy Company in 1923.

Source: Checkiday.com

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