Can Peanut Butter Make Snickers Even Better?


Updated 06/02/11 9:09 AM · Posted by YumSugar · 3 comments

Food Review: Snickers Peanut Butter Squared

Can peanut butter make everything taste better, even America's top-selling chocolate bar? That's what Mars seems to think with the introduction of its latest candy spinoff, Snickers Peanut Butter Squared, a square-size confection composed of peanut butter, nougat, peanuts, and caramel coated in milk chocolate. To find out whether the chocolate treat held up to its promise that "peanut butter and Read more

Mars Real Chocolate Relief Act Means Free Candy For You


Updated 05/19/09 1:52 PM · Posted by YumSugar · 30 comments

Mars Free Chocolate Fridays

Your Fridays just got a little sweeter. Mars Snackfood is giving away a quarter of a million full-size packages of chocolate on its Free Chocolate Fridays. As part of the brand's Real Chocolate Relief Act, customers are encouraged to visit RealChocolate.com, where, every Friday through the end of September, the first 250,000 consumers can download a coupon for a full-size package of Twix, Dove, 3 Read more

Trend Alert: Foodies on Facebook


Updated 11/19/08 6:15 PM · Posted by YumSugar · 3 comments

Trend Alert: Foodies on Facebook

Foodies may be serious about eating, but apparently they're serious about computers: Fast-food chains, food companies, and food celebrities are raising their profiles on social-networking platform Facebook. Last month, we mentioned that Pizza Hut was the first fast-food chain to launch a Facebook online ordering system, so die-hard users never have to leave the site to order dinner. And Read more

Did This Snickers Commercial Go Too Far?


Updated 04/09/09 9:44 PM · Posted by YumSugar · 38 comments

Snickers Yanks Homophobic Ad Campaign

For the second time in two years, best-selling candybar, Snickers, has found itself in the middle of a controversy surrounding their latest ad campaign. Candy company Mars has yanked the ad from UK airwaves, where it received backlash from gay-rights activists for being homophobic. The commercial featured surly '80s icon, Mr. T, berating a speed-walking man, calling him "a disgrace to the man Read more

Tricks My Mama Taught Me: Snickers


Updated 03/07/08 2:31 PM · Posted by LilSugar · 6 comments

Tricks My Mama Taught Me: Snickers

My grandma knows how to stretch a sweet treat. Having raised 11 kids, I believe this trick came from quick thinking when she had one candy bar and several children who wanted a taste. To find out her solution, read more Read more

Sugarbabies: Olivia Rhee


Updated 02/22/08 2:27 PM · Posted by babysugar · 23 comments

Sugarbabies: Olivia Rhee

For round two of Sugarbabies, we have picked the cutie patootie Olivia Rhee. Olivia is a 10 1/2 month old Bay Area native who likes to pose for the camera. Following in PopSugar's footsteps, Olivia likes to stay on top of celebrity news updates. Her most sought after friend is Snickers, her cat. For now he is too fast for her, but she will soon catch up to his whiskering ways. Back at her crib, Read more

Forget the Snickerdoodle; Have a Snickers Cookie Instead


Updated 10/16/08 2:29 PM · Posted by YumSugar · 28 comments

Forget the Snickerdoodle; Have a Snickers Cookie Instead

I was about ten years old when I had my first snickerdoodle cookie. I had no idea what one looked like, but recall being excited by the idea. A cookie, made with a Snickers candy bar? Oh how fantastic! Imagine my surprise when the cookies arrived and I saw that they were just sugar cookies coated in cinnamon sugar. There were no Snickers bars, or doodles for that matter. While I enjoyed the Read more