Butterfinger Candies: Crunch Time

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🗓️ 31 October 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This brand of candy – with crisp layers of peanut buttery toffee and a chocolatey coating – is almost as memorable for its marketing as it is its signature crunch. Anney and Lauren don’t fumble the science and history of Butterfinger.

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0:49.2	I'm Anna Reese.
0:50.1	And I'm Lauren Vogelbaum.
0:51.4	And today we have an episode for you about Butterfinger.
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0:57.4	But wow, wow, many wondrous ad campaigns, some of which we'll talk about.
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