reese’s peanut butter cups

13Apr08

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I had a strong craving for these candies the other day and since the craving did not go away in 10 minutes (in fact, i waited about 3 hours), I decided to go get some. I went to CVS and beelined to the candy aisle to pick up a small bag of the mini cups. I looked at the back for nutrition info- each mini cup is about 42 calories. Ok, not bad. If you can eat one or two and call it a day. I started to walk to the cash register but then had second thoughts. Two mini cups for 80 calories? But isn’t one big (normal) sized cup around 100 calories? So 2.5 small cups makes up 1 big cup? Something didn’t seem right. But I bought the small ones anyway.

Now, looking online for nutrition info, I’m extremely confused. One cup comes in at 80 calories while 1 package (2 cups) comes in a 230 calories. Umm… where did the extra 70 calories come from? Are the individual 1 cup packages smaller than the 2 cup packages??? And then, the Hershey’s site says that 1 package is 260. We’ve got some serious discrepancies. But the numbers for the small ones seem to be the same wherever I look, so I’ll stick to those for now.

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