A rare vintage Heath Bar Wrapper from the 1960's when the candy was being distributed by the now defunct CB Heath & Sons in Illinois
Sharability: 2
Denture Danger: 8
Convenience: 6
Novelty: 8
Overall: 9
Heath bar… a delightfully sweet and cruncharific candy bar. Super sweet English toffee with a hint of almonds coated in milk chocolate for the candy that will demand you to finish it.
Toffee is toffee and toffee will get stuck in your teeth, but it won’t stop you from enjoying every sugary mouth watering bite of this thin candy bar.
In 1914 L.S. Heath opened a confectionary store in Illinois. His sons, Bayard and Everett Heath, ran the store and perfected the Heath toffee bar recipe in 1928; by 1932 the bar was on the market. The Heath bar was made fully by hand for ten years until the company modernized its plant.
The Heath brothers came up with a great marketing scheme in which they made the candy bar available for delivery via Heath dairy trucks along with milk and cottage cheese. This marketing idea must have worked better than the one that marketed the bar as healthy: “Heath for better health!”
I just don’t think there is and chocolate covered toffee bar out there that can actually be considered healthy. The Heath bar was another candy bar that the government had distributed to the military during World War II. Leaf North American Confectionary bought Heath in 1989 and Hershey took that over in 1996.
Healthy or not healthy, a Heathy is a great choice.
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I sold candy from my desk (with approval from the boss, we had a coke machine but no candy machine). One of my favorites was the Heath Bar. It seems, in my memory, that it was smaller than the current. This was prior to 1970. I recently re-discovered the Heath Bar. I did not know Hershey had acquired it but I am addicted again.
Heath Bars are one of those marvelous candies that have withstood the test of time. Still the same formula, still delicious!
It’s not the same formula. Palm oil, artificial flavors and soy lecithin were added when. Hershey bought them. Fewer almonds too.
The heath bar as I remember it used to have solid toffee and almonds like hard candy in the middle. I recently purchased some after seeing them in a store which brought back memories of how I used to love them. However, this new version has some kind of light colored cookie like looking substance In The middle and breaks very easily with no hint of hard English toffee. I’m very disappointed, and will not purchase again.
I don’t know all the history behind the bar . As a first timer . I’m addicted to the Heath miniatures from Publix …..