Philip Silvershein, inventor of the Chunky candy bar, named those trapezoidal chocolate treats after his granddaughter. She was so chubby as a baby that she was fondly known as Chunky. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Chunky Candy Bar Name”
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Grant, you like chunky candy bars?
Yeah, I do.
I do too. They’ve got the chocolate.
It’s texture for me. I need the multiple kinds of texture, the chewy, the hard.
Yeah, the little raisins. Did you know their name for a baby?
Oh, really?
Yeah, a chunky little baby.
Philip Silvershine was a New York City candy maker back in the 1930s.
And he invented this candy bar that’s chunky.
And he happened to have a little granddaughter who was a chunky baby.
And they called her chunky.
Oh, that’s nice.
He named the candy bar after the baby.
That’s very sweet.
