RE: Re: Hershy's miniatures

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The bag of mini's includes Krackle bars, which include malt in the krispies. They use the same paste for all the bars, just changing the "flavor" by adding krispies, peanuts or nothing depending on which they are producing. So, there is the potential for residue from the Krackle bars in the others, jsut as there is the potential for peanuts in the others, etc....

From: SillyYaks [mailto:SillyYaks ] On Behalf Of marcianarSent: Friday, February 17, 2006 3:21 PMTo: SillyYaks Subject: Re: Hershy's miniatures

The way Hershey's explained it to me is shared equipment/end mixing:if there is a little chocolate from batch A, which contained malt,left in the mixing kettle, they'll just throw the ingredients forbatch B in on top of it, and then use the same molds for all varietiesof miniatures - so that even if the normal size bars don't containgluten (like Special Dark) the miniatures stand a high chance ofgetting contaminiated in production.Maureen>> I just went to Hershey's web site, which is one of those irritating > flashy but uninformative sites, trying to look at the label for the > hershey's miniatures. I have had the miniature milk chocolate and dark > chocolate without noticing any problems, and I was wondering where the > barley malt would be? It seems strange to me that the formula for those > mini-bars would be different than the formula for the larger bars (but > I know companies can be crazy like that). TIA for explaining the > situation to me > > > In this case - the Hershey's Miniatures, we had been buying the> > individually wrapped ones from a bulk bin and the nutritional info is > only> > on the bags that have a lot of miniatures.>

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In , on

02/17/06

at 03:23 PM, " Calacci, Bridget " typed:

>The bag of mini's includes Krackle bars, which include malt in the

>krispies. They use the same paste for all the bars, just changing the

> " flavor " by adding krispies, peanuts or nothing depending on which they

>are producing. So, there is the potential for residue from the Krackle

>bars in the others, jsut as there is the potential for peanuts in the

>others, etc....

MJ called Hershey's - they explicitly told her that the miniatures contain

malt. The person she spoke to was kind enough to suggest the dark

chocolate kisses as a GF alternative.

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Yes, and my explanation is why they include malt, which came directly from Hershey's as well. If you can find a bag of all milk or dark chocolate miniatures those ARE GF. Per Hersheys.

Bridget

From: SillyYaks [mailto:SillyYaks ] On Behalf Of n Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 4:24 PMTo: SillyYaks Subject: RE: Re: Hershy's miniatures

In , on02/17/06 at 03:23 PM, "Calacci, Bridget" typed:>The bag of mini's includes Krackle bars, which include malt in the>krispies. They use the same paste for all the bars, just changing the>"flavor" by adding krispies, peanuts or nothing depending on which they>are producing. So, there is the potential for residue from the Krackle>bars in the others, jsut as there is the potential for peanuts in the>others, etc....MJ called Hershey's - they explicitly told her that the miniatures containmalt. The person she spoke to was kind enough to suggest the darkchocolate kisses as a GF alternative.-- n : jt@... http://jt-mj.netIn the beautiful Finger Lakes Wine Country of New York State!Warpstock X - October 12-15 2006; Windsor, Ont. I'll be there - will you?-- --From the Ten Commandments of E-mail:Thou shalt check thy spelling and thy grammar.