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Snickers

Snickers is a chocolate bar consisting of nougat topped with caramel and peanuts, and all encased in milk chocolate.[2] The bars are made by the American company Mars, Inc. The annual global sales of Snickers was over $3 billion as of 2012.[3][needs update]

Snickers
Logo used from 2000 to 2005
Product typeConfectionery
OwnerMars, Incorporated
CountryUnited States
Introduced1930;[1] 93 years ago
MarketsWorldwide
TaglineHungry? Why wait?
Websitewww.snickers.com
Snickers
Nutritional value per 47 g
Energy220 kcal (920 kJ)
29
Sugars24
Dietary fiber1.0
10.0
Saturated4.00
Trans0.2
4.0
MineralsQuantity
%DV
Calcium
4%
40 mg
Sodium
7%
110 mg
Other constituentsQuantity
Water105 mg
Cholesterol5 mg
Percentages are roughly approximated using US recommendations for adults.
Source: USDA FoodData Central

In the United Kingdom, Snickers was sold under the brand name Marathon until 1990.[4] A Marathon retro edition was sold exclusively at Morrisons for three months in 2020.[5]

History Edit

In 1930,[1] Mars introduced Snickers, named after the favorite horse of the Mars family.[6] The Snickers chocolate bar consists of nougat, peanuts, and caramel with a chocolate coating. The bar was marketed under the name "Marathon" in the UK and Ireland until 1990, when Mars decided to align the UK product with the global Snickers name (Mars had marketed and discontinued an unrelated bar named Marathon in the United States during the 1970s which was similar to the UK's Curly Wurly). There are also several other Snickers products such as Snickers mini, dark chocolate, white chocolate, ice cream bars, Snickers with almonds, Snickers with hazelnuts, Snickers with pecans, Snickers peanut butter bars, Snickers protein and Snickers with Extra Caramel, as well as espresso, fiery, and sweet & salty versions.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]

Ingredients Edit

The early (1939) ingredients list[15] includes white sugar, sweet milk chocolate, corn syrup, peanuts, milk condensed with sugar, coconut oil, malted milk, whites of eggs and salt. By 2019, the ingredients for the original bar had been refined to milk chocolate (sugar, cocoa butter, chocolate, skim milk, lactose, milkfat, soy lecithin, artificial flavor), peanuts, corn syrup, sugar, palm oil, skim milk, lactose, salt, egg whites, artificial flavor.[16]

Caloric value Edit

The USDA lists the caloric value of a 2-ounce (57 gram) Snickers bar as 280 kilocalories (1,200 kJ).[17] As of 2018, the United Kingdom bar has a weight of 48 g (1.7 oz), with 245 kcal,[18] and the Canadian bar 52 g (1.8 oz) with 250 kcal.[citation needed]

Bar weight Edit

Over the years, the bar weight has decreased: Before 2009, in the UK a single Snickers bar had a weight of 62.5 g (2.20 oz). This weight was subsequently reduced to 58 g (2.0 oz) in 2009,[19] and to 48 g (1.7 oz) in 2013.[20] In the United States the listed weight in 2018 was 52.7 g. In Australia, Snickers bars were originally made locally and weighed 53 g (1.9 oz), however in the late 2010s production moved to China and the bars were shrunk to 50 g (1.8 oz). In 2022, production returned to Australia and bars further reduced in weight to 44 g (1.6 oz).

Products containing Snickers Edit

Containing approximately 450 calories (1,900 kJ) per bar,[21] deep fried chocolate bars (including Snickers and Mars bars) became a specialty in fish and chips shops in Scotland in 1995,[22] and in the early 2000s, became popular at American state fairs.[23]

In 2006, the British Food Commission highlighted celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson's "Snickers pie",[24] which contained five Snickers bars among other ingredients, suggesting it was one of the unhealthiest desserts ever; one slice providing "over 1,250 calories (5,200 kJ) from sugar and fat alone", more than half a day's requirement for an average adult. The pie had featured on his BBC Saturday programme some two years earlier and the chef described it as an occasional treat only.[25]

Advertising Edit

"It's so satisfying" Edit

In 1980, Snickers (and Marathon) ran ads which featured a variety of everyday people discussing why they like Snickers. The ads featured a jingle that said "It's so satisfying" and had the classic hand that would open and close showing a handful of peanuts converting to a Snickers bar. "Packed with peanuts, Snickers really satisfies" was shown in the commercials.

1984 Olympics Edit

Mars paid $5 million to have Snickers and M&M's named the "official snack" of the 1984 Summer Olympics, outraging nutritionists.[26] Sports promotions in international games continued to be a prominent marketing tool for Mars, that would keep Snickers as an international brand while also selling local bars in some markets.[27]

Not Going Anywhere For a While? Edit

Beginning in 1995, Snickers ran ads which featured someone making a self-inflicted mistake, with the voice-over saying "Not going anywhere for a while? Grab a Snickers!" The tag line at the end of each ad proclaimed, "Hungry? Why Wait?"

One such ad had a player for a fictional American football team showing off his new tattoo of the team's logo on his back to his teammates. He then shows it to his head coach who, after complimenting the tattoo, immediately tells him that he's been traded to Miami. The player then goes to have his old team's logo replaced with the new team's logo.[citation needed]

Some of the ads were done in conjunction with the National Football League, with whom Snickers had a sponsorship deal at the time. One ad featured a member of the grounds crew at Arrowhead Stadium painting the field for an upcoming Kansas City Chiefs game in hot, late-summer weather. After finishing one of the end zones, and visibly exhausted, one of the Chiefs players walks up to him and says the field looks great, "but who are the Chefs?", showing that despite all the hard work the painter accidentally omitted the "i" in Chiefs.[28] Another had Marv Levy in the Buffalo Bills locker room lecturing his team that "no one's going anywhere" until the Bills figure out how to actually win a Super Bowl.[29]

Snickers Feast Edit

In 2007, Snickers launched a campaign which featured Henry VIII and a Viking among others who attend the "Snickers Feast".[30][31] It consisted of various commercials of the gang and their adventures on the feast.[32][33]

Super Bowl XLI commercial Edit

On February 4, 2007, during Super Bowl XLI, Snickers commercials aired. This resulted in complaints by gay and lesbian groups against the maker of the candy bar, Masterfoods USA of Hackettstown, New Jersey, a division of Mars, Incorporated. The commercial showed a pair of auto mechanics accidentally kissing while sharing a Snickers bar. After quickly pulling away, one mechanic sheepishly says, "I think we just accidentally kissed.", and another mechanic frantically exclaims, "Quick! Do something manly!" and in three of the four versions, they do so mostly in the form of injury, including tearing out chest hair, striking each other with a very large pipe wrench, and drinking motor oil and windshield washer fluid. In the fourth version, however, a third mechanic shows up and asks "Is there room for three in this Love Boat?"

Complaints were lodged against Masterfoods that the ads were homophobic. Human Rights Campaign president Joe Solmonese is quoted as saying, "This type of jeering from professional sports figures at the sight of two men kissing fuels the kind of anti-gay bullying that haunts countless gay and lesbian school children on playgrounds all across the country."[34]

Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) president Neil Giuliano said "That Snickers, Mars and the NFL would promote and endorse this kind of prejudice is simply inexcusable." Masterfoods has since pulled the ads and the website.[34][35][36]

Mr. T Edit

In 2006, Mr. T starred in a Snickers advertisement in the UK where he rides up in an army tank and shouts abuse at a football player who appears to be faking an injury, threatening to introduce him to his friend Pain. Another advertisement featured Mr. T launching bars at a swimmer who appeared to refuse to get in a swimming pool because of the cold temperature of the water. In 2008, a European Snickers commercial in which Mr. T uses a Jeep-mounted Minigun to fire Snickers bars at a speedwalker for being a "disgrace to the man race" was pulled after complaints from a US pressure group that the advertisement was homophobic.[37] These advertisements usually ended with Mr. T saying "Snickers: Get Some Nuts!"

NASCAR Edit

In NASCAR racing, Snickers (and the rest of the Mars affiliated brands) sponsored Kyle Busch's #18 Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing. Prior to that the brand served as a primary sponsor for Ricky Rudd's #88 Robert Yates Racing Ford as well as an associate sponsor for the team's #38 car driven first by Elliott Sadler and then by David Gilliland, and an associate sponsor for the MB2 Motorsports #36 Pontiac driven by Derrike Cope, Ernie Irvan, Ken Schrader, and others. In 1990, Bobby Hillin drove for Stavola Brothers Racing in the #8 Snickers Buick, marking the candy's first appearance as a sponsor; it had since been driven by Rick Wilson and Dick Trickle. Mars announced that at the conclusion of the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series season, they will pull their sponsorship from not only Joe Gibbs Racing, but NASCAR entirely and it was replaced by Monster Energy.

FIFA World Cup & UEFA Euro Sponsorship Edit

Snickers was the Official Sponsor of the FIFA World Cup from 1994 until 1998 editions and the UEFA European Championship from 1996.

You're Not You When You're Hungry Edit

In 2010, a new advertising campaign was launched, usually based around people turning into different people (usually celebrities) as a result of hunger (taking the new campaign's name "You're Not You When You're Hungry" quite literally). The tagline varied depending on the commercial's location or what variety the commercial is showing. The American adverts initially ended with the tagline "Snickers Satisfies". Steve Burns, best known as the first host of the children’s show Blue’s Clues has done the voice of the announcer.[38] BBDO New York said this campaign made Snickers the number one candy bar, up from seventh. In 2020, USA Today's Ad Meter named it the best Super Bowl campaign of the past 25 years.[39]

In 2010, Betty White and Abe Vigoda appeared in the first Snickers commercial in this campaign, playing American football. The commercial was ranked by ADBOWL as the best advertisement of the year. This commercial was also briefly spoofed in an episode of SportsNation on ESPN2 with Michelle Beadle playing the role instead of Betty White in 2011.[40] Later that year, Snickers commercials featured singers Aretha Franklin and Liza Minnelli, and comedians Richard Lewis and Roseanne Barr. A 2011 commercial featured actors Joe Pesci and Don Rickles.

In Latin America, the slogan was the same as in the UK version, except that men doing extreme sports turning into the Mexican singer Anahí as a result of hunger.[41] Brazilian versions of the ad featured actresses Betty Faria and Cláudia Raia.

In 2013, Robin Williams and Bobcat Goldthwait appeared in a Snickers football commercial. Russian duo t.A.T.u. appeared in a Japanese Snickers commercial as themselves throwing a tantrum in a baseball game before eating the chocolate reverts them into normal baseball players.[42] In March 2014, a commercial featuring Godzilla was released to promote the 2014 Godzilla film. In the commercial, Godzilla is shown hanging out with humans on the beach, riding dirt bikes, and water skiing; he only begins rampaging once he is hungry. After being fed a Snickers bar, he resumes having fun with the humans.[43]

In February 2015, Snickers' Super Bowl XLIX commercial featured a parody of a scene from an episode of The Brady Bunch entitled "The Subject Was Noses." In the commercial, Carol and Mike try to calm down a very angry Machete (played by Danny Trejo). When the parents give Machete a Snickers bar, he reverts into Marcia before an irate Jan (played by Steve Buscemi) rants upstairs and walks away. In a second commercial set earlier, Marcia (as Machete) angrily brushes her hair while yelling through her door.[44][45][46]

In 2016, for Super Bowl 50, another Snickers commercial was made, featuring Willem Dafoe (as Marilyn Monroe) and Eugene Levy, where Willem Dafoe complains about filming the iconic "subway grate" scene in The Seven Year Itch. After being given a Snickers, he turns into Marilyn and goes ahead with the scene, with Levy operating the fan below, commenting that the scene will not make the movie's final cut, that nobody would want to see it.

In 2018, Brazil World Cup winner Ronaldo is seen celebrating a goal for Argentina. When he notices the confused faces around him, he eats a Snickers and returns to normal.[47]

The UK version of the campaign usually used British celebrities and, up until 2018, retained the slogan from the Mr. T. era. In the initial advertisement, Joan Collins and Stephanie Beacham featured as locker room footballers who had turned into them due to being hungry. In 2014, Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean returned on television by appearing on several UK Snickers commercials and cinema spots, in place of a martial arts master who had turned into him as a result of hunger.[48] Later, in 2018, Elton John appeared in a new advertisement where he turns into African American rapper Boogie after he eats a Snickers; the latter had turned into the former due to hunger (the slogan appeared on a turntable in this advertisement).

This campaign was revived in 2022 in the UK under a slightly different form and new slogan "You're Unfiltered When You're Hungry" while using the initial American "Satisfies" slogan.

Confused? Maybe You Just Need A Snickers Edit

In 2020, a new, albeit short-lived, campaign was introduced that focused on people doing things that contradicted what they think they are doing, such as a man crawling along rocky ground when he thought he was climbing a rock face, the new slogan above indicating it to be the result of hunger-induced confusion.

WrestleMania Edit

Snickers has been an official sponsor of WWE's WrestleMania events, including WrestleMania 2000, 22, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 39, while its Cruncher variant sponsored WrestleMania X-Seven, XIX, XX and 21. Since then, Snickers has sponsored superstars such as Enzo Amore and Big Cass with their signature term, SAWFT, which is labelled at the back of the chocolate bar.

Six Flags Fright Fest Edit

Since 2011, Snickers has been the official sponsor of Six Flags' annual Fright Fest event at its theme parks.

Controversy Edit

Welsh Tweet Edit

In March 2020, the official Snickers Twitter account caused controversy when it posted a tweet comparing the Welsh language and Welsh place names to someone "sitting on a keyboard".[49] The offending tweet was deleted and an apology was posted soon after.[50]

King-Size Phaseout Edit

A replacement for the king size Snickers bar was launched in the UK in 2004, and designed to conform to the September 2004 Food and Drink Federation (FDF) "Manifesto for Food and Health". Part of the FDF manifesto was seven pledges of action to encourage the food and drink industry to be more health conscious.[51] Reducing portion size, clearer food labels, and reduction of the levels of fat, sugar, and salt were among the FDF pledges. Mars Incorporated pledged to phase out their king-size bars in 2005 and replace them with shareable bars. A Mars spokesman said: "Our king-size bars that come in one portion will be changed so they are shareable or can be consumed on more than one occasion. The name king-size will be phased out."[51]

These were eventually replaced by the 'Duo' - a double bar pack. Though this change to Duos reduced the weight from 3.5 to 3.29 ounces (99 to 93 g), the price remained the same. The packaging has step-by-step picture instructions of how to open a Duo into two bars, in four simple actions.[52] As Mars stated fulfillment of their promise, the Duo format was met with criticism by the National Obesity Forum and National Consumer Council.[53]

Australian recall Edit

In December 2000, tens of thousands of Snickers and Mars Bars were removed from New South Wales store shelves due to a series of threatening letters which resulted in fears that the chocolate bars had been poisoned.[54] Mars received letters from an unidentified individual indicating that they planned to plant poisoned chocolate bars on store shelves.[54] The last letter sent included a Snickers bar contaminated with a substance which was later identified as rat poison.[54] The letters claimed that there were seven additional chocolate bars which had been tampered with and which were for sale to the public.[54] As a precautionary measure, Mars issued a massive recall.[54] Mars said that there had been no demand for money and complaints directed to an unidentified third party.[54]

Vein removal hoax Edit

In April 2022, Twitter user @JUNlPER satirically claimed in a viral tweet that Snickers was removing the "dick vein" design from the top of the candy bar, prompting a backlash from unwitting Snickers fans. Due to the volume of response, Snickers clarified in its own viral tweet that the "veins remain".[55][56] The tweet spawned follow-up hoaxes including a viral fake image of Tucker Carlson talking about the "dick veins" on his Fox News show, alluding to Carlsons widely mocked[57] comments about 'unsexy' M&M's earlier that year.[58]

Snickers products Edit

The following variants are available in the United States of America.[59]

  • Snickers Original
  • Snickers Milk Chocolate
  • Snickers Almond
  • Snickers Peanut Butter
  • Snickers White Chocolate
  • Snickers Peanut Brownie
  • Snickers Almond Brownie Dark Chocolate
  • Snickers Ice Cream[60]
  • Snickers Ice Cream Bars[60][61]
  • Snickers 100 Calories Chocolate
  • Snickers Creamy Peanut Butter
  • Snickers Crunchy Peanut Butter

See also Edit

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External links Edit

  • Official website

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This article is about the chocolate candy bar For other uses see Snickers disambiguation Marathon bar redirects here For the Mars rival to Curly Wurly in the US see Curly Wurly This article s lead section may be too short to adequately summarize the key points Please consider expanding the lead to provide an accessible overview of all important aspects of the article May 2022 Snickers is a chocolate bar consisting of nougat topped with caramel and peanuts and all encased in milk chocolate 2 The bars are made by the American company Mars Inc The annual global sales of Snickers was over 3 billion as of 2012 update 3 needs update SnickersLogo used from 2000 to 2005Product typeConfectioneryOwnerMars IncorporatedCountryUnited StatesIntroduced1930 1 93 years agoMarketsWorldwideTaglineHungry Why wait Websitewww wbr snickers wbr comSnickersNutritional value per 47 gEnergy220 kcal 920 kJ Carbohydrates29Sugars24Dietary fiber1 0Fat10 0Saturated4 00Trans0 2Protein4 0MineralsQuantity DV Calcium4 40 mgSodium7 110 mgOther constituentsQuantityWater105 mgCholesterol5 mgUnits mg micrograms mg milligrams IU International units Percentages are roughly approximated using US recommendations for adults Source USDA FoodData CentralIn the United Kingdom Snickers was sold under the brand name Marathon until 1990 4 A Marathon retro edition was sold exclusively at Morrisons for three months in 2020 5 Contents 1 History 2 Ingredients 3 Caloric value 4 Bar weight 5 Products containing Snickers 6 Advertising 6 1 It s so satisfying 6 2 1984 Olympics 6 3 Not Going Anywhere For a While 6 4 Snickers Feast 6 5 Super Bowl XLI commercial 6 6 Mr T 6 7 NASCAR 6 8 FIFA World Cup amp UEFA Euro Sponsorship 6 9 You re Not You When You re Hungry 6 10 Confused Maybe You Just Need A Snickers 6 11 WrestleMania 6 12 Six Flags Fright Fest 7 Controversy 7 1 Welsh Tweet 7 2 King Size Phaseout 7 3 Australian recall 7 4 Vein removal hoax 8 Snickers products 9 See also 10 References 11 External linksHistory EditIn 1930 1 Mars introduced Snickers named after the favorite horse of the Mars family 6 The Snickers chocolate bar consists of nougat peanuts and caramel with a chocolate coating The bar was marketed under the name Marathon in the UK and Ireland until 1990 when Mars decided to align the UK product with the global Snickers name Mars had marketed and discontinued an unrelated bar named Marathon in the United States during the 1970s which was similar to the UK s Curly Wurly There are also several other Snickers products such as Snickers mini dark chocolate white chocolate ice cream bars Snickers with almonds Snickers with hazelnuts Snickers with pecans Snickers peanut butter bars Snickers protein and Snickers with Extra Caramel as well as espresso fiery and sweet amp salty versions 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Ingredients EditThe early 1939 ingredients list 15 includes white sugar sweet milk chocolate corn syrup peanuts milk condensed with sugar coconut oil malted milk whites of eggs and salt By 2019 the ingredients for the original bar had been refined to milk chocolate sugar cocoa butter chocolate skim milk lactose milkfat soy lecithin artificial flavor peanuts corn syrup sugar palm oil skim milk lactose salt egg whites artificial flavor 16 Caloric value EditThe USDA lists the caloric value of a 2 ounce 57 gram Snickers bar as 280 kilocalories 1 200 kJ 17 As of 2018 the United Kingdom bar has a weight of 48 g 1 7 oz with 245 kcal 18 and the Canadian bar 52 g 1 8 oz with 250 kcal citation needed Bar weight EditOver the years the bar weight has decreased Before 2009 in the UK a single Snickers bar had a weight of 62 5 g 2 20 oz This weight was subsequently reduced to 58 g 2 0 oz in 2009 19 and to 48 g 1 7 oz in 2013 20 In the United States the listed weight in 2018 was 52 7 g In Australia Snickers bars were originally made locally and weighed 53 g 1 9 oz however in the late 2010s production moved to China and the bars were shrunk to 50 g 1 8 oz In 2022 production returned to Australia and bars further reduced in weight to 44 g 1 6 oz Products containing Snickers EditContaining approximately 450 calories 1 900 kJ per bar 21 deep fried chocolate bars including Snickers and Mars bars became a specialty in fish and chips shops in Scotland in 1995 22 and in the early 2000s became popular at American state fairs 23 In 2006 the British Food Commission highlighted celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson s Snickers pie 24 which contained five Snickers bars among other ingredients suggesting it was one of the unhealthiest desserts ever one slice providing over 1 250 calories 5 200 kJ from sugar and fat alone more than half a day s requirement for an average adult The pie had featured on his BBC Saturday programme some two years earlier and the chef described it as an occasional treat only 25 Advertising Edit It s so satisfying Edit In 1980 Snickers and Marathon ran ads which featured a variety of everyday people discussing why they like Snickers The ads featured a jingle that said It s so satisfying and had the classic hand that would open and close showing a handful of peanuts converting to a Snickers bar Packed with peanuts Snickers really satisfies was shown in the commercials 1984 Olympics Edit Mars paid 5 million to have Snickers and M amp M s named the official snack of the 1984 Summer Olympics outraging nutritionists 26 Sports promotions in international games continued to be a prominent marketing tool for Mars that would keep Snickers as an international brand while also selling local bars in some markets 27 Not Going Anywhere For a While Edit Beginning in 1995 Snickers ran ads which featured someone making a self inflicted mistake with the voice over saying Not going anywhere for a while Grab a Snickers The tag line at the end of each ad proclaimed Hungry Why Wait One such ad had a player for a fictional American football team showing off his new tattoo of the team s logo on his back to his teammates He then shows it to his head coach who after complimenting the tattoo immediately tells him that he s been traded to Miami The player then goes to have his old team s logo replaced with the new team s logo citation needed Some of the ads were done in conjunction with the National Football League with whom Snickers had a sponsorship deal at the time One ad featured a member of the grounds crew at Arrowhead Stadium painting the field for an upcoming Kansas City Chiefs game in hot late summer weather After finishing one of the end zones and visibly exhausted one of the Chiefs players walks up to him and says the field looks great but who are the Chefs showing that despite all the hard work the painter accidentally omitted the i in Chiefs 28 Another had Marv Levy in the Buffalo Bills locker room lecturing his team that no one s going anywhere until the Bills figure out how to actually win a Super Bowl 29 Snickers Feast Edit In 2007 Snickers launched a campaign which featured Henry VIII and a Viking among others who attend the Snickers Feast 30 31 It consisted of various commercials of the gang and their adventures on the feast 32 33 Super Bowl XLI commercial Edit On February 4 2007 during Super Bowl XLI Snickers commercials aired This resulted in complaints by gay and lesbian groups against the maker of the candy bar Masterfoods USA of Hackettstown New Jersey a division of Mars Incorporated The commercial showed a pair of auto mechanics accidentally kissing while sharing a Snickers bar After quickly pulling away one mechanic sheepishly says I think we just accidentally kissed and another mechanic frantically exclaims Quick Do something manly and in three of the four versions they do so mostly in the form of injury including tearing out chest hair striking each other with a very large pipe wrench and drinking motor oil and windshield washer fluid In the fourth version however a third mechanic shows up and asks Is there room for three in this Love Boat Complaints were lodged against Masterfoods that the ads were homophobic Human Rights Campaign president Joe Solmonese is quoted as saying This type of jeering from professional sports figures at the sight of two men kissing fuels the kind of anti gay bullying that haunts countless gay and lesbian school children on playgrounds all across the country 34 Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation GLAAD president Neil Giuliano said That Snickers Mars and the NFL would promote and endorse this kind of prejudice is simply inexcusable Masterfoods has since pulled the ads and the website 34 35 36 Mr T Edit In 2006 Mr T starred in a Snickers advertisement in the UK where he rides up in an army tank and shouts abuse at a football player who appears to be faking an injury threatening to introduce him to his friend Pain Another advertisement featured Mr T launching bars at a swimmer who appeared to refuse to get in a swimming pool because of the cold temperature of the water In 2008 a European Snickers commercial in which Mr T uses a Jeep mounted Minigun to fire Snickers bars at a speedwalker for being a disgrace to the man race was pulled after complaints from a US pressure group that the advertisement was homophobic 37 These advertisements usually ended with Mr T saying Snickers Get Some Nuts NASCAR Edit In NASCAR racing Snickers and the rest of the Mars affiliated brands sponsored Kyle Busch s 18 Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing Prior to that the brand served as a primary sponsor for Ricky Rudd s 88 Robert Yates Racing Ford as well as an associate sponsor for the team s 38 car driven first by Elliott Sadler and then by David Gilliland and an associate sponsor for the MB2 Motorsports 36 Pontiac driven by Derrike Cope Ernie Irvan Ken Schrader and others In 1990 Bobby Hillin drove for Stavola Brothers Racing in the 8 Snickers Buick marking the candy s first appearance as a sponsor it had since been driven by Rick Wilson and Dick Trickle Mars announced that at the conclusion of the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series season they will pull their sponsorship from not only Joe Gibbs Racing but NASCAR entirely and it was replaced by Monster Energy FIFA World Cup amp UEFA Euro Sponsorship Edit Snickers was the Official Sponsor of the FIFA World Cup from 1994 until 1998 editions and the UEFA European Championship from 1996 You re Not You When You re Hungry Edit In 2010 a new advertising campaign was launched usually based around people turning into different people usually celebrities as a result of hunger taking the new campaign s name You re Not You When You re Hungry quite literally The tagline varied depending on the commercial s location or what variety the commercial is showing The American adverts initially ended with the tagline Snickers Satisfies Steve Burns best known as the first host of the children s show Blue s Clues has done the voice of the announcer 38 BBDO New York said this campaign made Snickers the number one candy bar up from seventh In 2020 USA Today s Ad Meter named it the best Super Bowl campaign of the past 25 years 39 In 2010 Betty White and Abe Vigoda appeared in the first Snickers commercial in this campaign playing American football The commercial was ranked by ADBOWL as the best advertisement of the year This commercial was also briefly spoofed in an episode of SportsNation on ESPN2 with Michelle Beadle playing the role instead of Betty White in 2011 40 Later that year Snickers commercials featured singers Aretha Franklin and Liza Minnelli and comedians Richard Lewis and Roseanne Barr A 2011 commercial featured actors Joe Pesci and Don Rickles In Latin America the slogan was the same as in the UK version except that men doing extreme sports turning into the Mexican singer Anahi as a result of hunger 41 Brazilian versions of the ad featured actresses Betty Faria and Claudia Raia In 2013 Robin Williams and Bobcat Goldthwait appeared in a Snickers football commercial Russian duo t A T u appeared in a Japanese Snickers commercial as themselves throwing a tantrum in a baseball game before eating the chocolate reverts them into normal baseball players 42 In March 2014 a commercial featuring Godzilla was released to promote the 2014 Godzilla film In the commercial Godzilla is shown hanging out with humans on the beach riding dirt bikes and water skiing he only begins rampaging once he is hungry After being fed a Snickers bar he resumes having fun with the humans 43 In February 2015 Snickers Super Bowl XLIX commercial featured a parody of a scene from an episode of The Brady Bunch entitled The Subject Was Noses In the commercial Carol and Mike try to calm down a very angry Machete played by Danny Trejo When the parents give Machete a Snickers bar he reverts into Marcia before an irate Jan played by Steve Buscemi rants upstairs and walks away In a second commercial set earlier Marcia as Machete angrily brushes her hair while yelling through her door 44 45 46 In 2016 for Super Bowl 50 another Snickers commercial was made featuring Willem Dafoe as Marilyn Monroe and Eugene Levy where Willem Dafoe complains about filming the iconic subway grate scene in The Seven Year Itch After being given a Snickers he turns into Marilyn and goes ahead with the scene with Levy operating the fan below commenting that the scene will not make the movie s final cut that nobody would want to see it In 2018 Brazil World Cup winner Ronaldo is seen celebrating a goal for Argentina When he notices the confused faces around him he eats a Snickers and returns to normal 47 The UK version of the campaign usually used British celebrities and up until 2018 retained the slogan from the Mr T era In the initial advertisement Joan Collins and Stephanie Beacham featured as locker room footballers who had turned into them due to being hungry In 2014 Rowan Atkinson as Mr Bean returned on television by appearing on several UK Snickers commercials and cinema spots in place of a martial arts master who had turned into him as a result of hunger 48 Later in 2018 Elton John appeared in a new advertisement where he turns into African American rapper Boogie after he eats a Snickers the latter had turned into the former due to hunger the slogan appeared on a turntable in this advertisement This campaign was revived in 2022 in the UK under a slightly different form and new slogan You re Unfiltered When You re Hungry while using the initial American Satisfies slogan Confused Maybe You Just Need A Snickers Edit In 2020 a new albeit short lived campaign was introduced that focused on people doing things that contradicted what they think they are doing such as a man crawling along rocky ground when he thought he was climbing a rock face the new slogan above indicating it to be the result of hunger induced confusion WrestleMania Edit Snickers has been an official sponsor of WWE s WrestleMania events including WrestleMania 2000 22 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 and 39 while its Cruncher variant sponsored WrestleMania X Seven XIX XX and 21 Since then Snickers has sponsored superstars such as Enzo Amore and Big Cass with their signature term SAWFT which is labelled at the back of the chocolate bar Six Flags Fright Fest Edit Since 2011 Snickers has been the official sponsor of Six Flags annual Fright Fest event at its theme parks Controversy EditWelsh Tweet Edit In March 2020 the official Snickers Twitter account caused controversy when it posted a tweet comparing the Welsh language and Welsh place names to someone sitting on a keyboard 49 The offending tweet was deleted and an apology was posted soon after 50 King Size Phaseout Edit A replacement for the king size Snickers bar was launched in the UK in 2004 and designed to conform to the September 2004 Food and Drink Federation FDF Manifesto for Food and Health Part of the FDF manifesto was seven pledges of action to encourage the food and drink industry to be more health conscious 51 Reducing portion size clearer food labels and reduction of the levels of fat sugar and salt were among the FDF pledges Mars Incorporated pledged to phase out their king size bars in 2005 and replace them with shareable bars A Mars spokesman said Our king size bars that come in one portion will be changed so they are shareable or can be consumed on more than one occasion The name king size will be phased out 51 These were eventually replaced by the Duo a double bar pack Though this change to Duos reduced the weight from 3 5 to 3 29 ounces 99 to 93 g the price remained the same The packaging has step by step picture instructions of how to open a Duo into two bars in four simple actions 52 As Mars stated fulfillment of their promise the Duo format was met with criticism by the National Obesity Forum and National Consumer Council 53 Australian recall Edit In December 2000 tens of thousands of Snickers and Mars Bars were removed from New South Wales store shelves due to a series of threatening letters which resulted in fears that the chocolate bars had been poisoned 54 Mars received letters from an unidentified individual indicating that they planned to plant poisoned chocolate bars on store shelves 54 The last letter sent included a Snickers bar contaminated with a substance which was later identified as rat poison 54 The letters claimed that there were seven additional chocolate bars which had been tampered with and which were for sale to the public 54 As a precautionary measure Mars issued a massive recall 54 Mars said that there had been no demand for money and complaints directed to an unidentified third party 54 Vein removal hoax Edit In April 2022 Twitter user JUNlPER satirically claimed in a viral tweet that Snickers was removing the dick vein design from the top of the candy bar prompting a backlash from unwitting Snickers fans Due to the volume of response Snickers clarified in its own viral tweet that the veins remain 55 56 The tweet spawned follow up hoaxes including a viral fake image of Tucker Carlson talking about the dick veins on his Fox News show alluding to Carlsons widely mocked 57 comments about unsexy M amp M s earlier that year 58 Snickers products EditThe following variants are available in the United States of America 59 Snickers Original Snickers Milk Chocolate Snickers Almond Snickers Peanut Butter Snickers White Chocolate Snickers Peanut Brownie Snickers Almond Brownie Dark Chocolate Snickers Ice Cream 60 Snickers Ice Cream Bars 60 61 Snickers 100 Calories Chocolate Snickers Creamy Peanut Butter Snickers Crunchy Peanut ButterSee also EditCurly Wurly Baby Ruth Mars bar Milky Way Snickers salad Snickers pie List of chocolate bar brands List of candiesReferences Edit a b Global Brands gt Snickers Mars Archived from the original on July 28 2011 Snickers Candy Bar Zeer com Archived from the original on February 26 2010 Retrieved January 15 2010 Schultz E J September 20 2012 Snickers Surging to Top of Global Candy Race Ad Age Retrieved November 1 2022 The Marathon candy bar Christian Science Monitor March 18 1999 Archived from the original on July 6 2006 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