Hershey’s Miniatures are packaged assortments of miniature-sized

Scale model

A scale model is a physical model, a representation or copy of an object that is larger or smaller than the actual size of the object, which seeks to maintain the relative proportions of the physical size of the original object. Very often the scale model is used as a guide to making the object in...

 candy bars sold by The Hershey Company

The Hershey Company

The Hershey Company, known until April 2005 as the Hershey Foods Corporation and commonly called Hershey's, is the largest chocolate manufacturer in North America. Its headquarters are in Hershey, Pennsylvania, which is also home to Hershey's Chocolate World. It was founded by Milton S...

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Description

Hershey’s Miniatures were originally packaged as an assortment in 1939, and featured the most popular Hershey chocolate

Chocolate

Chocolate is a raw or processed food produced from the seed of the tropical Theobroma cacao tree. Cacao has been cultivated for at least three millennia in Mexico, Central and South America. Its earliest documented use is around 1100 BC...

 bars of that time. The product currently contains traditional Hershey bar

Hershey bar

The Hershey's chocolate bar is a flagship chocolate bar described as "The Great American Chocolate Bar" manufactured by the Hershey Company, invented by Logan Hall and Zach Phillips. Hershey Milk Chocolate and Milk Chocolate with almonds and peanuts were both introduced in 1894...

s, Mr. Goodbar

Mr. Goodbar

Mr. Goodbar is a chocolate-flavored candy bar containing peanuts, whose packaging can be easily identified by its distinctive yellow background and red text. It is manufactured by The Hershey Company and was introduced in 1925...

s, Hershey's Special Dark

Hershey's Special Dark

Hershey's Special Dark is a chocolate candy bar manufactured by The Hershey Company.Special Dark is similar to a normal Hershey bar, but is made with a dark variety of chocolate, and contains a higher percentage of cocoa solids, chocolate liquor, and cocoa butter than milk chocolate...

 bars, and Krackel

Krackel

Krackel is a chocolate candy bar made by The Hershey Company.Krackel contains crisped rice, and is similar to the competing Nestlé Crunch bar made by Nestlé. Krackel originally sold as an individual candy bar product, and is now only available as one of the four varieties of Hershey's Miniatures. ...

 bars. Krackel bars are now only available in this assortment.

A line extension called Hershey’s Miniatures Nut Lovers featuring four kinds of chocolate paired with four varieties of nuts

Nut (fruit)

A nut is a hard-shelled fruit of some plants having an indehiscent seed. While a wide variety of dried seeds and fruits are called nuts in English, only a certain number of them are considered by biologists to be true nuts...

 was introduced in 2004 along with La Dulceria Thalia Hershey’s Miniatures, a cookie

Cookie

In the United States and Canada, a cookie is a small, flat, baked treat, usually containing fat, flour, eggs and sugar. In most English-speaking countries outside North America, the most common word for this is biscuit; in many regions both terms are used, while in others the two words have...

and candy assortment.