it's a gooey chewy candy bar fill in for Inuvik peanuts and caramel wrapped in
chocolate and ever since 1930 that snickers bar has been putting a smile on
people's faces with a name that Mars founder Frank see Mars picked as an
inside joke of sorts
some people think about the name stickers and I think all is probably
talking about giggling all laughing but in reality stickers was named after the
family's favorite force today
this silly sounding snack is the world's best selling candy bar
globally will sell about 2 billion dollars of stickers a year and at the
master foods us a plant a division of Mars in chicago illinois
it all starts with Snickers signature new get to make this chewy taste a
mixture of corn syrup egg whites sugar and salt
whips into an area plan called trap then fresh ground peanut butter mixes in
flavoring the sticky stuff to finish mix cooked to 165 degrees Fahrenheit then
drops onto a chilly contraption with giant rolling pins rollers themselves
are actually ice cold and the new get then forms the skin and is then
transferred off of those rollers on to a stainless steel belt
meanwhile in another area fresh roasted peanuts mix with buttery caramel
in fact in the US ninety nine tons of whole peanuts go into making Snickers
bars every day because that gives the stickers bar a variety of texture and
also a stronger peanut impact just like nougat this warm and gooey mixture
chills out by taking a ride through the refrigerated rollers at that stage it's
very running so we want to cool the caramel down so we can begin to form it
and lay it right down on top of the new gets lab next this candy slab cools down
to the core in an enclosed refrigerated tunnel
we don't want to have it really cold on the surface and and warm and running in
the middle
once it firms up late slip this lab and alone strips
it's like cutting a ribbon we're making into thin slices so then we can cut that
into the appropriate line
and today those strips are being cut down to fun sized pieces just before
diving for a covering of chocolate
feet first the reason we're doing that is so that when we cover the entire bar
we've got the right height profile so we can get a complete coverage
top bottom and sides next bars right under a chocolate waterfall and on the
way out get topped off with their distinctive design at Mars we put a
different decoration or squiggle on the top of every one of our products and
just imagine if you didn't have a squiggle it wouldn't be a snicker bar
once the chocolate cools the one size snickers wrap up at a rate of about nine
hundred bars per minute but its the regular-size bars that give stickers
it's nutty reputation about a handful of knots 20 to 25 peanuts are actually in
the snicker bar