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Big Hunk

Candy bar

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 1, 2024
Entity authorityQ4905854 ↗
Source-derived summary

Big Hunk is a candy bar made by Annabelle Candy Company.

It first entered production in the 1950s, in the United States. It is a bar of roasted peanuts covered in chewy honey-sweetened nougat. When struck on a hard surface, such as a table, it shatters into "bite-sized" pieces.

It was featured in Steve Almond’s book, Candyfreak, as being one of several successful candies made by a small company. Big Hunk was acquired by Annabelle Candy Company when the company purchased Golden Nugget Candy Company in 1970.

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“Big Hunk” enters the record as candy bar. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hunk and Candy can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1970—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Hunk and Candy.
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“Big Hunk” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Hunk and Candy provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 1, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q4905854. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1970.

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This entry incorporates text from “Big Hunk” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.