--- title: Reddit Tries to Figure Out the New Gold Hershey Bar description: The internet reacts to the new Hershey bar, gets ready for Thanksgiving and freaks out over a very big potato. canonical: https://time.com/5013155/hershey-bar-internet-reactions-reddit/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-11-09T18:33:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:46:23.981Z og:title: The Internet Can’t Figure Out Hershey's Weird New Candy Bar og:description: It's deceptively complex og:url: https://time.com/5013155/hershey-bar-internet-reactions-reddit/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt25b85e5cf08e5571/6988e4e0096a947bb56a04ed/hershey_pretzelpeanut_021_semilayered-standard-smallerfile.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2400 og:image:height: 1350 og:image:alt: Hershey_PretzelPeanut_021_SemiLayered-standard-smallerfile og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Internet Can’t Figure Out Hershey's Weird New Candy Bar twitter:description: It's deceptively complex twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt25b85e5cf08e5571/6988e4e0096a947bb56a04ed/hershey_pretzelpeanut_021_semilayered-standard-smallerfile.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hershey Has a Weird New Candy Bar and People Can’t Figure Out How to Eat It > Sponsored content. 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It’s not available until December 1st, but that didn’t stop redditors from sinking their teeth into [pressing questions](https://www.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign/comments/7akkk6/hersheys%5Fhas%5Fmade%5Fbreaking%5Foff%5Fa%5Fpiece%5Fof%5Ftheir/) about how best to snap off and split the new interlocking pieces of the “needlessly complex” bar.  ### **Potlucks Around the World** Guests shine at American potluck dinner by bringing a hodgepodge of favorite [homemade dishes](http://time.com/3724505/healthy-recipes-healthiest-foods/) like casseroles or pie. So what are the most popular crowd-pleasers that people in other countries bring to potlucks? People from many different corners of the Earth got down to sharing their go-to offerings — from sausage fruits in Taiwan to pineapple upside-down cake in the Bahamas. ### **Thanksgiving Stuffing Ideas** Reddit’s already getting into the [Thanksgiving spirit](http://time.com/4571371/thanksgiving-facts/), swapping recipes for the holiday feast and war stories from the their kitchens There’s one thing everyone wants to talk about: the perfect stuffing. People traded recipe ideas for bread and cornbread varieties in the Cooking subreddit’s American Thanksgiving Megathread, which is just as comprehensive as it sounds. ### **The Great (Sweet) Potato** Some people discover signs of intelligent life in space. Others look no further than their backyard. That’s what this dad did when he unearthed a sweet [potato](http://time.com/3734679/potato-healthy/) enormous enough to feed a track team, and you better believe redditors had [cooking ideas](http://time.com/3483888/the-truth-about-home-cooking/) to tackle it. ### **Teeny tiny popcorn** On the much smaller side, a mother popped the teeniest tiniest popcorn you’ve ever seen. 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