--- ---  # Hershey Has a Weird New Candy Bar and People Can’t Figure Out How to Eat It by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Nov 9, 2017 6:33 PM UTC  by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Nov 9, 2017 6:33 PM UTC _TIME’s new_ [_weekly roundup_](http://ti.me/2xKAuEO) _brings you the best and most surprising things happening on Reddit_ ### **How to Eat the Gold Hershey Bar** To mark the Winter Olympics in South Korea, Hershey unleashed its first [new candy bar](http://fortune.com/2017/11/03/hershey-just-released-its-first-new-bar-in-20-years-and-it-contains-zero-chocolate/) in twenty years, a chocolate-free bar made of “caramelized creme” studded with salty pretzels and crunchy peanuts. 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. One redditor recommended it as a strong contender for the subreddit [/r/thingsforants](https://www.reddit.com/r/thingsforants/), where people have fun posting very small stuff, fit for ants, inspired by the famous scene in _Zoolander._ Reddit Tries to Figure Out the New Gold Hershey Bar ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5013155/hershey-bar-internet-reactions-reddit/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5013155/hershey-bar-internet-reactions-reddit/"},"headline":"Hershey Has a Weird New Candy Bar and People Can’t Figure Out How to Eat It","datePublished":"2017-11-09T18:33:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:46:23.981Z","description":"The internet reacts to the new Hershey bar, gets ready for Thanksgiving and freaks out over a very big potato.","url":"https://time.com/5013155/hershey-bar-internet-reactions-reddit/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Food","viral","reddit","Cooking","Food and Beverage","Recipes","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"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=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"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=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Hershey_PretzelPeanut_021_SemiLayered-standard-smallerfile","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5013155/hershey-bar-internet-reactions-reddit/","name":"Hershey Has a Weird New Candy Bar and People Can’t Figure Out How to Eat It"}}]}] ```