Almond Joy is a coconut candy bar covered in milk chocolate with 2 large almonds on top. Peter Paul Halajian was a Connecticut candy seller in the early 1900s. Along with some other Armenian investors, he formed the Peter Paul Candy Company in 1919. The company sold various kinds of candies, but following sugar and coconut shortages of World War II, they dropped most brands and put all of their efforts on the Mounds candy bar. The Almond Joy bar was introduced in 1946. During the 1970s, the Peter Paul company introduced their famous advertising jingle that contained a play on words, "Sometimes you feel like a nut; sometimes you don't; Peter Paul Almond Joy's got nuts; Mounds don't." Scroll down to see an old TV commercial.
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