Hershey's Special Dark is a mildly sweet dark chocolate bar. It replaced the similar, if not identical, Hershey's Semi-Sweet bar in the company's product lineup in the early 1970s.

Hershey's Special Dark Memories

Well what memories I have of this candy bar, I got hooked on it back in 1966 and 1967. This bar was called Hershey's Semi-Sweet and it had a silver wrapper with brown letters. For those two years my lunch money was spent on these bars.

Well what memories I have of this candy bar, I got hooked on it back in 1966 and 1967. This bar was called Hershey's Semi-Sweet and it had a silver wrapper with brown letters. For those two years my lunch money was spent on these bars.