We trust Hershey's labeling.

I called Hershey's and they said Hershey-ets was peanut and treenut free - otherwise we could not have even tried them.

I sure hope the info I got from Hershey's was accurate.

Found valentine hershey-ets today with no warning. DD is skeptical because of Hershey drops being unsafe.

Quote from: Macabre on January 07, 2013, 05:24:02 PM
They haven't made Kissables for a few years.

Yup and we had to abandon them even before production ceased because of shea.

They haven't made Kissables for a few years.

Quote from: luci on January 06, 2013, 02:25:35 PM
We found and tried "Hershey-ets", seasonal in a candy cane shaped container.

Looked like M's but not as tasty to me.  However, these are the safest and cheapest way to have this type of candy around.  We cannot afford to keep Skippers around either money-wise or calorie-wise. I called Hershey's and told them there is a big market for this type of product if they could make it pnut and treenut free and offer it year round.

I emailed Mars about M&Ms and they just emailed back saying I should call (during business hours).
I'll post back when I've had a chance.

We purchased these as well at our local Target.  They look just like M&Ms.  I've only seen them this year at Christmas.

Hershey's used to make an M&M-like product: It was candy-coated but in the shape of a kiss. They were called Kissables.  I don't believe they make them anymore.  We enjoyed them for a couple of years but then they changed the formulation to include shea butter, and we stopped eating them.

CM and Jessica, we picked up those candy-coated Cadbury balls/BBs too.  As Jessica said, they're like smaller versions of Cadbury Mini Eggs.  BTW, my local Wegman's already had a display of the teeny bags of Mini Eggs out on New Year's Eve.

We got the cadbury ones. They are kind of like the cadbury chocolate eggs (not cream eggs) that you see at Easter.

Cadbury brand (which is also Hershey in North America) had sugar-shell milk chocolate at Christmas this year.  It was labeled as safe for peanut/treenut allergy.  (no warning)

I forget what it was called.  I got some for DD's stocking.  Hm-- her package just says "Cadbury" Solid Milk Chocolates with a crisp sugar shell.

10 oz packaging.

I'm pretty sure that I've seen these before in seasonal colors for Valentines and other holidays, too.

http://www.candyblog.net/blog/item/hershey-ets

http://www.shopwell.com/hersheys-hershey-ets-valentine/chocolate/p/3400000964

these are both non hershey sites, so keep that in mind. The first says shared equipment. The second says shared facility. I have never seen hershey-ets that I know of but I'll look and see if I can find the valentine ones to see what the actual package says.

Quote from: Jessica on January 06, 2013, 03:28:29 PM
According to a site I looked at, Hershey-Ets has a "made on shared equipment with peanuts" warning.

Jessica, link for that?

According to a site I looked at, Hershey-Ets has a "made on shared equipment with peanuts" warning.

We found and tried "Hershey-ets", seasonal in a candy cane shaped container.

Looked like M's but not as tasty to me.  However, these are the safest and cheapest way to have this type of candy around.  We cannot afford to keep Skippers around either money-wise or calorie-wise. I called Hershey's and told them there is a big market for this type of product if they could make it pnut and treenut free and offer it year round.

I emailed Mars about M&Ms and they just emailed back saying I should call (during business hours).
I'll post back when I've had a chance.

regular M&M's taste like peanut to me
I certainly have a hightened sense of smell/taste to peanuts
on a plane recently a lady opened some peanuts and I knew in about 5 seconds  (she was very nice and accepted my grapes in trade for her children) - wait...I didn't trade for her children - I traded grapes for peanuts...  ok

but anyway when I eat regular M&M's I am struck how much they taste like peanuts

now - either it is so well known that they aren't safe (for PA people to eat - not the OP's ? I know) OR the PA people who eat them have a high tolerance -  or maybe they aren't that bad - because  haven't heard of many reactions - or any recently from them?

I need coffee

Quote from: SkyRibbons on December 18, 2012, 06:58:39 PM
I remember watching an episode of Unwrapped on Food Network, and they showed how they made M&M's.  It was obvious to me that a wayward peanut M&M could get into a bag of regular M&M's.  Plus, the same chocolate appears to be recycled.

That show explains a lot in general about cross-contamination.

YES!  Single best source for high-impact explanations ever.  I'll never forget my sense of HORROR watching the Annabelle's factory make AbbaZabbas; there's simply NO way that anything else made there could ever-- even with cleaning that lasted a decade or more-- be "safe" for anyone with high sensitivity to peanut.

On the other hand, I've learned that things that I thought would NEVER be safe are made in single-purpose manufacturing facilities.  Like LingLing potstickers.  (Blew my mind, that-- but before everyone gets too excited, they are NOT sesame free; just peanut/treenut and egg free.)

   

"recycled chocolate"

It sounds funny. In a gross way.