Almond Joy Is In Denial About Its Almond Usage
We'll admit that it would look a little sad to advertise a single lonely almond on the wrapper of the .6 oz Almond Joy. But printing "Coconut & Almonds" on the front, including an illustration of two almonds next to the text, and then referencing "almonds" in the ingredients list, looks a little misleading when you open the package and see one lonely nut lump on your candy. (Thanks to James!)
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They used to have two in each piece. Has the grocery shrink ray hit these too?
Eets not a toomah
Hey, usually there are two of those little bars in a package, so the plural of almond is correct, technically.
Fun fact: Every Almond Joy label is printed with the number for your local poison control center.
It's called "Almond" joy not "Almonds" Joy. Almonds Joy is reserved for fifth level party members or higher only.
@wgrune: Yeah, you're not hallucinating. I used to eat them in two bites, ensuring an equal amount of almond/coconutty goodness in each. I think only the Bite-Sized (Halloween) version just had one.
Mr. T's gonna be pissed when he finds out that you didn't actually get some nuts.
Give Consumerist a Pulitzer already.
Do they use whole almonds? If they use chopped and whole, than the plural is correct.
They have only had one almond per piece for a long time.
"But you let in Homer Glumplich!"
"It says 'No HomERS.' We're allowed to have one."
Almond Dissatisfaction?
It's a "Label Malfunction"
Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't!
(rewrite)
Almond Joy's got nut. Mounds don't!
@MercuryPDX: @MonkeySeeMonkeyDo: Almost all fun sized candy bars have shrunk in the past decade, although I have no concrete idea of when. My friends and I enthusiastically picked up tons of candy to hand out to kids for the past two halloweens. We got (of the top of my head) twix, snickers, milky way, butterfinger, almond joy, york patties, kitkat, and almost all of them were smaller than when we were younger (i.e. college days 10 years ago). Twix used to be a bit longer, snicker's bar has lost a considerable amount of girth (instead of being a short full-sized bar, they were a long 'snack sized' square), kitkat sticks used to be equivalent of 2 full-sized sticks, but is now about 30% shorter, almond joy bar was smaller and only contained one almond. Trick-or-Treaters are getting SCREWED with the new "fun" sized bars.
We decided if this trend continued, we'd have to switch to full size bars from costco. It's the only fair thing to do.
@homerjay: Kids can be so cruel...
It'd be interesting to compare a newer label to an older one and see if the almond(s) change places in the ingredient listing. Or maybe this is just a fluke - an almond joy that wants to be a mounds?
Maybe the other one was cancerous and had to be removed
I don't remember more than 1 nut per bar ever. In the regular sized package, there are 2 bars, each with their own nut, but never can I remember a time when there were 2 nuts per bar.
NOTE: the bar is the individual piece of candy, not the whole content of the wrapper.
One nut is perfectly acceptable. There should be no requirement for two nuts when one will do the job. There is nothing wrong with only having one nut. On a candy bar, I mean, obviously. Not talkin' 'bout anything else.
[whistles]
Even if it means all my kids will be conservative.
admit it, you just wanted to write "nut lump" didnt you
Yes but you have two pieces, each of which has one whole almond in it there for you are getting more than one almond.
Add one more to the list: "Almond Joy's got nuts. Mounds don't..."
Of course, in their defence:
Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't.
Hmmm... this could go either way. But seriously... one nut? WTF...
Oh and if anyone is really that upset about only having one nut to put in your mouth, alright i'll just stop there.
one lonely nut lump
That was actually my ex's pet name for me. *sniff*
I want to trick or treat at ludwigk's house.
why does Mounds have dark chocolate and Almond Joy not? I've never totally understood that.
They used to have 2 almonds when I ate them as a kid -- not that long ago. Pretty soon they'll be down to just making "mounds" in two different colored wrappers!
@cmdrsass:
Assuming that they really do have a poison control number, it's probably because some people are highly allergic to nuts.
Hmmmmm on the other hand.... don't their ads say "sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't" ??? So they really meant it "a nut" ? :-)
With all that's wrong with the world, people starving, terrorism, staring in the face of a global economic collapse due to energy prices, etc, I'm sure there's something to talk about other than the almond count in crappy candy bars.
Really.
Good, i don't like the almond part anyway.
How many almonds is a .6 ounce Almond Joy SUPPOSED to have?
Christ, it isn't like they hand make them one at a time with magic and love. They DO use almondS.
And it isn't like not having the hazelnut in your Ferrero Rocher. This is about as cheap as chocolate comes...this shit happens. Sure, every fun-size chocolate bar could be visually inspected, but then you're going to pay more.
At least it was a food nut and not a fastener nut.
Lance Armstrong Endorsed!
@simplegreen: Lonely nut lump. I can't wait to call someone that... I'm gonna be giggling all day...
Maybe that one almond is actually a mixture of several almonds ground together and made into a composite of one almond.
I wouldn't put it past them.
The ingredients listing is for the whole package. One package contains 2 of the bars.
Even if the list was for an individual serving, that is listed as two bars. So, the plural is not a lie.
The real story should be that a single serving (two bars) of Almond Joy contains 55% of your saturated fat content for a day.
How did they get the nut(s) above the bar?
Aaaaaaaand, having just opened the reference package I got, each of the bars has two almonds on them. So, I'd say that single nut was probably a manufacturing error.
@dry-roasted-peanuts:
That's because of the coconut... but there's been a lot of research that suggests coconut's fat isn't as harmful as animal sources of saturated fat.
It's not a tumor.
@TechnoDestructo: I had a response just like this one typed up and thought I'd read the others first. He's completely right, it's a very tiny mistake, not a conspiracy. It happens, get over it.
Y'all know how they pick almonds, don't you?
When they're ready to harvest, the spread a big tarp under the tree and then, with large clubs, beat the L out of it.
I guess it works better spoken than typed.....
everyone buy one and check to see if each candy has one nut or two.
After opening if you don't want to eat them, send them to me. My wife loves 'em.
It looks like it realised it's part of a terrible candy bar and now is trying to escape.