March 24th is National Chocolate Covered Raisin Day!
Last year, Raisinets helped us celebrate Logan and Sam's birthday. They filled our favor bags and made everyone smile! This year, we were asked to help Raisinets celebrate National Chocolate Covered Raisin Day! What an honor! They also want to fill 5 reader's mailboxes with the classic chocolate candy!
Did you know:
• All Nestlé Raisinets are produced in Burlington, Wisconsin. They are made with select California raisins and a unique blend of Nestlé Chocolate.
• Raisinets were first introduced in 1927 by the Blumenthal Chocolate Company. Back then, it took two-and-a-half hours to produce one batch of Raisinets! Now it takes between 45 and 60 minutes.
• Today, they produce more than 1 million Raisinets per hour! Slightly less than 30 million individual Raisinets each day!
• In 2010 they produced nearly 20 million pounds of Milk and Dark Chocolate Raisinets, which is equal to approximately 8 billion individual Raisinets. If you lined them up end-to-end, they’d stretch all the way around the earth about three-and-a-half times!
• Last year they used almost seven million pounds of raisins and more than 10 million pounds of Nestlé Chocolate to produce both Milk and Dark Chocolate Raisinets.
• Raisinets are the first chocolate covered raisin candy to have a cartoon series featured on its own YouTube channel! – www.youtube.com/raisinets
Disclosure: Giveaways provided in exchange for this mention! No monetary compensation received! CashNet Sweepstakes
83 comments:
Growing up, Raisinets were an EXTREME treat. The only place I knew that sold them in my hometown was at the movies, and we didn't buy snacks at the movies. (Just getting to go to the movies was enough of a rare treat!) I think the next town over was the closest place for them, so in answer to "how far I would go to get them, "I'd have to say "about 30 miles."
Raisinets are an awesome treat. I remember eating them as a kid. We didn't get them often but when we did we savored them. Now, I share that love with my son. I carry on the tradition of them being a special treat by only getting them for special occasions so they can be savored.
How far would I go to get them. Well, lets just say that if there were only one box left on the shelf and I saw someone else eyeing them up, there would be a "clean-up on isle 5" call...lol.
I remember getting to go as a very special treat with my mother and father to the drive in. I always got raisinettes as my snack.
I would go anywhere to get them.
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I never had these as a child so it was a later in life treat. I would delete all other posts from this thread so I would be the winner (of course I have no idea how to do that).
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they were my craving- midnight run during pregnancy
Chocolate Covered Raisins are my husbands favorite form of chocolate. Of course I love chocoate period!! The answer to the question of what I'd do to get them is enter contests!! LKVOYER at aol dot com
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I don't think I've ever had this kind of Chocolate Covered Raisins. :) My mom and sister would like this prize better than I would, so I'd give this to them if I won. :)
Thanks for the giveaway!
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i would be willing to give a kidney for them
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As I was growing up every Saturday we went to the movies. I never got popcorn(Mom made that at home) I got Raisinets. When I was 16 I went to work at that very same movies theater. I would always get some Raisinets when I was at work.
I would go through picking them out of the door cubby in my car when the box I had put in there had fallen over - they were a little cruddy, but I was desperate for my Raisinet fix!
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Raisinets mean to the best ever candy in the whole world
Chocolate Covered Raisins are my favorite. I like them every time we got to the movies.
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I love Raisinets, but I don't eat them that often. Now you got me thinking about them and I have to go to the store NOW and buy a box.
Haha. Thanks for the chance!
I absolutely love Raisinets!
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I would ride my Harley anywhere to get them. They are a great treat after riding all day.
As everyone knows, eating a pound of Raisinets a day is a healthy part of one's diet because of all the good fruit and stress-reducing chocolate. I shovel them in my mouth as often as possible!
It's actually my hubby's favorite and he'd just about go bonkers for them! Who knows what he would do?
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Chocolate Covered Raisins are my favorite form of chocolate. The answer to the question of what I'd do to get them is enter contests here.
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I would eat a Klondike bar for a box of Chocolate Covered Raisins!
never did like the raisins but love the peanuts
I love Raisinets because it's chocolate covered fruit. So I can tell myself it's healthy, and I can eat as much as I want. :)
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I like raisinets so much that i'd let my stinky outside dog sleep in my bed just to get some for FREE :)
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Well, you know, raisins have lots of fiber in them, and I am at that age (42) where a little extra fiber in the colon never hurt anybody. I don't know how far I'd go to get them, but my three kids would probably sell me and their father down the river to get some.
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mmm raisinets... I would walk up hill in a blizzard both ways with no shoes on to get me some raisinets ;)
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I loved Raisinets as a kid, but I honestly can't think of the last time I had any. Love them more than bacon and would definitely walk the mile to the nearest convenient store to get some :)
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i havent had them since i was a kid.i would do 20 pushups for them and i cant even do one pushup
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I love raisinets and love to snack on them as much as possible.
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Raisinets and what the mean to me-
R- Radical
A- Awesome
I- Incredible
S- Super
I- I wannna eat them
N- Neccesary staple
E- Every Day Snack
T- Thinking about them now
S- See you later going to get some Raisinets!
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I LOVE raisinets! I would eat them on a train, I would eat them on a plane. I would eat them with a fox, I would eat the whole box!
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I could eat them everyday, I would go as far as any store for them!
I remember eating Raisinets at the movies as a child and I thought they were only sold at theatres and I remember being so excited when I saw them at the store isles for the first time
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Raisinets were always a Special treat to get with a capital"S" when going around for Halloween. You could count yourself one of the lucky ones if it ended up in your pillowcase or whatever carrier one would take around. I'd dive over a coffee table while singing you light up my life for some yummy Raisinets!
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Raisinets are way better than popcorn for movie viewing. They're not all loud and crunchy, so there's no missing that important dialogue moment. Plus, they taste better. I've driven well out of the way to get a box or two before heading to the movie theater.
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Raisinets are good, but I wouldn't do anything crazy for them
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I adore Raisinets! C'mon, delicious chocolate WITH raisins? To me that means they are healthy & they taste yummy. I love to have them at the movies & will sneak in my own because less expensive that way.
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Love those raisinets! I'd drive quite far to grab a box.
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i would go to the store that is 10 miles from home in the middle of the night for raisinets
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Raisinets means the best treat for me. I would go down the hill and around the corner for Raisinets. garrettsambo@aol.com
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