What is "candy bar"

n. A kind of candy in the shape of a bar, often made of chocolate.

n. a candy shaped as a bar

Candy bar refers to a variety of confectioneries that are shaped in a bar form

Candy bar may also refer to:

• Chocolate bar, a confection in bar form that contains chocolate, cocoa, cocoa butter, etc.
• CandyBar, a Mac OS X icon application
• Candy Barr, a mid-20th century striptease artist
• Dylan's Candy Bar, a candy store in New York City
• Candybar phone, a form factor (shape and layout) of a mobile phone
• Candy Bar (London), a lesbian bar in Soho that shut in 2014
• "CandyBar", a song by Cara Jones from Now
• "Candi Bar", a song by Keith Murray from He's Keith Murray

A candy bar is a type of sugar confectionery that is shaped in a bar form. The advent of the Industrial Revolution made possible many new candies, advances in food technology, scientific knowledge, and cooking apparatus made possible items such as jelly beans and chocolate. Most 19th century American cookbooks do not include recipes for making chocolate candy because it was primarily made by professional confectioners. " Penny candies" were a direct result of cheaper ingredients and mass production. Since World War I –when the candy bar began to gain popularity– some 40,000 different candy bars appeared on the scene. Since the turn of the twentieth century, the vast majority of bars have been mass-produced. A combination candy bar is one that contains chocolate plus other ingredients, such as nuts or nougat. The Goo Goo Cluster was the first mass-produced combination bar. Chocolate is by far the most popular type of candy. Between 2007 and 2010 chocolate confectionery sales were valued at $17.68 billion in the United States alone.

The chocolate candy bar was invented in 1847 when Joseph Fry of England discovered a way to mix cocoa powder, sugar, and cocoa to create a paste that could be pressed into a mold. The resulting bar, Fry's Chocolate Cream Bar was made of semisweet chocolate. In 1875, Henry Nestlé, a maker of evaporated milk, and Daniel Peter, a chocolate maker, created the more palatable milk chocolate. Hershey's introduction of machinery at the turn of the twentieth century, combined with their intensive distribution strategy made the candy bar a household item and turned candymaking into a multibillion dollar industry.
Today the Hershey Foods Corporation is the dominant national and international candy manufacturer. However, with many confectionery giants such as W. M. Wrigley, Mars, Curtiss and Brach based in Chicago, the Chicago confectionery business is the world's largest.

Candy Bar was a lesbian bar that was based in Carlisle Street in Soho, London. It was started in 1996 by Kim Lucas who decorated the interior pink and provided lap and pole dancing. Men were allowed into the bar if accompanied by a woman.

In 2011, the bar was sold by Lucas to Gary Henshaw, owner of the Ku chain of London gay bars. New management brought in by Henshaw toned down the bright pink decoration. The bar was featured in a Channel 5 six-part fly-on-the-wall documentary series named Candy Bar Girls.

The bar closed in January 2014 following an increase in rents.