Reese's Peanut Butter Cups vs. Eggs: Which is better?
Saturday night on the copy desk, once again we discussed how much better the Reese's Peanut Butter Easter Eggs taste than the regular PB Cups. (Apparently we have nothing better to do than to discuss things like this over and over again.) We began to speculate on why that was, and most of us figured it was the chocolate to peanut butter ratio. However, some people thought that the Cups had a higher ratio, and some thought they had a lower ratio.
On the way home last night, I decided there was only one way to know for sure: a very scientific experiment in Mel's Kitchen. I swung by CVS to pick up some test subjects:
The experiment was simple: I would separate the peanut butter and the chocolate for each subject, then weigh them using my handy dandy kitchen scale. It was almost that easy.
First, I weighed each subject in its whole form.
Cup Total Weight: 21 grams (.74 ounces)
Egg Total Weight: 18 grams (.63 ounces)
Then, I proceeded to separate the egg, then the cup, into two piles: peanut butter and chocolate. I didn't account for the fact that chocolate becomes extremely melty and hard to work with when you hold it for long periods of time. (It was difficult, but I managed to not lick my fingers and eat part of the test subjects.) This probably accounts, however, for the reason why the separated piles don't add up to the whole in the end.
After separating and weighing each one, here are the totals:
Cup
Chocolate: 11 grams (.39 ounces)
Peanut butter: 9 grams (.32 ounces)
Egg
Chocolate: 8 grams (.28 ounces)
Peanut butter: 9 grams (.32 ounces)
Without even doing a bit of math, it's quite clear: There is a higher peanut butter to chocolate ratio in the Eggs than in the Cups.
Conclusion
Taken with the very scientific survey of the copy desk, who prefer the Eggs over the Cups, it's safe to say that no one in a newsroom will ever turn down free candy, regardless of its peanut butter to chocolate ratio.
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I too love the eggs soooo much more!!!!
Posted on April 19, 2007 3:24 PM
Just found this, but could not have said it better myself! I fast from candy immediately after Xmas to make room for Reeses Eggs. Additional comment that may require some more scientific testing.... Reeses Eggs advanced as it were.... If we can make the assumption that peanut butter stays 'fresher' longer than chocolate (I think is does).... then we may also make the assumption that the Eggs will stay fresher longer than the Cup...
Posted on March 13, 2008 12:11 PM
My dad and I are going to do the same experiment and we looked up if anyone else had done the same thing and... ta da found this! Really, the only things we are doing differently is we are using more than one of each, and seeing which has a higher chocolate-peanut butter ratio out of the regular cups, mini cups, regular eggs, and mini eggs. We want to make sure we get an average ratio of each kind and not just the ratio of one of each. Awesome experiment, very scientific, and important to know!!
Posted on April 12, 2008 9:34 PM