Butterfinger
Butterfinger is a candy bar created in 1923 in Chicago, Illinois by Otto Schnering, which currently is manufactured by Nestlé. The bar consists of a flaky, crisp, peanut butter-flavored center covered with caramel compound chocolate.
History
The Curtiss Candy Company had been founded near Chicago, Illinois, in 1922 by Otto Schnering, using his mother's maiden name. The Butterfinger candy bar was invented by him during 1923. The company held a public contest to choose the name of this candy. In an early marketing campaign, the company dropped Butterfinger and Baby Ruth candy bars from airplanes in cities across the United States as a publicity stunt that helped increase its popularity. The candy bar also was promoted in Baby Take a Bow, a 1934 film featuring Shirley Temple.
In 1964, Standard Brands Inc. purchased the Curtiss Candy Company. It then merged with Nabisco in 1981. RJR Nabisco was formed in 1985 by the merger of Nabisco Brands and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. In 1988, RJR Nabisco was purchased by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. in what was at the time, the largest leveraged buyout in history.
Butterfinger (Canadian band)
Butterfinger was a Saskatchewan-based Canadian alternative/rock band having released an independently recorded studio album.
Their song, "Breathe", won several awards including the national songwriting competition in conjunction with Canadian Music Week in 2001. Due to the success of Breathe, the band was inspired to work on a full-length album project, directed by Producer, Mixer, and Engineer Jared Kuemper.
Butterfinger was nominated for "Outstanding Rock Recording" at the Western Canadian Music Awards in 2003.
In November 2003, Butterfinger was awarded a VideoFACT grant to shoot a music video for the song, "Do You Feel". They were one of only 40 to receive the grant out of the 284 submissions. The video was produced by a Toronto film company called Firewatch Films.
The band has not released any new music since 2004, and the band is currently inactive.
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Who Really Cares
by: PowderfingerRelease me from this struggle to be free
Take my hand,lead me to the promised land of your love
Step outside of this superficial life
Put your pretty lips on mine
Kiss me one more time and I'm gone
Who really cares?
Who really knows?
About these agents of despair
and their thrown together prose
Release me from this struggle to be free
I'll break my plans
to be in the gentle hands of your love
When you're by my side in these superficial times
Put your little hand in mine
Kiss me one more time and I'm gone
Who really cares?
Who really knows?
About these agents of despair
and their thrown together prose
Let them have his head
He's harmless you know
Watch him let you down
and leave you hanging on a rope
I wont be fooled by your devious ways
Your ingenuine fears and your ingenuine pain
I look a wreck but somehow you look fine
You come to me
and ask me to ease our troubled mind
Latest News for: butterfinger
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20 Mar 2025
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