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Estimated from NBC News (1 Apr 2026): "Starting next year, Tanner said candies inspired by the originals - like the 'mini Reese's cups and shapes,' as well as the Reese's Fast Break candy bar - will also be made with real milk chocolate"; a change starting in 2027 takes its first day, and Fox Business[3] says the transition comes "by 2027".
'Beginning next year, Tanner said inspired products like the mini Reese's cups and shapes will be made with real milk chocolate'.[1]
Transition of select items (Fast Break, some Mini Reese's, foil-wrapped products) to traditional milk or dark chocolate by 2027.[1]
Brad Reese's complaint that Take5 and Fast Break bars lost their milk chocolate coating and the Mini Hearts he threw out.[1]
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