Why is the candy bar called a Butterfinger when there is no butter or fingers in it?

Answer 1

Maybe there ARE actually butter and finger in there, mixed with the chocolate. Just kidding, but it's probably that when you hold it too long, the chocolate melts on your finger and it's oily like butter and you drop stuff (butterfingers mean you drop stuff).

Answer 2

What catsplayyy said. Also, when you bite off a bite of a Butterfinger bar, fragments have a tendency to slip off or fall out of the wrapper, which also makes the eater look like a butterfinger - a little clumsy but worth the inconvenience. The "butter" part might also refer to the peanut butter flavor. Oh, yeah, and haven't you heard of finger foods before? No fingers there, either.

Answer 3

Butterfinger is the name of a candy bar made by Nestlé. It has a firm, orange-colored center similar in texture and taste to peanut brittle (without the peanuts), that is coated in milk chocolate. The filling has a peanut butter taste, hence the name. When eaten, it tends to crumble and then take on a peanut buttery consistency.
Butterfinger was invented by the Curtiss Candy Company of Chicago, Illinois in 1923. The company held a public contest to choose the name of the candy bar. The name is a slang term used to describe a clumsy person, often in sporting events to describe an athlete who can't hold onto the ball. As an early publicity stunt and marketing ploy, the company dropped Butterfinger and Baby Ruth candy bars from airplanes in cities across the United States which helped increase its popularity.
One of the slogans currently used to advertise the candy bar is "Break out of the ordinary!" Prior to that, Bart Simpson and other characters from The Simpsons appeared in numerous advertisements for the product from 1989 to 2001, with the slogan "Nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger!"
Butterfinger was withdrawn from German shops due to consumer rejection when it was one of the first products to be labeled as containing genetically modified ingredients from corn.
After a series of mergers and acquisitions, the candy bar is now produced by Nestlé.

Answer 4

Well Melancholy Girl after just finishing a delicious Butterfinger candy bar, I thought a question about having butter fingers or something like that would be appropriate, and low and behold you asked one similar. To be honest, have no clue. Could be something to do with having 'butter fingers' where things slip out of your grasp.....but what does that have to do with a chocolate bar, anyway....it tasted plenty good.

Answer 5

Its the peanut butter candy in the middle of the bar, and the long and thin shape of the bar resembles fingers, or even finger sandwiches.

Answer 6

peanut butter an d finger like shaped lol i dunno
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Answer 7

b-cause it looks like a butter covered finger

Answer 8

Butter must have been the main ingredent in them when they were first made. Hard to say what they put in anything these days.

Answer 9

You havent heard the story behind Butterfingers??? Google search it. it's NASTY!!!

Answer 10

Never Really thought about that before! I hope you figure it out soon!