Centuries ago, on the rolling hills of sunny California, there grew a secret. A secret so powerful the name alone brings fear to the mightiest of men. It strikes down the worthiest of foes and smites their ruins upon the mountainside with power of Thor’s hammer. The secret is known as, Raisin. Little fruits dried from the plumpest of grapes growing from the highest of trees possessing the will of forty men! The branches reach toward the sun like hands toward salvation. Glowing with warmth and shining with glory, the grapes are picked and dried for harvesting. When once upon a midnight dreary, when the clouds huddled high above the ground, a lowly shoemaker named Hanz was stirring his warm chocolate beverage. He heard the crash of thunder and startled he spilled a bushel full of raisins into his drink. The shoemaker not knowing what to do poured his drink into a strainer to salvage what he could of his precious drink. Upon drying, the shoemaker decided to eat the chocolate covered raisin. To his bewilderment he called his wife Yolandanita, the sheep herder, to see what he had found. Hanz told Yolandanita that he had found the secret to the harsh winter storm. That their hope had arrived in the name of Rasinets! And so the tale will be writ. But Hanz and Yolandanita did not brave that winter. They were in fact devoured by bears. But their legend lives on.

Raisinets are sun-ripened, plump juicy California raisins tucked in rich creamy Nestle Classic Milk Chocolate, which is the reason movie-goers have always loved Nestle Raisinets. But this candy is not just for the movies anymore!. Introduced in 1927 by the Blumenthal Chocolate Company. Nestle acquired the brand in 1984. “Taste the Sunshine??? is the catch phrase that has been sweeping the globe for centuries. Even though the name tells you they have only been around for a short while, never forget the peril Hanz and Yolandanita had to go through in order to bring you the Rasinets.