Cultural References
During Henry Aaron's quest to break Babe Ruth's record for career home runs in Major League Baseball, the bar was briefly advertised as being linked to him, even though it was first marketed years before he was even born.
Baseball fans in Montreal and Chicago would routinely toss the bars onto the playing field in celebration of a Henry Rodriguez home run.
On the American television series Seinfeld, the character of Sue Ellen Mischke, a socialite nemesis of Elaine Benes, is said to be "heiress to the Oh Henry! candy bar fortune".
On the American television series All in the Family, Edith Bunker admits to having stolen an Oh Henry! bar from the corner store as a young girl, but years later paid the store back.
Members of the band Dog Is Dead originally performed together under the name "Oh Henry!" when at school.
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Famous quotes containing the word cultural:
“To recover the fatherhood idea, we must fashion a new cultural story of fatherhood. The moral of today’s story is that fatherhood is superfluous. The moral of the new story must be that fatherhood is essential.”
—David Blankenhorn (20th century)