I’ll be honest: This is alarming for me. Because a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup might be my ride-or-die, number one, all-time favorite candy. And living in Japan, I don’t get to experience the pleasure of biting into one those satisfyingly soft peanut-y chocolate cups very often. And now I hear there’s trouble …

The grandson of the man who invented the iconic peanut butter cups is criticizing the current maker and accusing it of using cheaper ingredients. Brad Reese, grandson of candymaker H.B. Reese, wrote a pointed letter to The Hershey Co. on Feb. 14, alleging that it sacrificed quality for profit when making Reese's products. The letter, posted on his LinkedIn account, claimed that “Reese’s identity is being rewritten” by replacing milk chocolate and peanut butter with compound coatings and “peanut-butter-style crèmes,” respectively. He added, “My grandfather built Reese's on a simple, enduring architecture: Milk Chocolate + Peanut Butter. Not a flavor idea. Not a marketing construct. A real, tangible product identity that consumers have trusted for a century.”

The New York Times confirms this. Hershey’s has changed some of its candy recipes and now using a chocolate-flavored coating that can’t legally be referred to as milk chocolate, a term that is regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. The words “milk chocolate” that were once prominently featured on the front of the package are now gone. Well, that’s gross.

But it’s the latest of the recipe changes that have been spreading across the candy business as prices for cocoa have climbed in recent years, driven by a confluence of factors including drought, financial speculation and labor shortages.

In a statement, Hershey’s played dumb with a sly corporate message that says it had made recipe adjustments to some Reese’s products “that allow us to make new shapes, sizes, and innovations.” The Reese heir told CBS News, “I absolutely believe in innovation, but my preference is innovation with quality.” He often has people tell him that Reese’s products don’t taste as good as they once did. He added that Hershey should keep in mind a famous quote from its founder, Milton Hershey: “Give them quality, that’s the best advertising.”

The rapid buildup of U.S. forces in the Middle East has progressed to the point that President Donald Trump has the option to take military action against Iran as soon as this weekend, administration and Pentagon officials said, leaving the White House with high-stakes choices about pursuing diplomacy or war. What’s Trump leaning towards? That’s anyone’s guess.

Of course, U.S. officials and analysts have warned that such assaults would encourage an Iranian retaliation, possibly drawing the U.S. into a war in the Middle East and endangering regional allies. On the diplomatic front, senior U.S. officials met this week with Iranian counterparts for negotiations. The U.S. wants an end to Tehran’s nuclear work and to see constraints on Iran’s ballistic-missile program and support for regional armed proxies. Iran has rejected a sweeping arrangement and so far has offered modest concessions on its nuclear efforts.

Still, it is unclear whether Trump has approved any military action. One consideration, some noted, is the ongoing Winter Olympics, which conclude Sunday in Italy. Meanwhile, Secretary of State Marco Rubio plans to travel to Israel on Feb. 28 to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a State Department official told the Washington Post. The trip would be aimed at keeping Netanyahu abreast of the status of U.S.-Iran negotiations, the official said, but it does not preclude the Pentagon from launching strikes first.

Alysa Liu isn’t your average figure skater. She was the youngest woman to land a triple axel in international competition. The first woman to combine a quadruple jump with a triple axel. And the same girl who won two U.S. championships and decided to walk away from the sport. After a two-year retirement, she attempted (and succeeded at) what others failed to do: come back and win.

Liu won gold in the women’s single skating event, becoming the first American woman to medal since 2006 and the first to win gold since 2002. What makes Liu’s win extra rewarding is not simply that she finished on the top of the podium, but that she did so after having taken control of her career. No one was telling her what to eat, when to train or dictating her style or music choices. This was Liu’s program and she did the damn thing.

Over on another rink, the U.S. women’s hockey team faced off against Canada and won its third Olympic gold medal after a stunning comeback in overtime. They trailed for most of the game, down 1-0 to a Canadian team that had fully bought into its underdog mentality. It was only when captain Hilary Knight made U.S. history—with her 15th career goal at the Olympics—that the dominant American team we’d seen for two weeks in Milan finally showed up. In the end, Team USA overpowered Canada 2-1 in overtime to regain the Olympic title, completing a perfect 7-0 run through the tournament.

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