100 Grand History
From: Kentucky.com
The WLTO-102.5 FM contest that gave away a 100 Grand candy bar, not $100,000, wasn't the first time the play-on-words has been used for Nestle's chocolate-and-caramel confection. The candy was originally called a $100,000 Bar, but was renamed 100 Grand in the 1980s after a Nestle shake-up.
United Airlines flight attendants quietly protested $14 million in cash bonuses given to the airline's top executives in 1996 by handing out 100 Grand bars with a note attached: "Just in case you're not one of the 600 people who got the bonus, we'd like you to have 100 Grand."
When the cast of Friends demanded $100,000 per episode in 1996, Nestle delivered full cases of 100 Grand bars to each member of the cast. (If the candy bars were payment enough, there would have been 360 more episodes of Friends -- about 15 more seasons.)
In commercials for the candy bar, beauty pageant contestants were asked what they'd do with 100 grand. While other contestants wished for world peace and puppies, the final contestant said she'd eat it. At the end of the commercial, she is crowned.
