Area Woman Pays Face Value for Klondike Bar

By Chris Deakin

Dec. 24, 2013

At 4:30 p.m. EST, Friday January 10th, local businesswoman Grace Fortier paid $2.99 for a package of six Klondike Bars™, a popular confection made of ice cream and chocolate. She then opened the package and removed a single Klondike Bar™, for which she had paid approximately 49.8¢.

The move follows repeated cravings, and Fortier’s recent withdrawal of a $20 bill early Thursday. The bill was broken into smaller denominations by Fortier’s purchase of a morning coffee drink, which also contributed to the decision to buy the Klondike Bar ™. “I wanted it,” says Fortier, “and I got in my car, I drove to the convenience store, and I purchased it. To get the single bar I wanted, I also had to separate it from the five others I had bought as a set. But I was willing to do that as well.”

Fortier has been known to indulge in both chocolate and ice cream individually. On this particular occasion, she used U.S. currency to purchase a combination of the two, at a price roughly similar to what one might pay for both a chocolate and an ice cream at the same time.

“There is one variety of Klondike Bar™ that includes nuts,” said Fortier between bites of delicious Klondike Bar™. “But I understood I would have to pay an extra amount for that, and I decided against it.”

Paul Costerman, owner-operator of SpeedyThings, was manning the cash register at the time of the transaction. “She put the [Klondike] Bar[™] down on the counter, and for a second I didn’t know what she would do for it. I almost asked as much, but there she was with three dollar bills and it was all I could do to put them in the drawer and return to her a single penny.”

The Klondike™ Bar™ IceCream Treat™™ is a trademarked property of the Unilever corporation, who secured the trademark by paying a U.S. Patent Office fee of $375, and various legal fees.