11/27/2023 0 Comments Candy bars with numbers in their names![]() Gerrish, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, brought out the first peanut bar, Squirrel Brand, in 1905. Such dazzling success begat swift competition, and soon a multitude of companies was making bars of chocolate combined with caramel, marshmallow, peanuts, crisped rice, and anything else that might sell. By 1911 his company had sales of five million dollars a year by 1921 it was making four times that. ![]() He made not just plain chocolate and milk-chocolate bars but also innovative items like almond bars, kisses, and chocolate cigars. By the turn of the century he was through with caramels. He ordered some for his factory in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and began turning out chocolate bars the next year. Milton Snavely Hershey, the father of the modern candy bar, had already built a successful business in caramels when he first saw German chocolate-making machines at the 1893 Chicago world’s fair. The candy bar, agglomerating a variety of flavors and textures-almost always including chocolate-in one piece, was a purely American invention, and it’s still not one hundred years old. Not until the 1840s did a British firm, Fry and Sons, make the first chocolate bar. ![]() Spanish royalty drank a cold, sweetened beverage made from the beans, but they liked it so much they kept it a secret from the rest of Europe for the remainder of the century. Mexican natives cultivated the cocoa bean for more than twenty-five hundred years before Hernán Cortés took it to Spain with him in 1528. So too, many centuries earlier, was chocolate itself. The candy bar as we know it was born in America.
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