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  2. Ruth Graves Wakefield - Wikipedia

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    In 1938, Ruth Graves Wakefield invented the chocolate chip cookie, a lasting symbol of culinary creativity. While working in the kitchen at the Toll House Inn, she tried to improve her butter drop cookie recipe. She added chopped pieces of a Nestlé semi-sweet chocolate bar, expecting the chocolate to melt evenly into the dough.

  3. Curtiss Candy Company - Wikipedia

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    The Curtiss Candy Company was an American confectionery brand and a former company based in Chicago, Illinois. It was founded in 1916 by Otto Schnering near Chicago, Illinois . Wanting a more "American-sounding" name (due to anti-German sentiment during World War I ), Schnering named his company using his mother's maiden name.

  4. Bob Born - Wikipedia

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    Just Born building where Peeps are made. In 1945, Born joined his father's company, Just Born. [5] In 1950, he developed a process to turn unused Mike and Ike candies into a new product, Hot Tamales, by remelting them and adding hot cinnamon flavor. [6] In 1953, the company acquired the Rodda Candy Company, known for its jelly beans.

  5. Burry's - Wikipedia

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    The "Gaucho" peanut butter sandwich cookie produced by Burry was the same cookie as the Savannah, produced for the consumer market ; Gauchos came in a coarse cardstock box that was covered in a wax-coated paper label. These cookies had a small hole in the oatmeal wafer top that allowed any excess peanut butter filling to escape during ...

  6. The Story Behind the Animal Cracker - AOL

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    These festive treats may remind you of a day at the circus as a child, but the story of how they came to be goes all way back to England in the late 1800s. The animal-shaped cookies soon made ...

  7. Mary Jane (candy) - Wikipedia

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    Mary Janes were wrapped in yellow wax paper brandished with a single red stripe and originally sold as penny candies under the slogan, “Use your change for Mary Janes.” [3] The Mary Jane Logo—a cartoon girl clad in a yellow dress a bonnet and yellow dress with the candy's name emblazoned across the hem—has remained in tact since the ...

  8. Russell Stover Candies - Wikipedia

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    Russell Stover Chocolates, Inc. is an American manufacturer of candy, chocolate, and confections. Founded by Russell Stover , an American chemist and entrepreneur, and his wife Clara Stover in 1923, it is an independent subsidiary of Swiss chocolatier Lindt & Sprüngli .

  9. Sam Born - Wikipedia

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    Just Born building in Bethlehem, where Peeps are made. In 1923 he founded the Just Born [6] company in Brooklyn, New York, a candy manufacturer that still manufactures Peeps, Mike and Ike, and Hot Tamales. [7] After opening a factory and store in Brooklyn, Sam brought his brothers-in-law, Irv and Jack Shaffer, into the business.