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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.
Leo Hirschfield was an Austrian-American candymaker known as the inventor of the Tootsie Roll, the first individually wrapped penny candy, [1] and Bromangelon, the first commercially successful gelatin dessert mix, which preceded Jell-O by two years.
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.
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Baby Ruth is an American candy bar made of peanuts, caramel, and milk chocolate-flavored nougat, covered in compound chocolate. [1] Created in 1920, it is manufactured by the Ferrara Candy Company , a subsidiary of Ferrero .
3. Oh Henry! $7.99 at Walmart. Shop Now. Debuted: 1920 What’s inside: Peanuts, caramel, fudge You’ll find peanuts, caramel, and fudge inside an Oh Henry! bar, and for fans of simplicity like ...
The company's headquarters is located on the South Side of Chicago, in a portion of the former Dodge Chicago Plant where the majority of the company's candy is produced. . The company also has a factory in Mexico City where it produces some flavors of Tootsie Pops and other candy products for the Mexican market as well as for export to the U.S. and Can
The Clark Bar is a candy bar consisting of a crispy peanut butter/spun taffy core (originally with a caramel center) and coated in milk chocolate. It was introduced in 1917 by David L. Clark and was popular during and after both World Wars. It was the first American "combination" candy bar to achieve nationwide success.