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<p>[QUOTE="clutteredcloset49, post: 1504082, member: 85"]Was looking for early chocolate factory with JB initials. Came across this which I thought was interesting.</p><p>Chocolate as we know it didn't become a thing until the late 1800s. </p><p><br /></p><p>From <a href="https://www.history.com/news/the-sweet-history-of-chocolate" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.history.com/news/the-sweet-history-of-chocolate" rel="nofollow">https://www.history.com/news/the-sweet-history-of-chocolate</a></p><p><i>"In 1847, British chocolate company J.S. Fry & Sons created the first solid edible chocolate bar from cocoa butter, cocoa powder and sugar. Rodolphe Lindt’s 1879 invention of the conching machine, which produced chocolate with a velvety texture and superior taste, and other advances allowed for the mass production of smooth, creamy milk chocolate on factory assembly lines. You don’t need to have a sweet tooth to recognize the familiar names of the family-owned companies such as Cadbury, Mars and Hershey that ushered in a chocolate boom in the late 1800s and early 1900s that has yet to abate. Today, the average American consumes 12 lbs. of chocolate each year, and more than $75 billion worldwide is spent on chocolate annually."</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><a href="https://www.history.com/author/christopher-klein" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.history.com/author/christopher-klein" rel="nofollow">Christopher Klein</a></i></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>From the Smithsonian.org</p><p><i>"Americans weren’t responsible for one of chocolate’s biggest advances, Snyder writes. Advertisements for “solid eating chocolate” appear in mid-1800s newspapers, he writes, but the chocolates “were not well received by the public because of their coarse and gritty texture.” Swiss innovators developed the first appealing eating chocolate in the 1870s, and the rest was history."</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="clutteredcloset49, post: 1504082, member: 85"]Was looking for early chocolate factory with JB initials. Came across this which I thought was interesting. Chocolate as we know it didn't become a thing until the late 1800s. From [URL]https://www.history.com/news/the-sweet-history-of-chocolate[/URL] [I]"In 1847, British chocolate company J.S. Fry & Sons created the first solid edible chocolate bar from cocoa butter, cocoa powder and sugar. Rodolphe Lindt’s 1879 invention of the conching machine, which produced chocolate with a velvety texture and superior taste, and other advances allowed for the mass production of smooth, creamy milk chocolate on factory assembly lines. You don’t need to have a sweet tooth to recognize the familiar names of the family-owned companies such as Cadbury, Mars and Hershey that ushered in a chocolate boom in the late 1800s and early 1900s that has yet to abate. Today, the average American consumes 12 lbs. of chocolate each year, and more than $75 billion worldwide is spent on chocolate annually." [URL='https://www.history.com/author/christopher-klein']Christopher Klein[/URL][/I] From the Smithsonian.org [I]"Americans weren’t responsible for one of chocolate’s biggest advances, Snyder writes. Advertisements for “solid eating chocolate” appear in mid-1800s newspapers, he writes, but the chocolates “were not well received by the public because of their coarse and gritty texture.” Swiss innovators developed the first appealing eating chocolate in the 1870s, and the rest was history."[/I][/QUOTE]
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