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Candy Maker Releasing Historic Chocolate
AP via ABC Philly ^
| May 11, 2006
| Anon AP Candy Stringer
Posted on 05/11/2006 5:27:43 PM PDT by Pharmboy
TICONDEROGA, N.Y. (AP) - May 11, 2006 - Chocolate was more than a treat for the Continental Army – it was their MRE's.
Rodney Snyder, a historian for candy maker Mars, Incorporated, says the soldiers in the Continental Army would have a couple of cups of hot chocolate in the morning and be good until lunch. He says chocolate was a staple of Revolutionary War rations. Mars is out with a new line of products based on old recipes. American Heritage Chocolate was introduced at a historic fort in upstate New York yesterday.
The products will be sold at just a handful of sites, including the Smithsonian's Museum of American History in Washington and Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Food; History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: americanhistory; cacao; chocolate; chocolatecity; cradleofchocolate; ct; de; ga; ma; mars; md; museum; nc; nh; nj; ny; openwideforchunky; pa; revwar; ri; sc; smithsonian; va; virginia; williamsburg
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Plenny of freepers like chocolate, and plenny of freepers like the RevWar, so this seemed perfect. I ALMOST put it in Breaking News, but I restrained myself.
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posted on
05/11/2006 5:27:47 PM PDT
by
Pharmboy
To: Peanut Gallery; Valin; bentfeather; SAMWolf; snippy_about_it
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posted on
05/11/2006 5:29:26 PM PDT
by
Professional Engineer
(The economy is just terrible. My staff has "only" tripled in 18 months.)
To: indcons; Chani; thefactor; blam; aculeus; ELS; Doctor Raoul; mainepatsfan; timpad; ...
American Revolution/Colonial History/ General Washington Chocolate ping list...freepmail me to get ON or OFF this list (jes' kiddin' 'biut the chocolate).
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posted on
05/11/2006 5:31:08 PM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(Democrats lie because they must)
To: Pharmboy
lol! I lived in the Ti/Crown Point area for a year. It's beautiful country.
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posted on
05/11/2006 5:34:22 PM PDT
by
sageb1
(This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
To: Pharmboy
here's to hoping they use sugar and not poly-syllabic sweetener.
To: Pharmboy
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posted on
05/11/2006 5:45:52 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
("Too soon to remember??? How about TOO SOON TO FORGET!" from Mr. Silverback)
To: Pharmboy
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posted on
05/11/2006 5:52:01 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
("Too soon to remember??? How about TOO SOON TO FORGET!" from Mr. Silverback)
To: Cailleach; nnn0jeh
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posted on
05/11/2006 5:56:36 PM PDT
by
kalee
To: Pharmboy
Honey, this is breaking news to me!!!! Love my chocolate!
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posted on
05/11/2006 5:58:10 PM PDT
by
ladyinred
To: Pharmboy
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posted on
05/11/2006 6:03:48 PM PDT
by
hedgetrimmer
("I'm a millionaire thanks to the WTO and "free trade" system--Hu Jintao top 10 worst dictators)
To: NonValueAdded
NVA, thanks for the link!
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posted on
05/11/2006 6:21:45 PM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(Democrats lie because they must)
To: Pharmboy
Google Search: mmm chocolate, result=
To: NonValueAdded
UGH!!! You couldn't give me that link, say, two weeks before Mother's Day instead of two days?
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posted on
05/11/2006 7:41:25 PM PDT
by
Tanniker Smith
(I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
To: Pharmboy
"I ALMOST put it in Breaking News, but I restrained myself." Well, I just had a 'small' Snickers bar.
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posted on
05/11/2006 7:52:04 PM PDT
by
blam
To: Pharmboy
MMMMMMMMM
Historic Chocolate
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posted on
05/11/2006 7:56:53 PM PDT
by
MamaTexan
(I will hold my government to the intent of the Founders...whether it likes it or not!)
To: Pharmboy
OH BOY! I am going to be in Williamsburg next month for the Under the RedCoat event... June 23-25 Open to the public...Gonna have to grab some :)
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posted on
05/11/2006 8:05:18 PM PDT
by
Zavien Doombringer
(Mr. Franklin, what form of customes did you create in Tiajunna? A beeber, Madam, if you can stune it)
To: Pharmboy
And I thought this was another Ray Nagin thread ...
To: Pharmboy
Living 20 miles down wind from Hershey, PA, I can tell you that there it's something special when the chocolate workers come out at noon for lunch.
The air is rich with the smell of chocolate!
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posted on
05/11/2006 9:13:53 PM PDT
by
airborne
(Satan's greatest trick was convincing people he doesn't exist.)
To: Pharmboy
no doubt this is a dead link:
Cradle of Chocolate?
by Roger Segelken
Oct. 8, 1998
Digging through history to a time before agriculture, archaeologists from Cornell University and the University of California at Berkeley have found evidence of a village that was continuously occupied from 2000 B.C. to A.D. 1000 as well as hints to the secret of the community's remarkable longevity.
"My guess is, it all comes down to chocolate," says John S. Henderson, professor of anthropology at Cornell and co-director, together with Rosemary Joyce of Berkeley, of the archaeological dig at Puerto Escondido, Honduras. The type of ceremonial pottery uncovered by the archaeologists points to that region of Mesoamerica as a possible "Cradle of Chocolate."
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05/11/2006 10:51:44 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: ladyinred
Always make my day when ANY lady in red calls me "honey." But, best from you, sugar...
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05/12/2006 4:32:19 AM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(Democrats lie because they must)
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