National Milky Way Day

Five Food Finds about Milky Way Candy Bar

• The Milky Way bar was created in 1923 by Frank Mars.

•  In the 1920’s it came in two flavors chocolate and vanilla.

• It was the first mass produced chocolate bar with a filling.

•  The name ‘Milky Way’ was taken from a popular malted milkshake NOT the galaxy.

•  Outside of North America the Milky Way is a completely different kind of candy bar. See here.

Today’s Food History

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• 1841 Orlando Jones of Middlesex, England received a U.S. patent for a process to make starch from rice or corn.

• 1894 Coca Cola was first bottled by Joseph A. Biedenham of Vicksburg, Mississippi. Before that it was only mixed to order at the soda fountain.

• 1912 Juliette ‘Daisy’ Gordon Low founded the Girl Scouts of the USA in Savannah, Georgia.

• 1929 RIP Asa Griggs Candler, In 1887, Asa Candler, a wholesale druggist, purchased the formula for Coca-Cola from John S. Pemberton, an Atlanta pharmacist, for $2,300. He sold the company in 1919 for $25 million.

• 1930 Mahatma Gandhi began his march to the coastal village of Dandi, to protest the British salt monopoly.

• 1993 RIP Christian Kent Nelson, He was the inventor of the Eskimo Pie in 1919 in Iowa.