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Betty Boop: The International Sensation The animated Betty Boop began life in 1932 as a flapper, a relic of the...

Billie Holiday Billie Holiday, born Eleanora Fagan Gough in 1915, lived a remarkable, ground-breaking, and tragic life. She was raised...

Charlie Chaplin and a Favorite Retro Candy

What is the connection between iconic silent screen actor Charlie Chaplin and a favorite retro candy? The year was 1925...

Guess who invented Corn Syrup?

Ok – I don’t get why Americans hate corn syrup. It’s sugar. I know, the whole corn-taking-over-the-nation fear and the...

What is the vegan version of the gummy bear?

Actually the venerable and nicely-textured gummy bear started life as the Turkish delight, a vegetarian medicine-turned-treat that originated around 900...

Mexico

THANK YOU MEXICO! Without Mexico we would be chocolate-less. Of course, early on Mexico was home to the Olmecs, known...

Roller Coaster Candy and the Fun Factor

When you go to an amusement park, you may notice that there are two types of roller coaster riders: one...

Charlie Chaplin

Born in London in 1889, he was destitute as his mother was mentally and physically ill and his father, an...

The First Penny Candies: What’s Missing and Why?

Penny candy has been a favorite for kids since the burgeoning industrial age of the mid-1800s. They could buy an...

The Not Dumb Dum Dum

The Dum Dums lollipop was first made in 1924 by the Akron Candy Company. According to manufacturer Spangler, who purchased...