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1. The universally popular Hershey bar was used overseas during World War II as currency.

2. One click of a mouse burns 0.0000024kcals of energy, so if you eat a chocolate bar you'll need to click your mouse 765,551,000 times to burn it off.

3. Since World War II, American soldiers have been issued gum with their K rations and survival kits

4. During World War II, gum, considered an emergency ration, was also given to soldiers to relieve tension and dry throats on long marches. G.I.s used chewed gum to patch jeep tires, gas tanks, life rafts, and parts of airplanes. Wrigley advertisements recommended five sticks of gum per day for every war worker, insisting that "Factory tests show how chewing gum helps men feel better, work better." source

5. It takes a week to make a jelly bean.

6. The first product scanned with a UPC bar code on its packaging was Wrigley's gum. It was not specifically designed to be the first item, it just happened to be the first out of the shopping cart. source

7. If every OREO cookie ever made were stacked on top of each other (over 362 billion), the pile would reach the moon and back more than five times. If placed side-by-side they would encircle the earth 381 times at the equator! source

8. The world's record for keeping a Lifesaver in the mouth with the hole intact is 7 hours and 10 minutes.

9. Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan. source

10. The Popsicle was invented by 11-year-old Frank Epperson in 1905. He left a container of soda and a stirrer outside overnight, and in the morning discovered them frozen together. source

11. Hostess Twinkies were invented in 1931 by James Dewar, manager of Continental Bakeries' Chicago factory. He envisioned the product as a way of using the company's thousands of shortcake pans which were otherwise employed only during the strawberry season. Originally called Little Shortcake Fingers and filled with banana cream, they were renamed Twinkie Fingers, and finally "Twinkies." source

12. The first commercial manufacture of chewing gum in America was in Maine, about 1850. Following the Indian practice, the commercial chewing gum was spruce resin flavored. source

13. Ahh the troubled life of the twinkie: recalled for asbestos poisoning (source), production threatened due to teamster strikes (source), and lawsuits for being a “defective product” (source), yet still loved by the multitudes, and even honored with a place in the national time capsule (source).

14. The demand for Wrigley’s gum for soldiers during the Second World War drained the supply of ingredients till none could be produced for civilians. Even when the gum was removed from the market, Wrigley’s continued to advertise. source

15. Chocolate manufacturers currently use 40 percent of the world's almonds and 20 percent of the world's peanuts. source

16. History has the first recorded mention of cheesecake, as being served to the athletes during the first Olympic Games held in 776 B.C. source

17. “Mad Martha's” on Martha's Vineyard has served hot dog ice cream. source

18. At one time it was against the law to serve ice cream on cherry pie in Kansas. source

19. The color of the first successful bubble gum was pink because it was the only color the inventor had left. Today bubble gum is still predominantly pink. source

20. A recent study at the University of California found that a chocolate bar contains the same amount of antioxidants as a glass of red wine. So while it is a calorie dense food, chocolate can actually be good for you in lowering cholesterol and decreasing your risk of heart disease. source

21. Elah-Dufour United Food Companies Ltd. made the world’s largest chocolate bar, weighing 2,280 kg. (5,026 lb.), at the Eurochocolate 2000 exhibition in Turin, Italy, on March 16-19, 2000. source

22. When you eat those tender toasted marshmallows, think skins and hooves! A main ingredient in marshmallows is gelatin, which is derived from animal skins, hooves, and bones. source

23. Licorice increases the production of protective mucus in the stomach, and may reduce the acid secretion, making it a useful treatment of inflammatory stomach conditions. source

24. Chocolate contains a substance that can mimic the effects of marijuana, but parents, don’t petition the grocery stores to remove those Hershey bars just yet! A person weighing 130 pounds would have to eat 25 pounds of chocolate in one sitting to feel any effect. source

25. A 1943 article in the New York Times reported that airmen based in Britain came upon a novel means of producing ice cream. The airmen placed a mixture for ice cream in large cans that they stowed in the tail gunner's cockpit of B-29s. The freezing air of high-altitude flying and the vibrations from the plane made a delicious ice cream once the plane had

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26. Ben and Jerry's send the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo. source

27. Animal Crackers are not really crackers, but cookies that were imported to the US from England in the late 1800s. Barnum's circus-like boxes were designed with a string handle so that they could be hung on a Christmas tree.

28. Strawberry Pop Tarts may be a cheap and inexpensive source of incendiary devices. Toasters which fail to eject Pop Tarts cause the Pop Tarts to emit flames 10-18 inches in height.

29. Ice cream makers Baskin Robbins tried Ketchup Ice Cream. They refer to it as the only vegetable flavored ice cream they ever made. source

30. Baskin Robbins has a library of over 1100 flavors. source

31. A special strain of popping corn was hybridized by Native Americans as long ago as 800 A.D. Some New England tribes coated the corn with heated maple syrup in order to preserve it, thus inventing candied popcorn. source

32. In 1980, Continental Baking created a 10-foot-long Twinkie that weighed over a ton and was the equivalent of 32,300 regular Twinkies. It took 5 days and 100 hours to bake. source

33. In the year 2000, researchers found that a substance in chocolate can help prevent cavities, and that a substance in cocoa can help lower cholesterol. Men’s Fitness January 2001

34. You thought smoking was bad? In New Zealand, chewing gum in public is considered impolite. source

35. STOP! Before you make that pumpkin pie, you’ve been doing it wrong! In early colonial times, pumpkins were used as an ingredient for the crust of pies, not the filling. source

36. The first and simplest of all pumpkin puddings made by the Pilgrims, involved picking the pumpkin, washing it, hollowing it out, filling it with cream or milk, and baking it whole. source

37. The largest pumpkin pie ever baked was 350 pounds and five feet in diameter. source

38. PEZ candy is manufactured in the city of Orange, Connecticut. source

39. According to a survey, men are more likely than women to eat a fruitcake received as a gift. Women are more likely than men to either re-gift the fruitcake or serve it to guests. source

40. Need ideas for that old Christmas tree after the holiday season? Why not make some candied pine treats for the kids! Sound too bizarre to be true? In colonial days, New Englanders occasionally dined on candied white pine. (I think I would talk to a doctor or something about this one before I tried it myself...) source

41. Dunkin' Donuts sells almost 6.4 million donuts every day. In a year, this is enough to circle the earth twice. source

42. 30-50 gallons of maple sap are evaporated to make just one gallon of syrup. source

43. National Dessert Day is October 16. (well then, in my world every day is October 16!) source

44. While 75% of chocolate purchases are made by women all year long, during the days and minutes before Valentine's Day, 75% of the chocolate purchases are made by men. Over $1billion of chocolate is purchased for Valentine's Day. source

45. Americans consumed 26 pounds of candy per person in 1999 no doubt a large portion of it on Valentine's Day. source

46. 74% of children eat the ears on their chocolate Easter bunnies first. source

47. During the Easter season, Americans will consume 600 million Marshmallow Peeps! This makes them the most popular non-chocolate Easter candy. source

48. Sixty million chocolate Easter bunnies are produced each year. source

49. As part of the U.S. airborne food aid project during the first month of bombing in 2001, 2,400,000 Pop-Tarts were dropped over Afghanistan. source

memphis

Am gonna allow this one only cos its got a few mentions about chocolate.

But from now on, I wanna see posts about chocolate only, there will be no mention of gum. jellies, or the like!

woosaysdan

that was the biggest load of crap ever!!! theres only part of it about chocolate

memphis

Still a sustainable enough amount of comments on chocoloate for me to allow the post!