1847

JS Fry & Sons in 1847

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Fry's produced the first chocolate bar by mixing cocoa powder with sugar and cocoa butter, making a product which stays solid at room temperature but melts in the mouth. It was sold to the public as Chocolate Delicieux a Manager, until this point it had been exclusively consumed as a drink.

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Fry's merged with Cadbury's in 1919, Schweppes in 1969 and bought out by Kraft Foods in 2010. "Kraft's takeover leaves a bitter taste in the mouth as 400 people lose their jobs at the Somerdale Plant, Bristol." Tracey Corrigan, Editor Wall Street Journal

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"Life is like a box of chocolates.

You never know what you're gonna get."

Tom Hanks, Forrest Gump