Message #199418

[Kara Sundstrom]

DID YOU KNOW?

* The word "cocoa" was the result of the misspelling of "cacao."

* Today, about 70 percent of the world's cacao crop is grown in Africa.

* In 1847, the first chocolate bar created to be eaten as a snack was introduced by Fry & Sons Company of Bristol, England.

* In 1893 Milton S. Hershey, a confectioner in Pennsylvania, saw chocolate-processing equipment at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago and bought it. He used that to build his chocolate factory in the town now known as Hershey, Pa.

* The first Valentine's Day candy box is credited in 1868 to England's Richard Cadbury (Cadbury Chocolates).