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by Janet SpencerThe very first candy bar was manufactured in Nashville, Tennessee in 1912 when a combination of caramel, marshmallow, peanuts, and milk chocolate was cooked in a copper kettle by Howell Campbell at the Standard Candy Co. The result was packaged up and named the Goo Goo Cluster, named for the first words out of the mouth of the inventor’s new baby. Come along with Tidbits as we eat candy!

IN THE BEGINNING• The story goes that a little old lady in the

French town of Montelimar used to make up a treat from honey, sugar, nuts, fruits, and eggs to give to all her friends. The friends would say, “Tu nous gates” which is French for “You spoil us!” From this we get our word (and our filling) called nougat.

• “Fudge” used to be nothing but a swear word. It’s said that a Philadelphia candy maker was trying to make a better chewy caramel but goofed it up. Instead he got a crystallized non-chewy substance that wasn’t at all what he was trying to make. “Oh, fudge!” he shouted out, and thus fudge was (supposedly) born.

• In Chicago a confectioner was trying to make a better butterscotch by adding more milk to improve the flavor, but he ended up changing the butterscotch so much that it wasn’t recognizable as butterscotch any longer. He had invented milk caramel.

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• In 1890 a woman in NEngland was making peanut-flavored taffy. However, she accidentally used baking soda in the recipe instead of the cream of tartar which was called for. Her mistake resulted in the invention of peanut brittle.

• In the mid-1920s, something that was “red hot” was new, up-to-date, and popular. A new candy that the manufacturers hoped would be considered up-to-date and popular was called Red Hots for that reason, not because of the flavor, which is cinnamon.

• NECCO Wafers get their name from the initials of the company that manufactures them: the New England Confectionery Company.

• Dum Dum lollipops got their name from a type of bullet called the dum dum that was used in World War I. They have the same shape.

• In 1896 Leo Hirschfield named his new candy product after his six-year-old daughter Clara, who was nicknamed Tootsie: the Tootsie Roll. The Tootsie Roll was the first penny candy that was individually wrapped.

• George Smith owned the first sucker-manufacturing machine which opened for business in New Haven, Colorado in 1908. Lolly Pop was the name of a popular racehorse of the day, so he named his new confection the lollipop.

• Otto Schnering, inventor of the Baby Ruth candy bar, once promoted the product by hiring a chartered airplane to do a massive Baby Ruth candy bar drop over the city of Pittsburgh, PA in 1923. The ploy worked, and sales took off.

• M & M’s stand for Frank Mars, founder of Mars Candy, and Bob Murrie, the president of Mars Candy.

• In Alexandre Dumas’ best selling book “The

Three Musketeers,” the three heroes Athos, Porthos, and Aramis pal around together having adventures. In 1932 Frank Mars, maker of the Snickers bar, invented a new candy bar in honor of the novel. The candy bar was actually three bars in one: vanilla nougat, chocolate nougat, and strawberry nougat. By the 1940s the 3 wMusketeers bar was all chocolate nougat.

• In the 1950s quiz shows were all the rage. One show, an early forerunner of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,” was called “The Big Surprise.” Mike Wallace (of “60 Minutes” fame) was the emcee and contestants were asked ten questions to win prizes increasing in value from $100 to $100,000. The show aired for the first time in 1957 and was very popular, inspiring Nestlé to come out with the $100,000 Bar.

• At the Williamson Candy Co. in Chicago, a young man named Henry came by every day to watch the young ladies make candy. They would talk and flirt and before long, Henry began helping them out with small tasks and errands whenever he came by. “Oh, Henry, would you please...” “Oh, Henry will you…” When a new nut roll was added to the product line, company owner Mr. Williamson asked his workers what they wanted to name it. “Every day all we hear is, ‘Oh Henry this’ and ‘Oh Henry that’ so why not call it the Oh Henry bar?” and so it was.

• James Welch, manufacturer of the Sugar Daddy caramel sucker, went to see the Broadway production of a play called “Junior Miss.” The play was very popular and later became a radio show starring Shirley Temple. James Welch liked the play a lot and couldn’t get the name “Junior Miss” out of his head. A few years later when he came up with a new type of candy, he decided to name it Junior Mints.

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and shipped it back to Pennsylvania, convinced he could add chocolate to his already successful caramel business. It soon became apparent to him that the demand for chocolate outstripped the demand for caramel.

• Surrounded by the dairylands of Pennsylvania, he started doing his own experiments with milk chocolate. The production of milk chocolate had long been a closely guarded trade secret held by the Swiss. But through sheer trial and error, Milton Hershey figured out the formula.

• By the turn of the century, the business was so successful that he built a new factory near the town of Derry Township, Pennsylvania, where he had been born. He then proceeded to build a town around the factory. The town was later re-named for him: Hershey, Pennsylvania.

• The town he built to house his workers was a model community, designed not to exploit people (as other company towns did) but to provide for their welfare. There were schools, lecture halls, an amusement park, gardens, churches, and a trolley system.

• In 1900, he sold his caramel company for the princely sum of $1 million (worth $27 million in today’s dollars) and began to focus exclusively on producing chocolate.

• Thanks to the Hershey bar (invented in 1900) and the Hershey Kiss (invented in 1907), chocolate went from being a treat reserved for the rich to a delight everyone could afford.

• In 1912, Milton Hershey and his wife had tickets to travel on the Titanic. They canceled their reservations at the last minute due to business matters which required Hershey’s attention. The check he wrote to reserve a first-class stateroom on the Titanic is in the archives of The Hershey museum.

Sparks. There are always sparks. If you energize an atom with heat or electricity or friction, that atom will give off light. A Wint-O-Green Life Saver is flavored with an oily chemical called methyl salicylate. When you bite on the Life Saver, you fracture sugar crystals and the energy is imparted to the methyl salicylate, which incandesces as a result. It doesn’t happen when you suck on the Life Saver because that does not impart any forceful kind of energy to the candy. It doesn’t happen with other flavors because methyl salicylate fluoresces easily and other flavoring agents don’t.

Noteworthy Inventors

MILTON HERSHEY• When Milton Hershey’s mother apprenticed

him to a printer in 1871, it didn’t take him long to discover that he hated printing. Instead, he ended up apprenticed to a confectioner, where he spent four years learning the art of making candy.

• When his apprenticeship ended, he set up his own candy shop in Philadelphia, but it failed. He moved to Denver where he learned the art of making caramel from a Colorado dairyman.

• Next he moved to New York City and tried to open a successful caramel factory, only to fail once again. So he returned to his family home in Pennsylvania and tried one more time to open a successful candy store.

• This time, he won a large contract with a European firm, and the money generated by this single order was enough to get him started down the road to success. Soon, the Lancaster Caramel Company was employing over 1,400 people, shipping candy worldwide, and turning Milton Hershey into one of the town’s leading citizens.

• Visiting the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, Milton was fascinated by the exhibit set up by a German chocolate company which demonstrated the latest technology in automated chocolate manufacturing. When the Expo ended, Milton bought the machinery

FULL MOON PIE• The Mountain City Flour Mill in Chattanooga,

Tennessee produced a lot of flour- so much so that they set up the Chattanooga Bakery whose purpose was to find new ways to use up excess flour. By 1910 the bakery had a product line of over 200 confections. In 1917 a bakery manager named Earl Mitchell was trying to think up new ideas for better products when he had a chat with some local miners. The miners said they wanted something to put in their lunch pails that was sweet, solid, filling, and big. “How big?” said Mitchell. About that time the moon was rising, so one of the miners held up his hands to frame the full moon and said, “About that big!” Thus, the MoonPie was born. The combination of cookie, marshmallow, and chocolate was so popular that by the 1950s the bakery stopped producing anything else but the MoonPie.

MYSTERY OF WINT-O-GREEN• If you go into a completely dark room, let your

eyes adjust, then bite or smash a Wint-O-Green Life Saver, faint blue sparks can be seen. Why? Did you ever watch a car drag a metal object along pavement? Ever see someone sharpening a knife on a grinding stone? Ever brush your hair or pet the cat on a dry night in the darkness?

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by Moira McCall

“In 1807 David Thompson looked down at the Columbia River north of present-day Golden. He was searching for a way to the Pacific,” said Norm Crerar, producer and director of the Okanagan Military Tattoo.

I’ve asked him how a military tattoo in Vernon came to be. I realize that this is going to be a long story.

Crerar’s friends call him a visionary and his current passion has developed over many years. It involves a Canadian explorer, the 1967 Centen-nial Voyageur canoe race, a traveling stage show and some bagpipes.

The tradition of the military tattoo originated in Belgium around 1600 when British drummers marched, summoning soldiers back to quarters and signalling to innkeepers with “doe den tap toe,” meaning “turn off the tap too.” Shortened to “tap toe” and eventually “tattoo,” this ritual has evolved into international celebrations of music

and entertainment.“Most successful tattoos have military installa-

tions close by,” said Crerar.Vernon is home of the oldest cadet training

centre in Canada. The first troops trained here in 1912, and each summer about 1,200 cadets at-tend the centre. Last year about 200 of them took part in the inaugural Okanagan Military Tattoo.

A life-altering event for Crerar was participat-ing in the 1967 Centennial Voyageur Canoe Pag-eant, from Rocky Mountain House to Montreal. This 104-day canoe race, with 100 other young Canadian men, developed his deep respect for the early explorers and a passion for the great country of Canada.

But what does this have to do with a military tattoo?

About a decade ago, plans were underway to re-enact the bicentennial of Thompson’s 1808 voyageur canoe trip from Rocky Mountain House to Thunder Bay. A shorter trial-run, the Columbia River Brigade, paddling from Canal Flats to Trail B.C., was organized for 2007. Crerar wanted to incorporate a theatrical component to entertain residents in communities along the route.

“You don’t know me,” was how Crerar began a phone call in early 2007 to Dave Brotsky and Lor-raine Johnson Brotsky, well known in Vernon for designing theatrical productions.

This was the beginning of the creative partner-ship that, along with sound videographer Randy Jones, is now the production team behind today’s Okanagan Military Tattoo.

For the 2007 Columbia River Brigade, Brotsky built a mobile stage. The stage and crew traveled by road and joined the brigade at communities on route. A nightly show told Thompson’s story.

In 1784, the 14-year-old Thompson arrived at Churchill and within three decades he traveled 90,000 kilometres by foot and canoe, surveying and mapping more than 3.9 million square kilo-metres.

Crerar had decided to learn to play the bag-pipes because there was no money for a piper and he played Amazing Grace at the end of each performance.

The Bicentennial David Thompson Brigade took place in 2008, but there were insufficient re-sources to include a stage production. However, Crerar continued playing his bagpipes and in 2010, he participated with the Kalamalka High-

landers Pipe Band in a performance at BC Place.Being immersed in a mass band of 400 was a

powerful experience. He imagined it felt like be-ing in a military tattoo.

“When I had that epiphany, the first person I told was Derek Hall,” said Crerar.

Hall, a former Vernon councillor, is a history buff with experience in fundraising and promo-tional work. Then there was a second phone call to the Brotskys.

“Do you want to do a tattoo?” asked Crerar.That began an 18-month project which resulted

in the inaugural Okanagan Military Tattoo in Au-gust, 2014.

An imposing castle and miles of black curtains transformed Kal Tire Place into a theatre. Brotsky handled the lighting, Jones manned the sound booth, and Johnson Brotsky was the stage man-ager.

With more than 500 performers, and two well attended performances, it was a resounding suc-cess.

This year there are two related events.A performance of the Lord Strathcona’s Horse

Mounted Troop will be at the Interior Provincial Exhibition fairgrounds in Armstrong July 24 at 7 p.m. Soldiers on horseback and dressed in period costume will execute a musical ride. Bands and other tattoo performers will also perform.

The actual tattoo is scheduled at Kal Tire Place in Vernon July 25 at 7 p.m. and July 26 at 2 p.m.

The RCMP Ceremonial Troop will be joined by the Delta Police and Winnipeg Police Pipe Bands, the Band of the 15th Field Artillery Regiment, the Royal Canadian Artillery Band and the Vancou-ver Naval Veterans’ Band. The 100-plus voice tat-too choir, local pipe bands, Highland and Irish dancers and other exciting talent will entertain and inspire everyone from grandparents to teens and toddlers.

Crerar knows that the success of the Okanagan Military Tattoo is largely due to its army of volun-teers.

“Last year we had more than 150 volunteers. Just like a voyageur canoe, if everyone paddles at the same time, the canoe moves ahead quickly.”

David Thompson would be proud.

For tickets and informationvisit www.okanagantattoo.ca.

The Story Behind the Okanagan Military Tattoo

• Henri was born in 1814 in Germany. His last name was a German word meaning ‘a small bird nest.’ As a young man he moved to Switzerland where he worked in a pharmacy doing chemical experiments.

• He became preoccupied with the high infant mortality rate. When new mothers were unable to nurse, their babies often died. What the world needed was an emergency substitute for mother’s milk.

• After much experimentation, Henri developed a mixture of cow’s milk, flour, sugar, and malt that could be sold in powdered form and reconstituted with the addition of water. By 1867 his baby formula was marketed worldwide.

• Next door to Henri’s baby formula factory,

• Hershey supplied soldiers with chocolate bars during World War II. The chocolate was formulated to taste a little bad to prevent troops from getting cravings for them, and it had to withstand high temperatures without melting. In 1939, the Hershey plant was capable of producing 100,000 ration bars a day. By the end of the war, the entire Hershey plant was producing ration bars at a rate of 24 million a week.

• The company Milton Hershey set up continued to flourish even after his death in 1945 at the age of 88. Today Milton Hershey’s firm is the largest chocolate company in North America.

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1.5 billion pounds of milk annually, surpassed only by the cheese and ice cream industries.

• Chocolate syrup was used as fake blood in the famous shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s movie “Psycho.” The film was in black and white.

• German chocolate cake did not originate in Germany. In 1852, Sam German developed a sweet baking bar for Baker’s Chocolate Co. The product was named in honor of him: Baker’s German’s Sweet Chocolate.

• Hawaii is the only U.S. state that grows cacao beans commercially to produce chocolate.


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Daniel Peter owned a candle factory. The use of oil lamps was making candles obsolete, and Daniel knew he had to diversify, so he decided to go into the chocolate business. He needed a way to make his product stand out.

• Being next door to Henri’s factory caused him to wonder if there wasn’t a way to combine milk with chocolate. After eight years, he figured out the formula for milk chocolate, and formed it into the world’s first chocolate bars.

• The result was so successful that Henri’s baby formula company bought out Daniel’s milk chocolate company. In 1874 Henri sold his company for a million francs and retired, but the firm he founded went on to become the world’s largest food and beverage company, employing a quarter million people and buying ten percent of the world’s cocoa beans. The firm is named after Henri’s last name. What is it? (Answer below)

FACT• In Hershey, Pennsylvania, the streetlights along

“Chocolate Avenue” are in the shape of Hershey Kisses.

Answer: Nestlé.

• Dark chocolate is healthier than white chocolate or milk chocolate because it’s less processed, meaning it has more antioxidant flavonoids in it, as well as less sugar and fat.

• Chocolate contains caffeine, but you’d have to eat 14 chocolate bars to equal the amount of caffeine in a single cup of coffee.

• White chocolate is white because it has cocoa butter but no cocoa solids.

• The average America eats about 12 lbs. (5.4 kg) of chocolate annually.

• Add a tablespoon of espresso powder to chocolate baked goods to spike up the chocolatey flavor.

• Baking chocolate is bitter because it has no sugar added.

• About 75% of people eat the ears off of a chocolate Easter bunny first.

• Chocolate contains cocoa and cocoa contains the compound theobromine. Theobromine is toxic to dogs and other pets at certain doses. The most dangerous kinds are dark chocolate, cocoa bean garden mulch, and unsweetened baking chocolate.

• American chocolate manufacturers use about

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* It was ancient Chinese military strategist and philosopher Sun Tzu who made the following sage observation: “Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”

* It’s been reported that putting earmuffs on a homing pigeon will keep it from wandering off. Tiny earmuffs, I imagine.

* Have you ever heard of pink turtle-head, creeping Charley, scarlet monkey, lady’s ear drops, painted tongue, false dragonhead or the beefsteak plant? If you’re a horticulturist you may have; they’re all names of flowers.

* The ferret, a domesticated relative of the weasel, gets its name from the Latin word for “little thief.”

* If you’re a fan of the classic film “Casablanca,” you know that actors Claude Rains and Sydney Greenstreet portrayed the characters Renault and Ferrari. You might not be aware, however, that those characters’ names also are the names of two leading European auto manufacturers.

* Until 1928, women who wanted to swim at the beach in Atlantic City were required to wear stockings.

* Noted American composer and conductor John Phillip Sousa started out as an apprentice in the U.S. Marine Corps band at the tender age of 13.

* Those who study such things say that among all prison inmates convicted of violent crimes, murderers are the ones least likely to have tattoos.

* It caused a bit of a scandal in the art world when a papercutting of a sailboat by famed French artist Henri Matisse hung upside-down in New York’s Museum of Modern Art for more than a month. It seems that in the artwork, the water’s reflection of the boat was mistaken for the boat itself, causing the mishap.

* When the tide changes in San Francisco Bay, fully one-sixth of the water is moved in or out. ***Thought for the Day: “When the mind is full of lust, the heart is full of lies.” -- Scottish proverb(c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.


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