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David Rosenthal: belief

16 Dec 2024 Acquired Mars Inc. (the chocolate story)

“Baby Ruth candy bar named, I think, for President Grover Cleveland’s baby daughter Ruth.”

— David Rosenthal

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Speaker
David Rosenthal
Attribution
Verified speaker
Claim type
belief
Recorded
16 Dec 2024
Publisher
Acquired

Transcript context

…No. It’s still available today. Baby Ruth candy bar named, I think, for President Grover Cleveland’s baby daughter Ruth. To introduce the bar, the Curtiss Candy Company, which made it, chartered an airplane to fly over the city of Pittsburgh and drop bars down with paper parachutes over the city. It is a literal drop. It puts the Visa drop to shame. Wow.…

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