Happy Milk Chocolate Day!
Today is National Milk Chocolate Day for this year in 2024! It’s all so yummy and delicious! Hmmn. . .Right before Halloween! Milk chocolate makes the world go ’round. . .
Happy National Milk Chocolate Day ! ! !
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A Brief History:
Origination: National Milk Chocolate Day celebrates the origin of chocolate. People celebrate every day with milk chocolate, and special occasions like anniversaries, birthdays and a great day, to go alongside. The history of milk chocolate is similar than all chocolate. The chocolate started out with its creation from the cocoa bean can be traced from the Xocolatl-loving Olmec, Maya and Aztecs of Mexico dating back to the era of between 1900 BC to 1500 BC. The Maya considered chocolate to be food of the gods, with the cacao tree being held to be sacred. They also buried dignitaries with bowls of chocolate.
Transient Evolution Into Milk Chocolate: Since the Mayan period, the list of ingredients with the relation to most chocolate products has expanded vastly past simple cacao. Milk chocolate evolved with Daniel Peter, a Swiss chocolatier from Vevey, Vaud Canton, invented milk chocolate in 1875 by adding powdered milk to dark chocolate to reduce its bitterness. This innovation was inspired by his desire to impress a young woman, and it marked a significant breakthrough in the world of chocolate. Companies still have yet reduced the cocoa content to decrease costs related to production and also to increase chocolate’s shelf life, making the once very valuable delicacy to have varying and limitless variety.
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The Last Few Decades: The late 20th century and to today, companies and chocolatiers have been coming up with several different ingredient lists and recipes in order to continue to innovate the whole milk chocolate experience.
More Recently: Today, milk chocolate is still the very delicious dessert that it has always attained from back in the old days every year. Every year, countless companies come out with a new variation, and present companies introduce different renditions and even “limited edition” variations of the recipes used to produce milk chocolate products. More and more renditions and recipes have arisen in more recent years. The microwave had given more opportunities and different styles, especially after inventing the cup-shaped round and square microwavable light grey surfaces that refract the microwave to ensure more even cooking.
Celebrated: July 28th every year!
A Few Facts:
I am sharing a few facts, and more, some trivia, some not trivial. . .
Different Flavors of Milk Chocolate:
- Milk Chocolate
- Cocoa Powder
- Chocolate Truffle
- Cacao
- Brownie
- Fudge
- More. . .
Photo by Babs Gorniak xxx on Unsplash
The Evolution of Milk Chocolate:
| Milk Chocolate History by Each Decade | |
| Year |
Candy |
| 1820’s |
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| 1824 |
Cadbury Cocoa Powder |
| 1840’s | |
| 1845 |
Lindt |
| 1850’s | |
| 1854 |
Whitman’s Chocolate Box |
| 1860’s | |
| 1868 |
Cadbury Valentine’s Box |
| 1870’s |
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| 1875 |
Milk Chocolate |
| 1880’s | |
| 1880 |
Nestlé Milk Chocolate Liquid |
| 1890’s |
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| 1893 |
Candy Bar (Columbian Expo Chicago) |
| 1900’s | |
| 1900 |
Hershey Bars |
| 1907 |
Hershey Kisses (Hiatus 1942-1947) |
| 1910’s | |
| 1917 |
Clark Bar |
| 1917 |
Moon Pie |
| 1918 |
Johnson’s/DeMet’s Caramel Turtles |
| 1920’s | |
| 1921 |
Baby Ruth |
| 1923 |
Mars Milky Way |
| 1925 | Goobers |
| 1925 |
Mr. Goodbar |
| 1926 |
Butterfinger |
| 1928 |
Heath Bar |
| 1928 |
Milk Duds |
| 1930’s |
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| 1930 | Snickers |
| 1932 |
3 Musketeers |
| 1935 |
Kit Kat Bar |
| 1935 |
Sugar Babies |
| 1936 |
5th Avenue Bar |
| 1938 |
Krackel (Retired) |
| 1938 |
Nestlé Crunch |
| 1939 |
Whoppers |
| 1940’s | |
| 1941 |
M&Ms |
| 1946 |
Almond Joy |
| 1950’s |
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| 1950 |
Look! Bar |
| 1950 |
Andes Mints |
| 1954 |
Peanut M&Ms |
| 1960’s |
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| 1963 |
Cadbury Crème Egg |
| 1963 |
Reese’s |
| 1964 |
100 Grand Bar |
| 1967 |
Twix (UK) |
| 1970’s | |
| 1978 |
Rolos |
| 1978 |
Whatchamacallit |
| 1979 |
Twix (US) |
| 1990’s | |
| 1992 |
DOVE Milk Chocolate Bar |
| 2000’s |
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| 2004 |
Take 5 |
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The Present:
People all over the world, including the U.S. are enjoying their milk chocolate, every day!
The Future:
Let’s give thanks and enjoy milk chocolate this great year and in the years to come. . .
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National Milk Chocolate Day
