Milton Hershey, among others, had begun mixing the chocolate with milk to make it sweeter, more delicately flavored, and thus more appealing to children. A remarkable proportion of the chocolate staples of the twentieth century and today were first created and mass-produced between 1886 (the Clark bar) and the early 1930s—Tootsie Rolls (1896), Hershey’s Milk Chocolate bar (1900), Hershey’s Kisses (1906), Toblerone (1908), the Heath bar (1914), Oh Henry! (1920), Baby Ruth (1921), Mounds and Milky Way (1923), Mr. Goodbar (1925), Milk Duds (1926), Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups (1928), Snickers
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