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Cincinnati Candy: A Sweet History (American Palate)

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For more than a century, Cincinnati’s candy industry satisfied our national sweet tooth. Stick and drop candies gave the impression here long before their Civil War popularity. Opera creams, wealthy fondant-filled chocolate candy brought here by Robert Hiner Putman, provided decadence. Candy corn, which the Goelitz Company introduced to the US before World War I, is still a ubiquitous treat. Marpro Products created and popularized the marshmallow cone candy. Doscher invented the French Chew and made caramel corn a baseball concession at Redland Field decades before Cracker Jack turned into synonymous with our national pastime. Town’s many Greek and Macedonian immigrants influenced the original Queen Town tradition of finishing a Cincinnati-taste “threeway” of spaghetti, chili and cheddar with a chocolate mint. Local food etymologist Dann Woellert tells these stories and more on this delectably sweet history.

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