I chose the beyond the line question, “Do you think that the change of candy over the years has impacted America in a positive or negative way?” In the book How candy conquered America by Lauren Tarshis, candy and sugar were very expensive in the early 1800s, so only the very wealthy could afford lots of sugar. But then, in the year 1847, Oliver Chase created an amazing invention. Oliver was a pharmacist in Boston, and he had been tinkering with his lozenge - making machine for four months. Lozenges were tablets filled with remedies or “cures” for sicknesses. They were very hard to make, because lozenges were very hard to make by hand. Finally, Chase’s lozenge-making machine worked, and Chase became very delighted, because now, he could make lozenges with the pull of a lever. But then, Oliver Chase encountered another idea-an idea that would change America forever! Why not use his machine to make only candy? As it turned out, it was a great idea, and Oliver’s candies, which he called “Chase Lozenges”, became a big hit, because now, everyone could afford candy, not just the wealthy people.
Oliver Chase’s lozenge-making machine was a critical invention for the candy-making industry, not only because he could mass-produce candy, but …show more content…
In the 1900s, chocolate was made with real cocoa butter, which gives the chocolate a rich and creamy taste, but nowadays, major chocolate companies like Hershey, Mars, and Cadbury have started using substitutes for cocoa butter. Instead of using cocoa butter in their chocolate, they will use canola oil or sunflower oil, which give the chocolate an oily and almost flavorless taste. But don’t take your anger out on these leading chocolate companies, because it’s not their fault. The prices of cocoa beans has risen drastically in the last ten years, so these companies are forced to use substitutes for cocoa