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Alot of people will tell you, that the 90’s was the best decade of all time… and they’d be 100% right… the 1890s
That’s when humanity peaked… cuz back in 1896, someone looked at a bar of milk chocolate & said…. “What if… we made this same thing... but smaller AND super chewy?” And thus, the Tootsie Roll was born.
Is it chocolate?… Is it Taffy?… Who knows!
But what a time to be alive!… No Wi-Fi…. No Micro-Plastics…. Just horse-drawn carriages ... Syphilis…. and a pocket full of mysterious brown cylinders.
But Tootsie Rolls aren’t the only ICONIC INVENTION to come out of the 1890s… you’ll have to tell me some of OTHERS, during a special: “Gifts of the Gilded Age” Edition of Plenty of Twenty…
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