In 1937, the U.S. Army asked a chocolate maker for a bar that tasted “a little better than a boiled potato”; 89 years later, Hershey makes $11 billion a year
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Soldiers hated it, gave it a rude nickname and often threw it away, but the strange chocolate bar became one of the most important foods of World War …
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