A Block a Choc of History

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Just a week or so before Christmas, Bev Jordan, our senior journalist, told me she had been discussing, with her brother, the nostalgic topic of chocolates of the past. Coincidentally, .

I was born and raised in Bristol, England, where Fry’s was first established in 1761 by Joseph Fry. The Fry family, like the other families that controlled the chocolate industry in England up to the early 20th Century, (Cadbury and Rowntree families) were Quakers. Apart from the “Turkish Delight” bar that was launched in 1914, the other product for which the company is most famous is “Fry’s Chocolate Cream” bar launched in 1866.

After the Fry’s name was dropped and the company reverted from British Cocoa and Chocolate Company to Cadbury, which continued until 2010, the company was acquired by Kraft Foods of the US.

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