According to Nestle, Mrs. Wakefield (owner of the Toll House Inn) was making chocolate cookies but ran out of regular baker’s chocolate, so she substituted it with broken pieces of semi-sweet chocolate, thinking that it would melt and mix into the batter. It clearly did not, and the chocolate chip cookie was born. Wakefield sold the recipe to Nestle in exchange for a lifetime supply of chocolate chips (instead of patenting it and making billions!) Every bag of Nestle chocolate chips in North America has a variation of her original recipe printed on the back (margarine is now included both as a variant on butter and for those people who want to pretend it is healthy). B)

even US import their chocolates from countries who produce good quality cocoa... i think the best one is in New Zealand.. those country which have a lot of dairy products..

so when you talk of "chips ahoy" that's from where? because thats what a kind of chocolate chip i eat and its really delicious! :smile:

Chips Ahoy are made by Nabisco and their head quarters is in Hanover, New Jersey, U.S. therefore their origin must be in US.. but that doesnt mean they are the one who made their chocolate. Who knows they just import the raw chocolate from somewhere else. Of course they wont tell us where they import their chocolates.

thanks for the information pj. have you tasted this kind of chocolate chips? based on my research the largest producer of cocoa is ivory coast and ghana. :wacko:

Top Cocoa Producers

in 2004 (million metric tons) Côte d'Ivoire 1.33 Ghana 0.74 Indonesia 0.45 Nigeria 0.37 Brazil 0.17 Cameroon 0.13 Ecuador 0.09 World Total 3.6

chocholates are not that much tasty. 

interesting post, I didn't know

Today for lunch I have instant chicken in a pot with butter. It is prepared in 20 minutes. It takes a little time, but it turns out quite tasty. By the way, you can find the recipe on https://how-to-boil.com/ .

wait. this is legit such a funny find lol. You learn something every single day!

I've heard that Ivory Coast was the largest producer of cocoa as well. Also, I knew about Pery and Panama because I buy sea salt chocolate from the company that cooperates with these countries. But I didn't know that New Zealand or even US were among the chocolate importers as well, that's pretty interesting.

Very interesting share! I didn't know this. It was a very lucky mistake on the part of that lady.

It's so crazy how he just gave it up

Sounds good

Oh, I really like sea salt chocolate...