Baby Ruth
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Baby Ruth is an American candy bar made of peanuts, caramel, and milk chocolate-flavored nougat, covered in compound chocolate. Created in 1920, and named after the deceased U.S. presidential daughter, Ruth Cleveland, it is distributed by the Ferrara Candy Company, a subsidiary of Ferrero.
Baby Ruth
Ruth Cleveland, daughter of United States president Grover Cleveland, became the official corporate namesake for the "Baby Ruth" candy bar in 1921, almost 30 years after she was born.
Box of Curtiss' Baby Ruth candy bars at a general store in Portsmouth, North Carolina
The Baby Ruth sign at Wrigley Field in Chicago
Chocolate bar
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A chocolate bar is a confection containing chocolate, which may also contain layerings or mixtures that include nuts, fruit, caramel, nougat, and wafers. A flat, easily breakable, chocolate bar is also called a tablet. In some varieties of English and food labeling standards, the term chocolate bar is reserved for bars of solid chocolate, with candy bar used for products with additional ingredients.
A dark chocolate tablet
A Mayan holding sticks of ground cocoa paste
A block of unrefined ground cocoa paste, comparable to the chocolate that was made before the industrial era, and meant to be grated into drinks.
Fry and Sons Manufactory in Bristol in the 19th century