Interesting fact #1: Chocolate chip cookies were invented in Massachusetts.
I know. Mind = blown.
Growing up in Massachusetts, I never knew this fun little tidbit. I always loved Nestle Toll House chocolate chip cookies, but had no idea that the actual “toll house” was located in the same county that I lived in. The story goes that, in 1936, Ruth Graves Wakefield, owner of the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts, was making a batch of cookies for some guests when she realized she didn't have any bakers chocolate. She substituted broken up pieces of Nestle chocolate bar hoping that they would melt and be absorbed in to the dough (um, really?) when obviously the chips just melted into gooey delicious morsels in the cookies. While her cookies did not turn out the way she was hoping- they were an even bigger hit than expected. She struck a deal with Nestle- they would print her recipe on every bar of chocolate (and they have kept their word) and she would get an endless supply of chocolate. Sounds like a good deal to me!
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