Bosco Chocolate Syrup
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Bosco Chocolate Syrup is a brand of chocolate syrup first produced in 1928. The company that produces it is based in New Jersey, and it is sold throughout the United States, Western Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
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[edit] Production process
Bulk materials are added via automatic measuring devices into stainless steel cooking vats. Minor ingredients and flavorings are blended into the batch separately, through a custom blender device, following product handling and quality assurance codes. While in the vats, Bosco is pasteurized for product uniformity and then cooled for bottling. Computers measure and monitor the product temperatures. Malt extract is added, which combined with Bosco cocoa powder yields the distinctive Bosco taste.
Bosco was once packaged in glass jars, but is now sold in plastic squeeze bottles.
As of 2010, Bosco is produced in several flavors in addition to the original chocolate: berry blue, strawberry, caramel, sugar free, and "sugar free pancake syrup" (presumably maple).
[edit] Cultural references
Vik Muniz, a modern artist, is famous for recreating well-known works of art, such as The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci entirely in Bosco Chocolate Syrup.[1] A Bosco portrait by Muniz sold for $110,000 in 2007.[2][3]
Bosco Chocolate Syrup, at that time called Bosco Milk Amplifier, was heavily advertised on children's shows during the late 1950s and early 1960s, such as The Popeye Club, a local Atlanta, Ga. program featuring Popeye cartoons, as well as live action sequences.[4]
In the Seinfeld episode "The Secret Code", George Costanza reveals his ATM PIN "Bosco" to J. Peterman's mother on her deathbed, who in turn repeats the phrase as her last word before she dies. [5]
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[edit] References
- ^ Goldberg, Vicki. "It's a Leonardo? It's a Corot? Well, No, It's Chocolate Syrup". The New York Times. 25 September 1998.
- ^ His & Hers Double Portrait in Chocolate
- ^ "Just in time for the holidays, a $110,000 syrupy portrait", USA Today, 2007.
- ^ http://donmcclellan.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/flip-the-spoon-rarely-remembered/
- ^ Gardner, Urban. "Burnishing the Bosco Brand". The Wall Street Journal. 1 August 2011.
