Charleston Chew
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Charleston Chew is a candy bar consisting of flavored nougat covered in chocolate. It was created in 1922 by the Fox-Cross Candy Company, and the candy was named for the Charleston, a popular dance at that time.
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[edit] History
The company was purchased in 1957 by Nathan Sloane, and later sold to Nabisco in 1980. Although he did not invent the Charleston Chew, he did change the candy's original blueprint, chocolate-covered vanilla taffy. In the 1970s, he introduced such new flavors as chocolate and strawberry. Tootsie Roll Industries purchased Charleston Chew from the Warner-Lambert Company in 1993.
[edit] Flavors
The candy is available in vanilla, chocolate, blueberry, and strawberry flavors. At one time there was a fifth flavor, banana. Mini Charleston Chews are a bite-sized, similarly-shaped version of the candy bar, introduced in 1998. The original packaging for Charleston Chews was a grey box that had the brand name in small red font at the bottom of the box.
[edit] Other uses
Charleston Chew candy bars have been used to demonstrate rheology (the effects of temperature and strain rate on the deformation of materials) to students in university geology labs.[1]
Charleston Chew is frequently referenced on Futurama, either as a sponsor or favored snack of Richard Nixon.
Rapper Eminem has claimed to apply asphyxia with Charleston Chews.
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ 2004 "Deformation of Charleston Chew Candy Bars as a Rheology Analogue in the Structural Geology Classroom", Paper No. 145-8, Geological Society of America, Denver Annual Meeting, Nov. 7–10, 2004
[edit] References
- Tootsie Roll Industries Charleston Chews product page
- Associated Press via The New York Times (Aug. 18, 2006): Nathan Sloane, 97, Candy Bar Maker, Dies"
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