Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[RoyalChick]

Well according to the interwebs Franklin Mars had nothing to do with Hershey. In fact never was anywhere near PA.

It was his son. I found the connection. From the interwebs.......

Forrest Mars, Sr., son of the Mars Company founder, Frank C. Mars, copied the idea for the candy in the 1930s during the Spanish Civil War when he saw soldiers eating British-made Smarties, chocolate pellets with a colored shell of what confectioners call hard panning (essentially hardened sugar syrup) surrounding the outside, preventing the sweets (candies) from melting. Mars received a patent for his own process on March 3, 1941.[7] Production began in 1941 in a factory located at 285 Badger Avenue in Clinton Hill, Newark, New Jersey. When the company was founded it was M&M Limited.[8] The two 'M's represent the names of Forrest E. Mars Sr., the founder of Newark Company, and Bruce Murrie, son of Hershey Chocolate's president William F. R. Murrie, who had a 20 percent share in the product.[9] The arrangement allowed the candies to be made with Hershey chocolate, as Hershey had control of the rationed chocolate at the time.[7]

Chocolate tax

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Hmmm. I understood a slightly different version of the story. In the story I learned the Rowntrees guy and the Mars guy were in Spain together and actually became close friends and they agreed to launch separately in the two markets.

 

[BY Bob]

Caturday - Miss Georgette Bootsie was frisky last night, at one point I thought she might fall out of her penthouse

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Adorable.

 

[BY Bob]

Oh, you live in Hershey! I didn't even know that haha. Yeah I enjoyed myself, we went to the Chocolate factory and the Hershey Gardens, Beautiful place.

We love it here. Even though I complain about the weather year round.

 

[BY Bob]

My Caturday post over at @Ribh thread.

Post in thread 'Ribh's D'Coopage' https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/ribhs-dcoopage.1295189/post-25692808

 

[rural mouse]

Caturday enjoying sunshine earlier in the week (rainy day today )
What are you doing with that thing, human servant?

I'm watching you, food thief!

 

[bgmathteach]

Yes me too! I will have to ask Michelle about her soft egg experience, one of my gals keeps laying soft eggs, and many times two at a time. No one seems I'll or lethargic, so I am not overly worried, but I keep an eye on the gals.

Are you sure 2 soft shelled eggs at once, or is it a double yolker? Something is really messed up with her repro system if she is laying 2 different eggs, soft shelled, at once! Are they 'rubber eggs' (i.e. really no shell at all), or very thin shelled eggs? How old is the girl?

 

[bgmathteach]

Well according to the interwebs Franklin Mars had nothing to do with Hershey. In fact never was anywhere near PA.

It was his son. I found the connection. From the interwebs.......

Forrest Mars, Sr., son of the Mars Company founder, Frank C. Mars, copied the idea for the candy in the 1930s during the Spanish Civil War when he saw soldiers eating British-made Smarties, chocolate pellets with a colored shell of what confectioners call hard panning (essentially hardened sugar syrup) surrounding the outside, preventing the sweets (candies) from melting. Mars received a patent for his own process on March 3, 1941.[7] Production began in 1941 in a factory located at 285 Badger Avenue in Clinton Hill, Newark, New Jersey. When the company was founded it was M&M Limited.[8] The two 'M's represent the names of Forrest E. Mars Sr., the founder of Newark Company, and Bruce Murrie, son of Hershey Chocolate's president William F. R. Murrie, who had a 20 percent share in the product.[9] The arrangement allowed the candies to be made with Hershey chocolate, as Hershey had control of the rationed chocolate at the time.[7]

Chocolate tax

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Lovely photo of them both! Nice to see them again.

 

[Marie2020]

You made me want chocolate now

It's all Alex's fault I went and ate chocolate now it's time for with my girls

 

[Marie2020]

Yes me too! I will have to ask Michelle about her soft egg experience, one of my gals keeps laying soft eggs, and many times two at a time. No one seems I'll or lethargic, so I am not overly worried, but I keep an eye on the gals.

Are their vents down?

 

[Marie2020]

Caturday - Miss Georgette Bootsie was frisky last night, at one point I thought she might fall out of her penthouse

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Here's my cat Where's he gone he was there a moment ago