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    Quick Quirk Quiz: Sweet Tooth
    Quick Quirk Quiz: Sweet Tooth
    Quick Quirk Quiz: Sweet Tooth
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    Quick Quirk Quiz: Sweet Tooth

    By Janet Spencer - Trivia Queen

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    Next time you’re hungry for something sweet, consider that behind every candy bar, there’s a story waiting to be told. These 28 tales reveal the secrets behind the invention of the candies, cakes, ice cream, and other goodies we all love to cram into our mouths. Will you be able to guess which dessert is under discussion when you hear the story of its discovery?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJanet Spencer - Trivia Queen
    Release dateNov 12, 2009
    ISBN9781311168474
    Quick Quirk Quiz: Sweet Tooth
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    Janet Spencer - Trivia Queen

    Janet Spencer:Trivia Queen of the UniverseRoyal Ruler of Useless InformationMaster of Arcane Knowledge and Extraneous LoreKeeper of Forgotten Facts and Startling StatisticsFreelance Hysterics * Creative Profanities * Quantum PerplexitiesJanet Spencer was born in 1960 to a poor white sharecropper in Illinois. At 12, she slipped aboard a southbound freighter headed for Australia, where she was further raised by a pack of wild dingoes. Naturally curious and totally obsessed with the minor details of life, she traveled to London to join the Royal Astronomical Society to learn more of the world and the universe. However, the RAS had a long-standing ban against allowing in poor white sharecroppers half raised by wild dingoes, so she instead camped outside and counting the bricks making up the snobby institution. This was a pivotal experience for her. Finding there were exactly 17,431 bricks started her on her lifelong quest for small details, amazing truths, and petty coincidences. The Trivia Queen claimed her crown!Since then, she has been roaming the world from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego, counting bricks, observing small insects, and measuring the average number of grains in a typical salt shaker. With such a vast storehouse of trivial knowledge, she now embarks on a new quest: to share this information with her fellow humans - stumping experts, amazing laymen, and bringing wide-eyed blank stares to all those around her. She is the author of several books including "Montana Trivia" and "Yellowstone Trivia" published by www.RiverbendPublishing.comJanet Spencer spends her spare time serving as chairwoman of the Associated Association of Associated Associations, playing with spatulas, and conversing with ducks.

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      Quick Quirk Quiz - Janet Spencer - Trivia Queen

      SWEET TOOTH

      The Quick Quirk Quiz

      The Surprising Stories, Hidden History,

      and Unusual Origins Behind Familiar Things

      By Janet Spencer, Trivia Queen of the Universe

      Royal Ruler of Useless Information

      Master of Arcane Knowledge & Extraneous Lore

      Keeper of Forgotten Facts & Startling Statistics

      Published by Janet Spencer at Smashwords.com

      Copyright 2009 Janet Spencer

      Discover other works by Janet Spencer at

      www.smashwords.com/profile/view/triviaqueen

      www.TriviaQueen.com

      www.RiverbendPublishing.com

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author. Thank you for your support!

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Cheesecake Child

      Snack Cake Kid

      A New Treat

      Ice Cream Invention

      A Better Wrapper

      Fine Chocolate

      Ice Cream on Wheels

      Epperson Icicle

      A Long Shelf Life

      A Sweet Root

      Chocolateville

      The Peanut Butter Guy

      California Gold

      Elegant Eats

      Bird’s Nest Chocolate

      A New Cookie

      Cocoa & Easter Eggs

      Toffee Delight

      A French General

      An Enterprising Man

      Cardboard Candies

      Lumpy Chocolate

      Chocolate Taffy

      A Small Mint

      A Healthy Cracker

      Quince Jelly

      Valuable Spice

      A Neat Bean

      Cheesecake Child

      In 1932 Charles Lubin and his brother-in-law purchased a chain of bakeries in Chicago called the Community Bake Shops. The business was successful, but in 1949 Charles and his brother-in-law parted ways and Charles took over the business. He believed that because the business had been so successful in supplying baked goods to the grocery stores of Chicago, he should try supplying baked goods to the mass market of America, so he began to experiment with ways to do that. He invented a method that allowed desserts to be baked, frozen, shipped, and reheated in a foil pan. His first mass-market product was a frozen cheesecake, which needed a name. His wife Tillie suggested he name it after their daughter, and he did. The cheesecake became so popular that he renamed the entire corporation after his daughter. He added more

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