What happened to the American......

Nestlé toll house chocolate chips  - Nestlé toll house chocolate chips
@deebomb (15304)
United States
July 12, 2008 12:43pm CST
We often talk about buying American products but did you know Did you know that Toll House cookies were invented America by Ruth Wakefield Who flavored the cookies with bits with bits of a Nestlé chocolate bar. In the mid-1900s, she and Nestlé struck a bargain. that they could use the Tool house name and she would have the chocolate for her life time. In 1936 Nestlé started making the chocolate chips. That in 1921. Harry Burt, a Youngstown, Ohio, candy maker, got the idea to put chocolate-coated ice cream on a stick . He sent Good Humor men to sell the bars from white trucks. Lipton bought Good Humor in 1965. Unilever, the British-Dutch conglomerate, had bought Lipton in 1937. Unilever is now the world's biggest ice cream maker. It also owns Ben & Jerry's and Breyers. That French’s mustard id owned by a British conglomerate. It was created for the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.by American brothers named French Sweden's AB Electrolux owns the Frigidaire. White Consolidated Industries that bought the company from an Indiana man that invented the refrigerator that didn't need ice in 1915, because he couldn’t produce it efficiently. That sneakers’ were invented by Adolph Drassler in 1920. Adolph started the Drassler company with his brother, Rudolph. A. after a falling out The company was under the French and Robert Louis-Dreyfus. It is now German. That Trader Joes is owned by German billionaires Karl and Theo Albrecht, who owned ALDI, They bought our Trader Joes in 1979 but kept Joe as a CEO In 2004 the Dial Corporation was bought by conglomerate Henkel KGaA, based in Dusseldorf, Germany. Armour a meat packing co. made Soap from the by product tallow In 1948 they add a germicide.
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@bobmnu (8157)
• United States
29 Oct 08
It is not profitable to be an American Company. With our tax structure, legal codes (law suits) and government regulation it is easier and cheaper to make products overseas and ship them back. Foreign Companies are buying American Companies because they are a great deal and can make a lot of money if they are not American.
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@deebomb (15304)
• United States
29 Oct 08
I think that some regulations are necessary after seeing what has happened with the lead in toys and the milk situation in China. But I also think that if Obama get into office his tax plans will make things wore.
@bobmnu (8157)
• United States
30 Oct 08
I agree reasonable regulations are needed but some are just overburdening on business.