Time to give roses & chocolates!
Nothing is so quintessentially American as milk chocolate.
Yes, this is a bite-size square. Were you expecting heart shaped? That is usually the shape of the box, not the pieces within.
Though dark chocolate is all the rage right now, your grandparent (or parents for us older folk) were probably raised on the five cent Hershey bar. That's the chocolate bar the GIs handed out all over Europe and Asia as we won World War II. You could get one twice that size for a dime.
Milk chocolate is popular with manufacturers because it is cheaper to make than dark chocolate. Milk - evaporated or powdered milk - and cocoa butter are added to the chocolate liquor - also known as baking chocolate (containing approximately equal amounts of cocoa and cocoa butter). The remaining cocoa is sold as powder for cooking.
The European Union requires at least 25% chocolate liquor in milk chocolate. During World War II, large quantities of milk chocolate with a lower percentage of chocolate liquor could be produced despite shortages of cocoa from Africa. This historical situation probably has something to do with the current US government requirement that milk chocolate is only required to contain 10% chocolate liquor.
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