home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- <text id=90TT3445>
- <title>
- Dec. 24, 1990: Business Notes:Confection
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Dec. 24, 1990 What Is Kuwait?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 60
- Business Notes
- CONFECTIONS
- Now That's a Hot Chocolate
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> The average chocolate candy bar melts at 78 degrees F. The
- average day in the Saudi Arabian desert can peak at a toasty
- 120 degrees. Result: a sticky problem for G.I.s who crave a
- little chocolate as they wage a waiting war along the
- Saudi-Iraqi border. Last week Pennsylvania's Hershey Foods
- launched an all-out offensive against the candy-killing climate
- of the Middle East. Its secret weapon: 144,000 Desert Bars.
- Designed to meet the Army's demand for "heat-resistant" milk
- chocolate, the Desert Bar approximates the flavor of its
- home-front cousins, while standing up to temperatures of well
- over 100 degrees without turning into chocolate syrup. Hershey,
- which produced its first heat-resistant chocolates for the Army
- in 1937, refuses to divulge the desert-defying processes behind
- its latest creation.
- </p>
-
- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
-
-