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Happy National Chocolate Chip Day!
Like many food discoveries and creations, the invention of chocolate chips was accidental. Ruth Graves Wakefield operated the Toll House Inn with her husband and cooked the meals and desserts herself, garnering particular acclaim for her cookies. When she once ran out of baker's chocolate, she apparently substituted a semi-sweet chocolate bar diced into little pieces. As her chocolate chip cookie recipe became increasingly popular, the Nestlé Chocolate Company found sales for their chocolate bars spiking and thus struck a deal with Wakefield: In exchange for her recipe (which still appears on Nestlé chips today), Ruth Wakefield was granted a lifetime supply of Nestlé -- and they would produce chocolate chips.
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Notice that it isn't National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day. There are other things you can do with them besides the cookie route.
