To celebrate National Chocolate Chip Day, all of us at Willes Orthodontics wanted to share a few fun facts with you
(if we can believe everything we find on the internet… : )
• Chocolate chips were invented by Nestle for use in the Toll House Cookie recipe. In 1939, Nestle purchased the rights to the recipe from Ruth Wakefield, the woman who accidently created the now-famous cookies with chocolate bits in them. Her payment? A lifetime supply of chocolate. Her original Toll House Cookie recipe is still printed on the Nestle Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels package.
• The world's biggest chocolate chip cookie weighed 40,000 pounds and had a diameter of 101 feet, and contained 30,000 eggs.
• 13.5% of American adults admit to having eaten 20 or more chocolate chip cookies at a time.
• The cookies Cookie Monster eats on Sesame Street are actually rice cakes with brown dots painted on.
• You will eat approximately 35,000 cookies in your lifetime.
• It has been estimated that 50% of all cookies baked at home are chocolate chip cookies.
• One easy way to up the flavor of your chocolate chip cookies is to let the prepared dough sit in the refrigerator for 24 to 36 hours before baking: while the dough rests, both the flour proteins and starches break down, creating tastier cookies.
• The standard rounded tablespoon of cookie dough can hold a maximum of 50 chocolate chips …… but most people are happy with 6 to 8 per cookie.
• Chocolate chips melt best at temperatures between 104 and 113 °F. The melting process starts at around 90 °F when the cocoa butter in the chips starts to heat. The cooking temperature must never exceed 115 °F for milk or 120 °F for dark, or the chocolate will burn.
• Each year, 7 billion chocolate chip cookies are eaten, with about 50% of those being homemade.
• The most cookies baked in one hour is 4,695 by Hassett's Bakery in Cork, Ireland on July 30, 2013.
• The idea for Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream came from an anonymous note left by a customer at a Ben and Jerry’s in 1984.
• A lethal dose of chocolate for a human being is about 22 lbs., or 40 Hershey bars.
• It takes approximately 400 cacao beans to make one pound of chocolate.
• The smell of chocolate increases theta brain waves, which triggers relaxation.
• Every second, Americans collectively eat 100 pounds of chocolate.
• And our favorite: the BBC reports that researchers discovered that chocolate can help prevent tooth decay!!
Please DOUGH not forget how much we CAROBout you. When the CHIPS are down, we know that you are one tough COOKIE we can always rely on. You have perfected the RECIPE for success--and you BATTER remember that working with you and your patients really BAKES us happy!!! That DOZEN’t mean there won’t be a few CRUMBy days in life that take their TOLL (Like the song goes, “Nobody knows that TRUFFLES I’ve seen”), but your SWEETness makes them MELT away. Thank you for WARMing the world, one beautiful BITE at a time.
And here is a BATCH of scrumptious chocolate & cookie quotes to make you smile.
• In the cookies of life, friends are the chocolate chips • Chocolate doesn’t make the world go ’round, but it sure does make the trip worthwhile • If you’ve got melted chocolate all over your hands, you’re eating it too slowly • Put “eat chocolate” at the top of your list of things-to-do today. That way, at least you’ll get one thing done • Nuts just take up space where chocolate ought to be • There’s nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with chocolate • Intergalactic Peace Through Chocolate • I only eat chocolate for you, so there will be more of me to love • The 12-step chocoholics program: never be more than 12 steps away from chocolate • If God had meant us to be thin, He would not have created chocolate • Good moms let you lick the beaters after mixing cookie dough. Great moms turn them off, first • My heart says "chocolate," but my jeans say, "For Pete's sake, eat a salad!" • Inside me there’s a thin person struggling to get out, but I can usually sedate him with chocolate • Chocolate makes your clothes shrink • "Stressed" is "desserts" spelled backwards • Raisin cookies that look like chocolate chip cookies are the main reason I have trust issues • I’d give up chocolate, but I’m no quitter • Chocolate comes from cocao, which is a tree. That makes it a plant; which means chocolate is salad • Chocolate is cheaper than therapy, and you don’t need an appointment • I have this theory that chocolate slows down the aging process; it may not be true, but do I dare take the chance? • Milk chocolate is a dairy product • In heaven, chocolate has no calories and is served as the main course • When no one understands you, chocolate is there • Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands—then eat only one piece • My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished 2 bags of M&M’s and a chocolate cake. I feel better already • Chocolate—The breakfast of champions • Chocolate is nature’s way of making up for Mondays • If you can’t eat all your chocolate, it will keep in the freezer. But if you can’t eat all your chocolate, what’s wrong with you? • May 15th is National chocolate chip day AND National Bike to Work Day: someone has a sense of humor • Money talks, but chocolate sings • Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know when you'll find a nut • Life is uncertain; eat dessert first • I am not overweight, I am chocolate-enriched • Seize the moment: remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart • Research shows that fourteen out of ten individuals like chocolate • I don't drown my sorrows; I suffocate them with chocolate chip cookies • Man cannot live on chocolate alone, but woman definitely can • One of life’s mysteries is how a two-pound box of candy can make a person gain five pounds • A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand • A day without chocolate is a day without sunshine • True love is being willing to share your warm chocolate chip cookie •
Happy “National Chocolate Chip Day” from your friends at Willes Orthodontics!