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October 30th, 2018

10/30/2018

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The Ritter Sport family chocolate business - chocolate and social history

A visit to the Ritter Sport chocolate museum in Waldenbuch (between Stuttgart and Tübingen) is a window on social history 

Chocolate history, the Ritter family business through time, a window into ethical business - the company is proudly family owned - , patronage of artists through a gallery next to the museum - and amazing chocolate.

The video is a selection of: early days (the lorry is from 1926!!), the original till from the small shop where the family started in 1912, an ad from 1977 showing men in role as child carers (hoorah for progress!) ....

I left with + 6 kilos of chocolate - telling myself over and over - Christmas presents, Christmas presents ...
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