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The world famous Mars Corporation is a multi-billion dollar confectionary giant.

This one small-time family-run sweet shop is now a bigger brand than McDonald's,

Kellogg's, and even four times as big as Hershey, their biggest competitor.

Here to tell the story of Mars Candy is Simon Whistler from the Today I Found Out YouTube channel

and its sister, The Brain Food Show Podcast.

Let's take a listen.

Hold your breath. Make a wish. Count to three.

The legendary Roll-Darl book, Charlie in the Chocolate Factory from 1964 and its subsequent

two film adaptations from 1971 and 2005 told the story of a magical candy factory

and its eccentric and mysterious owner Willy Wonka.

A chocolate river, a gum that is a whole turkey dinner, never-ending gobb-stoppers, and, of course,

the singing and dancing umpalumpers are just a few of the surprises that waited inside the doors

of the famously secretive factory.

Of course, in a real-life candy empire, there are a lot more failures, a lot more hard work,

there are father-son disputes, and an unfortunate lack of umperlumpers.

The story of Mars Candy starts in Newport, Minnesota, southeast of St. Paul, with the birth

of Franklin

Carence Mars on September 23, 1883.

Frank was the son of a gristmill operator, grinding grains into flour, who only moved to

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