Day: January 31, 2025

Whetstone Chocolates in Saint Augustine, Florida has been making chocolates for decades.   When you walk in, there’s a display set up to look like the I Love Lucy candy wrapper episode. There is Whetstone history all along the walls from it’s start in 1967 as a home kitchen. Henry and Esther Whetstone started with 13 fudges and hand dipped chocolates. In 1991 Hershey asked them to make melt resistant chocolate for the military. The result was the Desert Bar used in Desert Storm. They also started producing Hershey kisses with almonds. In 1995 Nestlé asked them to make Nestlé’s…