What is Chocolate Syrup?
Perhaps your ice cream is a looking a little plain with nothing to top it, or you’d like an egg cream? Either one is glorified by adding chocolate syrup, a mixture of cocoa, sugar, usually high fructose corn syrup, and a variety of other ingredients depending upon the brand. Hershey’s® was one of the first brands to introduce the syrup in the US, starting with a fountain version for adding to egg creams, sodas or milk shakes in 1926, and then producing a canned form for home use two years later. Other companies like Bosco® soon joined in the fray, as chocolate syrup became a popular addition at home and at soda fountains and diners. There were most likely earlier versions of chocolate syrup, thin glazes of chocolate that might have topped cakes or desserts of various sorts. But companies mass-producing the syrup resulted in huge popularity, and the various brands were used for anything from ice cream toppers to delicious chocolate milk, made simply by mixing chocolate syrup and milk to
