On this Day in History: February 23

Do you like Tootsie Rolls?  On this day in 1896, Leo Hirshfield, an Austrian immigrant, opened a small candy shop in New York City and sold a variety of candies including Tootsie Rolls, using a recipe he brought with him from Europe.  He named the candy after his 5-year old daughter, Clara, whose nickname was "Tootsie,"

Tootsie Rolls are the number one-selling chewy chocolate candy in America.  They still use the same recipe Mr. Hirshfield used in 1896.  The recipe requires using some of the previous day's Tootsie Rolls in the day's mixture.  That means that theoretically, a bit of the very first Tootsie Roll from over a hundred years ago is in every Tootsie Roll produced today, and 64,000,000 are manufactured daily.  What else hasn't changed about Tootsie Rolls?  At least one variety still sells for just one penny.