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Talk of the Bay
No need to go to Chicago for Frango
By MARK ALBRIGHT
Published September 11, 2006
When the owners of Macy's bought Marshall Field's, the first question of many hard-boiled Chicago shoppers was, "Does this mean no more Frango Mints?" The answer, it turns out, is: no way. Macy's owners at Federated Department Stores Inc. sent the Marshall Field's name to the dust bin last week, but the popular brand of chocolates will live on. Field's had been selling about 1-million pounds of the Frango chocolates a year at its 61 stores and worldwide through mail order. Now they will be added to all 800 Macy's stores coast to coast. The first shipments arrive in Tampa Bay area Macy's stores Sept. 15. Marshall Field's didn't invent the distinctive product. A defunct Seattle department store introduced the name in 1918 in the form of a frozen dessert, then sold the name and recipe for the signature chocolate mint candies to Marshall Field's in 1929. But the strikingly similar Frangos (note the 's') chocolates continued to be sold in the Pacific Northwest at the Bon Marche, a department store chain that, thanks to industry consolidation, is now Macy's, too.
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