For Valentine’s Day today, I thought I’d dig up one of my favorite articles from my college days on the Crimson: The story of the King of Hearts, the guy who picked those slogans to go on the candy hearts everyone gets today.
Each year in Cambridge, NECCO churns out some 20 million pounds of the candy hearts, about 8 billion total. Production runs just about year round and then they’re stored in warehouses until Heart Day approaches. Don’t think too much about that latter fact.
King of Hearts
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