Homage to the Charleston Chew

NAT SLOANE, 97, the inventor of the beloved Charleston Chew

NEWTON, Mass. - (AP) — Nathan Sloane, longtime maker of the Charleston Chew candy bar, died Sunday.

Sloane, a Belmont resident who also lived in Boca Raton, purchased the Everett-based Fox Cross Candy Co. in 1957. He had doubled the size of the production line at the famed home of the Charleston Chew before he sold the company to Nabisco in 1980.

Although he did not invent the Charleston Chew, he did change the candy’s original 1922 blueprint, chocolate-covered vanilla nougat, according to Stephen Brookner, his son-in-law and longtime business partner.

In the 1970s, they introduced such flavors as chocolate and strawberry

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