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What is Fudge, Part 2: The Rebellion

What is Fudge, Part 2: The Rebellion

Ridiculous History

June 25, 202025m 22s

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The students of Vassar thrived despite a system of Victorian -- near Orwellian -- control. In a time when these college students were not allowed to have agency over their own diet, they rebelled, popularizing the confection known as fudge today. Other students at elite institutions joined in, and soon contemporaneous newspapers noted fudge as both a desert and a rebellion against prevailing social norms.

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