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- It was in that foxhole that M. David Benson first envisioned the Apollo Bar. Less than two years later, that vision had become a reality. And, the rest, as they say, is history.
- Starting with only the milk chocolate recipe given to him by his grandfather, Oskar Benson, M. David Benson began the Apollo Candy Company in 1962, out of a one-room factory in San Francisco´s legendary Cow Hollow district. By 1964, Benson had perfected the recipe for his affordable, yet exceptionally delicious, Apollo Bars, and began distributing them citywide. By 1968, the fledgling company had secured distribution outlets nationwide.
- Benson held his breath as Pickersweet bit into the impossibly rich, unimaginably creamy Apollo Bar. A full, heart-wrenching ten seconds passed.
- Once he´d Perfected the Apollo Bar´s recipe, M. David Benson found himself in a predicament: he´d spent all but his last cent on starting the company--which left him no means to travel around and hawk his sensational new chocolates.
- Some would say Benson was a child of strife. His grandfather, Oskar Benson was a man of tradition. Upon learning of his son´s engagement to a woman well below his station, Oskar turned his back on Nils, cutting him from the family inheritance. Leaving Norway, with his pregnant wife, Elli, Nils established a new life in the U.S., joining the U.S. Marine Corps in December of 1941. Sadly, however, Nils Benson lost his life on Omaha Beach just a few short years later.
- It's easy! We're giving them away! While supplies last, simply go to your nearest Forbidden Planet store and say the daily code. Trust us! Your tummy will thank you.
- M. David Benson served America in the Korean War and recounts the moment when he, too, discovered that chocolate ran through his veins:
- America!
- And then, the miraculous happened.
- After his tour ended, Benson knew what he had to do. He would bring the Benson Bar to America, but with a change. He would make it affordable, but with no sacrifice to quality, so that every American, regardless of class, creed or station could come together through the simple delight of the world´s richest, creamiest, milk chocolate.
- How can I get one, you ask?
- Like many immigrants, the widowed Elli Benson, felt a strong sense of patriotism for her adopted country. Her husband had died defending America, and M. David Benson was raised to cherish his homeland.
- Never in his wildest dreams could M. David Benson have imagined how this moment would change everything. It was 1964. He had just delivered, from the back of his beast-to-the-bolts 1959 Jeep FC-150, the very first crate of Apollo Bars to San Francisco´s legendary J.Pickersweet´s Five and Dime.
- The short of it? He needed a truck, and fast.
- Once these Apollo Bars are gone, they're really gone!
- The Apollo Candy Company is proud to announce the Apollo Bar, the world's most delectable chocolate sensation, is now available, for the first time ever, in the UK!!!
- The Apollo Candy Company is thrilled to announce our legendary Apollo Bars are being given away free for a limited time at the following locations and times. Supplies are limited, so just one bar per person per location. Act fast!
- Luckily, fortune smiled on Benson once again. A close friend had just moved to the Big Apple and had no more need for his 1959 Jeep FC-150 Truck. It was beaten up, dirty, looked like it had no business rolling on city streets, but Benson took one look at that jeep and knew it was the perfect truck -- not only was it affordable, it was a vehicle as rugged and durable as the American spirit.
- Can't wait to get your hot little hands on the most scrumptious, most ummmm-tious, chocolate bar in the world? You don't have to!
- But, how? And which truck? This was no small decision. Choosing a distribution vehicle was about more than just getting a box of Apollo Bars from here to there. Whatever Benson chose to drive, he knew it would forever be associated with the Apollo Candy Company. It would represent him, his family, and the image of the company he was trying to lift off the ground -- for good or for ill.
- Bringing this proposal to his grandfather, a man he barely knew, Benson was devastated to learn Benson Chocolatiers had gone under, the brand sold to a British candy manufacturer. However, Oskar Benson had a surprise for his grandson. Having missed out on his childhood, hoping only to reconnect after so many regretful years, Oskar Benson offered his grandson the most valuable of family secrets: the original, secret recipe for Benson Milk Chocolate.
- Back in 1964, when that very first, sinfully scrumptious Apollo Bar planted a 10,000-watt smile on J. Pickersweet's face, could M. David Benson have possibly imagined his brilliant confection would one day be available worldwide?
- Working from this recipe, it was only a matter of time before M.David Benson concocted the recipe for "The Apollo Bar", a confection fit for even the Greek god of light himself.
- Pickersweet´s mustache curled up above a grin that stretched from ear to ear. The Apollo Bar had landed in the Golden Gate City.
- "The six of us were pinned down - scared witless. I knew we´d be lost if we didn´t come together. So I rifled through my pack and found it -- The Benson Chocolate Bar mom had sent. They were expensive. She was poor. But once a month like clockwork, there was that care package. Six ways, I split that chocolate, and even with death staring at us in the eye, not a one of us could deny the smile on his face. It was dead midnight, but for that sweet moment, as we ate that Benson Bar, the sun came up for us all"
- Born in 1938, M. David Benson is the child of Nils Christer Benson, son of Oskar Benson, found of Scandinavian´s revered Benson Chocolatiers.
- Benson knew this was the moment of truth. If Pickersweet liked what you had to sell, profit and prosperity would most certainly follow. But if he took issue with your product..
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| abstract | - ApolloCandy.com wurde am 08. August 2006 im Rahmen des ARGs The Lost Experience vorgestellt. Die Seite befindet sich auf demselben Server, der auch alle anderen Seiten des Spiels hostet. Sie bewirbt einen Schokoriegel mit dem Namen Apollo und umfasst Bereiche, die das Unternehmen selbst, seinen Gründer M. David Benson sowie andere verwandte Themen vorstellen. Da The Lost Experience mittlerweile abgelaufen ist, ist auch die Registrierung der Webseite verfallen und es existieren Mirror-Versionen. Im Verlauf des ARGs wurde die Domain wahrscheinlich von dem Unternehmen Hi-ReS! verwaltet, das für das gesamte ARG engagiert wurde. Laut dem WHOIS-Eintrag wurde sich jedoch über den Anonymisierungsdienst Domain Discreet registriert [1], [2]. Die Registrierung ist am 14. April 2007 ausgelaufen und wurde wahrscheinlich am 27. Mai 2007 von einer weiteren Gruppe erworben, um damit eine Erotikwebseite zu betreiben, die jedoch nach kurzer Zeit abgeschaltet wurde. Die Domain hat daher keine Verbindung mehr zu ABC oder The Lost Experience, obwohl ABC den Vorgang mittlerweile bemerkt hat, da Mitarbeiter von ABC den Artikel auf der englischen Lostpedia zu bearbeiten und Verlinkungen auf die Homepage zu entfernen. (Siehe diese Diskussion). Eine archivierte Version der Webseite befindet sich hier.
- The Apollo Candy website was announced on August 8th 2006. It was hosted on the same server as all of the other in-game sites as part of the Lost Experience. The site promotes a chocolate bar named Apollo, and included sections describing the Apollo Candy Company, its founder M. David Benson, and other related topics. Note that the domain registration for the in-game website has since expired, and the game website is only mirrored. During the course of The Lost Experience, the domain was presumably operated by Hi-ReS!, (the company contracted to run The Lost Experience), but according to the WHOIS listing, it was registered via the anonymizer service Domain Discreet [1], [2]. The one year registration expired on April 14, 2007, and approximately on May 27, 2007, it was purchased by another party which hosted an adult website in its place, which was then shutdown. The domain is therefore no longer owned or affiliated with ABC or The Lost Experience, although the lapse has apparently since been noticed in the course of editing of the Apollo Bar article in Lostpedia by employees of ABC (see discussion here). A mirrored version of the website can be found here.
- El registro del dominio para el juego ha expirado, por lo que la web ya no existe. El registro de un añó expiró el 14 de abril de 2007, y el 27 de mayo del mismo año fue contratado para poner una web de adultos en su lugar.
- The Apollo Candy Company is the manufacturer of Apollo Candy Bars and have been referenced many time throughout LOST and also in "The Lost Experience".
- L'Apollo Candy Company è la società che produce e commercializa le Barrette Apollo apparse in Lost tra i rifornimenti del Cigno. L'Apollo Candy Company è nota grazie al gioco The Lost Experience, nel quale giorno 8/8/2006 per la prima volta appare il sito ufficiale dell'azienda (apollocandy.com[1]).
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