Cocoa, Milk, and Sugar Silos | Ohio Outdoor Sculpture
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Visible from the 480 freeway, three bright pink silos marked “Cocoa,” “Milk,” and “Sugar” sit on the grounds of Malley’s Chocolates in Brook Park. The location is home to the company’s chocolate factory and a shop lined with shelves painted in a shade staff simply call “the Malley pink.” (The color is hard to put your finger on, but it’s quite close to Baker-Miller pink, which has famously been shown in psychiatric experiments to have a calming effect.) Malley’s has been a local institution...
  • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    2 months ago

    Malley’s does not disclose where they source materials for their chocolates, but they did indicate that their cocoa, milk, and sugar all come from outside of northeast Ohio, bringing a tale of globalization full circle.

    Wait, you’re telling me they don’t use locally grown cocoa beans from Ohio, a place with a climate wholly unsuited toward cocoa production? Who could have known!?

  • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    11·
    2 months ago

    Not sure I understand what’s interesting or weird about a company storing ingredients for their product in silo? Lol

  • arin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    Albert “Mike” Malley borrowed $500 in 1935, and opened his first candy store on Madison Avenue in Lakewood. The Malley family lived in the back of the building. Their efforts were successful, and by 1949, they opened a second store, also in Lakewood

    $500 in 1935 is $11,749.74 in 2025