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Re:Why the 1930s were a golden age for chocolate (1996) by autokad on Saturday March 11, 2017 @05:06PM (#13847511)
i got confused at first too. its evidence that the 1930s was the golden age of chocolate, not an explanation of why the 1930s are the golden age of chocolate
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Re:Why the 1930s were a golden age for chocolate (1996) by dragonwriter on Saturday March 11, 2017 @05:18PM (#13847562)
Lots of "why X is Y" articles are really "why X is described as Y" rather than "what caused X to be Y".
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Re:Why the 1930s were a golden age for chocolate (1996) by n4r9 on Saturday March 11, 2017 @06:14PM (#13847833)
The confusion is compounded by one of the first lines:

> this extract ... explains why the decade produced virtually all the classic bars we still love today

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