Rebirth 79: I opened a bank in the United States

"We are making chocolate, but the chocolate we make is for our own consumption. We don't have a food sales license, so I can't sell it to you. If something happens, I can't be held responsible."

After saying this, Carter understood. It turned out that it wasn't that they didn't want to sell, but that they didn't dare to sell.

"Okay, I understand. I have to say, your chocolate is so delicious that I could smell it while driving there. When are you going to apply for a food sales license?"

Carter's words were purely Chinese polite, and everyone was already ready to turn around and leave. As a result, the surprise came...

"We shouldn't apply for a food sales license. If you like it very much, you can buy our cocoa liquor and cocoa butter. We can sell this. Then I will tell you the proportion of the formula I just added, and you can do it yourself.

Let’s go home and make delicious chocolate!”

Making desserts like chocolate is not complicated. The difficult part is refining cocoa butter from cocoa beans and boiling cocoa liquor. With these two main raw materials, the rest is to add milk, sugar, nuts and so on. It’s up to you.

You can make it. Let’s not talk about the taste. At least many families in the United States have the habit of making their own chocolate.

The younger brother’s suggestion was not abrupt, I just heard him continue to add:

"Our company is engaged in processing raw materials, so I can't sell you finished chocolate, but cocoa liquor and cocoa butter can! We can sell these two raw materials. Sir, are you a visitor from out of town? I have never seen you in Dict

you."

"Yes, I was on my way to Washington. When I passed by Dick's, I smelled this fragrance, so I came here because my sister wanted to eat your chocolate."

In the United States, there are not only an overwhelming number of food raw material processing plants like these in front of us, but there are definitely a lot of them. Carter doesn’t have to carry two large barrels of raw materials and pile them in the car now. He can buy cocoa pulp when he returns to Atlanta. But in order to give Melis one

After explaining, Carter still asked:

"Can you tell me the name of your company? I want to wait until I get home to buy your products. If I buy them now, I might not be able to fit them in my car."

"Of course, thank you for liking our products. Our company is Archer Daniels Midland, but you may have to wait a while before the cocoa products are available on the shelves. We are still in...well, the research and development stage, but at the moment

It looks like the effect should be very good, and people are coming here because of it, hahaha! Wait a moment, let me write you the recipe."

The little brother smiled happily and hurriedly turned around and ran back indoors. After a while, he ran out again with a piece of paper. Carter also laughed, thanked him and turned around to leave. When he got back to the car, he saw his hands empty.

Carter, Melis pouted:

"Carter! Where's the chocolate?!"

"Stop staring at me, they don't sell it. They are a factory that processes food raw materials, not a factory that makes chocolate at all. The chocolate they make now is made by the workers themselves using raw materials from the factory for their own people to eat. If he

Selling it to me would be illegal."

Carter spread his hands and signaled to Melis that there was nothing he could do. He couldn't force someone to break the law just for two pieces of chocolate, right?

"But don't worry, I asked them the name of their company. When we get home, we can buy their cocoa liquor and make it ourselves. No, this is their recipe. I'm going to come. I'll take it later.

No matter how you cook it, the taste is the same, it’s just the difference between eating it later and eating it earlier.”

"Hmph, show me!"

After listening to Carter's explanation, Melis's anger subsided. However, she snorted arrogantly and snatched the formula sheet from Carter's hand that Carter had never read.

Just as the note passed in front of his eyes, Carter suddenly noticed the words on it: adm!

adm is the abbreviation of Archer Daniels Midland Company, which seems to be their brand name as well. When he heard the long list of company names, Carter had no idea at all, but after seeing the abbreviation adm, a wave of memories came to him.

heart.

When I was a child, my grandfather in my hometown in the countryside raised pigs and fish in the lotus root pond. In order to raise these animals, my grandfather bought a lot of feed. At that time, there was a feed called "adm soy milk treasure". In my grandfather's words

He said that this thing has the best effect, and the pigs will gain weight after eating it, but it is also very expensive, and it seems to be some kind of imported product...

Import, import, isn’t this just imported goods?!

Although I don’t know why this pig feed company has now started to process cocoa, this does not prevent Carter from taking out a small notebook and writing it down. At least, this company can survive into the future, can still export, and has preparations.

It is well received by customers (grandpa) and has great potential!

Melis received her favorite chocolate formula and was very satisfied; Carter received a golden egg from a new company and was equally happy. Although this company that sells pig feed sounds a bit low-key, it is very stable! I just don’t know.

Whether there will be duplicate names will be left to be seen later. Anyway, Carter has no money now...

In fact, this ADM is not a pig feed manufacturer at all. In other words, pig feed is only an insignificant part of their product line. In the field of food raw material processing, their real dominance is in corn.

In the direction of processing soybeans and other products.

Although I don’t know who the future ADM is, Carter was surprised by the harvest he picked up for almost nothing. The satisfied brother and sister set off again, and the rest of the journey was much calmer. They left Illinois and headed northwest.

After leaving, it is followed by Iowa, a state with almost no visibility, and then passes through South Dakota, Montana and a small section of Idaho before entering Washington.

If there is anything that left a deep impression on Carter during this process, it was probably what he saw and heard at the gas station. Old guns from redneck states in the south-central United States never turn off the engine when refueling!

Not only do they not turn off the engine, they even smoke while refueling. Not only them, but sometimes even the gas station staff smoke, and they even smoke openly while standing next to the car that is refueling. It is really a question of how to control population growth.

The puzzle is solved!

The first time I saw this scene was at a rural gas station in Iowa. At that time, Carter was chatting with Melis while waiting for the car in front to finish refueling and give up his seat. Then he saw the old man in front of him.

After getting off the car, he lit a cigarette very familiarly, then reached for the oil gun...

After the oil gun was inserted into the car, the old man leaned against the rear door very naturally, sipping. Carter even saw some soot falling on the oil gun, but the old man didn't care. Carter was curious about him.

Why don't you think about what would happen if what fell down was not soot but a spark?

When they first met, Carter thought it was an exception. However, after a series of refueling experiences, Carter found that these gangsters seemed to be doing this. No one took the prohibition of smoking at gas stations seriously, let alone the staff.

It would be great if you don’t smoke them together.

So, from then on, Carter would stay away every time he refueled. After these desperate gangs finished refueling, there were no cars in the gas station, and then they dared to drive in. After refueling, he immediately ran away.

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