Not only that.....you can
find things that show the WP article used to be a lot "better". (That's a joke, son.)
QUOTE
-The name of the product comes from a footbridge in a Hershey’s plant, onto which candies from a bunch of different conveyor belts used to fall; this “bridge mixture†proved such a popular snack with the employees that the company decided to market it; and
-The President of Uganda once cracked a tooth on a too-hard Bridge Mixture piece while on a visit to Canada, leading to strained Canada-Uganda relations; and
-A 24-foot-tall granite statue of a box of Bridge Mixture stands in front of the factory where it was invented. The statue has been blessed by Pope Jean Paul II.
So in the end, all I learned is that trusting Wikipedia for serious research purposes is probably a pretty dumb idea. I guess in the end, all we can say for sure about Bridge Mixture is that its true origins have been lost in the mists of time.
Noooo shiiiit.....
And I even have a
dead-tree reference saying that the
origin of the term "bridge mix" is lost to history.
Dictionary.reference.com is also
of no help.