Fox’s U-Bet Chocolate Flavor Syrup has a milk chocolate taste.Its ingredients include water, sugar, cocoa, and corn sweeteners.
It is made in Brownsville, Brooklyn, and sold in glass bottles with yellow and red labels.
The woman pictured on the label of the chocolate syrup (though not Fox’s other syrup flavours) is reputedly the mother of Phillip and Lenny Lopate (New York literati.)
The bottle label says “Kosher for Passover.”
History Notes
Fox’s U-bet Chocolate Flavor Syrup was invented sometime between 1910 and 1920 by Herman Fox at his home in Brownsville, Brooklyn.
He just liked the phrase “You bet.”