In 1930, Ruth Wakefield invented chocolate chip cookies at the inn she ran in Whiteman, Massachusetts.  When she ran out of bakers chocolate, she broke up one of the bars of semi-sweet chocolate that Andrew Nestle gave her.  She thought that it would mix together with the dough and make all chocolate cookies.  Needless to say, it didn't.  She called it the Toll House Cookie.

 
 

	Seven billion chocolate dip cookies are eaten annually.  The Toll House produces thirty-three thousand cookies each day.  Some venders only sell chocolate chip cookies.  Half of the cookies baked in American homes are chocolate chip.