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Artists ask venues for a series of requirements when performing, both to adapt the dressing room and the show to their tastes. These include lighting and sound, but also a series of personal preferences of the star and his team. In this sense, it is known that Frank Sinatra demanded some specific ones, such as a separate dressing room with a shower, a doctor on duty or an upright piano. But perhaps what he was always most demanding about was food and drink.
The singer once ordered a bar with plenty of soft drinks, fruit, cheese, sandwiches and seafood snacks. According to Sinatra’s staff, Luden’s cough drops, Lipton tea bags, Evian spring water and Campbell’s chicken and rice soup were a must at the entertainer’s banquet, but there was one special sweet that had to be on the caterers’ menu: miniature bags of Tootsie Rolls. Frank had a special weakness for these little chewy chocolate sweets for which he even starred in an advertisement in 1942.
Tootsie rolls are America’s best-selling chewy chocolates, featuring a cocoa flavour with a hint of fruit. First made in 1896 by Austrian immigrant Leo Hirshfield, these chewy candies that evoke the texture of chewing gum produce a colossal 64 million a day.