a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
But the Baby Ruth bar had nothing to do with the Babe. In fact, Curtiss Candy Company never swayed that the Baby Ruth bar was named after President Grover Clevelandâs daughter, Ruth. Yet, Ruth died an unfortunate death in 1904 at age 12. Curtiss introduced the candy bar in 1920. The company did not even exist until 1916.
In 1985, Nabisco paid $100,000 for the product placement of Baby Ruth to appear in the film The Goonies. In 1995, a company representing the Ruth estate licensed his name and likeness for use in a Baby Ruth marketing campaign.