[3] Having originated as a chocolate-flavored milk, the Toddy products range then extended to chocolate chip cookies Roots to the creation of the brand can be traced to the United States in 1919, when James William Rudhard (b.

In 1928, one of his employees, Puerto Rican Pedro Erasmo Santiago, took over concession for Latin America market, focusing on children as Toddy's main target.

In 1949, the slogan was: "Toddy, breakfast for the whole family"[4] On March 15, 1933, Pedro Erasmo Santiago was licensed by the provisory government of Getúlio Vargas to commercialize the product in Brazil.

After his death on February 8, 1966, his youngest son, Erasmo Julian Santiago Mejia, (August 12th 1936-February 12, 2008) took over the operations, later selling the companies in Venezuela due to pressure from the national government and banks in 1986.

Toddynho (a fusion of Toddy + Portuguese diminutive suffix -inho) is a line of pre-mixed chocolate milk products also manufactured by PepsiCo.