Even if you don’t have a sweet tooth
for chocolate, you may have wondered about the iconic Hershey Kiss—how did that
luscious temptation get started?
You remember Milton Hershey, the
Hershey Bar guy. Hershey was a caramel kind of guy who switched to chocolate
and struck the mother lode. In 1900 he created the Hershey Bar, probably
America’s milk chocolate favorite.
In 1903 he started building his first
chocolate factory in what was then called Derry Church, PA. The town later
changed its name to Hershey.
In 1907 the diminutive masterpiece made
its debut: a little hunk of milk chocolate, flat on the bottom with an
approximately teardrop shape, called the Hershey Kiss. For more than a decade
that famous morsel was painstakingly produced and wrapped in foil by hand. By
1921, it was machine-produced with the little paper strip sticking out the top.
Oh yeah, almost forgot to mention that
Mr. Goodbar came along in 1925.
And hey, you can'y eat just one.
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