Visiting Hershey’s – the Mothership of
Chocolate, was a definite on our RV adventure.
Suzanne imagined (yes, she knew this wouldn’t be true) a Willie
Wonka-esque place with chocolate rivers and flowers one could eat. Well,
obviously not true, but we didn’t expect it to be as bad as it was. :-) Brad summed it
up well: a combo of “It’s a Small World”
(Disneyland), Chucky Cheese, and run-down
Amusement Park.
We only wanted
to go on the free factory tour – no need to pay to taste chocolate (been doing that for
decades!), create a chocolate bar (tried that in college while ‘under the influence’
– trust us, chocolate syrup put into a freezer doesn’t freeze, no matter how
long it’s left there), or any of that stuff – we just wanted to see the factory
that makes such goodness. Well, we did the "factory tour" and we still haven’t
seen the factory that makes such goodness – it’s a farce. No, Virginia, there
isn’t a Santa Claus, sorry to say.
The “factory tour” takes on (on the amusement park-lie ride) through a cow singing (It’s a Small World) mock-factory and explains how (somewhere else) Hershey makes the yummy chocolate bars.
As expected, we
were let off our “tour” at the HUGE candy store – people were crazy – like they’ve
never seen chocolates, twizzlers, or sweets before (you know, the ones you see at
the food store for half the price) – they couldn’t contain themselves – lots of
sugar highs – lots of sugar highs!
So we
purchased a few things….
Nah. ........................................ :-)
We did learn
some interesting things about the founder of Hershey, Milton Hershey. He and
his wife Catherine were unable to have children, so they created the Hershey
Industrial School in 1909 for orphaned boys.
Once they both passed away, all of their estate was bequeathed to the
school, now named the Milton Hershey School, where today it is the country’s
largest pre- kindergarten to 12th grade (over 1800 students) home and
school for boys and girls from families of low income and social need. The school pays for everything for the children
who attend – housing, education, food, clothing, medical needs, dental, etc….Now
that is impressive!
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