the chocolate bar that turned a farm boy's caramel failure into america's default sweet tooth.
means an american chocolate company and the town it built, famous for mild, waxy milk chocolate mass-produced since 1900.
from milton hershey failed at candy three times before caramel finally worked, then he bet everything on chocolate, built a factory in rural pennsylvania in 1903, and constructed an entire company town around it complete with streetlights shaped like kisses.
hershey's kisses — introduced 1907, wrapped by hand until machines took over in 1921
hershey park — opened 1906 as a picnic ground for factory workers, now a theme park
hershey pennsylvania — a real zip code, streets named cocoa and chocolate avenue
hershey's syrup — launched 1926, the stuff under a million diner sundaes