The Sweetest Place on Earth--at least that's how they advertise it. Didn't do much for Jim , did it? We were decked out in our sterile garb for the lab. Don't worry it's still safe to eat Hershey Bars, they didn't let us touch anything but our own candy.
We went to the Story of Hershey Museum and Hershey's Chocolate World and I'm OD'd on chocolate. We now know everything there is to know about the making of chocolate and the history of the town that Hershey built. Actually, it was some pretty interesting stuff. Got to hold a cacao pod--much bigger than I thought--and make our own candy bar in the Chocolate Lab. Milton Hershey established a home for orphan boys here in the 20's as well as the model industrial town that housed the workers along with the largest chocolate factory in the world. He modeled it after Cadbury's in England. We also learned about the process of "milk" chocolate that made chocolate affordable for the masses. Pretty heady stuff, huh?
It's a very tidy town with streets named Cocoa and Chocolate...Chocolate Ave is lined with street lamps that look like Hershey's Kisses.
Could tell him anywhere...Willie's older brother...Jim Wonka. Calorie counting has gone out of style. And Cacao pods? Quite large, they grow out of the side of the tree and when you open them up the seeds are covered with a white gooey stuff that tastes marvelous. The brown almond sized seeds are what they make the chocolate from and they taste cruddy.
ReplyDeleteI would say bring back some chocolate, but if you did it would be syrup, because this is the 14th day of lethal 100+ (107) temperatures.
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