Chocolate World, Hershey, PA.

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Since Kitty and I have long considered ourselves devout chocoholics, and the Hershey factory is only an hour away, no arm twisting was necessary to get us in the car for this trip!  At Hershey's Chocolate World, you can track cacao beans from the rain forest to the factory, see how chocolate is made and how they wrap those, oh so good, little Kisses!  You can also experiment in dessert creations, and sample different types of chocolate.  Ah... can we spend the night here?  Or, how about the rest of the week?  OMG, they'll  have to carry both of us outa here!!!

The tour we chose was the free tour, naturally.  It was a continuous tour much like you would find at Disney where you ride in a four seated cart and get on and off while it's moving.  The trick is to step onto the moving platform without falling.  I was proud of Kitty, she made it from the moving platform to the cart in a single bound!  She was so fast I didn't even have a chance to take a picture of her getting in the cart!  When it comes to chocolate, this gal can really move!

In addition to the cacao beans, the other key ingredient to make chocolate is milk.  This factory uses over 250,000 gallons of milk per day. So, to all those cows out there, we thank you for helping support our chocolate addiction!

This tour seemed to be geared more to the younger kids rather than us oldies.  It has a lot of animated characters like you see in these two pictures.

This cow has horns, and that's no bull! Ha!

 I was a little disappointed.  I expected a bunch of little people carefully making those delicious Chocolate Kisses and wrapping them individually by hand with loving care!  A machine makes those kisses and wraps them and puts them into bags!  What's up with that?  Darn, I was hoping to get one of those jobs!  Or, maybe be the quality guy that has to taste the chocolate all day long to be sure it's made right!  What a job that would be!  Oh well, I would probably end up weighing 900 pounds after the first week of employment here!  Guess I'll stay retired.

You know how your clothes smell after leaving some restaurants?  Well, our clothes smelled like chocolate when we left Chocolate World.  Heck, we may never wash those clothes again!  Despite our chocolate addiction, we only purchased one bag of Kisses.  Oh!  Did I mention it was a 50 pound bag?  Ha!