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• GildorInglorion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Milton Hershey made chocolate, a town, and a school that inherited a controlling interest in the chocolate company.

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  • GildorInglorion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And an amusement park

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    • WoahWoah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Wonka vibes intensify

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      • jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        His real innovation was a less expensive method to produce milk chocolate (although this process seems to produce butyric acid which is an unpleasant taste in chocolate if you’re not used to it) and becoming the first mass-produced chocolate in the US. The Hershey Kiss was just one of many products he made.

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  • WoahWoah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Looked it up, that school seems very cool. It does sound like you’re describing Willy Wonka though.

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• Geekocracy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You are going to think I made this up, but the street lights are shaped like Hershey kisses.

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  • WoahWoah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Like in the town town or the amusement thing. Did this dude happen to enslave small-statured orange people by chance?

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    • Geekocracy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The town, or at least the main street that goes by the factory. As far as I know, no orange people were enslaved.
      Seriously though, Milton Hershey was surprisingly progressive for his time. He built affordable homes for his workers and helped them become home owners. The school he built was originally for orphaned boys.

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      • andrewrgross@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I’m from Pittsburgh. I think we ran a cross country meet in Hershey once.

        The amusement park and factory tour are all quite charming. It’s hard to recommend one make a dedicated trip, but if anyone is ever on a road trip nearby, it’s worth the detour to stop by for a day.

        Then again, my recommendation is 20 years old. It could be either better or worse now.

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