Hershey Company

Back when you guys purchased Cadbury, «we» all wondered whether you might ruin the chocolate. Put your own twist on it, lessen the quantity, change the taste. You guys did it all. Unfortunately. Why the fuck did you?
It’s been awhile since I’ve had a Cadbury bar. I think I’ve been silently protesting its purchase by Hershey. I just had my first today and it wasn’t as good as when Cadbury stood alone. So you guys got rid of the gold foil paper. You also made the bars a lot less in shape and more like a typical Hershey bar. Why? Who buys Hershey bars? Why does it have to be the same? And in the almond bar, why’d you reduce the size of the almonds and the quantity? Aren’t you people supposed to be testing these things before you release it? Where’d you test the product in a bar located in BFE under drunken conditions?
What a waste. I hope the global product isn’t the same. I hate to be thinking that right now there’s a Brit overseas that’s just purchased a Cadbury bar and as she’s pulling the wrapper back notices changes in it’s shape and thickness. She’s thinking, «bloody fucking Americans». They got to shit on everything. Is that what you want people to think of us!
Sure, I guess I could have written a fluff piece about my love for Hershey’s products and the love I had as a child. But, the one damn thing I enjoy about adulthood and you ruin it.
Assholes.

I love Hershey’s chocolates, but I don’t love how they treat their employees.
Does exploiting young, foreign labor taste good? How about purposely covering up over 40 serious injuries over the course of 4 years?
I don’t mean to trample all over the town of Hershey and the chocolate bars that forge its cultural identity, but do the people who toil for Hershey have to work under such horrid conditions at horrid wages? Wouldn’t that chocolate taste better if people worked at Hershey without killing themselves and at a fair wage?
On the subject of fairness, there’s also the matter of fair trade.
Much of the cocoa used by Hershey to make their chocolate is harvested using child labor under barbarous circumstances…
It doesn’t have to be this way.
Their chocolate is rather good, however, and is a confectionary staple. Hershey just needs to do better in the social responsibility department.

3.5 stars.
Imagine: You walk into a room and see an individual. A person you know but they hardly look recognizable. It could be your son, your daughter, mother or even your father. Your significant other or a cousin or a friend. They are having a chocolate moment. Their pupil’s are dilated only revealing shifting, soulless back eyes. They have chocolate smeared all over their face and hands. Fresh from the kill. They look at you with a startled look on their face but at this point and time you know they are running on instinct alone. They bare their teeth and take another big bite of chocolate.
I think we all have had a chocolate moment. Women seem freely to admit that they love chocolate but men don’t like to admit that they are vulnerable to it. You know they are when they go to a store and a candy bar they want it out of stock. Their reaction shows this. Not their words… but their reaction.
I often have chocolate moments but when I have candy from Hershey’s it is usually during my break at work and I manage to restrain my feral side. Sometimes my hands tell me otherwise and I have to sheepishly wash them off before going back to work. My current infatuation from products from Hershey’s is the Crunchy Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. They are fairly new and I find myself buying one package of them a day. For shame! Another favorite is the Hershey’s Chocolate Bar with Almonds.
In recent years I have raised my nose a bit and only REALLY go crazy with specialty chocolate bars that have a high cacao number. It is even better if they are infused with unusual ingredients. However I always find myself back with these ‘everyday’ kinds of chocolate bars. I enjoy them all of the same.
I find it hard to believe that vanilla is still the number one flavor in America. Although I am very fond of the flavor it just can’t trump chocolate. Not even on it’s best day. I think many people agree with me on this. I mean when you go to a grocery or a convenience store you don’t see a bunch of vanilla candy bars laying around do you?

I like Bubbles.
I like bubble baths.
I like making bubbles.
I like bubbly
I like floating bubbles.
I used to like bubble gum.
Sad but true but I have out grown one of my favorite past times and no longer chew bubble gum. I’ve been off bubble gum for quite some time and cannot even recall the last time I placed a stick of gum in my mouth.
Back inn the day Original Flavored Bubble Yum was my chewing gum of choice. The flavor seemed to stay much longer than other chewing gums and was tastier to boot. I just learned that Hershey’s bought Bubble Yum some time ago. How smart of them as they have chosen the best of all the gums to be part of their line up.
I’m not certain of bubble gum is lascivious, but Bubbles surely is.