Hershey Chocolate World

     Mike and I like the TV show "How It's Made."  We have watched the manufacturing process for paper umbrellas, mascot costumes, crayons, and more.  Our idea of a fun time is taking a factory tour.  We recently heard about a self directed tour at Hershey Chocolate World.  We were in the car and on the way before you could say, "Break me off a piece of that Kit Kat bar."
     The Hershey complex is huge.  There are restaurants, indoor and outdoor stadiums, an amusement park, and places to shop, but there is no real factory tour.  There hasn't been a true factory tour since 1973.  What the Hershey people offer now is an amusement park ride that operates inside the Hershey Chocolate World building (think "It's a Small World" at Disney).  The ride begins in a farm setting where three singing cows warble about the tastiness of Hershey's chocolate, and it dumps you out above a store where you can buy Hershey products.  I might have given the "tour" a C-minus if I had been able to hear the narration about the production process, but the singing cows (who never stopped) drowned out the speaking sound track.
     So, unless you want to enjoy the other things that Hershey offers, don't make a special trip for the "tour."  Our bad for not doing our homework!

The Entrance to Chocolate World

And the Tour Begins

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Even though we couldn't hear the narration, it was obvious that Hershey puts milk in their chocolate.  You'll get 8% of your minimum daily requirement of calcium from a 1.55 oz. Hershey bar.
http://www.hersheys.com/pure-products/details.aspx?id=3480

We helped ourselves to a Kit Kat at the end of the tour.

The real reason to come to Chocolate World - to stock up on candy.