I’ll stake everything on chocolate. – Milton Snavely
Hershey
I started with ambition and intention of making the best
chocolate that money or skill could make, regardless of the cost of
manufacture. – Milton Snavely Hershey
My best advice to you is - when you tackle a job stick
to it until you have mastered it. - Milton Snavely Hershey
My success is the result of not being satisfied with
mediocrity, and in making the most of my opportunities. - Milton Snavely
Hershey
CHOCOLATE is the most amazing thing ever put on this earth in my opinion and to
think Hershey’s chocolate was almost never created!
Over Labor Day weekend, I traveled to Hershey,
Pennsylvania (and a few other places that provided some great stories!) and
visited Hershey’s Chocolate World to learn how they make chocolate. When I started the tour, there was a sign
that read:
A Tale of
Determination
Delicious Chocolate
and
Lasting Goodness.
Milton Hershey was born in Derry Township,
Pennsylvania and had a hard childhood.
At 13, he dropped out of school and at 14 he became an apprentice for a
master confectioner in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Four years later, he borrowed money from his aunt and set up a candy
shop in Philadelphia. He had no success at
his candy shop so he closed the business and reunited with his father in
Denver. While there, he worked as a
confectioner and discovered caramel and how they used fresh milk to make
it. With an entrepreneur spirit, he
decided to try his hand at his own business again in Chicago and New York. Both businesses failed. Determined he could own a successful candy
company, he returned to Lancaster, Pennsylvania and started the Lancaster
Caramel Company. Soon he was shipping
caramel candy all over the United States.
In 1893, he was at the World’s Columbian Exposition
in Chicago when he became intrigued with the art of making chocolate and a few
years later he opened the Hershey Chocolate Company. With his new fascination with chocolate, he
became determined to create a formula that would allow him to batch produce and
bulk distribute milk chocolate candy.
He sold the Lancaster Caramel Company in 1900 and in
a few years his expectations for his chocolate venture had far exceeded
anything he thought. In 1907, he created
the Hershey Kiss and in 1924 the foil wrapper was added.
CHALLENGE: If not for the failure of 3 candy companies owned
by Milton Hershey, we would not have the Hershey Kiss. During the hard times of life when you are
confused and frustrated, eat a Hershey Kiss and remember the determination and
resolve Milton Hershey went through for you to enjoy the sweat, amazing
pleasure!
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