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You Know You're Old When...

by Rose-Mary Rumbley
ou know you're old when you remember the first chocolate
candy bar you ever enjoyed! Now, for us oldies of World
YWar II, we remember that we didn't have chocolate to the CHOCOLATE and immediately
enjoy. It all went to the armed forces. But you Boomers, you had decided to sell his caramel candy
it all! No shortage of anything for you! company and go into CHOCOLATE.
I bring forth CHOCOLATE because I just returned from a He bought a CHOCOLATE
plantation, a dairy, and a sugar plantation (Sugar grows in the area
glorious cruise with Celebration Magazine to Cozumel, Mexico, too!) and sewed up the whole scene. His name--Milton Hershey!
and George Town, Grand Cayman, Falmouth, Jamaica, and these
are the places where the Spanish in the early 1500s discovered He created a town in Pennsylvania where he made his
CHOCOLATE. Cortez and his Spanish conquistadores had CHOLOLATE candy, and today the company is turning out the
never tasted this fabulous drink made from the cocoa beans that greatest CHOCOLATE candy and continues to make millions of
flourished in this part of the world. dollars.
Needless to say, they were impressed and took the cocoa beans But there is another great story of Hershey, Pennsylvania. Mrs.
back to Spain with this order, "Share with no one." These beans Hershey, Kitty, could not have children. The Hersheys decided
were so valuable, they were used as currency in Spain. to adopt some children. She went on to adopt 100 children from
Eventually, someone from Switzerland acquired some of the the streets of New York City--little waifs, who had nothing. They
were taken to Hershey, Pennsylvania, where she built a home for
beans, and as the years passed, the French, the Germans, and the them. There they were given a life. They had only one thing to
English had CHOCOLATE! This didn't happen over night. do--be nice! They were required to keep their rooms, do their
But there was no CHOCOLATE in the United States! And, just homework, be polite, work on the farm, behave! That's it! They
think, cocoa beans grew on this continent! were to do their best! That's what is required of all of us. They
However, in 1893, at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where were given a home until they graduated from high school, and then
the US was celebrating 400 years of Christopher Columbus--1492 they could go to the college of their choice! I know a gentleman
to 1893--the creators of the fair were running late!--the Germans here in Dallas who is a graduate of SMU, courtesy of Hershey
brought over CHOCOLATE for their display. I collect souvenirs Chocolate!
from this fair and they are all misdated--1492-1893! Seeing that, In other words, when you buy Hershey Chocolate, you're
always makes me feel good. Even the great run late! supporting the Hershey home for children.
There was a gentleman visiting the fair who was in the caramel Eat chocolate and take tours and cruises with CELEBRATION
candy business, the truly fine candy of the day in the US. He tasted MAGAZINE. You have the best then!

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