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We take a detour into rural Pennsylvania to check out the Gravity Hill. I remember hearing about this weirdo thing when I was a little kid, watching that In Search Of show with Leonard Nimoy, This place where a car will roll uphill, and water will flow the wrong way. It takes a while to find, and you have to look for markings spray painted on the road, but we finally find the two gravity hill spots. The first one doesn't work, but the second one totally does! It's so weird, you put the car in neutral, take your foot off the brake and you start slowly rolling uphill! It's totally awesome, we give a little cheer for Gravity Hill. Then we get out of there because we're hungry and we gotta find a bathroom.
Hershey PA is the home of (duh) Hershey Park and Chocolate World. Hershey Park is closed for the winter but Chocolate World is open (and free!) so we check out the shops and displays and overwhelming profusion of chocolate. This is kids chocolate - the industrial scale, brightly packaged, overly sweet, totally lacking in subtlety or nuance chocolate, and I love it. I went to a chocolate tasting once and the woman went on about how mass produced supermarket chocolate is a crude, one-dimensional product and it may be true but I still love it cuz it tastes like Home. Anyway. We go on the Chocolate World ride that shows you have cacao beans are made into the colorful profusion of Hershey products, there are singing animatronic cows, it's great. And something I never thought about: the Hershey's Chocolate taste isn't about the chocolate, it's about the milk. The Hershey plant is surrounded by dozens of dairy farms all feeding the factory, it's the Pennsylvania milk that is the basis of the Hershey product that goes all over the world. Kinda cool.
Hershey PA is the home of (duh) Hershey Park and Chocolate World. Hershey Park is closed for the winter but Chocolate World is open (and free!) so we check out the shops and displays and overwhelming profusion of chocolate. This is kids chocolate - the industrial scale, brightly packaged, overly sweet, totally lacking in subtlety or nuance chocolate, and I love it. I went to a chocolate tasting once and the woman went on about how mass produced supermarket chocolate is a crude, one-dimensional product and it may be true but I still love it cuz it tastes like Home. Anyway. We go on the Chocolate World ride that shows you have cacao beans are made into the colorful profusion of Hershey products, there are singing animatronic cows, it's great. And something I never thought about: the Hershey's Chocolate taste isn't about the chocolate, it's about the milk. The Hershey plant is surrounded by dozens of dairy farms all feeding the factory, it's the Pennsylvania milk that is the basis of the Hershey product that goes all over the world. Kinda cool.
