Web sites help satisfy craving for chocolate
Web sites help satisfy craving for chocolate
With Hershey Foods Corp. on the auction block, here are Web sites about the delectable treat and about the venerable company with headquarters, for now, in Pennsylvania.
www.chocolat.ch/chocsuisspion.htm
The Swiss list of chocolate pioneers includes Henri Nestle and Jean Tobler. Of course, Milton Hershey is not to be found. But the New World gets some credit. The site’s brief history of chocolate starts with the first known cocoa plantations in what is now Mexico in the seventh century.
www.joelglennbrenner.com/trivia.html
A site promoting a book about the founders of Hershey Foods Corp. and Mars Inc. includes this page of chocolate lore. It says, for example, that M&M’s are rigorously engineered so that we can’t stop eating them. How hard was that?
www.hersheys.com/tour/index.shtml
Take an online tour of the central Pennsylvania chocolate factory at Hershey’s Web site.
This brazenly commercial site, one of dozens run by Hershey, asks: “Are you a gum or mint?” We never really thought about it. But this site offers a quiz whose results supposedly will answer the question. You also can play online games, including air hockey.