Hershey, Pennsylvania

Everything Hershey is known for

3 songs mention this city 2 artists from here

Music in Hershey

Songs About Hershey

Water
Kehlani
7%
"Nibble on it, kissing it like a Hershey (Mwah)"
Candy
Will Smith
6%
"An I'll be your Hershey daddy with a hundred kisses"
Cisco Kid
Method Man
2%
"'Cause blunts get filled like Hershey Highways"

Artists From Hershey

W
Warren Zeiders
country Pop: 69
T
The Ocean Blue
jangle pop, new wave, dream pop Pop: 43

History of Hershey

Six Crystals, One Perfect Snap RoadyGoat

That clean snap when you break a chocolate bar is pure physics. Cocoa butter is polymorphic, meaning it can crystallize into six different solid forms, labeled one through six. Only one of them -- Form Five -- gives chocolate its glossy shine, that crisp audible snap, and the smooth melt-in-your-mouth feel. The whole craft of "tempering" is just carefully cycling the temperature so the chocolate sets up as Form Five and nothing else. Skip it, and untempered chocolate sets dull, soft, and streaky. There's a slow betrayal at the end, though. Over months, Form Five gradually converts into Form Six, a more stable but uglier crystal. That conversion is what produces the pale gray film called bloom -- the chalky-looking coating on an old bar. It's not mold and it's not spoiled; it's just the cocoa butter changing its crystal mind.

When Chocolate Was Cash RoadyGoat

1500

Before chocolate was a bar, it was a drink -- bitter, frothy, and unsweetened. The Aztec word "xocolatl" roughly means "bitter water," and it's the likely root of our word "chocolate." But cacao did more than fill a cup; the beans worked as literal money. In Aztec markets of the early fifteen-hundreds, prices ran in beans. Roughly one bean bought one tomato. About thirty beans got you a rabbit. And around two hundred beans could buy a turkey. Where there's currency, there's counterfeiting, and cacao was no exception: cheats hollowed out beans and refilled the empty shells with dirt or wax, then tried to pass the fakes in the market. So the next time you unwrap a bar, remember -- you're holding something people once carried in a purse and spent like coins.

The 'Food of the Gods' Molecule With No Bromine RoadyGoat

The buzz in chocolate isn't mostly caffeine -- it's theobromine, a mild stimulant and close chemical cousin of caffeine. The name comes from cacao's botanical genus, Theobroma, which is Greek for "food of the gods." Here's the myth worth busting: despite that "-bromine" hanging off the end, theobromine contains no bromine at all. None. The name traces to the plant, not the element. There's a darker side, too. Humans clear theobromine fairly quickly, but dogs metabolize it roughly ten times slower -- its half-life in a dog runs around seventeen and a half hours. That means it builds up to toxic levels instead of being flushed out. That's exactly why chocolate, especially dark and baking chocolate where theobromine is most concentrated, is genuinely dangerous for dogs. Same molecule, two completely different bodies handling it.

Hersheypark & Chocolate World

1903

Milton Hershey built a chocolate empire and an entire town around it, including housing, schools, and an amusement park for his workers.

Three Mile Island

1979

Site of America's worst commercial nuclear accident on March 28, 1979, which caused a partial meltdown of reactor Unit 2.

10.0 mi away

Everything Near Hershey

36 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

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