Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania

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Music in Mechanicsburg

Songs About Mechanicsburg

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Vampire Weekend
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"Mechanicsburg, Anchorage and Dar es Salaam"

Artists From Mechanicsburg

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Poison
rock Pop: 63
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Caden Cookus
country Pop: 24

History of Mechanicsburg

Solid in Your Hand, Liquid on Your Tongue RoadyGoat

Chocolate pulls off a trick almost no other food can: it's solid in your hand but turns liquid in your mouth. The secret is cocoa butter's unusually sharp melting point, which sits just below body temperature -- around thirty-four degrees Celsius, or about ninety-three degrees Fahrenheit. Most natural fats melt gradually across a wide range of temperatures. Cocoa butter doesn't. It stays firm, then melts almost all at once, right in that narrow window between your palm and your tongue. That sharpness comes from how uniform it is: roughly eighty percent of cocoa butter is one single symmetric type of triglyceride, so nearly all the molecules melt together at the same moment. Cocoa butter makes up about a third of a chocolate bar by weight, and that fast "mouth melt" is precisely what unlocks and releases the flavor all at once.

18.8 mi away

Chocolate Flavor Begins With Rot RoadyGoat

Real chocolate flavor doesn't start in a factory -- it starts with rot. After harvest, cacao beans sit in their own sugary pulp under banana leaves for three to nine days, heating up to around a hundred and twenty-five degrees Fahrenheit as they ferment. Here's the nuance most people miss: the bean itself doesn't ferment. The pulp around it does. The acids and heat from that fermenting pulp soak in, kill the seed, and trigger the reactions that create chocolate's flavor precursors. No fermentation, no chocolate flavor -- full stop. From there the beans are roasted at roughly three hundred to three hundred fifty degrees, which both develops the flavor and serves as the only real kill-step for microbes. Finally, winnowing cracks off the papery shell to leave the "nibs," and those nibs get ground into a thick paste called cocoa liquor -- the foundation of every bar.

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The Town Almost Named Hersheykoko RoadyGoat

1900

Milton Hershey sold his Lancaster Caramel Company for a million dollars in 1900, took the chocolate-making gear he'd seen at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, and broke ground on a new factory here in 1903. By 1905 it ran full bore. But Hershey didn't just build a plant -- he built an entire town around it, with homes, parks, schools, and a trolley. A contest to name the place picked "Hersheykoko," until the U.S. Post Office rejected it as too commercial. So it became plain Hershey, Pennsylvania -- the town once called Derry Church. The streets tell on themselves: Chocolate Avenue and Cocoa Avenue running through the middle, with cross-streets named for cacao-growing regions -- Java, Trinidad, Caracas. And those Kiss-shaped streetlights, nicknamed Hinkle's Twinkles, were first switched on December 23rd, 1963.

18.9 mi away

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.

15.3 mi away

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.

19.3 mi away

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