Hershey,
Pennsylvania 1,813
miles from home.
September 11,
2003. We
ate breakfast then checked out of
the motel and headed for the Hershey Factory Tour. It was
kind of fake cuz they take you around in a little train-like car
that takes you through a fake factory that shows you how their
candy is made. I guess that was better than the pretzel
tour that I'll tell you about next.
Their candy store was pretty
good, though, cuz in the back room they had a big barrel full of
damaged candy that me and Dexter managed to get into without
getting caught, and we got a whole bunch of reely good candy
that didn't even have any bugs in it or anything like we usually
find with damaged candy that we find in a parking lot or
somewhere else like that.
They had a reel cool gift shop,
and that's where we got our newest brother, named
"Peanut," and he is a little gray elephant that
quickly made friends with everybuddy. If you look reel
close at photo #3 below, right in the middle, behind the yellow
hanging light, you can see some of Peanut's twin brothers that
are still in the store.
Sparky's
Photo Album of Hershey |
1. Hershey entrance sign
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2. Candy store near gift shop
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3. Gift shop next to candy store
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4. The real candy factory
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After they took the factory tour,
they took a bus tour of the city of Hershey,
and the guy handed out some candy samples as he told the story
of Mr. Hershey, and some history of the city. None of us
guys went on the bus tour cuz we was busy foraging for candy in
the back room of the gift shop, but it sounded reel cool.
All in all, because of the great candy and nobuddy bothering us,
I'm giving the gift shop a heart pounding rating of 10+, which
is pretty hard to get, cuz I'm pretty fussy!
You can click here for more
information about Hershey Candy:
Hershey
Candy Information
Oh, yeah, I almost forgot that
there's also a reel big amusement park at Hershey, but the old
folks and none of us guys like to ride rolly coasters or other
rides like that, so that's why we didn't go there.
Lititz,
Pennsylvania
Sturgis
Pretzel House
After we
got done in Hershey, we headed up the road again, for the
Sturgis Pretzel House, in Lititz, Pennsylvania, which is 20
miles away if you're a crow, or about 35 miles if you're in a
vehicle. We ate lunch out of the goody bag we carry in the
van, in the alley behind the Pretzel Factory. Me and the
guys chose to eat some of our candy and a few Cheetos fer
dessert.
They advertised a
factory tour, so, of course, that sounded interesting.
The tour consisted of a guy giving the old folks a piece of
pretzel dough and showing them how to roll it out and twist it
into a pretzel. The real factory was in the back but it
was not open for tours. They also got to see the old ovens
where they used to cook pretzels about 3,000 years ago.
Anyhow, the
pretzels we got were really great, though, so I would give them
a rating of 10, except I don't have room to put in the logo with
the 10.
Sparky's
Photo Album of Sturgis Pretzel House |
Plaque
in front of the Sturgis Pretzel House
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Front
of the Sturgis Pretzel House |
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