Just bought a big $10.00 bag of Hershey minatures. I haven’t bought these in years, but I think they taste very strange. I checked the bag…and yes they are made in Mexico. I will no longer buy this chocolate. The quality is just not the same.

The Hershey Company, formerly known as Hershey Foods Corporation, manufactures 5 varieties of chocolate bars:

* Hershey’s Milk Chocolate is commonly thought of as “plain” or “normal” Hershey’s chocolate.
* Hersey’s with almonds standard Hershey’s chocolate with almonds mixed in.
* Hershey’s Special Dark, a mildly bittersweet chocolate, contains less sugar than other forms. It contains 45% cacao solids.
* Hershey’s Symphony contains less sugar and is creamier than “normal” Hershey’s chocolate. The ingredients lists of it and its normal counterpart are identical; in America it is mandated that ingredients only be listed in their order of total makeup. Quantities are not listed, so one can not know for sure how greatly the proportions differ in Hershey’s Symphony. Hershey recently reduced the size of the Symphony bar from 8 oz. to 6.8 oz. and added the words “Giant Bar” to the wrapper.
* Hershey’s cookies and cream is a white chocolate bar with added chocolate wafer bits (similar to Oreo cookies).

[edit] Hershey’s Wellness

The Hershey’s Wellness line is an attempt to capitalize on the health benefits of chocolate.

* Hershey’s Extra Dark is a more dark chocolate product under the “Extra Dark” name. Whereas “Special Dark” is 45% cacao solids, “Extra Dark” is 60%. The Extra Dark chocolate bar comes in three varieties: Pure Dark Chocolate; Cranberries, Blueberries and Almonds; and Macadamia Nuts and Cranberries. All of the listed fruits and nuts contain anti-oxidants.
* Hershey’s Whole Bean Milk Chocolate is sweetened with sucralose, giving it 40% less sugar than regular milk chocolate. Also, inulin, a special type of fiber, is added, giving a single serving 7 grams of dietary fiber. A 40 g. serving has 180 mg of antioxidants.
* Hershey’s Antioxidant Milk Chocolate, as the name suggests, has extra antioxidants added, giving it more antioxidants than the leading dark chocolate, 260 mg vs 110 mg.

[edit] Cacao Reserve by Hershey’s

Cacao Reserve by Hershey’s is marketed as a premium line in comparison to Hershey’s other chocolate products.

* Signature Collection is the original series in this line. It comes in four varieties: 35% Cacao Premium Milk, 35% Cacao Premium Milk with Hazelnuts, 65% Premium Dark, and 65% Premium Dark with Cacao Nibs.
* Single Origin chocolate bars differ from the Signature Collection bars in that each bar is made from cacao beans that grow in a single region. These origins are São Tomé with 70% cacao content, Santo Domingo with 67% cacao content, Arríba with 50% cacao content, and Java with 37% cacao content.
* Truffles are tins around the size used by Altoids containing eight small chocolate truffles with either 35 or 60 percent cacao content.

[edit] Other Hershey’s candies

The Hershey Company also manufactures a wide variety of other candy products and candy bars, which do not necessarily contain chocolate:
[edit] Chocolate-based products

* The 5th Avenue candy bar, which contains a peanut-based mixture.
* Almond Joy and Mounds candy bars, which are chocolate-coated bars containing a coconut based mixture on the inside. Almond Joy contains almonds and is coated in milk chocolate, whereas Mounds has no almond and is coated in dark chocolate.
* Bar None are wafers with filling covered in milk chocolate. No longer sold in the USA, it is still made in Mexico as a two finger package with the addition of caramel.
* Cadbury Creme Egg is a chocolate egg with creme in it, usually sold around Easter.
* Cadbury’s Caramello milk chocolate squares with creamy caramel.
* Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate Bar, plain milk chocolate.
* Cadbury Fruit & Nut Chocolate Bar, milk chocolate with assorted fruits and nuts.
* Cadbury Mini Eggs, bite-sized milk chocolate eggs coated in a hard, vanilla flavored candy shell.
* Cadbury Royal Dark Chocolate Bar, plain dark chocolate.
* Cadbury Roast Almond Chocolate Bar, milk chocolate with almonds.
* Cherry Blossom is an individually packaged, 45g chocolate covered maraschino cherry and syrup. The chocolate mixture has coconut and roasted peanut pieces incorporated into it.
* Glosette(s), a Canada exclusive product consisting of chocolate covered raisins, peanuts or almonds.
* Heath bar, a slab of toffee coated with chocolate.
* Hershey’s Bites, bite size candies in a round shape that are made for munching, packaged in a pouch. Flavors are Reese’s peanut butter, Heath toffee, Kit Kat, mini Rolo, Mr. Goodbar, York Peppermint Pattie, white chocolate pretzel and dark chocolate pretzel.
* Hershey’s Bliss, bite sized chocolates in a square shape and wrapped in foil, advertised as creamy and indulgent. Available in 3 flavors.
* Hershey’s Cookies and Cream, a block of white chocolate with small pieces of cookie in it.
* Hershey’s Cookies and Mint, limited edition bar similar to Cookies and Cream, reintroduced since the original introduction in 1992 and subsequent discontinuation.
* Hershey’s Kisses, small chocolate candies, similar in appearance to a very large chocolate chip.
* Hershey’s Milkshake, bottled milk shake. Offered in 5 flavors.
* Hershey’s Miniatures, an assortment of Hershey’s chocolate bars in miniature size. Created in 1939 and unchanged since, the original collection comprises Hershey’s Chocolate, Hershey’s Special Dark chocolate, Krackel, and Mr. Goodbar varieties. A new collection, Nut Lovers, was introduced in 2004 and features both 4 kinds of chocolate and 4 kinds of nuts. Hershey’s has also introduced Limited Edition varieties, including a holiday Mint Miniatures Collection.
* Hershey’s Symphony bar, in plain Milk Chocolate or Almonds and Toffee
* Hershey’s Pot of Gold, premium boxed chocolates in a variety of assortments: Almond Caramel Clusters, Caramel Assortment, Chocolate Assortment, Créme Assortment, Mint Assortment, Nut Assortment, Pecan Caramel Clusters, Premium Assortment, Sugar Free and Truffle Assortment.
* Hershey’s Sticks, individually wrapped chocolate sticks packaged and sold by the box. There are four flavors: Milk Chocolate, Caramel Filled Milk Chocolate, Rich Dark Chocolate and Mint Milk Chocolate.
* Hershey’s Kissables, miniature Hershey’s Kisses coated with a colorful candy shell.
* Kit Kat, made from Nestlé except in the United States, are chocolate covered wafer bars.
* Krackel, a chocolate bar containing crisped rice.
* Milk Duds, small bits of caramel covered in milk chocolate. Milk Duds are commonly sold in American movie theaters as a snack.
* Mr. Goodbar, a chocolate bar containing peanuts.
* Oh Henry!, Popular Canadian version of the candy, currently made in the United States by Nestlé.
* Hershey’s Pops are bags of original Hershey’s chocolates in the half the size and all the shape of a golf ball. They’ve become a common treat in movie theaters.
* Reese’s Fast Break, creamy peanut butter and nougat covered in milk chocolate.
* Reese’s NutRageous, creamy peanut butter, caramel and roasted peanuts covered in milk chocolate.
* Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, possibly one of Hershey’s best-known products due to long-running massive advertising campaigns.
* Reese’s Pieces are small peanut-butter candies.
* ReeseSticks, peanut butter filled wafers covered in milk chocolate. Sold in packages of two sticks.
* Rolo, chocolate-covered caramels. Also made and sold in the US by Hershey under license by Nestlé.
* Skor, a candy bar containing toffee.
* Swoops, chocolate shaped in slices, like potato chips. Swoops come in the following varieties: Hershey’s Milk Chocolate, Almond Joy, Reese’s Peanut Butter, York Peppermint Pattie, White Chocolate Reeses, and Toffee and Almond. Limited edition varieties include White Chocolate Peppermint (available around Christmas), Special Dark with Almonds and Strawberries & Creme.
* Hershey’s S’mores is a s’more in candy-bar form.
* Hershey’s Shell Topping, a chocolate syrup that hardens when poured on cold foods, such as ice cream.
* Take 5 (known as Max 5 in Canada), a candy bar with pretzels, caramel, peanuts, peanut butter, and chocolate. It also comes in a white chocolate version, using white chocolate instead of the original’s milk chocolate; a peanut butter version which has a peanut butter coating instead of chocolate; a chocolate cookie version which has chocolate cookies instead of pretzels; and a marshmallow version which has marshmallow filling instead of peanuts.
* WHATCHAMACALLIT is a peanut-flavored crisp with a layer of caramel and a milk chocolate coating.
* Whoppers, chocolate covered malted milk balls.
* York Peppermint Pattie, a patty of peppermint flavored filling coated with dark chocolate.

[edit] Non-Chocolate

* Breath Savers breath mints.
* Bubble Yum bubble gum brand.
* Ice Breakers chewing gum and mints.
* Jolly Rancher hard fruit candy, lollipops, and flavored soda.
* Koolerz chewing gum, with Xylitol and regular.
* PayDay candy bar, which contains peanuts and caramel but no chocolate.
* ZAGNUT candy bar, consisting of toasted coconut and peanut butter.
* Zero candy bar, a combination of caramel, peanut and almond nougat covered in white fudge.

[edit] Other

* Care-Free sugarless gum.
* CareFree Koolerz mint based gum in various flavors made with Xylitol.
* Good & Plenty, white and purplish-red pill shaped licorice candies. They are chewy, similar to Mike And Ike candy.
* Hershey’s Brownies and Reese’s Brownies, brownies containing Hershey’s chocolate chips or Reese’s peanut butter chips with icing on top.
* Hershey’s Cookies, a chocolate cookie with toppings and covered in chocolate, available in the following Hershey’s flavors: Hershey’s with Almonds, Almond Joy, Reese’s peanut butter, York Peppermint Patty, Caramel, and Cookies ‘n Creme. Mini kisses cookies are shaped like Hershey’s kisses and are available in the following flavors: Chocolate Chip, Double Chocolate and Confetti Sprinkles. Layered cookies are two cookies with a layer of sandwich creme in the middle and are available in the following flavors: Hershey’s, Reese’s and Heath.
* Really Nuts, snack nuts and trail mixes. Available in the following flavors: Reese’s Roasted Peanuts, Reese’s Honey Glazed Peanuts, Hershey’s Chocolate Cocoa Peanuts, Mauna Loa Cashew Nuts, Hershey’s Trail Mix, Reese’s Trail Mix and Mauna Loa Trail Mix.
* Snack Barz, candy bars similar to rice krispie treats. Available in the following flavors: Hershey’s Chocolate Créme, Reese’s Peanut Butter, Hershey’s S’mores Marshmallow Créme, Caramel, and Cookies ‘n Créme.
* Snacksters, 100-calorie packs of cereal puffs mixed with a variety of other Hershey’s and Reese’s items such as chocolate chip cookies, semi-sweet and milk chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, cereal squares, and Reese’s pieces. Available in five varieties, Hershey’s, Hershey’s Kisses, Hershey’s S’Mores, Twizzlers, and Reese’s.[1]
* Sweet ‘n Salty Granola Bars, granola bars combined with other Hershey’s and Reese’s ingredients. Available in three flavors: Hershey’s with pretzels, Reese’s with chocolate and Reese’s with peanut butter.
* TasteTations, Hershey’s first hard candy. Made in butterscotch, caramel, chocolate, and peppermint varieties.
* Twizzlers, artificially flavored licorice sticks in various flavors. This includes the Twizzlers Pull And Peel variety, in which the sticks are composed of semi-distinct smaller twisted rods of Twizzlers, which can be easily pulled apart.

When it is financially not worth it they won’t go.

Personally…I have stopped buying Hershey candy in protest, and never intend to purchase a Hershey candy bar as long as they remain a Mexican company. I’m also concerned about the safety of the ‘food product’ that they produce now out of reach of some FDA guidelines and food production inspections.

If you wish to join the growing boycott of Hershey candies from Mexico…You must check the back of the candy wrapper you are about to purchase. Do not assume that your Snicker bar, or Milky Way is a Mars chocolate company product; Hershey has bought out many of the top candy company names in recent years.

Oh…by the way…don’t forget that for every dollar you spend at Hershey Park, Pa. executives of the Mexican firm will snicker, all the way to the bank…Don’t be a fool…As an American consumer, you ‘do’ have a voice, so use it by not purchasing products from companies who desert America.

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