Hershey closing Peppermint Patties plant in Pa.(Peppermint Patties Go South of the Border)

businessweek ^ | February 20, 2009,

[JoeProBono]

READING, Pa.A flag is flying at half-staff outside The Hershey Co. plant in Reading where production of York Peppermint Patties is ending. After 23 years in Reading, the chocolate maker is closing the plant Friday and moving production to a new factory it has built in Monterey, Mexico. It will mean the loss of 300 jobs in the southeastern Pennsylvania city. The plant also makes 5th Avenue and Zagnut candy bars and Jolly Rancher hard candies. The nation's largest candy manufacturer said two years ago the plant would close as part of a wider move by Hershey to eliminate 1,500 jobs and one-third of its existing production lines, shifting more manufacturing to contractors in the U.S.

[BykrBayb]

I do that with frozen Andes Mints, except I pop them one at a time. I always end up cheating, because I’m in a hurry to get the next one in my mouth. You don’t want to watch me when I’m on one of those binges. It ain’t pretty. LOL

[fieldmarshaldj]

I hope the women are exempted.

[grey_whiskers]

I get the dark chocolate baking chips and stick’em in the freezer.

*Then*, when they’re good and frozen, I pop a mouthful and just stand there, reveling in the blissfully *slooooow* melting of the chips.

(Sound of grey_whiskers purring.)

[nonliberal]

Pennsylvania went for The Messiah, didn't it?

Votes have consequences.

[Salamander]

Chocolate should be a considered a vital nutrient for women.

Not only do we physically and psychologically benefit from the theobromine, we “crave” chocolate at certain times for a very real biological reason; the mineral called manganese that is present in it in quite respectable concentrations.

[and if you want to “go extreme”, try *these*; http://shop.ghirardelli.com/product-exec/product_id/338/nm/60_Cacao_Bittersweet_Baking_Chips]

They are _SO_ good.

[KC_Conspirator]

So now will be be known as the “Juarez Peppermint Patty” or something similar?