There used to be a Fannie Farmer factory and outlet store in Clarksville, VA. It's closed.
Personally I prefer Cadbury chocolate, so the only Hershey's I ever buy is plain bars for the occasional summertime S'more. We send Kisses to some friends in England at Christmas, they say they remind them of Christmas parcels my parents sent to them in the 50's when rationing was still on. Who can figure what will trigger Nostalgia. :) I dwvwloped my fondness for Cadbury the same way from Christmas parcels they sent us in the 60's.
I did like the toasted coconut that Fannie Farmer made, can't say I ever had a Trinidad. I've always made my own chocolate covered candied fruits and peels.
Fanny Farmer is an American candy manufacturer and retailer. Fanny Farmer was started in Rochester, New York by Frank O'Connor in 1919. The company was named in honor of culinary expert Fannie Farmer, who had died four years earlier. In 1992 the Archibald Candy Company acquired the brand (and its 200 retail stores in the northeastern United States) as a sister brand to its own Fannie May candies (sold primarily in the Midwest and mid-Atlantic United States).[1] Alpine Confections purchased both brands in 2004 after Archibald filed for bankruptcy.
oneamericanvoice, your assessment is probably right on. Agreed, and maybe it's my paranoia, but there is also something I can't quite put my finger on driving it, like it's the "in" thing for people to live here . . . same thing that brought Europeans here in past centuries. Some made it, some didn't do so well. Some excelled at crime although they could have chosen honest work. Now some of the descendants of those noble European castoff "riffraff", yes I'll call them noble even though they supposedly "stole" the land and committed genocide, immigrants aren't doing so well either. Some are.
kaylee, I've always liked Cadbury's, it was first made in England, have always liked the way Europeans processed their chocolate. I don't have the ambition to tackle making candies like I once did. Didn't even make that marshmallow creme fudge this year. That requires chocolate chips. Who makes those? Hershey's are the best for it. But I have found a wonderful substitute, Aldi's 12-oz at $.99 a pkg. Maybe they are Hershey's and relabelled . . .
The bottom line is I don't like any of our business operations relocating to Mexico unless aimed at their market. That is not the case here. I don't feel as comfortable eating their food products, but I do some, tried some custard that wasn't too bad from a Mexican grocery store, figured if it had germs, cooking it would kill them, but not other contaminants. If it looks good, I just take my chances. Gotten sick on enough American food over the years or maybe it was just my turn to get a bug :-(
There WILL be a day of reckoning for all this uncontrolled immigration, and it ain't going to be pretty. That is my prognostication. We cannot take in so many different cultural groups at the rate we have been doing without eventually paying a very high price . . .our children and grandchildren will have to suffer the consequences if they can't afford to escape to a gated community with armed security guards . . .
Locally we have thugs coming from Chicago because the rents are cheaper here. What happens the other day? A carjacking right on the main drag I drive all the time, two blocks from my granddaughter's place, not that bad a part of town - yet. They block the car behind them, drag the people out of the car and hit them with baseball bats . . .I drive an older stick shift, don't know if that makes me safer or not . . .it's getting scary. The cultural group doing these crimes tends generally not to be Hispanic. I don't know if they've caught all the perps or not, we are building a new jail, it still won't be enough for what I see looming. Turnstyle justice.