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America's Chocolate Capital? It's In South-Central Pennsylvania

Belgium is considered the chocolate capital of the world, boasting specialty shops, and even museums dedicated to the history of the treat and the craft of making the cocoa-based confection. But if you can't make it across the pond to see why Belgian chocolate is so good , take solace in the fact that America has its own chocolate capital: the town of Hershey, Pennsylvania.

The fact that this place bears the name of a company that makes more than 80 million Kisses a day and 370 million milk chocolate bars each year is no accident. In the 1880s, entrepreneur Milton Hershey started the Lancaster Caramel Company in what was then known as Derry Church, Pennsylvania. After traveling to Germany and observing chocolate-mak

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