Milton S. Hershey

Chocolate can save the world and build a cocoa utopia.

At least that was the view of two of chocolate's most influential men, Milton Hershey and George Cadbury, names that our listeners may already be familiar with.

Hello and welcome to The Chocolate Podcast.

I'm your host, Ed Easton.

good name.

I don't think any relation, but there we go.

So he was the original one, and there's no doubt that Milton Hershey visited Bourneville.

Again, let's start at the beginning.

Burns, who did Beyond the Mask.

And then also Hershey, the life of Milton Hershey, who did not have children of his own, but set up a foundation to help and to propagate the idea that he believed in.

Most importantly, the chocolate.

The chocolate, yes.

It shouldn't cost so much.

This stars Finn Whitrock as Milton S. Hershey, the famous chocolate maker, and Alexandra Daddario as his wife Kitty.

It looks to tell the history of how he built his chocolate empire.

That looks like it originally started out as a decadent treat for the rich, before making it more affordable for the general public.

for the next one? Moving forward is number seven, Hershey's Milk Chocolate, the classic year, 1900.

1900 by Milton S. Hershey.

What is it exactly? It's a classic solid milk chocolate bar with cacao, milk, and sugar.

Fun fact.

A trade partnership grew.

Milton Hershey set up shop in Cuba in 1916, and any time civil or political unrest or instability popped up in the nation, the United States stepped in to protect their standing.

Unfortunately, the gap between the haves and the have-nots in Cuba kept growing.

In 1959, Fidel Castro rose to power through the ousting of the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista.

You're going to have to stay tuned for that.

I guess if you've stumbled upon this episode without watching... episode one do go back and watch episode one for the i guess the origins of the hershey story those early years from sort of rags to riches good i thought to do a quick little run through for those that maybe have watched but one of the refresher we have this amazing character milton hershey he's got these two very very different parents the sort of chaotic ideas man henry his dad and then the sort of quite straight edge sensible down the middle mother fanny

religious fanatic

Religious fanatic, yeah, all of the above.

And in the sort of mould of those two, Milton Hershey creates, first of all, Lancaster Caramel.

After a few failures, he creates this brilliantly successful caramel business in America and he sells it.

In the start of the 20th century, 1900, he sells it for £1 million.

You know, I'm going to take the Swiss and the English toffee-nosed and maybe that's where the word toffee-nosed comes from.