Chocolate News
Crews work to put out fire at former Wilbur Chocolate Co. building in Lititz
LOCAL21NEWS.COM Crews battled a fire at the former Wilbur Chocolate Company building in Lititz. The fire was at the Blackworth Live Fire and Grill. Officials said the fire was reported just before 7:00 p.m. and North Broad Street was closed as a result. No injuries were reported in the fire.Powerful explosion at a chocolate factory in eastern Pennsylvania
Seven bodies have been recovered from the site of a powerful explosion at a chocolate factory in a small town in eastern Pennsylvania. Rescue crews had been using heat imaging equipment and dogs to search for possible survivors after the blast destroyed one building and damaged a neighboring building.
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and Hershey’s chocolate bars go vegan
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups are getting the vegan treatment. The Hershey Co. said Tuesday that Reese’s Plant-Based Peanut Butter Cups, which go on sale this month, will be its first vegan chocolates sold nationally. A second plant-based offering, Hershey’s Plant-Based Extra Creamy with Almonds and Sea Salt, will follow in April.
‘Jeremy’s Chocolate’ Sells More Than 300,000 Chocolate Bars In Just Over 36 Hours
“Jeremy’s Chocolate”, the new business line founded by Daily Wire co-CEO Jeremy Boreing in response to a woke stunt by Hershey’s, has sold 300,000 non-woke candy bars less than two days after it was launched. The chocolate bars, which come in two varieties, “HeHim” and “SheHer”, were created after Hershey’s rolled out an International Women’s Day marketing campaign that featured a man who identifies as a woman as one of its spokespersons. Boreing promptly entered the chocolate business, and, in a rebuke of Hershey’s, made clear The Daily Wire would not compromise on the definition of womanhood.
Chocolate brand Toblerone to stop using the iconic swiss mountain logo
The image of the Matterhorn mountain peak will soon disappear from the packaging of Toblerone chocolate bars because the brand’s US owner is moving some production outside of Switzerland to the Slovakian capital of Bratislava. Mondelez International Inc., which produces the triangular treat, is changing the design of the mountain depicted on the cardboard wrapper so as not to violate the Swissness Act. The design will be a more generic mountain rather than the famous Matterhorn. Packaging will now read “established in Switzerland,” rather than “of Switzerland.” Under Switzerland’s Swissness Act, passed in 2017, national symbols and Swiss crosses are not permitted on the packaging of products that don’t meet Swissness criteria.