Top up your festive Easter candy jars and baskets with HERSHEY'S KISSES milk chocolate candy, REESE'S Miniatures milk chocolate peanut butter cups, WHOPPERS Mini Robin Eggs malted milk candy and CADBURY MINI EGGS milk chocolate with a crisp sugar shell candy inside fun plastic Easter eggs.

Lane Hartzel is now an official chocolate taste tester for Hershey's.It started with a school career day project. Lane's parents didn't know what their son could pick since he's non-verbal and non-mobile. His teachers suggested a chocolate critic. Hershey quickly reached out after hearing about it on social media.

The chocolate egg started as a pagan symbol of fertility and spring and developed into a representation of Christ's resurrection. To this day, it still holds this meaning for a variety of people from different backgrounds across the country.

Bunny corn Yes, candy corn is known as "bunny corn" for Easter. Don't let the swap from orange and yellow to pink and purple fool you; this is the same sticky, sweet, corn syrup-loaded confection you buy for Halloween. Candy corn - or whatever you call it - is bad in the fall, and it's bad in the spring.

HERSHEY, Pa., April 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Hershey Company (NYSE: HSY) today announced that they have selected Horizon Media as agency of record for the company's U.S. confectionary business.

In 1907, Milton Hershey took a chance in a unique chocolate stamping machine that created bite-sized drops of his iconic American milk chocolate.

10 Fun Facts about Easter you Probably Didn't Know

• The Easter Bunny legend began in Germany.
• The holiday was named after the Anglo-Saxon Goddess, Eostre.
• More than 1.5 million Cadbury Creme Eggs are produced every day.
• The act of painting eggs originates from a Ukrainian tradition.

Many chocolate producers favour thinner chocolate at Easter - and thinner chocolate melts more quickly, releasing more aroma molecules.

German immigrants originated the edible Easter egg, which was first made of sugar and pastry in the 1800s. Eggs symbolize new life and good luck, very suitable for this holiday. By the late 1800s, U.S. candy makers were offering both hollow and filled chocolate eggs and eggs of unique flavors.

• Easter is the Oldest Christian Holiday.
• Eggs Were Originally Dyed to Represent Christ's Blood.
• The Easter Bunny is German.
• We Have the Ukraine to Thank for Egg Decorating.
• In 2007, Florida Held the Largest Easter Egg Hunt Ever.
• But Easter Games Used to be Even Weirder.
• Dressing Up for Easter is Based on a Superstition.

Weitz & Luxenberg has filed a class action lawsuit against The Hershey Company and a company owned by Hershey company, Lily's Sweets, LLC. The lawsuit is due to these companies misleading you about the dangerous ingredients in some of their dark chocolate bars.

The company's major customers include grocery stores, dollar stores, concessionaires, drug stores, department stores, mass merchandisers, convenience stores, wholesale clubs, wholesale distributers, and vending companies.