Some say that could have been coined from the sound the chocolate machine made when the chocolate came out of it. Others say that the word 'kiss' was a common confectionary term at the time to refer to a small piece of candy. Milton Hershey filed a trademark for Hershey's Kisses back in 1921.

The bite-sized pieces of chocolate have a distinctive conical shape, sometimes described as flat-bottomed teardrops. Hershey's Kisses chocolates are wrapped in squares of lightweight aluminum foil. A narrow strip of paper, called a plume, sticks out from the top of each Hershey's Kiss wrapper.

The first element in the Kiss' rise to dominance came at the production level. By 1900, Hershey was already revolutionizing mass-production of affordable milk chocolate for his original bar, so he was able to apply the same kind of innovation to the Kiss.

More than a century after milton created it the kiss comes in many different flavors like vanilla caramel and cherry. But one thing that hasn't. Changed is the recipe for the chocolate.

Famous for their chocolate and appropriately themed amusement park, Hersheypark, the logo on The Hershey Company 's Hershey's Kisses product has a hidden logo: an extra Kiss. Turn your head to the left and you'll see that between the 'K' and the 'I' there is a Hershey's Kiss baked into the logo.

Definitions of chocolate kiss. a kiss that consists of a conical bite-sized piece of chocolate. type of: chocolate candy. candy made with chocolate.

The Hershey Company is the largest chocolate-manufacturing plant in the world, having grown from six acres in 1905 to 2.2 million square feet today. 11. Hersheypark reports the highest yearly attendance of any privately owned amusement park in North America.

14 Sweet Facts About Hershey's

• The Hershey Empire is build on a fourth-grade education.
• Milton Hershey's first love was caramel.
• Milton Hershey became interested in chocolate after the 1893 World's Fair.
• Hershey's once made gum.
• No one knows how Hershey's KISSES got their name - not even the company.

The Legacy of Hershey. For generations, the name Hershey has been a household word synonymous with fine chocolate products throughout the country and around the world. The man who began it all, Milton S. Hershey, was satisfied to let his accomplishments and products speak for themselves.

The kiss sound is similar a bilabial lingual ingressive click. “Bilabial” because of the lips, “lingual ingressive” because the air intake is caused by a pressure drop in the mouth caused by action of the tongue (in other words, sucking), and “click” for the pop of release from the pressure change.

Muah! In English we have a few different ways to write the sound of a kiss: muah, smack, xxx.

The Hershey Company logo is based on the name of the brand, which came from its founder when the organization emerged in 1894. Over more than 100 years, the Hershey's logo has grown to become an icon worldwide, with a presence in all six continents.