House Passes Bill To Make Hershey Kiss Official State Candy - ButlerRadio.com - Butler, PA

House Passes Bill To Make Hershey Kiss Official State Candy - ButlerRadio.com - Butler, PA

A bill that aims to make one piece of candy the state candy has passed through the Pennsylvania State House. Hershey Kisses may soon become the state candy of Pennsylvania. With bipartisan support the house passed the bill by a vote of 150 to 53. The Hersey Company was started in Central Pennsylvania in 1907 and according to the memo on the bill Hersey kisses are “recognizable worldwide and uniquely associated with Pennsylvania.” The bill now he…

Hershey Kiss Bill sets to make Hershey's Kisses Pennsylvania's official state candy if approved - Beaver County Radio

(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – A mixture of Hershey’s chocolates is displayed in the company’s Times Square store, March 1, 2017, in New York. Hershey is cautioning on its 2024 profit growth as the company contends with rising cocoa costs that are leading to higher prices for chocolate. Cocoa futures prices have doubled over the past year and hit an unprecedented $5,874 per metric ton Friday, Feb. 9, 2024, in intraday trading. (AP Photo/M…

Bill Designating Hershey's Kiss As State Candy Passes PA House

The Hershey’s Kiss is close to becoming the official State Candy of Pennsylvania.  The State House passed a bill earlier this week that would officially bestow the honor to the  company’s iconic chocolate candy.  If approved by the State Senate and signed by Governor Josh Shapiro, the Hershey’s Kiss would immediately be designated the State Candy as long as The Hershey Company stays in the commonwealth.  More than seventy million Kisses are prod…