The previous post was about interracial civility at Hershey Park.. This is about something else I noticed there.
The “free” “chocolate” “tour” at Hershey Park is probably not best enjoyed on a Saturday in August while the roller coasters are closed due to inclement weather. Unless what you enjoy is people watching — which, although an odd omission from the tour itself, you will have plenty of time to do in line.
The tour promises “NEW features,” including:
- Immerse yourself in the cocoa farms of West Africa and the dairy farms in Central Pennsylvania
- Hear and see the story of chocolate making through new technological effects
- See the new, state-of-the-art animated figures, including our famous barnyard cows
- Sing along to the sweet, catchy, and new theme song
- Experience the social media-enhanced finale, featuring Hershey fans from around the world
When you finally get to the little train car that will take you on the tour, you ride past a series of big video screens showing machines, some big machines simulating chocolate-making, and some fake cows:
The voices you hear belong to a woman who says she’s a quality control expert, and some animated or mechanical pieces of candy. There are literally no humans visible on the immersive tour of chocolate making. Hershey of course does have many people working to make chocolate for them, in Mexico and Brazil and Pennsylvania, among other places. But the tour designers who figured out how to pump chocolate smell into the confined, warmed, darkened, orange-glowing oven your car creeps through to simulate roasting, decided not to include any reference to those workers.
At the very end, a high-school aged temp worker hands you a free sample, though!
Maybe before Trump and Clinton bring back “our” manufacturing jobs, they can start by bringing back some pictures of our manufacturing jobs.
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