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      9 hours ago

      Hershey doesn’t use powdered milk. Hershey himself stubbornly insisted on the recipe using fresh milk because he had ignorantly bought up a bunch of cows before getting the recipe nailed down.

      And that’s why American chocolate is bad, or so the legend goes.

      Source: I’m from Pennsylvania and have taken the Hershey factory tour many times since childhood.