(NEXSTAR) – Why is it called a Hershey’s “Kiss” and not a Hershey’s Smooch or a Hershey’s Cone? Even the people at The Hershey Company aren’t exactly sure. The Hershey’s Kiss was first produced in ...

For the holiday demand, Hershey produces more than eight million pounds of Kisses (which, at about 95 Kisses per pound, comes out to more than 750,000,000 individual candies).

HERSHEY, Pa. (WHTM) — While driving into Hershey, Pennsylvania, you may notice something small but very noticeable: the streetlights in the shape of Hershey Kisses. Some of the Kisses-shaped … ...

The M.S. Hershey Foundation, on its website, says additional trademarks were later filed to protect “the name, and unique conical shape of Kisses, both wrapped and unwrapped.” ...

The Hershey’s Kiss was first produced in 1907 by the Hershey Company (then the Hershey Chocolate Company) at its facility in Derry, Pennsylvania.