REAL LIFE WILLY WONKA

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REAL-LIFE WILLY WONKA

I have something special for you it's a

Golden Ticket you're invited to visit

the most unique Chocolate Factory in the

the world why you're a bit scared because

you don't feel comfortable sailing in a

chocolate River or turning into a giant

blueberry

I hear you here's an alternative tree oh

by the way, stay tuned Until the End

we're giving away a date with Veruca

Salt if we can find anybody interested

although spoiler alert Roald Dahl

completely made up one of his most

famous stories he might have had some

the real-life inspiration for it when he was

at boarding school, Dahl visited a local

Chocolate Factory with other students

their task was to taste new chocolate

bars now that's what I call a good field

trip the Curious young man was wondering

how exactly they came up with different

sorts of chocolate he imagined there was

a secret inventing room where people in

white were experimenting with some

boiling pots of sugar and other components

creating real magic

35 years later Charlie and the Chocolate

The factory came out and became one of his

most successful works

although Dahl never officially mentioned

it there is one real-life chocolate

maker who could have easily served as an

inspiration for the charismatic Willy

Wonka his name was Melton Hershey yes

Hershey and his road to success was

an all cotton candy and marshmallows it

was chocolate his father was a big

a dreamer who believed there would always

be a new opportunity to succeed sadly he

didn't manage to stick to any of those

opportunities his wife must have grown

tired of this and the father separated

from the family, that's why Milton didn't

have a chance to complete even a rural

school education and became an

apprentice to a confectioner in his home

the state of Pennsylvania when he was 14.

once he finished with that Hershey

decided to borrow 150 dollars from his

aunt to start his candy shop in

Philadelphia his first business failed

six years later so Hershey moved to

Denver where he worked for a local

confectioner and learned a secret that

would later change his life and no he

didn't find out how to create an endless

chocolate River but he could make

caramel from fresh milk his

entrepreneurial Ambitions didn't let

Milton work for someone else and he took

a couple more attempts to start his own

shop in Chicago and later in New York City

the future chocolate king failed again

but he didn't even think about giving up

he went back to Lancaster where he was

an apprentice as a teenager he founded

his own company the Caramel Making

Secrets served him well and the company

was a huge success but while he watched

caramel in the making Melton knew it

wasn't his true passion he wanted to

popularize chocolate which was an exotic

a delicacy from Switzerland back then so

Hershey sold his caramel business in

1900 for an impressive one million

dollars and purchase some new equipment

he started experimenting with boiled

milk sugar and cacao beans to

manufacture affordable milk chocolate

for mass production by the end of the

the year he had already sold his very first

Hershey bar

five years later Hershey finished

building his new Factory that would

become the largest chocolate in the world

Depression when it would be more natural

to take care of your own business Milton

wanted to support others in his town he

ordered a large Hotel a community

building and new offices for his company

creating many job opportunities at the

construction sites