'Twas the cry heard round the world as home bakers unwrapped their Hershey's Kisses—perhaps to make the holiday staple that is a peanut butter blossom—and discovered their chocolate candies were missing their signature tips. Facebook group The Wedding Cookie Table first posted about the pandemic earlier this month, posting a picture of the classic Kisses and asking, "Do this year’s kisses look like this for you? Or are the tops broken off?" Nearly 100 comments flooded in agreeing that they did, in fact, have flat-topped Kisses this year.
"This is crazy!!! Looks like way more have broken tips than not!! Unacceptable Hershey!! 💩 😜😂😂😂😂," one user wrote. Another chimed in, "I just opened a few bags today for cookies i’m gonna make next week... every single one is missing the tip." "I have been curious since seeing the post about the kisses so I have been opening some kisses that i have received in favors and they do not have tips.😟 Yikes! What is Hershey doing???😲," someone else responded.
If anyone thought the issue would stay in a small Facebook group during the biggest baking season of the year, they were sorely mistaken. Soon, people took to Twitter to corroborate the story.
Tragic, no?
The uproar was so loud, that Hershey's finally acknowledged it. In a statement given to both The Washington Post and People, Hershey's said, "We make more than 70 million Kisses a day here in Hershey, Pa., and we want each of them looking as great as they taste. The iconic, conical shape is one of the reasons families have loved Kisses for generations. We shape the tip on our classic, solid Milk and Dark Chocolate Kisses to create that iconic appearance. And while there has always been some variability in that process, we are working to improve the appearance because it’s as important to us as it is to our fans."
Here's hoping the travesty didn't affect your holiday too poorly.
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