Althouse: Kisses are missing their point.

December 21, 2018

Kisses are missing their point.

A candy mystery.

29 comments:

Mike Sylwester said...: The points feel like they are coming off!; 12/21/18, 11:47 AM
tim maguire said...: Consumer safety. You could put an eye out.; 12/21/18, 11:54 AM
SayAahh said...: A kiss is just a kiss; 12/21/18, 11:58 AM
Yancey Ward said...: I blame Trump.

However, the tips are often broken off inside the wrappers- this has been the case for as long as I have consumed them which is basically my entire life within my memory.

In fact, I just stopped writing this comment and went and got one out of the candy bowl- tip broken off and fell out as I unwrapped it.; 12/21/18, 11:58 AM
stevew said...: More CHAOS!!!!

I agree Yancey, my memory of the fragility of the tips is the same as yours.; 12/21/18, 12:11 PM
Kevin said...: I question the timing.; 12/21/18, 12:13 PM
tcrosse said...: My family-sized bag of dark chocolate kisses has their points intact.; 12/21/18, 12:23 PM
wild chicken said...: Like any other odd product change, obviously a different factory in China got the contract. Oh well!; 12/21/18, 12:24 PM
Unknown said...: Did you hear about the leper brothel? They had to close, customers kept leaving tips.; 12/21/18, 12:29 PM
Ignorance is Bliss said...: Kisses are missing their point

My kisses never miss the point. Just kiss. Don't even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.; 12/21/18, 12:32 PM
Freeman Hunt said...: I rode a rollercoaster for the first time at Hersheypark.; 12/21/18, 12:56 PM
Darrell said...: I rode a rollercoaster for the first time at Hersheypark.

Let's keep it clean. Families read this blog.; 12/21/18, 1:07 PM
rhhardin said...: President, Hersey Foods July 11, 1974

Dear. Mr. President

With pain in my fingers I type this letter. I have enjoyed your candy for years (with and without nuts) and always thought of you as the General Motors of the candy world, but I had a shock, I'll say, this afternoon.

I couldn't believe it when I looked down in my hand and saw the enclosed deformed M&M. For as long as I can remember, I never way anything but perfect M&M's - what is this country coming to? It may be jsut a little piece of candy - but it means so much more. It is another little sign that America the Beautiful is losing its status. What if that pack of M&M's was exported? How would it look to foreigners? If the Russians saw it, they'd probably attack! It makes me ashamed to be an American. Watergate is enough, but this puts the cap on the bottle. I'm just glad Hoover isn't alive to see this.

We must stop this kind of thing from happening. "It's just a piece of candy" is a bad attitude for the leading company in the world to have. Find out who was responsible for this and fire them! Make an example! If you don't, a year from now whole packs will look like they were made by the Jukes family and not the Hersey's! Family pride! Keep old glory flying! Oh say do those perfect M&M's keep coming in the land of the brave and the home of the free! Play ball! Stand up for our President!

Lazlo Toth

Mr. Lazlo Toth

Dear Mr. Toth:

We regret that one of our HERSHEY-ETS you recently received was imperfect. Mr. Mohler, our President, has asked me to reply.

Our products are processed and handled by the most modern methods known to the industry. We subject them to both mechanical and visual inspections and take special precautions to assure that they leave our plants in perfect condition. In the case of the improperly molded HERSHEY-ET you received our efforts at perfection apparently failed.

We appreciate your bringing this matter to our attention, and I want you to know that our Quality Assurance Staff will intensify its efforts to maintain perfection in our products.

We are sending you some chocolate which we hope will serve to restore your faith in our products. If this chocolate is damaged in the mail, please inform us so we can try again.

(Mrs.) Joan M. Gibble

Consumer Information

_The Lazlo Letters_ (vol 1); 12/21/18, 1:18 PM
Kevin said...: Point shaving.; 12/21/18, 1:29 PM
gilbar said...: kevin wins!; 12/21/18, 1:52 PM
Darrell said...: I can create a bell-shaped-tip tool to restore the point.
Gofundmenow.
Or use a small stainless steel tip from your icing piping kit.; 12/21/18, 2:03 PM
Marcus said...: Lazlo is so funny. M&Ms are not Hershey products.

THEOLDMAN; 12/21/18, 2:46 PM
chuck said...: Oh, darn. Now I need to verify the story.; 12/21/18, 2:47 PM
MadTownGuy said...: "Kisses are missing their point."

"I don't get the point."

"Exactly."; 12/21/18, 3:11 PM
bagoh20 said...: Of all the Jews hated and feared throughout history none is so treacherous as the Clandestine Mohel.; 12/21/18, 3:30 PM
tcrosse said...: Of all the Jews hated and feared throughout history none is so treacherous as the Clandestine Mohel.

There was a chassidic guy in St Paul who drove his station wagon around with the Minnesota vanity plate MOHEL. Presumably, he would cut you off on the freeway.; 12/21/18, 3:44 PM
I'm Full of Soup said...: I just ate about 20 of them and never noticed.; 12/21/18, 3:49 PM
I'm Full of Soup said...: Lazlo Toth, in real life, is the guy who played a priest on SNL Father Guido Narducci. That is what I seem to remember anyway.

The Lazlo Letters was a great book.; 12/21/18, 3:53 PM
rhhardin said...: Only 15 minutes until the sun starts north again.; 12/21/18, 4:05 PM
tcrosse said...: Lazlo Toth, in real life, is the guy who played a priest on SNL Father Guido Narducci.

Don Novello played Fr. Guido Sarducci on SNL. Laszlo Toth attacked Michelangelo's Pietà with a hammer.; 12/21/18, 4:14 PM
richlb said...: I checked a handful we had at the house and whadyaknow! They were all pointless!; 12/21/18, 4:32 PM
I'm Full of Soup said...: tcosse : im not sure who that Lazlo Toth was. Don Novelloe wrote the book called the Lazlo Letters about a guy named Lazlo Toth. The book was hilarious.; 12/21/18, 6:53 PM
chuck said...: Picked up a bag of kisses from the local truck stop. Yep, the poor little guys were all missing their tips.; 12/21/18, 7:26 PM
RigelDog said...: I LOVE the fact that this ominous development was discovered by Pittsburgh's own Cookie Table organization. I just joined their Facebook group!; 12/22/18, 9:09 AM