Hershey is discontinuing their chocolate Cherry Blossom novelty candy. It is a syrupy maraschino cherry encased in milk chocolate. While I've never had a Hersey version, when I was a child we made them for Christmas every year. I expect I've eaten hundreds of these treats. While ours differentiated from Cherry Blossoms by being dark chocolate, they were certainly syrupy. I don't seem to have copied the chocolate centre recipe anywhere, but I can probably reproduce it without any conscious thinking.
To make the syrup, one mixed icing sugar and butter to make a paste dough. Then one made it into a little flat circle in one's palm, placed the maraschino cherry in it, then wrapped it up around the cherry, finishing it with a toothpick in the top to carry it around. This was then cooled for a day or two. Once cool enough, it would be dipped in chocolate and placed on a wax paper cookie sheet to harden. That took place in the Cold Cellar. A day or so later, the toothpick would be removed and a little dollop of chocolate replaced the tiny hole. Then the cherries have to ripen for a week or 2 for the sugar paste to turn to syrup. I can tell you they tasted good before and after getting syrupy.
It makes me realize that this is one thing I know about that has been discontinued. There are 39 discontinued things on Wikipedia that were discontinued in 2024. I don't know most of them. Food items were: Diet Coke with Splenda, Coca-Cola Cherry Vanilla, Super Bubble (a bubble gum), the McDonald's Grimace Shake and Fruit Stripe. The other items look like technology items that have been replaced - iPhones, AirPods, lots of video games.
We consider that things might be discontinued, and somehow they are not forgotten.
I am catching up with past posts - I found a picture of a clock - this one was in Half Moon Bay, California. Below that is a garden view at Filoli Gardens - nearby to Half Moon Bay.
