Saturday, October 3, 2026

Question: Before a York Peppermint Pattie could leave the factory in York, what test did it have to pass?

Answer: The snap test. Each pattie had to break clean down the middle or it wasn’t packaged for sale, and York residents would come to the Pine Street plant to scoop up the imperfect batches. Henry Kessler created the candy at his York Cone Company in 1940, and it joined Hershey in 1988.