My mother took me through the Hershey factory when...

My mother took me through the Hershey factory when I was a child. I still remember it as quite magical. What a shock this time. I remember walking through the factory watching actual people do the jobs and at the end I was given a nice size bag of samples of all the products. It felt like Christmas. Fast forward. Now it feels more like Disney world. Everything's automated. You fight the crowds to ride in a car through "chocolate world" watching machines do all the work. Lots of automated talking cows and other things that might appeal to children. At the end a rather disgruntled looking person hands you a Hershey bar the size of a matchbox. If you actually want chocolate you exit the ride into a huge building full of overpriced boxes. There are also eateries and lots of lights and glitz. I guess this is what people are used to now, but I would love to go back to the old days.