Monet and Me

 

were musing after a friend put up a meme announcing December 28 as National Chocolate Candy Day. Her meme included a background of Hershey Kisses.

I told her these chocolates are my favorite. When I was little (way back in the Stone Age), about 4 or 5 years old, my dad would come home from the office. Once in awhile after dinner, he would tell me to go into his room and look inside his briefcase, and I would find something nice. I always found a bag of Hershey Kisses, but my dad never called them kisses. He called them Silver Bells.

My friend is from the South. She had never heard Kisses called Silver Bells and wondered if it was a regional thing.

So Monet and I began to wonder. Was calling Hershey Kisses, Silver Bells, a regional thing. Or was it just my dad's thing?

Well, I asked Mr. Google:

"Hershey's Kisses were not officially called "Silver Bells," but people often remember them as such because they were wrapped in silver foil, and the company did produce similar bell-shaped chocolates like Silverpoints, while a famous commercial featured "Holiday Bells". Hershey's Kisses started in 1907 with silver foil, but similar products like Silverpoints (also in silver foil) existed, leading to potential confusion with the nostalgic term "Silver Bells,"

Did you ever call Hershey Kisses, Silver Bells?