Chocolate! As soon as you get out of the car, the smell of chocolate surrounds you. It lifts you inside just like the scent of a pie left on the windowsill carries your favorite cartoon character. Malley's on Brookpark Road is decked out for Easter with chocolate rabbits and eggs in different flavors and colored wrappers. The Oompa Loompas are chanting "oompa loompa doompety dee, if you are wise you'll listen to me" on six tv screens in the back of the retail shop.
We went for the self-guided tour. We walked through the door and saw chocolate bunnies as large as Kate getting decorated with frosting. The factory is all to the right behind glass. Up close on a ledge are posters, books, molds, cookbooks and memorabilia from the past all meant to teach you about where chocolate comes from, how it is made, and how Malley's came to be. Behind that are conveyor belts and industrial mixers. The employees waved to the kids and looked like they were enjoying their jobs.
The latest Malley's treat is a chocolate covered Twinkie. We saw a group of employees unwrapping individual Twinkies and placing them on the belt to get drenched in chocolate. Caramels were cut and broken apart, carried to another belt where they were married with a marshmallow and also covered in chocolate. I wondered if the employees ever quickly throw a caramel into their mouth. I would. The tour was like watching an episode of Unwrapped (which I enjoy even though my husband claims that every show is the same- he's right but I still love it). You can spend 5 minutes walking the tour hallway or 30 minutes if you read everything.
- Cameras are not permitted on the tour.
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