How did Hershey Kisses get their name ?

While it's not known exactly how Hershey's Kisses got their name, the popular theory is that the candy was named for the motion of the chocolate being deposited during the manufacturing process.


www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A401437

"Kiss" is an old name for any small piece of chocolate wrapped in foil.

Of course now that I'm looking into it everything I have come across mentions that Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that
makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt. . . just as Mozart says!

Yikes...foiled again!

While it's not known exactly how KISSES got their name, it is a popular theory that the candy was named for the sound or motion of the chocolate being deposited during the manufacturing process. - Hersheys.com

A search of online dictionaries shows the word "kiss" to be what Georgiasays. (I admit that the particular definition may have come about from Hershey's product.) While I formerly accepted (and used) the machine story, I think that, especiaaly since Hershey's does not know how the name came to be, the machine story is a back-formation, and that the word "kisses" was already in use for a small, wrapped candy (or baked good). I will try to find an old dictionary, a pre-Hershey's Kisses one, and see what it says.