This bucolic community graced by rich historic sites, industry and rolling farms — just twenty miles south of the city of York and 50 miles north of Baltimore — is the undisputed “Snack Food Capital of the World.”

It’s a title this York County borough earned over the past 100 years in part because its German settlers brought their pretzel-making craft with them to area, but largely because of today’s robust manufacturing base and the surrounding abundance of agriculture products.

York County is one of dozens of counties in Pennsylvania that stretch from Chester County in the east to Cumberland County in the midstate that are all part of the commonwealth’s famed “Snack Belt”— which, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development, produces 80% of the pretzels consumed in the United States.