Why is American chocolate so bad?
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Anonymous
| I don’t get why we accept gross chocolate like Hershey’s when it tastes so much worse than ‘real’ chocolate/ chocolate from Europe? Aren’t we meant to be a wealthy country with access to the best products? It smells like someone spilled milk in the car then parked it in the sun. |
Anonymous
| The regulations around chocolate are much more lax in America. In Europe it has to be a certain amount of cocoa and fat, so even the cheap stuff is miles better than Hersheys. |
Anonymous
| I think a lot of the talk about how bad American food is exaggeration and hyperbole. Sure, Belgian or French chocolate is amazing. But as someone who has travelled the world I can tell you that there are so many countries with much worse food than we have in the states. I agree that European chocolate is far superior, but America has many iconic candies and we also have access to those European brands in all our grocery stores.... most anyone can easily pick up Lindt, Cadbury, Ritter, Milka, etc. There are also a ton of more gourmet, genuinely delicious American brands, like Guittard or Hu which is a newer, healthier chocolate brand. It's okay if we're not the best at literally everything!! |
Anonymous
| We have tons of high quality, local chocolate. The OP’s complaint is like saying pizza here is bad because we have Dominos. We have everything, and it’s all insanely easy to get. You’re just whiny. |
Anonymous
Have you ever tried Mexican chocolate? I took one bite and spit it out. Grainy and taste nothing like chocolate. |
Anonymous
| Try Taza! Love that stuff. |
Anonymous
+100 A completely valueless post. Just go get some good chocolate, OP, and stop trying to stir things up. |
Anonymous
There are flights to Europe. I think you can even relocate there if you wish. Bye. |
Anonymous
Oh shut up. The idea you can’t criticize one thing about America is so puerile. Your chocolate sucks. Admit it. |
Anonymous
Exactly. Whenever someone starts whinging about American food they actually just reveal how provincial they are. Only someone who has only ever lived in the United States could take one look at an American grocery store and not be blown away at the breadth and width of the selections we have. People in other countries could only dream of the endless aisles and massive stretch of a Kroger, Giant, Fred Meyer, etc. We really are spoiled for choice in the US and compared to almost anywhere else in the world have an insanely huge selection. If you want European chocolate it's easily obtainable. If for some reason youre grabbing Hershey off the shelf despite other options that's your own problem and choice. |
Anonymous
Don't be mad because you've been called out for being a clown. |
Anonymous
+1 Or chocolate from many places in Asia. Yes Germans and Belgians specialize in chocolate and have great chocolates but that's their thing. That's like freaking out about why we dont have the best tacos/salsas compared to Mexico. Every country specializes in one thing, why would we fixate on being the best in chocolate when we can import it easily? Also we have some of the best chocolate in the world tbh and anyone who's actually experienced gourmet American chocolate, not gas station level chocolate bars, would know that. |
Anonymous
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Hershey's does taste like puke. America goes for volume, not quality.
The big companies that sell Mars/Snickers control what you can buy in supermarkets. In Eu supermarket I can pick up chocolates from many countries. There supermarket control more what they buy in, not the big money companies. |
Anonymous
+1 I hate the chocolate here. Just compare a US kit kat vs a euro one. I wish we could get euro chocolate easily. |
Anonymous
You can, quite easily. you're just too lazy, broke, or stupid to figure out how to shop at a legit grocery store not a dollar general or gas station |