Why is American chocolate so bad?

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Anonymous wrote:Hershey’s is a unique type of chocolate because Milton Hershey invented a new way to process the milk so he didn’t need to rely on fresh milk. I think it stays popular because it’s cheap and/or we’re nostalgic for other Hershey’s candies that aren’t so focused on just plain chocolate (think Reese’s).

Ecuador produces some of the best cocoa in the world but the chocolate most people get is Hershey’s quality or lower. My in laws always send me some top quality chocolate but what I eat first is the crappy chocolate bars that we can’t get here.

I don’t think this is historically accurate. Hershey was founded in western Pa specifically so they could get fresh milk from the Lancaster dairies and they continue to bring in fresh milk daily. Nestle and Lindt actually together invented modern chocolate making by figuring out a way that the milk would not separate when the chocolate was stored and it was based upon the chemical processes that nestle invented to make baby formula — so did not rely on fresh milk.
I do think Hershey invented a different process as far as reincorporating the cocoa fat but I can’t remember it now. For the price point Hershey is very good chcoooate. It’s less waxy than the similarly priced nestle bars.

Lindt is a massive conglomerate that now owns Ghirardelli and Russell Stover and basically ruined RS by swapping out their chocolate for cheaper stuff. So the Swiss are t so perfect when it comes to chocolate.

I definitely had some of it mixed up, but it had to do with fresh milk and making it mass producible. But my point was the same—that created a unique taste but was cheap to produce, hence it’s popularity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cheap ingredients make American chocolate taste gross. If you’ve never tried genuinely good chocolate, you have nothing to compare it to. Even when my dd was a toddler, she wouldn’t touch American chocolate. To think, a small child would eat most sweet things.

Funny, we live in Germany and at Halloween the local German kids by and large far prefer the American candies (including chocolates) that we buy on base to the German options.

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Because mass produced chocolate in America s gutter trash. They don’t use real coco butter anymore. They use cheap oils as filler. They also add butyric acid. It’s literally the molecule in barf that makes it smell like barf. That’s why when people say American chocolates taste like puke they’re not wrong. It’s the butyric acid.

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https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/why-american-chocolate-tastes-like-vomit

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I love getting Cadbury when in the UK. But I also love a custom box from See's Candies. I used to ride the "European chocolate is better than American chocolate" bandwagon until I realized that it was more about my specific preferences, not one whole continent's efforts versus another's.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cheap ingredients make American chocolate taste gross. If you’ve never tried genuinely good chocolate, you have nothing to compare it to. Even when my dd was a toddler, she wouldn’t touch American chocolate. To think, a small child would eat most sweet things.

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Trying cheap grocery chocolate in Europe vs USA is eye opening

Yeah, because you realize there's not much difference. I hate to tell you this and shatter your illusions, but they sell snickers and dreaded KitKats in oh-so-sophisticated Europe too. And gasp! Europeans actually buy and like them.

But it sounds like you're only able to buy cheap stuff so I think you should be posting in the finances section of DCUM and getting some advice on how to afford a $3 lindt bar.

Yes but the point is that the KitKat in Europe is 10x better in Europe. Keep up.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cheap ingredients make American chocolate taste gross. If you’ve never tried genuinely good chocolate, you have nothing to compare it to. Even when my dd was a toddler, she wouldn’t touch American chocolate. To think, a small child would eat most sweet things.

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Trying cheap grocery chocolate in Europe vs USA is eye opening

Yeah, because you realize there's not much difference. I hate to tell you this and shatter your illusions, but they sell snickers and dreaded KitKats in oh-so-sophisticated Europe too. And gasp! Europeans actually buy and like them.

But it sounds like you're only able to buy cheap stuff so I think you should be posting in the finances section of DCUM and getting some advice on how to afford a $3 lindt bar.

Yes but the point is that the KitKat in Europe is 10x better in Europe. Keep up.

It's not a real KitKat unless its from Japan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because the American food industry supports big business, not the end user.

Palm oil. Blech.

Hilarious considering that European chocolates (famously British-made Cadbury) often contain palm oil, whereas the FDA won't allow you to call it "chocolate" in the US.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love American chocolate and can afford whatever I want. My favorite is sees but I really love the Hershey’s gold nugget toffee ones or almond ones (rip the one that had pecans).
For European chocolate I like toblerone, Lindt , rutter, ferret rocher. Cadbury is okay but I think they’ve got too much milk fat in it — it loses the chocolate taste.

I absolutely hate those fancy French chocolates that taste like lavender or other herbal or liquor flavors. So gross.

It’s super easy to find good chocolate in America now. But many Americans prefer cost over quality when it comes to candy for small children particularly. Many of the major companies are cutting back on the cocoa fat in their chocolates because cocoa has become wildly expensive and the American consumer wants the option of a cheaper product.

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Yes, but we have Reese’s peanut butter cups. You can keep your plain chocolate..

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I don't want to upset anyone but all chocolate has feces in it. The flavor comes from blood.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Are you being forcefed American chocolate?

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Same reason almost all of the olive oil is rancid; taste. Americans don't have a good taste for good chocolate (or olive oil).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love American chocolate and can afford whatever I want. My favorite is sees but I really love the Hershey’s gold nugget toffee ones or almond ones (rip the one that had pecans).
For European chocolate I like toblerone, Lindt , rutter, ferret rocher. Cadbury is okay but I think they’ve got too much milk fat in it — it loses the chocolate taste.

I absolutely hate those fancy French chocolates that taste like lavender or other herbal or liquor flavors. So gross.

It’s super easy to find good chocolate in America now. But many Americans prefer cost over quality when it comes to candy for small children particularly. Many of the major companies are cutting back on the cocoa fat in their chocolates because cocoa has become wildly expensive and the American consumer wants the option of a cheaper product.

Same here. And I don't like chocolates with stuff in the inside, like nougat, at all. Yuck.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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I hate the chocolate here. Just compare a US kit kat vs a euro one. I wish we could get euro chocolate easily.

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

WHY are people so defensive about america? it's so weird - like why take it so personally. no one is saying your kid is fat or your house is ugly.