Why is American chocolate so bad?

[Anonymous]

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

THISSSSSSS

it tastes SO GROSS

[Anonymous]

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

Reese's peanut butter cups are gross.

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Anonymous wrote: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!!

Cadbury in USA is made by…. Hershey.

https://www.cadburyusa.com/about#:~:text=The%20Hershey%20Company%20acquired%20the%20license%20to%20manufacture%20and%20market,standard%20and%20king%2Dsize%20bars.

And getting Lindt and Milka is a relatively recent thing; they were not widely available until the 2000s.

[Anonymous]

Give me a Hersheys milk chocolate bar with almonds any day.

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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.

Yeah honestly OP is giving "American who has never left the country but wants to seem sophisticated." Anyone who has ever lived internationally can tell you that many, many Europeans (and people from every other country) prefer American food. My boyfriend is Italian and he always buys Pringles and was shocked when I told him it was an American company and considered junk food in our country. Every person tends to fetishize or look up to products from other countries- Europeans often rhink theyre own chocolate is boring and love the over the top candies, chocolates, and sweets from the USA.

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Anonymous wrote: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!!

Cadbury in USA is made by…. Hershey.

https://www.cadburyusa.com/about#:~:text=The%20Hershey%20Company%20acquired%20the%20license%20to%20manufacture%20and%20market,standard%20and%20king%2Dsize%20bars.

And getting Lindt and Milka is a relatively recent thing; they were not widely available until the 2000s.

Well Cadbury internationally is not that great either. It's not really a high end chocolate no matter where you buy it.

And it's 2023 so yeah... if it's taken you 20 years to figure out where the "gourmet chocolate" section of your grocery store is, that's your own fault.

[Anonymous]

When I was in college, I once microwaved a bowl of Hershey’s kisses to try to make chocolate sauce for ice cream, and when I opened the microwave door, the fumes stung SO horribly that my friend and I had to leave the room, tears in our eyes. I haven’t eaten a Hershey’s kiss since. Anyone know what in the ingredients caused that?

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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.

+1

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 truly not, and you really need to travel more. And stop doing your grocery shopping at the local Crystal's.

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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.

+1

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.

No one is taking it personally. I dont even live in America. I just find it hilarious and so naive the way Americans do this wide eyed "Everyone else in the world is eating cheese milked that morning from from their grandmother's goats" schtick, complaining about the food and not even realizing that Americans have higher quality foods and a better selection than 95% of the world. It's actually hilarious. If anything it makes me think America is just a nation of whiners since so many will make entire threads complaining about having to walk an extra 30 feet to the "nice chocolate" section. Mind blowing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Geradeli is good

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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Geradeli is good

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k boomer

[Anonymous]

Americans like large quantities of cheap food. Volume over quality, always.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Geradeli is good

Oh, honey.

k boomer

Only boomers can spell?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I was in college, I once microwaved a bowl of Hershey’s kisses to try to make chocolate sauce for ice cream, and when I opened the microwave door, the fumes stung SO horribly that my friend and I had to leave the room, tears in our eyes. I haven’t eaten a Hershey’s kiss since. Anyone know what in the ingredients caused that?

Burning any food is going to result in bad smells. Don't do that.