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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is too long so I didn’t read it all.

Someone may have already mentioned that American chocolatiers/manufacturers remove cocoa butter from chocolate and replace it  with vegetable oil. American chocolate is also allowed to have much less cocoa than what is required in various European countries. Last, American chocolate contains butyric acid as a preservative. All of this makes it taste drastically different than chocolate made elsewhere.[/quote]

Partially correct. Some American candies do remove cocoa butter and replace it with oil, but then they cannot call it chocolate. Instead, they have to call it chocolaty or something similar. Whoppers does this, and I agree it’s cheap garbage (Hershey ruined whoppers with this cost cutting move). But of it says chocolate, then by regulation it has to contain a minimum amount of cocoa butter.

Btw—what Hershey did to Whoppers is similar to the way Breyer’s, which was once known for ice cream without artificial ingredients, ruined many of their products. While they still sell some legitimate ice cream in core flavors, most of their product is now so filled with junk that they cannot, by regulation, call it ice cream. Instead, they call it “frozen dairy desert.”[/quote]

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