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[Muppet of a Man]

Excellent small batch chocolate made with love in Fremont, Seattle:

 

[Vandiger]

This man is dropping truth bombs. For anyone who is not used to the flavour it can literally taste like vomit. It is not pleasant. It's Ike drinking milk that has been left out in the sun until it starts to separate

Yeah thats why I stay away from Hershey or any other mass produced US chocolate. Should know by now they use stale milk to get that "unique" taste

 

[perfectchaos007]

We Americanized your British Cadbury chocolate. Now it tastes like Hersheys too!

 

[valkillmore]

OP knows what shit tastes like. Otherwise the thread would be 'hershey's chocolate tastes awful.'

 

[Putyouinmyoven]

Camaaaaan Hershey's is alright. I like expensive ass beautiful chocolate but Hershey's is way better than no chocolate.

 

[Az]

You can buy Milka in the US at a bunch of places so its not a big deal

 

[nickcv]

anything below 70 - 75% is not chocolate: it's candy

milk chocolate is ok for kids that just want a load of sugar.

If you wanna try 90% or even 95% chocolate buy the thinnest one to make it melt more easily in your mouth: it is absolutely fantastic with a glass of red wine.

 

[Ishan]

Ironically I had Hershey's before coming to the us and not since inspite of living 2 hrs from Hershey pa and having gone there about 2-3 times already.

 

[Ishan]

You can buy Milka in the US at a bunch of places so its not a big deal

Wegmanns stocks them iirc . You can get Lindt at csv and Walmart . Those are the two I can remember of the top of my head ,

 

[oti]

As a British man who has tried it twice, it tastes like actual vomit. Not as in just bad, but like puke in my mouth.

Yeah but the hyperbole. No. It tastes the same as vomit.

Man, American food products sound like nightmares.

American cheese.
Sweet bread (wtf).
And now vomit chocolate.

 

[ryseing]

Give me Swiss or Italian chocolate any day of the week.

I visited a friend in Switzerland and I've never eaten so good sweet wise. They had some Nesquik type powder that was way better than Nesquik, a legit chocolate spread for toast and such, and an extra milk recipe chocolate bar that I would die to get in the States.

So good.

Ritter Sport is on sale this week at my grocery store. Any flavor recommendations? The butter wafer one sounded weird.

 

[Ruff]

Agree with OP. When I visited America I was in shock at how their most popular chocolate brand straight up tastes of actual vomit, yet no one I spoke to seemed to taste it.

 

[hipbabboom]

U don't get it OP. Such a declarative and definitive statement is why you're fake news.

I'll agree its not the best tasting chocolate but its far from the worse. In fact, many people enjoy it. It's like the Starbucks of chocolate. Its the Corona of chocolate. It's like the Toyota of chocolates. If you can only accept the top 5% of chocolatiers as acceptable (or you are like the owner of popular internet gaming site and fly to other continents just to eat chocolate) then you are privileged and part of that privilege is being able to describe perfectly acceptable things as "shit". That's not a criticism but simply a description of your "condition."

 

[gutter_trash]

after embracing Lindt, I can't ever go back to Hershey or Mars and stuff.

 

[BibiMaghoo]

Man, American food products sound like nightmares.

American cheese.
Sweet bread (wtf).
And now vomit chocolate.

American cheese has it's uses. It is not a proper cheese good for sandwiches, but they melt real good on a burger for a little flavour. Hershey's I have to assume is due to the brand. An entire country cannot make chocolate that tastes like that. There must be alternatives similar to cadburys.

 

[Dreavus]

According to the Wikipedia entry, Hershey reformulated their chocolate for Canadians in 1983 because we weren't putting up with that shit. I wonder if that still holds? (I have no idea what you guys are talking about with the vomit thing, so that's one explanation) Hershey's chocolate tastes fairly ordinary, but certainly not what you guys are describing. Unless I've just been normalized to it, I dunno. I can't say I eat the stuff often.

The funny thing is that the people that identify what they are calling the vomit taste aren't EXACTLY wrong.

What they are tasting is Butyric acid




So some people might just not like the taste or are too sensitive to the taste that they taste what they perceive to be vomit. My tongue is sensitive to the taste of peanuts (I was allergic), so I can taste it in Chocolate bars that have peanut product that got into them. At the end of the day you can't talk shit about "ha ha, you are eating vomit" if you partake of any fermented foods.

I definitely noticed this in Parmesan cheese growing up, I thought I was going crazy.

 

[Ignatz Mouse]

Hershey's Milk Chocate-- meh
Hershey's Special Dark -- yum
Vosges Fire Bar -- awesome

 

[HeelPower]

If you're saying this taste like crap you need to get your taste buds checked son...

This can be damn addictive.

It actually has a complex taste to it ,and its dangerously thin so you can eat a whole bar and not even notice it.

 

[Skii]

American chocolate tastes awful. It all just tastes like plastic. I think it's because you don't use milk for your chocolates apparently.

 

[SuperSonic1305]

White chocolate also sucks

This Alternative Facts meme is getting old.

 

[Boy Wander]

American cheese has it's uses. It is not a proper cheese good for sandwiches, but they melt real good on a burger for a little flavour. Hershey's I have to assume is due to the brand. An entire country cannot make chocolate that tastes like that. There must be alternatives similar to cadburys.

Not to turn the conversation away from chocolate, but I've always wondered why a country would want to put it's name to such a shitty cheese. I mean, if you're going to put your nations name on it, at least make it not plastic goo.

 

[Secret Character]

Ritter Sport is on sale this week at my grocery store. Any flavor recommendations? The butter wafer one sounded weird.

Oh man, the butter wafer Ritter Sport is so good. I really enjoy the coconut one, as well.

 

[Ignatz Mouse]

Not to turn the conversation away from chocolate, but I've always wondered why a country would want to put it's name to such a shitty cheese. I mean, if you're going to put your nations name on it, at least make it not plastic goo.

It's not like it was voted on, or anything.

 

[oti]

I visited a friend in Switzerland and I've never eaten so good sweet wise. They had some Nesquik type powder that was way better than Nesquik, a legit chocolate spread for toast and such, and an extra milk recipe chocolate bar that I would die to get in the States.

So good.

Ritter Sport is on sale this week at my grocery store. Any flavor recommendations? The butter wafer one sounded weird.

 

[Regiruler]

For people who don't like it, what the hell do you use on smores?

 

[Nostremitus]

This right here is why Trump won

Because too many people think Hershey's is good because they trust advertising more than their own experiences?

Because Hershey's somehow managed to get legal approval to remove their competition in the U.S. when they managed to get Cadbury chocolate banned for no other reason than that they didn't want to have to compete against a milk chocolate actually made from milk instead of sugar?

 

[SwiftDeath]

I'm pretty sure this thread gets made every 2 months

quick, someone talk up Cadbury and then scream about America ruining it

Have you tasted both European Cadbury and American "Cadbury"?

Cadbury in the US is made under license by Hersey's and is an entirely different chocolate recipe, like factually.

 

[Nostremitus]

I'm pretty sure this thread gets made every 2 months

quick, someone talk up Cadbury and then scream about America ruining it

I mean, one has milk as the key ingredient, the other has sugar.

 

[shamo42]

Excellent small batch chocolate made with love in Fremont, Seattle:

Looks awesome. If I ever am in Seattle I'll try to buy some.

 

[IbukiLordSA]

We have a sweet store here that imports chocolate, or what some countries would call chocolate. Bought the wife a Hershey's bar as I know from a terrible experience of having to try it before, anyway she spat it on in a public area so fast, it was hilarious, she was apologizing to people for spitting it out and started to clean it up with a tissue. I just stood there and laughed.

Why anyone would willing eat this is beyond me. Eat some proper chocolate.

 

[SparkleMotion]

We did it, guys. We showed that people can be elitist about something as benign as chocolate.

 

[shamo42]

These are 2 of my favorites:

They taste amazing!

Sugar is cheap. That's why sugar is often listed first in the ingredient list.
Not for these. That's pretty rare for milk chocolates.

 

[Jill Sandwich]

For people who don't like it, what the hell do you use on smores?

Better tasting chocolate?

 

[capitalCORN]

We did it, guys. We showed that people can be elitist about something as benign as chocolate.

Thank GOD your sarcastic ass showed up. We were in dire need of you!

 

[Cosmic Schwung]

The funny thing is that the people that identify what they are calling the vomit taste aren't EXACTLY wrong.

What they are tasting is Butyric acid

Thank you. Been saying it literally tastes like vomit for years. Now I know why.

 

[GHG]

Hershey's is not actually chocolate that's why.

 

[akira28]

We need either a sea change or a chocolate war.

 

[MarkMclovin]

All american chocolate tastes terrible.

.

Apart from Baby Ruths.

 

[jonnyp]

Next time you guys go to IKEA, you get yourselves one of these and never look back:

No where near as good as:

 

[Nudull]

The superior Hershey bar.

 

[cyberheater]

The best. God tier chocolate.

 

[Jezbollah]

The best. God tier chocolate.

HAIL TO THE KING, BABY.

 

[RocknRola]

No idea about Hershey's, never had any but for regular milk chocolate I usually just buy either Milka or Nestlé.

For darker chocolate I love a local brand here called "Jubileu". They sell all kinds of varieties from milk chocolate to extra dark chocolate in both Premium and Regular packages.

Premium stuff:

Regular thin bars:

Pretty damn awesome. I like their regular milk chocolate a lot too, but it's usually a bit more expensive so I just buy their darker/premium stuff. They used to have one which was dark chocolate + pink pepper and it was absolutely amazing.

 

[Jill Sandwich]

The best. God tier chocolate.

Dairy Milk is the UK Hersheys, but without the vomit taste.

 

[milanbaros]

Dairy Milk is the UK Hersheys, but without the vomit taste.

It is a higher quality and doesn't have the vomit taste which makes a big difference. It is the same in that it is the most popular in their respective countries and cheap.

 

[archangelmorph]

It is a higher quality and doesn't have the vomit taste which makes a big difference. It is the same in that it is the most popular in their respective countries and cheap.

Its nasty and barely grades as chocolate anymore because of how little cocoa mass they put in there, after slowly weeding it out over the years due to rising trade price of cocoa.

Lindt is probably the best high street grade of chocolate but even that crap is scratching the surface.

If you're looking for real chocolate you have to go Artisan:

Good
Artisan Du Chocolat
Charbonnel et Walker
Godiva
Leonidas


Better
Valrhona
Michel Cluizel
Amedei
Booja Booja


Best
Paul A Young (100% fresh - i.e. no preservatives and it SHOWS)

 

[Shadax the wizard]

Next time you guys go to IKEA, you get yourselves one of these and never look back:

No where near as good as:

Finland got you both beat. Observe:

 

[Jill Sandwich]

I'm having massive déjà vu, I think we have a chocolate snob thread every 6 months.

 

[AgeEighty]

Hershey's was probably pretty good chocolate when it was first created. But like most American food brands that have been around for a long time and turned into huge corporations, the recipes were bastardized over time to save money.

Another possibility is that Hershey's was never that good, but like Coca-Cola they came out ahead of their competitors during World War II sugar rationing thanks to clever business deals.

 

[Enkidu]

No where near as good as:

They both started out based on the exact same recipe, and I believe that these days they are actually literally the same chocolate that's simply molded differently.