Can someone explain this phenomenon to me? I've seen it repeated everywhere online, and the word vomit is always used to describe the taste. Not that it tastes bad, not that it's inferior, just that it has the taste of vomit.
I've had low grade and high grade chocolate from American companies. I've had imported chocolates from the UK, France, Switzerland, Germany, etc. I've traveled to a few countries around Europe and bought chocolate from stores and restaurants there myself. Although I'll admit European chocolate is for the most part noticeably better than the majority of chocolate commonly found in the US, after having tasted it I didn't go back to the US and think our chocolate tastes like vomit. Is this like a cilantro gene sort of situation, where some people have a genetic reaction to some ingredient used in American chocolate that makes it taste like puke?
It's just Hershey's people think all we eat is Hershey's
It's a WWII thing, too
Euro in America here. Like says: it's not all of it. Just Hershey's. And even then, it's specifically just the milk chocolate bars and kisses. Reese's and other Hershey owned brands taste fine and Hershey's dark is decent enough but the milk chocolate does taste like literal vomit.
We like Mars stuff in Euroland to varying degrees.
The only Americhocolate I truly hate is Godiva. It's a cheap, shitty chocolate with an expensive chocolate's pricetag and it can fuck right off
Bong here and yeah this anon basically nailed it
It's funny because I'm French and my grandmother was a teenager when France was liberated, and she actually really loves Hershey's because it was the first chocolate she'd had in years
All the GIs had Hershey's and got laid like crazy because of it
I think a lot of dudes all across Europe had grandpas and great-grandpas that got ghosted because of American GIs with bitter, but ship-stable chocolate and dry-ass cigarettes
There's tons of great chocolate in America check out these guys they sent some to space:
https://wolfschocolate.com/our-history/
>women letting a random man bang them for some chocolate
Ya know, things really haven't changed much lol. Lmao, even.
The vomit thing comes from 2 things, there's a very sharp aftertaste that tastes like stomach bile and there's an astringency that lingers on the throat, similar to throwing up really hard. There's like this stickiness on the throat, it gets into your sinuses it's just fucking weird.
It's not the same. Hershey's has noticeably degraded, in the last forty years and I don't just mean the little tricks that they pull, to decrease the volume of a chocolate bar, while keeping the same basic outer dimensions. It has a horrible, flat, waxy quality that wasn't there before. Probably some additive to keep fat blooms off the surface. Even years ago, however, it didn't compare to a chocolate maker like Wilbur.
>horrible, flat, waxy quality that wasn't there before
And here I thought the taste change was just my taste buds maturating. I mean, I still think it sucks now that I'm older, but it's nice to know I'm not imagining things.
*maturing
Hershey's is pretty acidic, so Europeans think it tastes like vomit.
It has butyric acid which is one of the flavorants of vomit
Hersheys is fucking great
Meant to reply to
Hersheys has better chocolate than the hersheys bar, like the symphony bar.
Actually hershey had no idea how to make chocolate he just wanted to bring it to america via american assembly line fashion so he invested in chemists to create a mass producible factory chocolate using some sort of acid process idk.
Antiamerican hate is a israeli scheme to further socialism, nonamericans are ironically all good goys and real men are only found in america, even the european right is socialist it is really sad how destroyed they are intellectually.
>Antiamerican hate
>israeli
Why would israelites want people to hate their home country, Mrs Shekelstein?
For starters because real men are only found in america and everyone else is socialist
>israelites are real men
Is that so, Moshe?
You must be proud.
Your estrogen is showing noguns cuck
>she says, hebraicly
it's a preservative for american chocolate so they can ship it far
Hershey's milk chocolate has butyric acid. It's not really in any other chocolate. Some people might be more sensitive to it than others. It's also in parmesan cheese and some people dislike it for that.
+1
I'm sensitive to butyric acid and boar taint.
>It's not really in any other chocolate.
any chocolate with milk contains some amount of butyric acid
Hershey's specifically uses a unique manufacturing process that results in a higher than average concentration of butyric acid in the final product. All milk chocolate has some trace amounts of butyric acid in it, but the larger amounts in Hershey's gives it a slightly tangy taste. Butyric acid also has a distinct smell, and is more commonly associated with cheeses like parmesan and feta, and vomit that includes partially digested dairy.
>euros eat vomit and know the taste of it
You've a decent idea of what something tastes like if you ever smell it brah. Ohfuck I'm taking the bait.
>anon has never vomited
>It is found in animal fat and plant oils, bovine milk, breast milk, butter, parmesan cheese, body odor, vomit, and as a product of anaerobic fermentation
>breast milk
Don't mind me Euros, just suckin on some mommy milk chocolate
I eat 100% chocolate so I don't know what you're talking about op.
Hershey's has spoiled (heh) American's chocolate image, absolute dogshit chocolate. Even the other supermarket bullshit like snickers and milky way are far better; See's Candy is the ultimate chocolate chain in America
Butyric acid.
Same component in certain cheeses
It's an acquired taste you philistine!
Hershey's smells like genuine shit.
The funny part is that if the situation was reversed and euros had the puke chocolate, everyone would complain about how the american palate is too childish to appreciate the complex flavors in "real chocolates"
It's specifically Hershey's milk chocolate, but Hershey's also makes other things like Reese's, Kit Kat, Almond Joy, Whoppers, Milk Duds, Heath, etc. so it's all the same recipe. Their dark chocolate is good, but it's harder to find at the super market because kids don't like dark chocolate. I'm American but I don't really like Hershey's milk chocolate either. The thin dark chocolate Reese's cups are god-tier though.
Half of the reason is that Hershey's produces their chocolate differently than how yuro companies do it (and always has since the company started) and as a result contains more butyric acid, which occurs naturally in milk products when going through lipolysis.
The other half is a combination of a Daily Mail article stating that US chocolate tastes like vomit and that yuropoors are always desperate to dunk on Americans. This it has become part of the yuropoor training manual for low effort bantz with Americans alongside "free" healthcare, gun violence, blacks and 9/11.
too many chemicals and preservatives no actual butter or real sugar just high-fructose crap syrup. hell really sugar is better then this cheap out crap. a European Coca-Cola is way better then American. the company are cheap asses and are pushing this fake crap on us. most Americans stick to one kind of brand. and if you actually care you go to a local place.
>too many chemicals and preservatives no actual butter or real sugar just high-fructose crap syrup.
what did Nigel mean by this?
he didn't know about the hersheys being more acidic and "vomit like" in taste because of "the ancient chocolatier processes being used from before mr. chocolate invented actually good shelf stable milk chocolate" thing. just like op apparently.
What's PGPR?
An emulsifier approved for use in food by the EU.
Nifty, but I was more asking what it stood for. I'm gonna go look it up
Bong here, the onl ytrue american chocolate i've tried is hersheys. It genuinely tasted like fucking cardboard.
Europoor psyop and cope
i think its some sort of sulfur fart type taste they are describing kinda like when you open a bag of potatoe chips or cheesy crsips ,it smells like fart sulfur vomit maybe thats it
Half the milk chocolates you can find at the supermarket in America are made by Hershey's, which does indeed taste gross. The other half are made by Mars, which is fine. Hershey's dark chocolate is good though.
Mars doesn't taste fine. At all.
I don't really care for milk chocolate anyway, but Mars is better than Hershey's.
>be kid me in school
>in math class for Valentine’s we’re going to do a survey on people’s favorite type of chocolate and do statistics on it
>Everyone gets a sample of each type chocolate and rates it
>I’m the only person in the room to rate Dove as my favorite
>Kids make fun of me for liking “girl’s chocolate”
What does that even mean?
Dove is good though. Those kids were just homosexuals.
Never understood this meme. Sounds like something a homosexual would say.
I would say your whole post sounds like something a homosexual would say but women can't be homosexuals so I guess you're safe, Sally.
lol seething.
>she said, womanly
It's because dark chocolate or 70% cacao is the best kind of chocolate but they eat hersheys cheap skim milk chocolate and decided it's the same thing. It's not chocolate at that point it's solidified milk