American chocolate

[boing!]

I just ate a Hershey's Special Dark chocolate that someone at work brought back from a holiday. It was a bit like cooking chocolate really, not very nice. Slightly more choclate flavoured than normal Hershey's but still had the weird texture.

 

[seeformiles]

I'm just amazed that the US (though pretty good at making everything else) can't make decent chocolate. I remember our US exchange students would always stock up on Cadbury's Flake bars to send/take home.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

americans generally dislike dark chocolate cause they're not used to it

I love dark chocolate, but I grew up eating unsweetened baking chocolate straight out of the packet.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

I'm just amazed that the US (though pretty good at making everything else) can't make decent chocolate. I remember our US exchange students would always stock up on Cadbury's Flake bars to send/take home.

We make excellent chocolate. Its the mass produced/cheaply produced stuff that sucks. You get what you pay for. Same goes for cheese and beer. Stay away from the mass manufacturers and you'll be better off.

 

[TopCat]

With you on that - had one this afternoon. Yum

Otherwise American chocolate tastes like my cat's bottom - not that I rim him very day mind.

 

[TopCat]

Ewwwww.......what is 'family milk'?

Milk your sister makes just for you.

 

[seeformiles]

We make excellent chocolate. Its the mass produced/cheaply produced stuff that sucks. You get what you pay for. Same goes for cheese and beer. Stay away from the mass manufacturers and you'll be better off.

Fair enough - but I'd still argue our mass produced stuff still tastes better than your mass produced stuff!

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Fair enough - but I'd still argue our mass produced stuff still tastes better than your mass produced stuff!

I'm sure it does.

 

[rutabowa]

Ever had a Mars Bar, or a Snickers Bar?

are they american? well i never. they taste alright.

 

[baldrick]

Urban on Hersheys:

I just ate a bar of Hershleys which someone from the office bought back from her holiday to New York. In fact, it tasted like sick.

Hersheys is made of plastecine, fact

Hershey's tastes like the milk has gone off.

Hershey's is surprisingly rank.

I tried a Hershey bar last week and completely concurr that it has an aftertaste exactly like sick.

I agree. Hersheys is revolting, it seems like 50% wax.

I concur. It's vile stuff. And yet whenever work colleagues go to the USA on holiday or something, they always bring back Reese's peanut butter cups (which last about 5 seconds) and Hershey bars.

WHY????

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Fair enough - but I'd still argue our mass produced stuff still tastes better than your mass produced stuff!

Apart from Yorkies.
Yorkies are fucking horrible by anyone's standards.

 

[chegrimandi]

someone bought in some hershey's kiss chocolates into work the other day - I had one - it tasted of fucking plastic cheese.

 

[jontz01]

peanut butter on toast is win, peanut butter with chocolate is for sickos

Peanut butter + chocolate spread on toast = Win Cubed.

 

[DotCommunist]

Apart from Yorkies.
Yorkies are fucking horrible by anyone's standards.

well its not for girls

 

[Structaural]

Chocolate traditionally produced in the UK for British consumers (and even moreso in the US for US consumers) is different from chocolate produced in most of Europe and is generally made with more milk and less cocoa. For decades UK and US manufacturers have also used small to moderate amounts of vegetable fats other than cocoa butter in their chocolate. In the US, even more vegetable oil and less cocoa butter is used. Essentially making a three tiered gradation of chocolate quality viz lowest - US, medium - UK and highest quality in the EU.

Since 2003 the EU allows the UK to label its milk chocolate as such in the UK, but it must be labelled as 'family milk chocolate' when marketed elsewhere in the EU.

My country, Australia, has historically followed the recipes of the UK but have tended to produce cheaper chocolate by trending to the US recipes in recent times.

It's that replacement of cocoa butter with vegetable lard that really makes the big difference IMO. I can't eat english chocolate anymore after living in Holland for a few years, unless it's a Double Decker

 

[spanglechick]

are they american? well i never. they taste alright.

american versions of mars and snickers taste different because the chocolate coverings are different.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

well its not for girls

touche dear boy touche!

 

[rutabowa]

american versions of mars and snickers taste different because the chocolate coverings are different.

ha, i knew it, so american chocolate really is just nasty.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

We make excellent chocolate. Its the mass produced/cheaply produced stuff that sucks. You get what you pay for. Same goes for cheese and beer. Stay away from the mass manufacturers and you'll be better off.

I've had good american chocolate, some really good cheese in Wisconsin, but your beer: still a work in progress.

Truth be told, I've had a couple of good american beers, but for a nation that size, with so many beer bellies evident, it should be the valhalla of beer making.

 

[Detroit City]

but your beer: still a work in progress.

we're working on that and the beer itself and the choices are all getting better everyday....thanks to micro-breweries.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

american versions of mars and snickers taste different because the chocolate coverings are different.

I doubt it. Mars chocolate is nothing at all like Hershey chocolate. It's like real chocolate; also, the US and Canadian Mars bars are exactly the same.

 

[skyscraper101]

I think I've still got a massive bag of american sweets my mate gave me when I was out there. I couldn't finish them.

What them americans need, is Jaffa Cakes

 

[dilute micro]

we're working on that and the beer itself and the choices are all getting better everyday....thanks to micro-breweries.

Well there's a problem that won't be fixed. If Americans aren't going to go for dark chocolate they're not going back to the dark beers. The change began back in the mid 1800's. Now look what. Who can take a beer seriously if it's made of rice? If American beer has less alcohol and to get a good buzz you have to drink more of it, then it helps if the beer is lighter and less filling. There's no way to get it back on track.

 

[dilute micro]

I doubt it. Mars chocolate is nothing at all like Hershey chocolate. It's like real chocolate; also, the US and Canadian Mars bars are exactly the same.

I thought I saw once that Hershey's actually does spoil the milk before it is used to make their signature milk chocolate.

 

[selamlar]

My favorite american chocolate is probably reeses nutrageous with, of course, an honourable mention for reeses cups.

However, there are also those pecan/caramel/chocolate turtle thingies. Get the feeling they may be canadian, though.

 

[rutabowa]

If American beer has less alcohol and to get a good buzz you have to drink more of it, then it helps if the beer is lighter and less filling. There's no way to get it back on track.

i found that a bit of a myth in new york anyway. everyone was saying (oh your english beer is so much stronger than this Stella" and i was like "er no Stella is called a strong beer in england".

 

[Brainaddict]

European chocolate: great
British chocolate: okay
US chocolate: shitsludge

Conclusion: neo-liberalism creates bad chocolate

 

[Reno]

Having grown up with Swiss and German chocolate I don't particularely like American or British chocolate. Both taste artificial in comparison.

 

[D]

I don't eat much chocolate, but there is, of course, plenty of tasty, 70% cocoa varieties to be found in various posh/organic vendors around the US. But for your average airport/gas station fix, I imagine things are pretty limited.

Of course Hershey's is rank (but, really, I don't think it's so bad - it's what I grew up recognizing as chocolate).

 

[Brainaddict]

Of course Hershey's is rank (but, really, I don't think it's so bad - it's what I grew up recognizing as chocolate).

People love cabbage soup if they were brought up with it. Doesn't make it good or right