Why is American chocolate so disgusting?

March 2024 · 9 minute read

It tastes like that, by the way, because that’s roughly what it is. American chocolate (I’m talking about the non-fancy stuff) has a lot more sugar and a lot less cocoa than its European counterparts. Some producers also allegedly put their milk through a process called controlled lipolysis which produces butyric acid. What’s that when it’s at home? It’s something that’s found in vomit. God knows what else Americans get up to in their chocolate factories. A lawsuit recently filed in New York alleges that Hershey, which has the licence to produce Cadbury products in the US, “fails to disclose” that some of its chocolate products “contain unsafe levels of lead and cadmium”.

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by Anonymousreply 40January 11, 2023 4:13 AM

At this point who cares- Many brands of chocolate 🍫 have high levels of lead and cadmium in them including some European brands.

by Anonymousreply 1January 8, 2023 2:28 PM

American chocolate is just way too sugary and tastes like wax

by Anonymousreply 2January 8, 2023 2:38 PM

I don’t understand why Cadbury in England tastes way better than the same thing in the US.

Why mess with the formula?

by Anonymousreply 3January 8, 2023 2:39 PM

American chocolate tastes like capitalism

by Anonymousreply 4January 8, 2023 2:41 PM

Americans are very good with cakes and cookies.

by Anonymousreply 5January 8, 2023 2:49 PM

Like the Brits do it any better

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by Anonymousreply 6January 8, 2023 3:00 PM

Just came from the ice thread, I guess there's someone on here posting all the cliches about Americans and food this morning? How fun.

by Anonymousreply 7January 8, 2023 3:03 PM

OP, America does not have a monopoly on crap chocolate. And the writer of the article at OP sounds like an old man yelling at a cloud.

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by Anonymousreply 8January 8, 2023 3:18 PM

OP eats only cheap, bad American chocolate (despite scores of finer options) and then declares all American chocolate disgusting.

Hey click troll cunt. Eat shit.

by Anonymousreply 9January 8, 2023 3:21 PM

Seems like we're having an anti-American loon on a rampage.

by Anonymousreply 10January 8, 2023 3:21 PM

[Quote] guess there's someone on here posting all the cliches about Americans and food this morning?

Not a cliche. Mass marketed American chocolate is truly terrible. Like everything else in America, sugar is substituted for the real ingredients

by Anonymousreply 11January 8, 2023 3:24 PM

I like English chocolate but European chocolate is crap AFAIC. I don’t know why it has such a great reputation. I’d actually rather have Hersheys.

by Anonymousreply 13January 8, 2023 3:33 PM

R13 English chocolate is European chocolate since England is part of Europe. And what European chocolate? There are dozens of counties in Europe, and each has a different chocolate.

by Anonymousreply 15January 8, 2023 3:44 PM

I hadn’t eaten a Reese’s peanut butter cup in over 20 years.

Somebody gave one to me in the office and when I ate it, I couldn’t believe how different it tasted. Awful. Pure sugary mess

by Anonymousreply 16January 8, 2023 3:45 PM

Is Snickers American? It's delicious. If it wouldn't make me fat I would eat few bars every day.

by Anonymousreply 17January 8, 2023 3:46 PM

Cadbury and Quality Street are NOT European they are ENGLISH and why are you such control freaks who care so much about other’s’ preferences anyway? What’s it to you? Try that Belgian crap in the fancy box from the grocery store. Yuck.

by Anonymousreply 18January 8, 2023 3:54 PM

Since the 80's and the rise of the MBAs and using excel sheet to squeeze out the most money out of every enterprise, there's been a cheapening of almost all consumer products - food, clothes, shoes, appliances, etc.

I can't remember if American chocolate tasted better when I was younger, but it probably did.

But this is just ANOTHER fucking article from the Brits about American differences they just can't let go. It's an obsession. Using the word soccer, quality of chocolate, the marketing term of "world series" for baseball, pronouncing "herbs" without the h, lack of trains, and the old trope about % of Americans without passports.

Over and over and over so they can feel superior. There's this finger-wagging aspect of British culture that is so engrained and tiring. Nobody cares. And there are all good reasons for the items that they always bring up - usually it's the Brits who changed, not us. When you tell them that - they don't care - they just keep repeating the same shit over and over and over.

Rinse, lather, and repeat OVER AND FUCKING OVER. I don't see them doing the same to Canadians or Australians, who are guilty of 90% of the same items they try to convict Americans over.

by Anonymousreply 19January 8, 2023 4:08 PM

Real chocolate has a mildly bitter taste. For me, that’s what’s delicious about chocolate.

American companies try desperately to cover that up with tons and tons of sugar

by Anonymousreply 20January 8, 2023 4:09 PM

[Quote] don't see them doing the same to Canadians or Australians, who are guilty of 90% of the same items they try to convict Americans over.

No one cares about Canadians or Australians

by Anonymousreply 21January 8, 2023 4:10 PM

[quote]Mass marketed American chocolate is truly terrible.

But there are plenty of places to buy non mass marketed chocolate.

by Anonymousreply 22January 8, 2023 4:12 PM

You can buy plenty of imported brands like Milka, Ritter, Godiva, Lindt, etc. Isn't that the whole point of living in America - having options? Nobody is forcing Hershey bars down your throat.

by Anonymousreply 23January 8, 2023 4:13 PM

And here she is - living in New York - a 'brand strategist' - writing conflicting articles as click bait.

No doubt she's a bright, educated woman - but c'mon.

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by Anonymousreply 24January 8, 2023 4:14 PM

R23, many of those change formulas for the American market

by Anonymousreply 25January 8, 2023 4:15 PM

I know Im in a tiny minority but I think chocolate is overrated as a whole. I've had chocolate from all over the world and I while like it it's not something I go out of my way for.

I notice that women seem to go nuts over chocolate too and that's why American corps add more sugar to keep them hooked. They target women in their ads, its always a woman in those commercials eating those chocolates or Godiva bars like they are having an orgasm.

by Anonymousreply 26January 8, 2023 4:18 PM

Have you never tried Milka r13??

by Anonymousreply 27January 8, 2023 4:19 PM

[quote] [R13] English chocolate is European chocolate since England is part of Europe

Not anymore 😈

by Anonymousreply 28January 8, 2023 4:21 PM

The funny thing about this is the way they consistently compare Hershey’s to the highest quality European chocolate.

Hershey’s is a tiny snack you can buy on the go for a dollar. It’s not meant to be a culinary experience. It’s just a little sweet you can pop in your mouth on the bus.

By the way, they do sell chocolate like that in Europe as well. I had some choco in Italy a few years back that was little different from hersheys.

by Anonymousreply 29January 8, 2023 4:27 PM

[quote]I can't remember if American chocolate tasted better when I was younger, but it probably did.

R19, it did -- and the reason I know is because my mother worked at the Hershey Chocolate Factory in Hershey, PA. In fact, my mother's mother and my mother's grandfather worked there before her.

BTW, Hershey Chocolate tore down the original factory in Hershey and moved much of its manufacturing to Mexico some years ago, so that might not count as "American chocolate." Chocolate made for the American market is more like it. Reese's and Hershey Kisses, however, are still made in Hershey, PA.

by Anonymousreply 30January 8, 2023 4:39 PM

Of course the mass produced big brands are crap. But go to any local Whole Foods and you will find a wide variety of real chocolates, it's not hard to find.

by Anonymousreply 31January 8, 2023 4:41 PM

[quote] Cadbury and Quality Street are NOT European they are ENGLISH

Oh, dear.

by Anonymousreply 32January 8, 2023 4:45 PM

This writer sounds like one of those Brits who has to announce that they're British and they do things the proper way at every chance they get.

Throw in some sideswipes, aggressive language, and insults "oh I was just TAKING THE PISS - God, Americans are sooo SENSITIVE"

Unfortunately, this is more of the rule than an exception for Brits in the US.

by Anonymousreply 33January 8, 2023 4:46 PM

I’m still a few pounds away from eating sweets, but Li-Lac chocolate is a crazy good brand sourced out of New York.

by Anonymousreply 34January 8, 2023 5:57 PM

R18 For the millionth time, England is in Europe, so if they are English, they are European. That's like saying Honda or Sony aren't Asian, they are Japanese.

by Anonymousreply 35January 8, 2023 6:02 PM

R28 Doesn't know the difference between Europe and European Union.

by Anonymousreply 36January 8, 2023 6:02 PM

old YouTube classic of the genre

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by Anonymousreply 37January 8, 2023 6:07 PM

R37 - and that's another worn-out example. Asking questions to Americans, editing out those who get it right, and then saying - see how dumb they are!

They've done the same line of questioning with everyday Brits and Europeans and you get the same results, but no one goes on and on like that.

We've got a LOT of dumbasses in the States, that's no question. But we're not all dumb. There is a provincialism and limited view to only things US that is inherent in our culture. And there are reasons for that - we're a huge country and we're pretty much isolated. Canada is very similar to the US - much more so than UK would be with France, or Norway or other close countries.

by Anonymousreply 38January 8, 2023 6:19 PM

R16- Try Trader Joe’s Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups. They are much better than Reece’s.

by Anonymousreply 39January 8, 2023 6:22 PM

So sick of you chocolate snobs. It’s CANDY. Eat what you like. Don’t eat what you don’t like. It’s freaking junk food. It’s not going to make you look classy if it’s EUROPEAN.

by Anonymousreply 40January 11, 2023 4:13 AM

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