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‘I took two bites and had to spit it out’: candy makers are phasing out real cocoa in chocolate (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 26 points 7 months ago (6 children)

I’m assuming you of course are aware, but that is a tasting note. As in hersheys will specifically call out that tasting note as intentional if you do a tasting tour. It explained why I only ever liked their special dark and hates their regular bar.

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    It's a tasting note, because the original Hershey's milk chocolate chemist accidentally spoiled the milk as part of his process.

    It took a decade or two to figure out what was wrong, but by then the American public was used to vomit tasting milk chocolate.

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    No. It's part of their process because it makes it more shelf-stable. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20231221-why-british-chocolate-tastes-the-way-it-does

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    That may be what it is now, but the original cause was spoil d milk. Because Hershey refused to use powdered milk, he had just bought a massive dairy farm and insisted on using fresh milk.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Accidentally? I thought he had a large batch of spoiled milk powder and was looking for a way to use it up.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago*

    Hershey doesn't use powdered milk. Hershey himself stubbornly insisted on the recipe using fresh milk because he had ignorantly bought up a bunch of cows before getting the recipe nailed down.

    And that's why American chocolate is bad, or so the legend goes.

    Source: I'm from Pennsylvania and have taken the Hershey factory tour many times since childhood.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    It was very word for me. Like with most American products that were in TV series, but weren't available in Europei was anxious to try them first time I went to the states.

    Mountain dew was amazing. Taco Bell was not all I imagine it to be, but Hershey's was just straight up disgusting.

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