In order to stabilize the milk they use in the milk chocolate bars and make them last longer on the shelf, they treat it with a process that converts some of the milk fats into butyric acid. That's the vomit flavor. I'm sorry to report that it has probably always tasted that way, you just didn't notice. They've been using the same process since the early 20th century.

It was popularised after world war 2, iirc, so it's been the way it is for a good while.

This sounds like a metaphor for American politics

It tastes like vomit because Hershey chocolate contains butyric acid, which is also found in vomit.

They started using a lot of palm oil and other ingredients to pad out the "chocolate". Why put chocolate in your chocolate

Its a race to the bottom, I guess we are used to it by now

They add an ingredient to make it taste like bile because that's the taste WW2 vets were accustomed to after eating chocolate rations that had gone bad. It's gross.

So this will probably still taste like vomit, it'll just be made with real cocoa again instead of palm oil.

Chocolate covered balls of peanut butter. https://preppykitchen.com/buckeyes/#recipe

The seed of state tree of america's favorite place... Ohio.

But also the confectionary of the same name is dope.