Hershey's fake chocolate

[OutHouse]

There are 5 other countries way ahead of the US in regards to the best restaurants; http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...andscape-of-michelin-s-gold-star-winners.html

This link is a year old. I was not able to find a more recent link.

But, 736 (France) v. 162 (US),.. come on.

We've perfected deep fried garbage, but, that's about it.

Fuck french food, way over rated.

 

[ElFenix]

There are 5 other countries way ahead of the US in regards to the best restaurants; http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...andscape-of-michelin-s-gold-star-winners.html

This link is a year old. I was not able to find a more recent link.

But, 736 (France) v. 162 (US),.. come on.

We've perfected deep fried garbage, but, that's about it.

michelin gold stars weren't awarded in the US until 2005 and only then in NYC. now they've expanded that to SF and chicago (and one in vegas). they don't even go anywhere else. they canvass all of france but only go to a handful of spots in the US. guess which is going to get more stars?

your data point is garbage.

 

[Newell Steamer]

michelin gold stars weren't awarded in the US until 2005 and only then in NYC. now they've expanded that to SF and chicago (and one in vegas). they don't even go anywhere else. they canvass all of france but only go to a handful of spots in the US. guess which is going to get more stars?

your data point is garbage.

Japan says "Hello" at 729.

 

[MarkXIX]

Japan says "Hello" at 729.

Just further confirms my intention of visiting Japan sooner rather than later.

 

[Jeff7]

I thought it was called chocolate flavoured product or something like that. :hmm:

KT

I saw some frozen Reese's peanut butter cup things at the store the other day. The ingredient list made me suspicious when it had a section for "Chocolate-flavored coating."


That sounds like a bullshit cop-out sort of term to me.

 

[JM Aggie08]

wow. did you have aggro for breakfast?

I'll be damned if I sit by while some 2-bit SON OF A BITCH talks trash about Reese's.

God damn it.

 

[Excelsior]

Ritter Sport FTMFW!

So glad those are sold at Target now. I missed them for decades after I left Germany as a child.

I love me some Ritter Sport Dark Chocolate with Hazelnut bars. So damn good for $2 a piece.

 

[CZroe]

Hersheys is by far, the WORST "food" ever concocted.

They used sour milk - which is why it tasted, and still tastes like vomit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hershey_bar


The American 'palete' can be down right wretched.

EDIT: there isn't anything out there that notes/cites the sour milk, but I did see a documentary that called that out (Hershey was trying to 'refine' his chocolate's taste and decided to use rotting milk,..).

I saw this in a documentary too except they said it was an accident. He was trying to discover how European milk chocolate was made. His first successful process had a step that accidentally spoiled the milk. By the time they knew what was happening and developed a way around it, people already had a taste for it.

 

[BudAshes]

There are 5 other countries way ahead of the US in regards to the best restaurants; http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...andscape-of-michelin-s-gold-star-winners.html

This link is a year old. I was not able to find a more recent link.

But, 736 (France) v. 162 (US),.. come on.

We've perfected deep fried garbage, but, that's about it.

Good thing I live in California, not 'Merica.

 

[Maximilian]

Hershey's is godawful. How is it still a thing?

 

[Ruptga]

Hershey's is godawful. How is it still a thing?

Because 90% of everything is crap, including people.

 

[Berliner]

I love me some Ritter Sport Dark Chocolate with Hazelnut bars. So damn good for $2 a piece.

Ritter Sport is on sale in most of Germany now for 49 Eurocents.

But to be honest, there is much better German / Swiss / Belgian chocolate to have.

 

[BudAshes]

Ritter Sport is on sale in most of Germany now for 49 Eurocents.

But to be honest, there is much better German / Swiss / Belgian chocolate to have.

Not for a reasonable sum around here.

 

[Captante]

I'm betting at least half of all chocolate makers do something similar. It's all in your head.

No ... its all in my sense of smell/taste.

It's possible I don't like Hersheys for some reason other then the sour milk thing but whatever the reason I don't like Hersheys. Also I've never noticed the sour-milk smell in any other brand of chocolate.

 

[futurefields]

the only hershey product i like is magic shell,

 

[Kyle]

There's a good number of craft chocolate makers in the US that produce really good chocolate.. Lonohana, Patric, Rogue, Dick Taylor to name a few. Though you'll spend $10+ a bar.

Thank you...like saying American's can't brew good beer because Budweiser and Miller are shit. There's damn good beer in the US and damn good chocolate - but yeah, don't expect it from Hershey.

 

[Meghan54]

The FDA did do their job.

They made them put "Chocolate Flavored" on the labels.

Before that used to just say Chocolate.

Funny, looked at some Hershey's bars just a few minutes ago. NONE said "Chocolate Flavored" on the label, only milk chocolate.

Of course, you do see "chocolate flavored" on the squirt bottles of the Hershey's chocolate crap to be mixed in milk...maybe that's where you got that BS?

 

[Meghan54]

the only hershey product i like is magic shell,

Why is no one surprised?

 

[DCal430]

Actually the US has some of the most strict laws on what can be called chocolate.

 

[DCal430]

Which reminds me, the Toblerones are in season right now.

When my grandma used to visit England, she'd always bring me back these 1kg Cadbury Dairy Milk bars. That's a lotta chocolate, and so good.

What the English call chocolate, can't be sold as chocolate in U.S because it isn't. It is am abomination, and is like chocolate flavored product. Cadbury milk bars from the UK have a strange texture to them due to the cheap vegetable fats they fill it with. It is an abomination.

 

[DCal430]

Souring milk is a legit method and used in a lot of cooking techniques, especially in breads and cakes, and the French use it all the time in pastry baking.



I'm betting at least half of all chocolate makers do something similar. It's all in your head.



American and European chocolate is marketed differently. Americans LOVE chocolate, and it's mass marketed, mass produced, and is made as cheaply as possible. Therefore, you have low cocoa butter content and high sugar content, making it sweet and acidic.

European chocolate has a higher cocoa butter content and less sugar, making it more creamy tasting. However, it's also a lot more expensive and is positioned as a luxury treat.

So, it's cheap and plentiful vs. uncommon and expensive.

UK Chocolate is actually made with even cheaper ingredients than American chocolate. UK is low cocoa butter, high cheap palm oil and such, and tons of sugar. UK Chocolate manufactures replace the higher costing cocoa butter with cheaper vegetable fats.

 

[pcgeek11]

Lots of prima donna in this thread.

More like a bunch of Cona Sewers.

 

[Vaux]

Huh? WTF is wrong with you guys? Hershey's is awesome.

This is the first I have ever heard of someone not liking Hershey's.

 

[BoomerD]

I was never a fan of Hershey's products, but when they closed some of their US plants and moved production to Mexico, we stopped buying ALL Hershey products.

The Great Un-American Chocolate Bar.

 

[Captante]

Lots of prima donna in this thread.

More like a bunch of Cona Sewers.

lol