Hershey's fake chocolate

[Markbnj]

Hershey's tastes like chalk. Honestly, I don't know how they stay in business.

Then chalk has gotten way tastier since I was a kid.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Hershey's tastes like chalk. Honestly, I don't know how they stay in business.

I think that's your inability to taste sweetness.

 

[ControlD]

Hershey's tastes like chalk. Honestly, I don't know how they stay in business.

What? Chalk? You might want to get that checked out.

 

[Markbnj]

What? Chalk? You might want to get that checked out.

Agreed. Does anything else taste like chalk? Chicken? Wine? Calcium carbonate?

 

[Sonikku]

To tell the truth, I've never actually tasted chalk. So I don't actually have a point of reference with which to draw a comparison.

But basically I mean it tastes bad.

 

[Markbnj]

To tell the truth, I've never actually tasted chalk. So I don't actually have a point of reference with which to draw a comparison.

But basically I mean it tastes bad.

I ate a few bits when I was a kid. It tastes like chalk.

If you tried that today, of course, it would taste like dry-erase marker fluid.

 

[ControlD]

To tell the truth, I've never actually tasted chalk. So I don't actually have a point of reference with which to draw a comparison.

But basically I mean it tastes bad.

Well, if you do decide to try chalk make sure you get the European stuff. I hear it is much more appealing to the refined pallet than the American dreck we are used to.

 

[monkeydelmagico]

Well, if you do decide to try chalk make sure you get the European stuff. I hear it is much more appealing to the refined pallet than the American dreck we are used to.

Elmers is way better that the double dog poop german kinder glue

 

[ControlD]

Elmers is way better that the double dog poop german kinder glue

LMAO.

This thread has given me way more joy than I ever could have expected.

 

[Linflas]

You guys are full of shit. Try making some decent Smores over the campfire with your fancy European chocolate. Epic failure.

Ever rode a roller coaster at Ghirardelli Park? Didn't think so.

Remember those Toblerone bars the GIs looked forward to getting in their ration packs? Neither does anyone else.

Hershey's +3, everything else -infinity.

It was a hell of a lot more fun to visit when you could go tour the working factory and it wasn't a theme park.

 

[ControlD]

It was a hell of a lot more fun to visit when you could go tour the working factory and it wasn't a theme park.

Yeah, we went there last year and I was a little disappointed to find out the real factory was some new state of the art complex outside of town.

The theme park part of it was OK with us (that's why we went), the worst part was all of the New Jersey people vacationing there. I actually saw a Hollywood style brawl in the hotel one morning erupt over a waffle maker. The whole time in Hershey was sort of a mix of The Sopranos and Jersey Shore.

(I'm sure Jersey has plenty of nice people. The just don't happen to vacation in Hershey)

 

[bradley]

Every chocolate bereft of cocoa butter with cheap vegetable oil substitutes tastes more like chocolate wax to me. In fact, Hershey's does add carnauba wax to their chocolate.

Some manufacturers attempted to keep a small fraction of cocoa butter inside their ingredients list to constitute still being called 'milk chocolate,' instead of 'chocolate candy' or worse 'chocolate flavored.'

However since the FDA started cracking down on that deceptive practice, several manufacturers have lost that pretense and now label their products '100% cocoa' without adding any actual cocoa butter. For instance, Keebler cookies taste like wax coated wood pulp with 0% cocoa butter.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Every chocolate bereft of cocoa butter with cheap vegetable oil substitutes tastes more like chocolate wax to me. In fact, Hershey's does add carnauba wax to their chocolate.

Some manufacturers attempted to keep a small fraction of cocoa butter inside their ingredients list to constitute still being called 'milk chocolate,' instead of 'chocolate candy' or worse 'chocolate flavored.'

However since the FDA started cracking down on that deceptive practice, several manufacturers have lost that pretense and now label their products '100% cocoa' without adding any actual cocoa butter. For instance, Keebler cookies taste like wax coated wood pulp with 0% cocoa butter.

Hershey's bars that say that they are Chocolate and not Chocolaty do not contain cocoa alternatives. It's against the law.

 

[bradley]

Hershey's bars that say that they are Chocolate and not Chocolaty do not contain cocoa alternatives. It's against the law.

The issue of false advertising in food manufacturing is way underreported and far too few consumers actually read the labels.

Actually, I haven't eaten Hershey's products since they eliminated cocoa butter more than a decade ago. However here's the current ingredient list for their pure chocolate: MILK CHOCOLATE (SUGAR; MILK; CHOCOLATE; COCOA BUTTER; LACTOSE; MILK FAT;SOY LECITHIN;PGPR, EMULSIFIER; VANILLIN, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR.) Sales at Hershey's must have been way down to go back to cocoa butter in this economy. The artificial flavor and pgpr part still keeps me from buying their products, but the label looks fairly acceptable: especially no dyes, corn syrup or waxes.

In addition, due to cost cutting measures, manufactures go through more product reformulations than ever. So it's really hard to keep track for both consumers and regulatory agencies.

Hershey's Kisses ingredients list:
2014: milk chocolate (sugar; milk chocolate; cocoa butter; lactose; milk fat; soy lecithin; vanillin, artificial flavor)

2008: Sugar, vegetable oil (palm, shea, sunflower and/or safflower oil), chocolate, nonfat milk, whey, cocoa butter, milk fat, gum arabic, soy lecithin, artificial colors (red 40, yellow 5, blue 2, blue 1, yellow 6), corn syrup, resinous glaze, salt, carnauba wax, pgpr and vanillin.

Pre-2008: Milk chocolate (sugar, cocoa butter, chocolate, nonfat milk, milk fat, lactose, soy lecithin, PGPR & artificial flavors), sugar, red 40, yellow 5, yellow 6, blue 1 & carnauba wax.

 

[esquared]

At least its not described as tasting chocolatey .

Remember what George carlin said about something tasting chocolatey.

'"Any time marketers add a 'y' to the name of a food, you can be sure they're yanking your schwantz. 'Real chocolatey goodness.' Translation? No fuckin' chocolate! "

 

[lxskllr]

I made a thread last year or so about shitty Hershey chocolate. I hadn't had it in awhile, and was given a big ass box as a gift. Terrible... It was *much* worse than I remembered, but I hadn't had it in over ten years. They used to make a competent product. Not industry leading by any stretch, but competent. Now... I like the comparison someone made to bottom end Easter candy. That's exactly what it tastes like. Waxy, shitty mouth feel, and it takes a healthy imagination to taste chocolate :^S

 

[feralkid]

You guys are full of shit. Try making some decent Smores over the campfire with your fancy European chocolate. Epic failure.

Ever rode a roller coaster at Ghirardelli Park? Didn't think so.

Remember those Toblerone bars the GIs looked forward to getting in their ration packs? Neither does anyone else.

Hershey's +3, everything else -infinity.

Hey kid, you want a Hershey bar?

 

[CZroe]

Hey kid, you want a Hershey bar?

Me too. Ya got one?!

Love that movie.

 

[uclaLabrat]

I'm saying it's chocolate, not "chocolate flavored product," or whatever. I think in the second para I made it pretty clear that I think fine European chocolate is superior. But then there are mass market European chocolates that aren't much better than Hershey, I suppose.

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

Companies like Hershey tend to substitute cocoa butter with cheaper vegetable oils in order to make chocolate. You end up with chocolate flavored wax in some cases. It changes the melting point and other characteristics like shelf life. Not sure how much they do it with their bars, since according to the wiki site you legally have to use 100% cocoa butter in the US to call it chocolate.

 

[master_shake_]

i'm reminded of this.

http://youtu.be/nLRQvK2-iqQ?t=2m38s