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    Re: Hersheys chocolate - a real American chocolate bar(not)

    Cadbury's in the US is made by Hershey. It's marketed as a 'premium' brand. It's horrifying.

    Drink Budweiser and pretend it's good beer...

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    Re: Hersheys chocolate - a real American chocolate bar(not)

    Cadbury's? Meh. British chocolate is mostly pretty bad too, although nowhere near the chemical plant outlet pipe concentrate that is Hersheys.

    What is sad is that you can get really good chocolate pretty cheap - Tesco do an 80p bar of 80% chocolate that is as good as any.

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    Re: Hersheys chocolate - a real American chocolate bar(not)

    Hershey's chocolate is abysmal, tastes like soap and sour milk to me. I seem to remember they use a lot of wax (of some variety) in the manufacture process.

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    Re: Hersheys chocolate - a real American chocolate bar(not)

    I know Cadbury's is hardly proper chocolate compared to the high % stuff but I do like it (and much better than the other mass produced stuff - galaxy) and it's a lot cheaper than the om nom nom stuff Hotel Chocolat makes (I really like their salted caramel stuff, but I think it costs more per gram that gold / cocaine).

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    Re: Hersheys chocolate - a real American chocolate bar(not)

    If you want decent, reasonably priced chocolate check out Morrison's 'signature' range. It's typically £1.29 for a 100g bar, but is sometimes on offer at 2 bars for £2. They used to have an awesome milk chocolate with flaked almonds variety but they seem to have discontinued it since the renewing the packaging, other fav is a dark (70?) with slightly chewy orange peel pieces, really good stuff - comparable to Green & Blacks

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    Re: Hersheys chocolate - a real American chocolate bar(not)

    Quote Originally Posted by TheAnimus View Post
    You can make american chocolate easily at home, take normal chocolate and mix in sawdust until finished.
    I liken it to dog chocolate, it has the same powdery texture.

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    Re: Hersheys chocolate - a real American chocolate bar(not)

    Hersheys chocolate is good. Not the plain bog standard milk / soya bar, but the special varieties.

    They had a cookies and cream bar out years ago and it is still one of my favourites, beaten only by Cadburies (recent) Oreo's version and there Marvelous Creations popping candy / jelly etc one.

    +1 for Reeces Cups though!

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    Re: Hersheys chocolate - a real American chocolate bar(not)

    Australian chocolate is better but not to UK standard, they mix in a fruit wax to stop it melting so quickly the taste/texture is quite different, but better than the American chocolate where it's a party in your mouth... and everyone has just thrown up
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    Re: Hersheys chocolate - a real American chocolate bar(not)

    Quote Originally Posted by CAT-THE-FIFTH View Post
    They are the same company,which makes me wonder whether those are made in China too.

    You realise they fly over the pacific from east Asia to the Americas right? Not across Europe.

    Quote Originally Posted by peterb View Post
    Cadbury's chocolate went the same way when it was bought out - substitute corn syrup for cane sugar and you have the authentic American taste.
    It's the sour milk not corn syrup. I don't think they use corn syrup here due to the very low import/manufacture limit we have on corn syrup in Europe (you can thank the huge sugar lobby for that one). Corn syrup is use a lot in America because it's cheap, but sugar is cheaper in Europe so our stuff is mostly sugar.

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    Re: Hersheys chocolate - a real American chocolate bar(not)

    Quote Originally Posted by Butcher View Post
    You realise they fly over the pacific from east Asia to the Americas right? Not across Europe.
    The Hersheys sold here is made in China. The Hersheys sold in the US is made in the Americas.

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    Re: Hersheys chocolate - a real American chocolate bar(not)

    Only ever tasted the 'real' American Hersheys when people bring it back from hols / work trips. And it tastes like ass. Does the Chinese Hersheys taste less like ass?

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    Re: Hersheys chocolate - a real American chocolate bar(not)

    The reason it tastes weird is due to the use of soured milk,which seems to be common in US chocolate. Historically dairies used to be enough distance from US chocolate factories for the fresh milk to start souring. By the time better milk transport had reached the US,most people had grown up with such chocolate and basically had gotten used to it.

    However,its just plain funny,that to save a few pennies,Hersheys would rather make the chocolate in China and ship it to Europe,instead of directly from the US,then mark it up because it is "American" !!

    BTW,I am not advocating that I find Hersheys the best chocolate in the world,it just makes me giggle that a real American icon is made in China and its food of all things,not your washing machine.

    Quote Originally Posted by wasabi View Post
    Only ever tasted the 'real' American Hersheys when people bring it back from hols / work trips. And it tastes like ass. Does the Chinese Hersheys taste less like ass?
    Its just hilarious that it needs to be shipped all the way from China just to save a few pennies(forgetting all the pollution,since ships are a major source of CO2 due to them burning the lowest grade crap ever) while we still get charged the old expensive price for US sweets,and the US is closer.

    I can even understand electronics,due to economies of scale and low labour costs,but frigging overpriced chocolate though?? Nope. Its not even some Chinese brand even.

    It reminds a few years ago,when I bought some frozen Cod(I think it was that),which said "caught in the Atlantic" then followed by "packed in China" FFS!!

    So it made two trips to Europe(or thereabouts). Utter fail.

    We get all these environment taxes hoisted on us(like for cars,etc) and yet it stupid penny pinching practices like that which contribute as much to pollution,and doubt companies get environmental taxes hoisted on them as a result.
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    Re: Hersheys chocolate - a real American chocolate bar(not)

    H o r r i f i c.

    First trip to the USA, first port of call: Atlanta airport. "Oh look, a Hershey's bar! I've heard of those, got to try one!"

    Bleugh!

    Bought a Snickers bar to kill the after taste.

    Same is true for American chocolate M&M's. The peanut M&M's are much better though.

    Also, best brand of commonly available US chocolate I ever had was Dove chocolate.

    In large part I put it down to the much higher sugar content. It appears to be the case that as you move West across the world, food sugar content increases.
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    Re: Hersheys chocolate - a real American chocolate bar(not)

    Quote Originally Posted by Galant View Post
    H o r r i f i c.

    First trip to the USA, first port of call: Atlanta airport. "Oh look, a Hershey's bar! I've heard of those, got to try one!"

    Bleugh!

    Bought a Snickers bar to kill the after taste.

    Same is true for American chocolate M&M's. The peanut M&M's are much better though.

    Also, best brand of commonly available US chocolate I ever had was Dove chocolate.

    In large part I put it down to the much higher sugar content. It appears to be the case that as you move West across the world, food sugar content increases.
    Dove is basically the American version of Galaxy chocolate.

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    Re: Hersheys chocolate - a real American chocolate bar(not)

    look for `the men that made us fat` on BBC - its all about WHY the USA went nuts of high fructose corn syrup , replacing beat sugar (which we have)

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    Re: Hersheys chocolate - a real American chocolate bar(not)

    Quote Originally Posted by HalloweenJack View Post
    look for `the men that made us fat` on BBC - its all about WHY the USA went nuts of high fructose corn syrup , replacing beat sugar (which we have)
    Interesting show, but there was way too much Michael Moore wannabe preachyness in it. If you don't want to get fat, don't eat so much. A lot of American food is simply crap (grits, most US soft cheese) and nothing to do with corn syrup.
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