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atlashoth t1_jdxi1jr wrote

I enjoy Hersheys, reeses moreso these days. I don't get the whole vomit tasting chocolate people say it has. Feels like something people say to feel cool.

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ResidentBackground35 t1_jdxjslt wrote

European chocolate tastes very different, it just depends on what you ate when you were a kid

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Prometheus_303 t1_je2pshp wrote

I forget the name off hand, but its some preservative that gets added to US chocolate & not (usually) to European chocolates that gives ours its more vomit like taste.

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ResidentBackground35 t1_je55pum wrote

Butyric acid, when Milton Hershey started producing chocolate his process overheated the milk causing it to undergo lipolysis.

At the time milk chocolate was rare in the US so he didn't notice that the flavor was slightly off. After Hershey's won several contracts for rations during WW2 (and I want to say WW1 as well) which caused the slightly acidic version of his chocolate to become popular.

Thus people either grew up with Hershey's chocolate (with a slightly acidic taste) or European milk chocolate (no acidic taste), and prefer the version from their childhood.

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shiftintosoupmode t1_jdxxh1b wrote

In my old age (29) I have come to love plain Hershey chocolate more than any other

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imnottrying t1_jdxuwjp wrote

Hersheys has an acid from sour milk that is literally the taste of old milk. I grew up with hersheys and never tasted this until I had all the boutique and cheap chocolate from other places. Hersheys is one of the few, if not the only, who make chocolate this way and I’ve grown to not like it as much as I did.

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Direwolf891 t1_jdzaarg wrote

They actually don't use sour milk anymore they pasteurize fresh milk after condensing it and then store it in a tank for a short time then use it immediately.

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BadRabiesJudger t1_je0exg2 wrote

Somehow it still actually tastes like sugary vomit. I try it every Halloween because I’m an idiot sandwich.

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ButtBlock t1_jdy8g9m wrote

Hersheys is really disgusting. I don’t know what to say. It’s like how some people say that cilantro leaves taste like soap, or how Dominoes smells like actual vomit (butyric acid). Seriously you can get cheap as shit German chocolate at ALDIs and it’s smooth and sweet and delicious.

I remember when Cadbury’s entered into a licensing agreement with Hersheys. And suddenly their chocolate in the US sucked. The stuff abroad still tastes good but not here.

I suspect that Hersheys just skimps on quality. They’ve got the name for sure, but the product is coasting along on the brand.

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Benanov t1_jdzuonm wrote

I bet you it's the PGPR. They switched to that from soy lecithin.

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Kythera35723 t1_jdzzw1x wrote

I never got a puke taste from it either. Just tastes like a regular chocolate bar to me. The European stuff that is touted as being so great tastes off to me.

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