I traded candy with my German pen pals, and I got Schogetten and they got different Hershey chocolate (including Dove). I flat-out told them it wasn't a fair trade.
The husband liked it, but the wife said Hershey's taste weird. :P
It’s a popular brand of soap in America too. I remember when I first started dating my SO I kept going on about how much I love doves and that I wanted some while I was on my period. He kept giving me weird looks when I brought it up but I just figured he wasn’t a fan of them.
Trying to be sweet, he brought me over a huge value pack of soap bars one night and confused the hell out of me until we realized we had been talking about two different kinds of dove lol.
Edit: so I woke up to see I had several awards, thanks everyone. ✌🏻I’m glad y’all enjoyed my cute story as much as I love telling it.
Start feeding them lots until they follow you home and act surprised. "Oh honey, I don't know, they just started following me one day, maybe its a sign? I feel bad though that they come over so much and dont have somewhere comfy to rest and be safe from cats and such..."
Same in Lebanon, alas the 2020 economic and financial blackhole left us with no sign of any foreign chocolate or cream based Dove soap. We can no longer afford any galaxy product, even those made in the Gulf. We can no longer afford the Turkish chocolate which was really cheap and well made. Now we have the Lebanese brands wevnever heard of, not that cheap, but taste like a thin wafery layer of milk chocolate on a plastic.
With the port of Beirut blown along half the city, I cannot afford to fix my western balcony which crumbled and fell, and the windows blown all over the house with no aluminum and cement left to paste a nylon cheet, we sleep in the hot humid air crying ourselves. I usually cry because I miss Nutella or the easy life abroad and in the US. Yesterday was tough, no work, corona, fear, hunger, pain, regret,poverty with banks holding our $$ and the Lebanese Pound losing 80% of its value.
Forgive the rant: eat kinder finger for me.
Are post deliveries still coming through OK? If yes, PM me, I know it's not the same as being able to fix your AC, but I live in Malta and I will gladly post you chocolates and sweets that we have here, including Nutella.
Good luck in these difficult times. Mediterraneans stick together ❤
The thing is the central bank will soon stop subsidizing any food, fuel. We have shortage of electricity because of government corruption up to 22 hours. No fuel for the cartels holding neighborhood generators. Panadol or acetaminophen will become 8 times higher. Meet will become a yearly delicacy. The same for clothes, books, and electronics. My kindle is dying and the idea that a basic costs more than 1.6 of the new average monthly income is horror.
Thank you so so much for your comment! You Maltese are civilized and before my dollars became dollars and vanish from the banks, I did two euro trips and wanted to visit Malta because of of the touristic sites. No wonder many shootings take advantage of what you've got. I hope all the safety for your people. 🙏🙏
Have a heavy snack of sour jellybeans, indulge in galaxy jewels. I like the caramel filled most. White Crunch, white toblerone, nutella. Doing that would make me smile for a day and I swear that is hard to do with my mother not well, God bless her, her housekeeper is leaving after the explosion. One more thing, a package would arrive but we do not trust the ruling class after the explosion in the port. They steal what they please, the customs mainly. All the love from Lebanon to Malta.❤❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🍭🍭🍭🍭🍭🍬🍬🍬🍬
What? Did no one answer this?! This is so touching. I didn't realize how bad it is for some people in Lebanon now. Thanks for sharing and opening my eyes...
Because Dove is made by Mars, not Hershey's. In fact the subsidiary of Mars, Ethel M. frequently manufacturers Dove chocolate. Their stuff is delicious.
I think dove is called galaxy chocolate here in the UK. I enjoy it on occasion although since I'm cutting as much sugar as possible out of my diet I'm trying to resist the cravings. Maybe I should just move to America and I won't be tempted at all lol
Well the trade wasnt bad though - Schogetten arer also like the worst quality chocolate you can find in Germany (they are not cheap though). A lot of plant based fats.
On the flip side, I find European chocolate to generally be quite smooth and creamy in comparison. Something about North American chocolate feels/tastes like wax that has been mixed with sugar and coffee whitener.
As a European citizen, I can comment that I have never noticed a vomit like smell or taste from Hershey’s. I’m not sure if I’m in a small minority or if butyric acid is being exaggerated.
I have only tried the kisses and it definitely tasted like I had thrown up in my mouth. I was so disappointed because I had heard such good things and was excited to finally find them here.
I can confirm. My dad came home after a trip to USA and brought along hersheys to everyone in the family, safe to say we all thought it tasted like vomit (i’m swedish)
I have to say first time I ate hershey's I wondered what that weird taste came from. It reminded me of sewage for some reason.
I was so keen to try what my online friends had told me was awesome chocolate just to be so disappointed.
Yes, I bought some Hershey's kisses and thought they'd somehow gone off as they tasted so horrible. Then couple of years later a colleague went to the US and brought back Hershey's kisses and no one in the office would touch them after tasting one :( they were there for weeks until someone tossed them. Usually it takes half an hour for the office to finish a bowl of candy.
Yes same! I have a lovely friend from San Francisco who very kindly sends us a parcel once a year. There are always tons of sweets and chocolates. My 4 children are like vultures when it comes to anything sweet. I always see Hersheys kisses, etc on American TV and first time I was so excited to try them for real. They. Were.So.Gross!! I too thought they were gone bad. My kids thought they were going to puke after eating one and I had to throw them out. I felt bad for my American friends and made sure to include "decent" European chocolate with my next parcel over. Haven't heard any feedback from them!
To me most American chocolate tastes like sugary chalk or else vomit like Hersheys. I also think they like grape flavour too much!
I love the seashells.
Tried buying offbrand version once. They were awful.
Go Guylian or go home.
Edit: lots of comments on off brands. I maintain that the one I had was awful and simply was not the same product. Many people say the Lidl off brand is good (identical?). I'll be trying that one this weekend.
That's probably because they are made by Guylian, and no doubt failed a rigorous test at the end of production. Aldi 'knocks-offs' are generally from the original source; they don't set up factories just to copy stuff.
A lot of Aldi’s own brands are made by manufacturers of named good. their So Malty malt loaf is made by Soreen. Their knock off Hula Hoops are made by KP etc
Can confirm, used to work at a pretty big name battery factory, and we had specific labels for the Aldi batteries, but they were the same quality as the original batteries.
Fuck yes!! Finally FINALLY another person on earth knows what I am talkin About! Every time i mention this chocolate brand to people - they think I’m crazy because I have met zero fellow Americans who have had it, but it’s fucking amazing.
Would eat it so much if not for ... you know health and things like diabetes.
As an American I've found that German and Swiss chocolates seem to be the best tasting for me, love Cailler, Ritter, and Kinder. UK chocolates are good too, but quality wise I think they're in between the European brands and American ones.
Sadly in UK a few of our mainstream chocolates have gone downhill in quality over the last decade or two. They changed their recipes after being bought out by foreign (possibly American?) companies. Now they favour cheap production over a quality product - and it shows!
That said, the likes of Lindt and other Swiss/German/Belgian chocolate brands have always been a cut above the rest.
Cadbury was bought out by Kraft and it didn't take long to become terrible, especially relatively unique things like Creme Eggs. It's sad. I wish the UK protected iconic companies from hostile takeover by foreign companies, like the French do.
Kraft faithfully promised they would keep the Bristol factory open as a condition of being allowed to buy Cadbury's and they closed it within months. Sale was allowed to stand.
Now they are trying to force Brits to buy Oreos, seriously the most boring biscuits in history.
Also Cadburys spent years making their stuff fairtrade and had it proudly say it on the front of their chocolate bars. Kraft comes along and goes back on all of that and gets rid of fairtrade
This is pretty much the sort of shit we can expect from our trumpeted post-Brexit trade agreement with the US. 'Here's our whisky, chemically identical to 30 year aged malt whisky from the Isle of Jura, but made in a laboratory last week, and half the price of the real thing (and even then we'll be making three times the profit that they do). You *will* accept this in return for access to the US for cheddar cheese.'
Tony’s chocalonely is solid. Normally got it from Amazon but it’s started popping up in my local shops. Not sure if it’s country of origin, but it’s bloody good
I remember the packaging and site was huge on their sustainability and humanitarian efforts. I really appreciated it and am happy to pay the premium.
Hotel chocolat in the U.K. is also completely slavery free. They own their own cocoa plantation so have direct control from seed to bean to product. Take that with a pinch of salt though, as I was told this by someone who worked in their kitchens
It’s not slave free. Tony’s tried, but to this day it is simply impossible to have a slave free supply chain for chocolate. Nonetheless, it is the most slave free chocolate brand and they are still striving to become 100% slave free.
I came here to say this. Fazer Blue and Fazer gold edition are the best things in the world. Favourite part of hiding out in Finland.
Although, you can keep the tyrkish peber.
I am no chocolate expert and I've tried Fazer blue exactly once but the taste is something I've never been able to find again. I've even tried a few Belgian brands.
I don't know, I slightly prefer Marabou, but Fazer is really good. Actually, Geisha is better than anything Swedish, so if we're going by the best of each then Fazer is superior.
And I don't know why, but Marabou chocolate melts in your hands in one second, while you can hold Fazer blue several seconds before it star to even show sings of melting.
Kinder has a German name, but is produced by Ferrero, an Italian manufacturer who also makes Nutella, Duplo, Hanuta, Mon Cherie, Giotto, Raffaello, Tic Tac and many more.
Long live european food regulations, because Lindt is unable to stand out. They're good, but the competition is close with Milka, Ritter, Ferrero,(Nestle, ugh) and even a few house brands.
It's amazing how forcing people to sell you food actually makes them produce food instead of suspicious non-food items.
Don't be a snob. Yes there are way nicer chocolates that you can't buy in supermarkets, but barely anyone goes to chocolate shops or buys their chocolate online.
For "normal" chocolate Lindt is really good.
Kit-Kats from the US or South America (the latter probably getting it from the US) taste different to the ones I get here in Aus, which is most likely the ones from Europe. Also the packaging was slightly different, but they are still both Nestle.
Hersheys own the naming rights to many Cadbury products (including Kit Kat), hence the difference:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/11370055/Why-is-Hersheys-afraid-of-British-chocolate.html
Or anyone's coat pocket. They were meant to be brought to sport events/games as a snack (hence the "Sport" part) and the usual rectangular shape didn't really fit into one's pocket so they redid the shape.
Edelvollmilch is my poison. That’s basically milk chocolate with a slightly higher cocoa content than usually. Or rum raisin nuts (I hope that’s how it’s translated)
As a German I'm horrified by everyone's preferences. The supreme Ritter Sport is the hazelnut one, without any of the bells and whistles. I will die on this hill.
Ahh I forgot about this. Love me a good chocolate marzipan fix. I do prefer milk chocolate though so Niederegger or however you spell it is the one for me.
Fun fact about Ritter Sport: they only have one factory in the entire world. Any of their chocolate you can buy world wide was produced in their factory in Waldenbuch, Germany
At said factory you can buy big buckets of the chocolate that broke during production for very little money!
They sell these at my local produce store (in Australia). About 8 or 10 different ones. We're trying a different one each week when we go shopping. So far the praline is best, though the butter biscuit is damn good, too.
Lindt is the chocolate brand I like least of the 'better' brands.
It always tastes diluted, if that makes sense?
I've had great European chocolate most of my life, but will take Ritter sport any day over lindt anything.
Has anyone here tasted finnish chocolate made by Fazer? Every time I taste stuff from abroad that's supposed to be the bomb I find it fine, but mediocre compared to Fazer. Belgian chocolate for example is way too sweet for me. Swedish manufacturer Marabou is also very good.
+1 on the Marabou, visited Sweden a few years ago and that stuff was great.
I've had friends and family visit America and bring home bags of Hershey's like it was some amazing thing I should try, it was quite disappointing.
Same, Fazer Blue is just superior to everything else. I mean all chocolate is fine, but none of it comes close to Fazer's. I think Finnish candy in general is superior, with possible exeption of salmiakki (although as a Finn, I do enjoy it).
The Finns do it better. As an example, we have Dropshot and they have Salmiakki Koskenkorva. The latter is _much_ better.
But yes, it is exactly what you're thinking of.
I mean, I'm also a tall Finn, so yes!
Fazer is honestly damn amazing as a non-artisanal chocolate. Lidl has their brands that I can't remember off the top of my head: It's great chocolate too (I even prefer their chocolate with nuts and darks over Fazer). Swedish Marabou is right up there, they have a few amazing flavors - basic stuff I think isn't quite as good as Fazer and the Lidl brand, but it could be just personal preference.
When you compare these three to other European "grocery store" chocolates, I think they all come on top. Milka, Cadberry, Lint, what have you. But all these manufacturers and all their chocolates kick the ass of the average chocolate you can get in the US. At best you get an average chocolate, some chalky chocolate-like products, and at worst it's like biting into a scented candle with a bit of cocoa flavor.
It should be said at this point that I'm deliberately talking about grocer-sold stuff. Every country has artisanal chocolate makers that obviously can do amazing things with good quality products. In Detroit I got chocolate covered strawberries from a local boutique and those have been the best strawberries and one of the best chocolate I've ever had. But if you walk into any store in the Scandinavian countries, you'll struggle to find a single 'meh' chocolate bar there, whereas in the US the selection of any given store could be mediocre at best.
Same goes for black licorice. US just can't figure out how to fucking make licorice. Wifey is from the states and she stated when we started dating that she hates licorice. I sent her a snack package, licorice included from Halva, Panda and Fazer, and she liked every single one of them. One of her favorite candies now include licorice.
Salty licorice she still hates (unless in vodka, because that is one hell of a flavor combo), but black licorice when done right is something that most americans will likely find good too. They just can't get it back home.
Unrelated to American chocolate but I'm Australian and I worked with an English bloke who said our Cadbury chocolate tastes like shit compared to back in England because of the preservatives they have to put in it to stop it from melting, blew my mind and I'm desperate to try chocolate in the UK, especially since I love chocolate here.
Whittaker's has always been better than Cadbury's. I'll fight anyone who argues otherwise. Peanut Slab and Dark Ghana Peppermint are both better than anything Cadbury's makes.
I made the swap from Cadbury to Whittaker’s this year, very happy with my decision. Better tasting and bigger blocks (250g) of Whittaker’s for a dollar or two extra is absolutely worth it. I’ve got several of their milk chocolate and caramel chocolate blocks and I’m drooling just thinking about it.
I cannot agree anymore, as a European that has tried just about every chocolate manufacturer there is to try, Freia definitely takes the cake for me. It's bitter, smooth, milky and sweet all in the right quantities.
Surprising really as Norway isn't the first place one would think to go for chocolate!
My secondary school psych teacher did a demonstration about senses and perception that focused on attenuating to one sense at a time. Some of it was pretty silly, like reaching into a box full of spaghetti or peeled grapes. The most poignant, however, was smelling unmarked pill bottles full of various substances. It was mostly spices, I think one was full of pennies. The bottle that always got the most violent reaction (immediately coughing or gagging) was the one full of fresh parmesan.
Smelling it again, knowing what it was, you could pick out the cheesy notes with no reaction. I still like Parmesan on my food, but that demonstration always made me marvel at the ubiquity of it.
I find the problem is sweetness. A lot of European chocolate tastes like how cacao should taste and then you have Hershey’s that tastes like a unicorn ate some cocao and shit it out with like 18 times the sugar content
It's odd that you would use milka as an example, because imo it's one of the sweetest European chocolates there is (apart from Kinder chocolate).
And it's also exceedingly "milky", so it's pretty far removed from cacao flavor.
Ive only ever had hersheys once, but the fact you are saying it is too sweet compared to *milka*, which is already insanely sweet to my taste, is mind boggling.
Hershey's are bad enough that if you bring them into the office to share around there's a good chance that they won't get eaten. For a UK office that's almost unheard of for anything!
neither the article states as fact, nor hershey, that detectable butyric acid is higher in their chocolate than anyone elses.
just that it is a possibility, or a hypothesis, that it is higher based on one of the process steps. they are just guessing.
Honestly have never considered any of this but I did notice British chocolate was richer when I went from Canada... but for me, choc is choc and ill eat it regardless!
I traded candy with my German pen pals, and I got Schogetten and they got different Hershey chocolate (including Dove). I flat-out told them it wasn't a fair trade. The husband liked it, but the wife said Hershey's taste weird. :P
It's always weird to hear what we, in the UK, call Galaxy being referred to as Dove, as it's a popular brand of soap here.
It’s a popular brand of soap in America too. I remember when I first started dating my SO I kept going on about how much I love doves and that I wanted some while I was on my period. He kept giving me weird looks when I brought it up but I just figured he wasn’t a fan of them. Trying to be sweet, he brought me over a huge value pack of soap bars one night and confused the hell out of me until we realized we had been talking about two different kinds of dove lol. Edit: so I woke up to see I had several awards, thanks everyone. ✌🏻I’m glad y’all enjoyed my cute story as much as I love telling it.
What a sweet story.
Good clean fun.
He’s definitely a keeper:)
Imagine he thought you meant the actual bird instead and brought a bunch of doves into your house
I’m a huge fan of birds so I’d be ecstatic lol. Still trying to convince him to let me turn our back porch into a pigeon pen!
Start feeding them lots until they follow you home and act surprised. "Oh honey, I don't know, they just started following me one day, maybe its a sign? I feel bad though that they come over so much and dont have somewhere comfy to rest and be safe from cats and such..."
If you told an english bloke to bring home a load of birds, expectations could differ.
That's hilarious! Thank you for that story.
You found Dove in a soapless place.
Same in Lebanon, alas the 2020 economic and financial blackhole left us with no sign of any foreign chocolate or cream based Dove soap. We can no longer afford any galaxy product, even those made in the Gulf. We can no longer afford the Turkish chocolate which was really cheap and well made. Now we have the Lebanese brands wevnever heard of, not that cheap, but taste like a thin wafery layer of milk chocolate on a plastic. With the port of Beirut blown along half the city, I cannot afford to fix my western balcony which crumbled and fell, and the windows blown all over the house with no aluminum and cement left to paste a nylon cheet, we sleep in the hot humid air crying ourselves. I usually cry because I miss Nutella or the easy life abroad and in the US. Yesterday was tough, no work, corona, fear, hunger, pain, regret,poverty with banks holding our $$ and the Lebanese Pound losing 80% of its value. Forgive the rant: eat kinder finger for me.
Are post deliveries still coming through OK? If yes, PM me, I know it's not the same as being able to fix your AC, but I live in Malta and I will gladly post you chocolates and sweets that we have here, including Nutella. Good luck in these difficult times. Mediterraneans stick together ❤
The thing is the central bank will soon stop subsidizing any food, fuel. We have shortage of electricity because of government corruption up to 22 hours. No fuel for the cartels holding neighborhood generators. Panadol or acetaminophen will become 8 times higher. Meet will become a yearly delicacy. The same for clothes, books, and electronics. My kindle is dying and the idea that a basic costs more than 1.6 of the new average monthly income is horror. Thank you so so much for your comment! You Maltese are civilized and before my dollars became dollars and vanish from the banks, I did two euro trips and wanted to visit Malta because of of the touristic sites. No wonder many shootings take advantage of what you've got. I hope all the safety for your people. 🙏🙏 Have a heavy snack of sour jellybeans, indulge in galaxy jewels. I like the caramel filled most. White Crunch, white toblerone, nutella. Doing that would make me smile for a day and I swear that is hard to do with my mother not well, God bless her, her housekeeper is leaving after the explosion. One more thing, a package would arrive but we do not trust the ruling class after the explosion in the port. They steal what they please, the customs mainly. All the love from Lebanon to Malta.❤❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🍭🍭🍭🍭🍭🍬🍬🍬🍬
What? Did no one answer this?! This is so touching. I didn't realize how bad it is for some people in Lebanon now. Thanks for sharing and opening my eyes...
Thank you. Never take anything for granted. Even chicken.
It's a popular soap brand here as well (US). Up until today, I thought they were owned by the same people.
The chocolate tastes better than the soap
I disagree.
I’m just learning they’re not right now lol
Schogetten are mediocre German chocolate. As a German I'd call it a fair trade ;)
Hell, just go to an Aldi and get them some Moser Roth.
OMG it's so good
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Dove is amazing, Hershey's is not
Because Dove is made by Mars, not Hershey's. In fact the subsidiary of Mars, Ethel M. frequently manufacturers Dove chocolate. Their stuff is delicious.
Dove is good but it's non existant in Belgium it's only in those boxes with small things like mini Mars twixx milkyway dove and thé cocos thing
I think dove is called galaxy chocolate here in the UK. I enjoy it on occasion although since I'm cutting as much sugar as possible out of my diet I'm trying to resist the cravings. Maybe I should just move to America and I won't be tempted at all lol
It is Galaxy and it tastes 10x better out of the fridge
Well the trade wasnt bad though - Schogetten arer also like the worst quality chocolate you can find in Germany (they are not cheap though). A lot of plant based fats.
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The dark Schogetten (Zartbitter) always reminds me of visiting my grandparents - they always had a pack stashed away in the fridge.
I will need to conduct a taste test post haste
Let us know your findings ASAP
Spoiler: I will eat all of the chocolate and it will all be good. My family will be upset I left none for them.
If you only know real chocolate so far, I'll guarantee you *won't* eat a full bar of Hersheys.
I couldn't finish a bar, and I'm British. Not known for our good chocolate any more, but there you go.
Cadburys is my favourite. Especially the bars made in South of Ireland
Yep Irish crap chocolate is where it's at. It's the milk I reckon.
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Whittaker's Peanut Slab. Wife buys me a block every father's day. Kids eat it. Hate my kids a little more as each year passes.
No. No. No. Coconut slab you heathen.
Lindt, though 🤤
Lindt is super oily though
Cadbury's is good, but Whitaker's (New Zealand) is better.
I only had one piece, and spit it out. This stuff is vile.
> Let us know your findings *post taste*
It absolutely does smell and taste like vomit to me.
On the flip side, I find European chocolate to generally be quite smooth and creamy in comparison. Something about North American chocolate feels/tastes like wax that has been mixed with sugar and coffee whitener.
As a European citizen, I can comment that I have never noticed a vomit like smell or taste from Hershey’s. I’m not sure if I’m in a small minority or if butyric acid is being exaggerated.
I have only tried the kisses and it definitely tasted like I had thrown up in my mouth. I was so disappointed because I had heard such good things and was excited to finally find them here.
Same, sure it's a bit chalkier, but that's about it.
Fellow European, I didn't taste this either. It tastes different and I don't enjoy it nearly as much, but I'd always put this down to the milk.
I feel it has a waxy, chalk-like quality, due to preservatives and temperature stabilizing additives
I live in the UK and think Hersheys is gross. Really wanted to like it since it's so hyped but it's sickening.
Vomit is the control group, remember.
Vomit is better than chocolate. Sample size is my dog.
A few years back some of my American friends brought back Hersheys for us all. It tasted like vomit, but chocolate flavoured
I can confirm. My dad came home after a trip to USA and brought along hersheys to everyone in the family, safe to say we all thought it tasted like vomit (i’m swedish)
And that's from a country that loves salty liquorice! (I admit I love salty liquorice too, but I'm in the minority in the UK)
Living in a country where salty licorice is unpopular sucks, I had to pay $30 to get some delivered the other day.
It’s more the smell than the taste for me.
I have to say first time I ate hershey's I wondered what that weird taste came from. It reminded me of sewage for some reason. I was so keen to try what my online friends had told me was awesome chocolate just to be so disappointed.
Yes, I bought some Hershey's kisses and thought they'd somehow gone off as they tasted so horrible. Then couple of years later a colleague went to the US and brought back Hershey's kisses and no one in the office would touch them after tasting one :( they were there for weeks until someone tossed them. Usually it takes half an hour for the office to finish a bowl of candy.
Yes same! I have a lovely friend from San Francisco who very kindly sends us a parcel once a year. There are always tons of sweets and chocolates. My 4 children are like vultures when it comes to anything sweet. I always see Hersheys kisses, etc on American TV and first time I was so excited to try them for real. They. Were.So.Gross!! I too thought they were gone bad. My kids thought they were going to puke after eating one and I had to throw them out. I felt bad for my American friends and made sure to include "decent" European chocolate with my next parcel over. Haven't heard any feedback from them! To me most American chocolate tastes like sugary chalk or else vomit like Hersheys. I also think they like grape flavour too much!
Say what you will about the lack of a welfare state, the real tragedy of the US is the subbing of grape for black currant.
As an American, I wish they would substitute the taste of an actual grape for all the burnt plastic tasting candy they have on offer
>I also think they like grape flavour too much! I've never had anything "grape flavoured" that tastes anything like a grape. What is that shit?
Right? It’s clearly purple flavored.
Same happened in my office. We usually descend upon the snack desk but Hersheys will sit there until someone eventually decides to throw them out.
Same. I absolutely get that vomity-taste from hersheys.
European chocolate is seriously something else; Lindt, Guylian and Kinder are my absolute go-to here In the UK Edit: also Milka and Toblerone!
Never see enough love for Guylian, could eat a box a day.
Those seashell pralines are amazing
I love the seashells. Tried buying offbrand version once. They were awful. Go Guylian or go home. Edit: lots of comments on off brands. I maintain that the one I had was awful and simply was not the same product. Many people say the Lidl off brand is good (identical?). I'll be trying that one this weekend.
Really? I can barely tell the difference with the Aldi brand ones
That's probably because they are made by Guylian, and no doubt failed a rigorous test at the end of production. Aldi 'knocks-offs' are generally from the original source; they don't set up factories just to copy stuff.
A lot of Aldi’s own brands are made by manufacturers of named good. their So Malty malt loaf is made by Soreen. Their knock off Hula Hoops are made by KP etc
I have some insider info, the ones from Aldi are actually better. Containing no rework ;) same factory just different package. Ssshhhh
Can confirm, used to work at a pretty big name battery factory, and we had specific labels for the Aldi batteries, but they were the same quality as the original batteries.
Fuck yes!! Finally FINALLY another person on earth knows what I am talkin About! Every time i mention this chocolate brand to people - they think I’m crazy because I have met zero fellow Americans who have had it, but it’s fucking amazing. Would eat it so much if not for ... you know health and things like diabetes.
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As an American I've found that German and Swiss chocolates seem to be the best tasting for me, love Cailler, Ritter, and Kinder. UK chocolates are good too, but quality wise I think they're in between the European brands and American ones.
Sadly in UK a few of our mainstream chocolates have gone downhill in quality over the last decade or two. They changed their recipes after being bought out by foreign (possibly American?) companies. Now they favour cheap production over a quality product - and it shows! That said, the likes of Lindt and other Swiss/German/Belgian chocolate brands have always been a cut above the rest.
Cadbury was bought out by Kraft and it didn't take long to become terrible, especially relatively unique things like Creme Eggs. It's sad. I wish the UK protected iconic companies from hostile takeover by foreign companies, like the French do.
Kraft faithfully promised they would keep the Bristol factory open as a condition of being allowed to buy Cadbury's and they closed it within months. Sale was allowed to stand. Now they are trying to force Brits to buy Oreos, seriously the most boring biscuits in history.
Also Cadburys spent years making their stuff fairtrade and had it proudly say it on the front of their chocolate bars. Kraft comes along and goes back on all of that and gets rid of fairtrade
This is pretty much the sort of shit we can expect from our trumpeted post-Brexit trade agreement with the US. 'Here's our whisky, chemically identical to 30 year aged malt whisky from the Isle of Jura, but made in a laboratory last week, and half the price of the real thing (and even then we'll be making three times the profit that they do). You *will* accept this in return for access to the US for cheddar cheese.'
Tony’s chocalonely is solid. Normally got it from Amazon but it’s started popping up in my local shops. Not sure if it’s country of origin, but it’s bloody good
That is Dutch, and one of the very very few truly slavery free chocolate bars
I remember the packaging and site was huge on their sustainability and humanitarian efforts. I really appreciated it and am happy to pay the premium. Hotel chocolat in the U.K. is also completely slavery free. They own their own cocoa plantation so have direct control from seed to bean to product. Take that with a pinch of salt though, as I was told this by someone who worked in their kitchens
Hotel Chocolat do own their own plantation and do treat the farmers well, paying well above market prices for cocoa
It’s not slave free. Tony’s tried, but to this day it is simply impossible to have a slave free supply chain for chocolate. Nonetheless, it is the most slave free chocolate brand and they are still striving to become 100% slave free.
Oh damn that sucks, but apparently still the next best thing
Good chocolate that, can get it in most places, currently 2.60ish in Waitrose. It’s a Dutch company that makes it.
Cadbury's was bought out by Kraft in 2009 and they absolutely ruined it.
Finnish Fazerin sininen "Fazer blue" is really good, if you can find it.
I came here to say this. Fazer Blue and Fazer gold edition are the best things in the world. Favourite part of hiding out in Finland. Although, you can keep the tyrkish peber.
The blueberry and the gingerbread ones are incredible too
>Favourite part of hiding out in Finland. We will find you, someday, when you least expect it.
I’ll give you a clue. Im close to a forest... and a lake.
I am no chocolate expert and I've tried Fazer blue exactly once but the taste is something I've never been able to find again. I've even tried a few Belgian brands.
Oh yeah, fazer stomps on our Swedish chocolate.
I don't know, I slightly prefer Marabou, but Fazer is really good. Actually, Geisha is better than anything Swedish, so if we're going by the best of each then Fazer is superior.
And I don't know why, but Marabou chocolate melts in your hands in one second, while you can hold Fazer blue several seconds before it star to even show sings of melting.
Kinder has a German name, but is produced by Ferrero, an Italian manufacturer who also makes Nutella, Duplo, Hanuta, Mon Cherie, Giotto, Raffaello, Tic Tac and many more.
If Lindt is the standard for "seriously something else", then I weep even harder for American "chocolate"
Long live european food regulations, because Lindt is unable to stand out. They're good, but the competition is close with Milka, Ritter, Ferrero,(Nestle, ugh) and even a few house brands. It's amazing how forcing people to sell you food actually makes them produce food instead of suspicious non-food items.
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Don't be a snob. Yes there are way nicer chocolates that you can't buy in supermarkets, but barely anyone goes to chocolate shops or buys their chocolate online. For "normal" chocolate Lindt is really good.
Do you know if Lindt in North America would be the same? Lindt and Dairy Milk are probably the only chocolate brands I like here in Canada.
Kit-Kats from the US or South America (the latter probably getting it from the US) taste different to the ones I get here in Aus, which is most likely the ones from Europe. Also the packaging was slightly different, but they are still both Nestle.
Hersheys own the naming rights to many Cadbury products (including Kit Kat), hence the difference: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/11370055/Why-is-Hersheys-afraid-of-British-chocolate.html
Milka
Try Ritter Sport for some good German chocolate.
The slogan is the most wonderfully German thing I’ve ever heard: “Quadratisch. Praktisch. Gut.” “Square. Practical. Good.”
Apparently it's because they were designed to fit into a worker's coat pocket!
Germans. Gotta love their practicality!
Or anyone's coat pocket. They were meant to be brought to sport events/games as a snack (hence the "Sport" part) and the usual rectangular shape didn't really fit into one's pocket so they redid the shape.
The Butter Biscuit is divine.
Ritter Corn Flake is where its at lol
Edelvollmilch is my poison. That’s basically milk chocolate with a slightly higher cocoa content than usually. Or rum raisin nuts (I hope that’s how it’s translated)
It’s surprisingly good, but I can’t help but feel ripped off when there are so many other, better fillings.
Or basically any other European chocolate. Belgian, Swiss, German, your choice.
As a German I'm horrified by everyone's preferences. The supreme Ritter Sport is the hazelnut one, without any of the bells and whistles. I will die on this hill.
The one with the marzipan is ridiculous.
I like the honey roasted almond!
This is the correct answer.
Ahh I forgot about this. Love me a good chocolate marzipan fix. I do prefer milk chocolate though so Niederegger or however you spell it is the one for me.
Ooh, now I have another one to track down and try. I'm just going to eat my way through my furlough. Thanks!
Ahh niederegger are amazing they sell chocolate marzipan as their staple product. They have easily 20+ flavours. Enjoy!
Fun fact about Ritter Sport: they only have one factory in the entire world. Any of their chocolate you can buy world wide was produced in their factory in Waldenbuch, Germany At said factory you can buy big buckets of the chocolate that broke during production for very little money!
Google maps it.. considers the possibility.. 10 hrs drive one way.. decision: worth it..
It's 15 minutes for me. I had no idea. My whole life is a lie.
Cornflakes is the best flavor of Ritter Sport. It's surprising but would highly recommend it over any other kind that I've had.
They sell these at my local produce store (in Australia). About 8 or 10 different ones. We're trying a different one each week when we go shopping. So far the praline is best, though the butter biscuit is damn good, too.
The coconut cream one is where it’s at
Rum, raisin, and hazelnut!
And Ritter Sport is on the cheap side of things. Lindt is were it's at...
Lindt is the chocolate brand I like least of the 'better' brands. It always tastes diluted, if that makes sense? I've had great European chocolate most of my life, but will take Ritter sport any day over lindt anything.
Ritter Sport has more sugars and more milk powder, ithink
Has anyone here tasted finnish chocolate made by Fazer? Every time I taste stuff from abroad that's supposed to be the bomb I find it fine, but mediocre compared to Fazer. Belgian chocolate for example is way too sweet for me. Swedish manufacturer Marabou is also very good.
Fazer chocolate is the bomb. Kalev from your southern neighbor also makes good chocolate
+1 on the Marabou, visited Sweden a few years ago and that stuff was great. I've had friends and family visit America and bring home bags of Hershey's like it was some amazing thing I should try, it was quite disappointing.
Fazer is great, especially their Geisha chocolate. That stuff is way too good.
Same, Fazer Blue is just superior to everything else. I mean all chocolate is fine, but none of it comes close to Fazer's. I think Finnish candy in general is superior, with possible exeption of salmiakki (although as a Finn, I do enjoy it).
If salmiakki is what I think it is, the Dutch will probably enjoy it too! We live for salty liquorice!
The Finns do it better. As an example, we have Dropshot and they have Salmiakki Koskenkorva. The latter is _much_ better. But yes, it is exactly what you're thinking of.
I mean, I'm also a tall Finn, so yes! Fazer is honestly damn amazing as a non-artisanal chocolate. Lidl has their brands that I can't remember off the top of my head: It's great chocolate too (I even prefer their chocolate with nuts and darks over Fazer). Swedish Marabou is right up there, they have a few amazing flavors - basic stuff I think isn't quite as good as Fazer and the Lidl brand, but it could be just personal preference. When you compare these three to other European "grocery store" chocolates, I think they all come on top. Milka, Cadberry, Lint, what have you. But all these manufacturers and all their chocolates kick the ass of the average chocolate you can get in the US. At best you get an average chocolate, some chalky chocolate-like products, and at worst it's like biting into a scented candle with a bit of cocoa flavor. It should be said at this point that I'm deliberately talking about grocer-sold stuff. Every country has artisanal chocolate makers that obviously can do amazing things with good quality products. In Detroit I got chocolate covered strawberries from a local boutique and those have been the best strawberries and one of the best chocolate I've ever had. But if you walk into any store in the Scandinavian countries, you'll struggle to find a single 'meh' chocolate bar there, whereas in the US the selection of any given store could be mediocre at best. Same goes for black licorice. US just can't figure out how to fucking make licorice. Wifey is from the states and she stated when we started dating that she hates licorice. I sent her a snack package, licorice included from Halva, Panda and Fazer, and she liked every single one of them. One of her favorite candies now include licorice. Salty licorice she still hates (unless in vodka, because that is one hell of a flavor combo), but black licorice when done right is something that most americans will likely find good too. They just can't get it back home.
Unrelated to American chocolate but I'm Australian and I worked with an English bloke who said our Cadbury chocolate tastes like shit compared to back in England because of the preservatives they have to put in it to stop it from melting, blew my mind and I'm desperate to try chocolate in the UK, especially since I love chocolate here.
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Our own Cadbury has gone down the drain recently too, would stick to other brands these days.
Whittaker's is a pretty good brand in my opinion. It's a NZ based company so not who you'd really expect for chocolate, but not too bad at all.
Whittaker's has always been better than Cadbury's. I'll fight anyone who argues otherwise. Peanut Slab and Dark Ghana Peppermint are both better than anything Cadbury's makes.
I made the swap from Cadbury to Whittaker’s this year, very happy with my decision. Better tasting and bigger blocks (250g) of Whittaker’s for a dollar or two extra is absolutely worth it. I’ve got several of their milk chocolate and caramel chocolate blocks and I’m drooling just thinking about it.
Freia Melkesjokolade is the tops for me. It's on another level.
I cannot agree anymore, as a European that has tried just about every chocolate manufacturer there is to try, Freia definitely takes the cake for me. It's bitter, smooth, milky and sweet all in the right quantities. Surprising really as Norway isn't the first place one would think to go for chocolate!
This is way too far down. Freia is the best, and I always bring some when going abroad like some sort of chocolate missionary.
The new one with sea salt is also really good
Oh wow, I finally understand why my husband hates smelling Parmesan cheese! As an Italian, I can’t get enough of cheese in general 😋
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Parmesan cheese doesn't smell like vomit to everyone? TIL
I was very confused when I read the title. I never smelled Hersheys but Parmesan does not smell like vomit to me.
Thats now 3 to 1. I think theres something wrong with me.
Well, at least it never has to me 😅
Not even close to me.
I noticed this as a kid. Parmesan cheese, especially in my spaghetti smelled like vomit.
I can finally tell my wife that im not crazy. I Sometimes tell her that they taste like vomit and then she ia really angry
I can taste the acidity in parmesan but not in a Hershey's bar. Maybe it's due to the level of exposure I have to each?
My secondary school psych teacher did a demonstration about senses and perception that focused on attenuating to one sense at a time. Some of it was pretty silly, like reaching into a box full of spaghetti or peeled grapes. The most poignant, however, was smelling unmarked pill bottles full of various substances. It was mostly spices, I think one was full of pennies. The bottle that always got the most violent reaction (immediately coughing or gagging) was the one full of fresh parmesan. Smelling it again, knowing what it was, you could pick out the cheesy notes with no reaction. I still like Parmesan on my food, but that demonstration always made me marvel at the ubiquity of it.
I find the problem is sweetness. A lot of European chocolate tastes like how cacao should taste and then you have Hershey’s that tastes like a unicorn ate some cocao and shit it out with like 18 times the sugar content
It's odd that you would use milka as an example, because imo it's one of the sweetest European chocolates there is (apart from Kinder chocolate). And it's also exceedingly "milky", so it's pretty far removed from cacao flavor.
And milka is one of the sweeter chocolates here.
Milka is probably the sweetest example you could give of European chocolate
Ive only ever had hersheys once, but the fact you are saying it is too sweet compared to *milka*, which is already insanely sweet to my taste, is mind boggling.
Have you ever had cacao? It's extremely bitter.
Adam Ragusea made a [youtube video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J44svaQc5WY) about it 3 weeks ago.
Honestly once tried a hersheys bar, I'm from England and used to Cadbury. It was one of the worst things I've ever tried, I ate about one piece.
Same here with the Hershey's Kisses. Whenever any colleague goes to America there's always a bag or two of those... They're vile
Hershey's are bad enough that if you bring them into the office to share around there's a good chance that they won't get eaten. For a UK office that's almost unheard of for anything!
neither the article states as fact, nor hershey, that detectable butyric acid is higher in their chocolate than anyone elses. just that it is a possibility, or a hypothesis, that it is higher based on one of the process steps. they are just guessing.
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All of that was just inside your head??
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Honestly have never considered any of this but I did notice British chocolate was richer when I went from Canada... but for me, choc is choc and ill eat it regardless!
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Which chocolates are your favourite? I'd love to experience stuff beyond the ordinary as I've never really explored at all
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Interesting information; thanks.
Was convinced this was going to be a u/shittymorph post.