I recently had something sold as chocolate that contained 0% cocoa, its just a chunk of palm oil. First time I have ever had chocolate so bad I threw it in the bin. I can also taste it in Cadburys now, or they have increased their palm oil amount since I had eaten it previously.
I will be checking ingredient lists more often when buying chocolate now. If palm oil is the main ingredient it can fuck off.
I mean, isn’t “white chocolate” 0% cocoa?
No solids, it should be made of cocoa butter. In the shit one I had they replaced all of the cocoa butter with palm oil. Tbh I don’t think they should legally be able to call it chocolate.
Funny how the milk industry fought so hard to ban the use of milk on vegetable products. Now they are all called drink. But there was no confusion to the public just a dick move.
Yet here where the intention is clear to see something which is not it, this is magically ok.
Which country did that? Cause here in the US, we still have milk everything. Oat milk, almond milk, soy milk, you name it.
this is what comes to mind. I don’t know when the switch was made but everything is drink here:
Many, many places. It’s so strongly regulated here, I think they even have to call it goat drink, too! The cow lobby is bullish, I tell you.
Okay name one.
No that does not exist. Just the plant produxta
Oh yeah I remember that. Because of their pettiness I stopped using milk, only thing I used it for as porridge and I use water instead now. Looked it up and you get the water boiling and can cook it at a higher temperature without it burning to the pan. Ends up fairly creamy still without using cows milk. Also costs less to make.
they aren’t they can call it chocolatey or something similar but there has to be a certain amount of cocoa to be called chocolate
cocoa butter, sugar, milk solids. No cacao.
hershey isnt real chocolate, they add a bitterent that why it taste like shit, i think its butyric acid.
Mmm, pukey
It doesn’t taste like shit, it tastes like spoiled milk
Uhhh the finest sour milk the free market can bare pls
the finest one is when it LOOKS like tofu.
Candy makerscapitalistsFTFY
Yeah it would be really nice if the media could distinguish a bit better between “actual expert at thing X that has done it for a long time and gives a shit” versus “people/corporations that started with tons on money and think they could end up with slightly more by misleading fans of X and building the infrastructure to efficiently enshittify it”
edit to add: I was supposed to quip at the end of my post that oh yeah, the media and journalism are “products” that are no different, and in fact worse. Look at who owns the big outlets. gross.
I took two bites and had to spit it out
That’s how I reacted the first time I tasted Hershey’s chocolate.
Inb4: butyric acid
A somehow necessary ingredient in Hershey’s which lingers unpleasantly on the palate, otherwise known as a stomach acid which imbues your vomit with the unmistakeable flavor of vomit
Whyyyyyyyyy
Actually this goes back to the early days of Hershey’s. As part of their drive to produce affordable chocolate, their main formulation was developed around slightly spoiled milk, which has an acidic taste. That’s why all Hershey’s chocolate since the beginning of time has had that ‘vomit flavor’. Obviously they’re not allowed to use spoiled milk anymore, but they wanted to taste the same as it always has. So they add the acid as an ingredient to replicate the same flavor.
I know m&ms are Mars but those little bits of poison have also tasted like vomit for decades. I can’t even watch people choke those friggen things down. Smarties or death.
Smarties are nestlé, so it’s probably both.
Stomach acid is hydrochloric acid.
Yes, but butyric acid is produced in the stomach by fast breakdown, and it’s very easy for humans to detect.
I only eat the opposite type of chocolate, that being chocolate so dark its 90-97% coco content. I want my chocolate so natural, earthy, and bitter that it tastes similar to chocolate (that’s just my preference not that it makes me any better or worse than anyone else).
I’ll say it, it makes you better. (This is not biased, I just so happen to also have that same preference)
Dark chocolate is quite healthy, specifically coco is known to have healthy properties and the darker it is the less sugar.
True, but the amounts of dark chocolate I eat probably isn’t.
i usually prefer 85-100 if possible.
Bars?
Rookie numbers.
I think real dark chocolate can actually be good for you. Shame I like the crap stuff. But not this crap, this shit tastes like you’ve talked up a bit of stomach bile while you were chewing.
Absolutely, its still an acquired taste but it can have health benefits (of course if you don’t like the taste then the health benefits probably aren’t worth it).
i do the same, its either 90-100% if im lucky to find 100% thats not part of the baking aisles.
Another way of reminding us there is enshittification.
Nearly no one touches the chocolates at most supermarkets I went to. Far cry from when 40 years ago, workers from overseas would include chocolate bars in care packages.
That real cocoa are mostly from developing countries, not all are politically stable.
We have an inflation target now, they either raise prices or shrinkflate. Its much easier to shrinkflate.
Pretty interesting that this was something I remember being warned about 26 years ago
They are also sounding the alarm bells for bananas, arabica beans, soy beans and corn…
My recollection is that around the time I was being told chocolate was going extinct, they were also telling me soy bean futures were the best investment
Gotta love capitalism
It’s not capitalism alone, it’s climate change also that is disrupting cocoa yields and makes prices go through the roof.
Climate change and capitalism are inseparable
Well, it would be an interesting thought experiment if instead of capitalism, socialism had won in 1989. I can tell you one thing from my own knowledge: at least the soviets didn’t give sh*** about the environment. Again: not defending capitalism here.
And before anybody snaps: i hate capitalism.
Sorry, I was listening to some upbeat music and before I could help myself, I looked down and my hands and realized it was too late. :(
Out-competing that bland old “real” chocolate with the superior product.
Hey I started a new community: Enshitification.
I posted this Reese’s article the other day.
It’s for articles like this but also personal experiences, like things you noticed going to shit.
So if you want to rant a bit about a product quality decrease, feel free to post about it there.
Well obviously it sucks that the fake cocoa is disgusting, but I have to say I kinda am for the effort of trying to create an alternative, given how the cocoa producers are notorious for exploiting child labor and how terrible it is for the environment
Buy Tonys. The alternatives are bad for you
too bad they dont have 90+%
I only want ever want hazelnuts or something crunchy and milkchocolate. Not refined enough for dark chocolate
You vill eat the chocolate-style cube.
Food shouldn’t come from a factory
What if a man puts the food in a can, in a factory downtown?
If you had your little way I’d eat canned food everyday.
How to say you come from the States without saying you come from the States.
Idk people enjoy white chocolate which is literally rhe most disgusting snack I can imagine.
Yeah agreed. I only like white chocolate in a couple ways, like in a white mocha, but I’m general is pretty gross imo. I have a close friend who I agree with taste in food nearly completely, except when it comes to chocolate. She ONLY likes white chocolate and it baffles me how her taste buds have failed her so completely.
I sometimes enjoy white chocolate, but admit it’s only a slight step above eating straight butter and sugar.
i never liked it, its too sweet and they almost always have a chemical aftertaste.
white chocolate is just pure “milk sugar”
You gotta try better white chocolate. The good stuff has more cocoa butter, so of course it’s getting harder to find.
I’m quite glad I have these in my local store.
https://eat-love-chocolates.myshopify.com/products/moule-au-beurre-darachide
They’re about 5$ for one cup. Considering Reese goes for 3$ for the regular pack of 3 in vending machines, I think it’s fine. The 5$ cup is much more than 5 times better than one Reese cup. More like 500 times.
$57 for a dozen? Absolutely not.
Well then keep eating candle wax? Snacks should be expensive.
That isn’t how things work. Just because you stop eating one, doesn’t mean you need to overpay for another. You also insinuate that I even eat those. Your inability to discuss intellectually shows that you deserve to pay for expensive junk. It is literally peanut butter and chocolate. That can be made at home for a fraction of $57 and produce a tremendously more abundant pieces of ‘candy’ than a dozen.
You are a fool.
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I’m not sure about this company and their ethics but i will say we must end this entitlement of wanting cheap good shit. Someone has to make that. Would you make a peanut butter cup for under $5? I sure as fuck wouldn’t.
