hershey isnt real chocolate, they add a bitterent that why it taste like shit, i think its butyric acid.
It doesn’t taste like shit, it tastes like spoiled milk
Uhhh the finest sour milk the free market can bare pls
Mmm, pukey
All chocolate in the future will now be white chocolate.
Are we finally getting some Mockolate-products?
US chocolate…presumably Cadbury will also be affected though.
Cadbury ruined their best product, the Creme Egg, some time ago. It’s nothing like it used to be. A shame too, because they could raise the price and I still would have bought them, but as it is, I don’t remember the last time I had one.
Have they finally admitted they made them smaller yet? They’re like half the size they used to be. Like a laughably noticable difference, but they’re still like 🤷♂️ you’re imagining things, same as always
shrinkflation and cheapflation.
Oh they’re definitely smaller. Smaller and taste way worse… That should improve profits! 🤦🏻♂️
And the stupid plastic casing they now use. I can feel myself microdosing plastic just thinking about it.
I remember when it changed from creamy to just sugar goop that makes my teeth hurt.
My local store instead had to discount them to 25 cents each. And that’s when I started buying them up!
Cadbury has been garbage for years now unfortunately.
WARNING: May contain traces of real cocoa.
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.
A buddy of mine has everything but his birthday is coming up …. I found the ideal indulgence: a $20 chocolate bar!
No it’s not one of those monsters, it’s normal sized. But it’s single sourced beans, gold medal award winning, local farm fresh dairy , infused with whiskey from a local distillery. That’s something he’s never had!
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.
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.
Out-competing that bland old “real” chocolate with the superior product.
… I just buy bags of ghiradelli dark chocolate baking chips, and eat a handful, when I feel like snacking on chocolate.
They have 72% cacao chips, but that is bit too rich for my taste and my wallet, 60% seems to hit the spot.
Much cheaper per weight than actual ghiradelli chocolate squares or whatever.
And you can just toss a few into some fresh hot coffee, stir for a minute, kablamo choco-coffee.
Anyway, yeah, most US ‘chocolate’ is disgusting.
I can’t tell if this is a moment from your real life or a bit of creative writing about a dystopian future.
Plot twist: it’s a Ghirardelli ad.
And I’m confused about how you found anything in that comment dystopian. Though I’m assuming that name I didn’t recognize is a brand name for an actual chocolate producer. Hopefully it isn’t a brand name for something similar to chocolate but not lol.
You are eating baking choco chips instead of the chocolate that is for sale and also talking about how you can’t afford the richer baking chocolate all while putting it all in a faux sounding positive light. It actualy reads much like things I read written in the dustbowl and depression.
This is not a normal state of affairs and phrasing the work a rounds like some uplifting lifehack makes it seem dystopian
It was a different commenter, though I also like snacking on dark chocolate chips. Baker’s chocolate is also good, but the consistency of the squares isn’t great for snacking.
I just read it as a tip for how to get chocolate anyways, even if all the chocolate bar makers stop using it. The chocolate-like but cheaper stuff they are using instead of chocolate sounds more like the dustbowl/depression era tricks to enjoy food while you can’t afford it.
Though part of my perspective is from getting my cooking to a level where store bought prepared stuff is just the easy/convenient option, not the high quality one (for health or taste). I also love dark chocolate and prefer the high cocoa content ones over must chocolate bars.
they have 92%
most US ‘chocolate’ is disgusting.
Most by sheer volume because four companies make damn near every candy bar in the grocery store? Sure. Most by percent of discrete chocolatiers? Nah. There’s tons of good chocolate in the US, it’s just priced as the luxury good it should be (turns out slavery is great for keeping prices down)
Yes, yeah, the former is what I meant there.
There indeed are tons of proper local chocaltiers in a lot of places, but sadly they do not have too much of the overall market volume.
When you can taste the enshittification of everything.
Taste is in accordance with the color.
Next up, saw dust in candy and chocolate!
Wood is too expensive for that.
gypsum chocolate wafers.
How to say you come from the States without saying you come from the States.
This has been that way for a while now. Reeses and Hershey’s suck. They use a PINCH of cocoa powder and their chocolate tastes and feels like wax. The peanut butter filling is basically peanut flavored sawdust. They spend crazy amounts of money reduce ingredient costs while still maintaining a somewhat edible product. They end up with “chocolate favored wax/oil and sugar”. Boycott them. You can get way better chocolate at Aldi.
I was getting some melting wafers the other day and grabbed a bag of Ghirardelli, which has been pretty reliable in the past. I didn’t catch that they were “chocolate flavored” wafers until I was at checkout. Chocolate was the 8th ingredient.
dear lordt
you can get better chocolate at aldi and make your own peanut butter cups at home, it’s fairly easy
Hershey’s chocolate tastes like wax and vegetable oil.
Reeses Cups are the absolute worst candy these days. They are so terrible now, and I used to love them. The peanut filling is gross.
And then use scare tactics to convince everyone that we have to use their products for Halloween.
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.
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.
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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