• PugJesus
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        229 months ago

        It's more expensive. It's why I cut down on chocolate once I tasted real chocolate. I couldn't go back to Hershey's.

        • @Gork@lemm.ee
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          149 months ago

          Just about any other brand milk chocolate is better than Hershey's milk chocolate bars. My favorite is Lindt.

          • PugJesus
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            149 months ago

            I generally prefer dark chocolate once I learned there was more than "Shitty Hershey Dark Chocolate" in existence, so I go with Ghirardelli. 72% cocoa, that's the stuff.

      • @ubermeisters@lemmy.world
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        139 months ago

        Answer, because not everything you purchase is straight to chocolate and you don't always get an option of where the chocolate is sourced

        • @Stovetop@lemmy.world
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          Bullshit, there's plenty of good chocolate in any major retailer. I can go to my local grocery store and find Godiva, Ghirardelli, Lindt, Ritter, along with a wide selection of miscellaneous European imports.

          The stuff you'll find in stores is not "premium chocolatier in the Swiss Alps" quality, but it's decent chocolate and it's not hard to find.

          • @popcap200@lemmy.ml
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            279 months ago

            Big agree. People won't admit it, but they just buy what they're familiar with and complain about it being bad.

            • Zammy95
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              119 months ago

              I think a large detterent for many is the price difference. Hershey's kind of matches that snack price for a little treat you'd find at the front counter. Going back to the good stuff and seeing it 3 or 4 times the price will lose a lot of people. There's a reason people say you get what you pay for though…

                • @mxcory@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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                  48 months ago

                  I am buying $1 bars of dark chocolate at dollar general now. Luckily I haven't really had good chocolate, so I don't know what I am really missing, and I like it better than Hershey's milk chocolate to me. Claims profits help literacy, so I doubt it is really that great of a chocolate when you get down to it. But I like it and that is enough for me.

              • Franzia
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                18 months ago

                Chocolate made it all the way down to snack price because of slavery and a lack of safety. So I no longer treat chocolate as a snack.

          • squiblet
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            99 months ago

            There’s a large range of smaller brands too. Pascha, Cultura, Raaka, Taza, Lily’s, Theo’s, Tony’s, Green and Black, Alter Eco… plus dozens of tiny regional brands. It’s about like craft beer.

        • squiblet
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          59 months ago

          You can find way more than that available at a chocolate shop, organic/natural grocery store or coffee shops and bookstores.

    • @zik@lemmy.world
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      309 months ago

      If I had to name any chocolate that tastes like it has lead and cadmium in it, that'd be Hershey's.

    • @lagomorphlecture@lemm.ee
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      69 months ago

      I haven't eaten Hershey's in so long because I remember it tasting mildly of vomit. Am I the only one who thinks the flavor has hints of vomit? What even is that?

        • @SheeEttin@lemmy.world
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          69 months ago

          Honestly, I can barely taste it, so I don't mind. I don't think Hershey is that bad. It's not good, but it's not bad. It's the cheap stuff.

          Lead and cadmium aside. No food product should have either of those in it.

    • ares35
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      29 months ago

      i'm weird, i guess. i like the 'nasty' american chocolate. i just can't afford it except on november 1st.

          • @Misconduct@startrek.website
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            18 months ago

            Ah, I see. You do realize that reacting to "processed" things isn't really actually a thing though right? Those are all pretty different. Either you've got an allergy to something they have in common or you're letting all the fear mongering get to your head. Oooorrrrr I suppose you may get a bit of a totally normal upset stomach if you never eat anything but fresh food and then have some cookies. Which is again totally normal because it's now not something that you regularly have in your diet.

            Either way, the processed food fear mongering is frankly getting kind of old. You're not reacting to processed foods because they're all "processed". That's not really how it works with such a variety. The way people with less resources are shamed or made to be afraid of perfectly accessible and shelf stable food isn't really acceptable anymore. I really wish you guys would go back to being "intolerant to gluten" again or something else for attention. That actually did wonders for the people that are actually intolerant lol. I hear blaming everything on ADHD is very popular right now!