Why American chocolate tastes like VOMIT | QI - BBC

My local Londis sells hersheys. I kid you not he has said he hasn’t had to buy more stock for 6 months

Najgorsze jest to że ta czekolada smakuje najgorzej jak jest gorąco. Dosłownie jakby ktoś zwymiotował zjełczałe masło zmieszane z kakao. Boże, dziękuje ci za polską i jakąkolwiek inną czekoladę z Europy. Nawet za Catbury, które ma skandaliczne 20% masy kakaowej i ohydztwa jak olej palmowy i olej shea

American here. Gf is from Venezuela and she doesn't believe me when I say that people from Europe often say that US chocolate tastes like vomit. Lol

So I am American. And I cannot stand chocolate. Like a brownie to me … taste like cheese vomit etc.

British chocolate is better than American but that doesn't mean it's good, it's still shit.

Tough talk coming from the “beans on toast” people.

Hershey reminds me of Heinz ketchup. They're both the most famous of their respective brands, but they both taste horrible. Hershey is not the worst chocolate I've ever tasted, but Heinz is the worst ketchup for sure.

I’ve had European style chocolate on numerous occasions & I still like the American style. I don’t dislike like Euro chocolate, but sometimes it can be too sweet. I prefer the slight bitterness of American chocolate.

They’re very likely talking only about Hershey’s. Ghirardelli chocolate is a lot better and the oldest chocolate place in America. That’s a typical ignorant European thing to do just generalize based on very little experience due to your hatred of America and desire to dislike anything American. Particularly coming from a European. The English are famous for bad food as are multiple other European places that have foods that not only taste but look like vomit.

You know there’s Ghirardelli’s chocolate also, the oldest chocolate place in America. I mean the guy was Italian but it’s an america company. Theirs is better than Hershey’s.

Idk if it's just because I grew up eating it, I like the taste
I can't really identify it as vomit flavour, I can kinda imagine how people draw the parallels but ehhh

Weak Europeens

its not distance from farms, its using old milk, milk waste

Why would Americans keep paying for vomit chocolate? 🤒

So, what, am I just supposed to not like our chocolate anymore?

You know what, f*ck you, Europe.

Hershey has a very unpleasant aftertaste. Unfortunately, they use their chocolate for Reese's Buttercups. And here the variant in white tastes absolutely nothing but sugar. Disgusting stuff - hands off!

As an American I will acknowledge that mass produced American chocolate is gross. However there are a number of smaller American chocolate companies that make fine chocolate on par with the fine stuff in Europe. Do Europeans think all Americans eat Hersheys and Reeses? I've had Valhrona from France and Theo from Seattle and I think Theo actually tastes better.

A good explanation from lesbian Stephen Fry

Gross! The U.S. chocolate companies that changed from using cocoa butter to something else, and changed up some of their recipes (Hershey's, for one) made a HUGE mistake. Candy bars do not taste the same as they used to. There's some I can handle (especially ones doctored up with peanut butter, nuts, or something else), but I can't really handle the taste of a solid candy bar anymore, unless it's dark chocolate. The milk chocolate plain bars are total crap.

Americans taste buds have changed! Tell Hershey! Coke Pepsi MTN dew. Who wants chocolate? Answer! No one! Milk plus chocolate pairs well however? Pop plus chocolate is repugnant. Hershey tastes like wax! Dove chocolate is my favorite!

You know it's really interesting because, as an American, I can totally taste and recognize the bile-esque flavor that underlies certain brands of chocolate but I wouldn't have it any other way. It's not even that we are "used to" the flavor of vomit in our chocolate, we actively LIKE it.

Americans really started adding chemical preservatives into milk instead of just pasteurising it? Ugh

Im eating hersheys chocolate right now lol and it does kinda taste like vomit

I think a lot of people are used to what they had growing up. I like anywhere from 11-30% cocoa milk chocolate. The thing is in the USA chocolate only needs 10% cocoa to be chocolate while it has to be double that in Europe. I have the ability to love more types and variety of chocolate because I am used to a lower content. I get to 50% to 70% it get to be bitter and 95% I can take a bit like once a day. To me it doesn't taste like vomit it does taste a lot more like sugar. Mainly because the companies around here can get away with using the cheaper ingredients. However I argue that has made a unique food culture. We can get a handful of chocolates for a quarter and enjoy them. Mainly because they are cheaper but they are a little bit sweeter to. The European chocolate is something we reserve for gift giving because it is more expensive but has a smoother and slightly less sweet and more creamy taste. Aka luxurious. I guess to sum it up all things you didn't grow up with are an aquired taste. Give it time and slowly jump into American chocolate it is good but you have to have a different expectation for sweetness and mouth feel.

All Murican food smell and taste like vomit 🤢

I’m American and I hate chocolate. I had it when I was a kid and threw up and now I can’t even force it down. Maybe I should try European chocolate idk, I just can’t imagine chocolate tasting good

I'm American, and I can confirm, our chocolate tastes like vomit compared to European chocolate.

I guess I like the taste of vomit

I'm German and I didn't know how much I appreciated our chocolate until I tried Hershey's today.

European chocolate is so much nicer. Fact!

As an American, I always ate Hershey's and would get defensive when Europeans would point out the taste. Now after almost 6 years of eating Cadbury's and other European chocolate, I can confirm it definitely tastes like throw up. 😂



(definitely would say parmesan first then the aftertaste is vomit.)

I could never taste it when I was growing up in America. Then I moved to France. When I came back to America, the chocolate wasn’t altogether disgusting, but I could distinctly notice a different flavor that I hadn’t picked up on before.

Even Cadbury Dairy Milk in the US tastes nothing like real British Dairy Milk.
If you look on their label at the back it says Hershey's.

American here. Everything they say is absolutely true. American chocolate is bitter and the reason a lot of Americans like it is because they've never had anything else to compare it to. It's sad to say but we are just simply used to it. Those of us who have had chocolate from other countries know better.

I am American can confirm Hershey chocolate tastes very odd. This is probably the reason I'm not a fan of chocolate too.

American chocolate is absolutely awful, now heres an actual reason why!

I don’t eat Hershey’s anymore. I either buy in Europe or buy a European brand I know.

still gonna eat it

I don't mean to be biased or anything, but I just feel like American chocolate is 100 times better than European chocolate

what a load of talentless freeloaders. Money for old rope.

I feel sorry for Americans who think Hershey's taste good. They'll never know the joy of Cadburys or even Nestle...

I once offered Hershey's chocolate to some Italian tourists I met, and they loved it. I wonder if it's because they're used to the similarity to Parmigiano-Reggiano?

The huge problem with these videos is that they are saying American chocolate when they mean Hershey’s chocolate. It’s like saying all American food is McDonald’s. Like it’s alright. I personally enjoy it but it’s not “American food” it’s shit garbage fast food.

Me understanding Hershey’s is actually quality ”how much did Cadbury pay you for this overview?”:
Hershey’s is 30% Cacao solids (she does this clever thing where she says America’s prerequisite is 10% for Cacao liquor)
It uses sugar, milk, butter, no corn Syrup.
It’s .37 USD per ounce at Aldi’scompared to .28 per ounce for Milk Chocolate imported from Belgium at Trader Joe’s.
Cadbury’s uses vegetable oil
Hershey’s only uses milk.
The acid is the byproduct of the butter they actually put in the chocolate which is why Hershey’s taste so waxy, I read it’s also due to the high contents of cocoa butter.

I love butyric acid

Dear american citizens, come to Europe, you'll love our REAL chocolate

This is coming from the blokes that dip bean toast in tea

I love how casually they discuss american chocolate tasting like vomit.

I was hyped to try hershey’s for the first time since americans love it so much. I literally cried when it just tasted like straight up vomit