I'm a French European that moved to North America, and when I try products that are similar to the one in Europe. the taste are completely subpar, I told this to my wife who is American and she told me because the older you get, your taste buds it less sensitive she said. So I took my wife to Europe and she never question my taste buds again.
Even as a Canadian... Americans really have no idea how bad their packaged food is compared to the rest of the world. Or even their regular food. I will go to a fast food place here, or in Europe (family in the netherlands), but never in the US; the food often looks the same, but tastes like garbage.
American here. Travelled the world, never found the food more appealing. Even French food, just OK (but deserts are good). When in Switzerland, they told me they like American beef more than their own grass fed because it is corn fed and fatty and better tasting -- which I fully agree.
@@FreeManFreeThought It’s cool if you say something European or Canadian is good, but can you not go on and on insulting others? And I thought Canadians were supposed to be nice.
Even as a Canadian, who as a neighbour of the USA, grew up with most of their chocolate. And I can tell you, even to someone who is used to that chemical process? Hershey’s kisses are gross… Hershey’s chip-its? Delicious, but kisses? Weird taste and pretty grainy at first.
The Christmas chocolate Santa or Easter chocolate Easter bunny packed in aluminium for 1€ piece. Those taste trash, sometimes it feels like ur eating the aluminum too
Swiss chocolate really is the best. I'm from Scotland and took German in school, and we sent chocolate to a school in Germany and they sent us piles of swiss chocolate and it was actual heaven
I'm a European and I've first heard of Cadbury last year.. It's a UK chocolate, not very popular in Europe. I would say Milka or Lindt are the ones everyone knows about. But Lindt cannot even be put in the same sentence with Hearshy's lol it's at whole different level in terms of quality, taste and variety
@@lilHamster9t7 everyone in EU seems to agree that they mostly never heard of Cadbury, it may be the biggest manufacturer but the chocolates they make are very different UK vs the rest of Europe.
I'm in England and Cadbury tastes cheap, it's like comparing junk food to gastronomic cuisine. It becomes quickly nauseating unlike Milka or Lindt chocolates. Some brands do better on very dark chocolate though.
Interesting to hear about Cadbury as the "standard" in European chocolate, I've never seen this brand in shops in Switzerland, France or Germany. Have to try it, whenever I get to visit the UK next...
cadbury is awful now, they changed their recipe like a year ago and ever since then its sickly and it just isnt nice. it used to be really good dont get me wrong, but ever since that recipe change its been cursed. i thought it was just me, but nope, its quite a lot of people who think this way.
Cadbury is very much a British brand and isn't popular in mainland Europe. To mainland Europe Cadbury isn't deemed a good chocolate because of the low amount of cocao fat compared to mainland Europe chocolate. Cadbury uses more non-cocoa vegetable fat. Belgium, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Luxembourg and Greece (at least in 1997) ban the use of non-cocoa vegetable fat in the production of chocolate - which might explain why Cadbury's doesn't sell well there are it wouldn't be allowed to be called chocolate. As such the EU parliament in 1997 passed a motion to ban "milk chocolate" being used for chocolate with high vegetable fat - but I don't think anything came of that because for the years after that vote and while the UK was still in the EU it wasn't renamed to "vegelate" as was proposed.
Cadbury is disgusting when you are used to traditional mainland Europe chocolates. I'm living in Ireland where Cadbury is the norm and I wouldn't touch these even if it's a gift.
I recall there was an attempt to ban UK chocolate being called chocolate as it has so much lower a ratio of coco compared to many continental chocolates (especially Swiss chocolate).
@@FERTUHG I feel like almost all American made videos that compare anything between America and Europe always use GB or British things as a comparison, thinking that they represent the whole Europe. I don't even know what the hell cadbury is, there are a lot more popular chocolates they could have chosen, like Milka, Kinder, Ferrero and a few others that aren't mainly sold in Britain...
@@VanganPL As a Brit, I can tell you three things that the British have always been SHIT at: Coffee, chocolate and ice cream. The continentals do them all WAY better.
@@TryptychUK not really with chocolate idk about coffee and ice cream if you look into it alot of chocolate you are led to believe was from America such as twix are actually from the UK
I ate a hershey's bar 5 years ago on vacation and my first thought was: Why does this chocolate taste like vomit? I actually threw the bar away, thinking it had gone bad and bought another one a few days later in a different store. It had the same taste that imediately made me think of vomit. I'm so happy to finally figure out why!
It doesn’t taste like vomit. It’s just not good. Vomit is super gross and Hershey’s is so much better tasting. But for chocolates it’s awful I guess. Unless you’re in usa
@@13_cmi Yes it does, I grew up in the U.S all my life and the after taste of that Acidic Hershey's Kiss or bar crap is similar to that after just having thrown up. Not too mention the sourness of it from the smell alone. The Parent's learned quickly that only my middle Sister would eat that shit and began replacing it with Skittles or Jolly Ranchers anything but Hershey's for the rest of us, we just would not eat it.
@@13_cmi why are you like this? when people say it tastes like vomit, its because when they eat it, it tastes like they just puked in their mouth or someone else puked nearby and the smell is confusing their taste buds.
As a Belgian, I have to agree. Cadbury and Hershey's are equally bad. They're okay in small quantities or for candy bars and stuff but actually enjoying the taste of the chocolate in either of them is impossible
I know an international friend got a care packet from home including American chocolate. She wanted me to taste them and I did not want to be disrespectful as I hated most of them
@@babbes4210 “Young me was so hurt” Getting hurt over chocolate you don’t like is weak and pathetic. If you don’t like, you don’t have to eat it, but we also don’t need to hear about how horrible it was for you. Boo hoo nobody gives a shit.
Yes! lol. I remember as a kid thinking Parmesan cheese smelled like vomit, because it absolutely does! Same chemical! Funny how some smells are vile in one context and yummy in another.
British here- Cadbury isn't European, I'm pretty sure a lot of Europeans haven't even heard of Cadbury. A better example of a European chocolate would be Milka or Lindt
I'm an American and as you can tell from D.C. Around 9 years old I had a childhood friend bring me chocolates from Belgium and Switzerland respectively after their family had a long Euro vacation and I've never tasted American chocolate the same.
@@Daniel-gs9eh Try the dark Hershey's bars with almonds. Their quality is a little better and they are acceptable if you are used to standard Western European qualities. Still, they do have a little of this strange pungent baby puke smell.
@@Mike.Muc.3.1415 There are a few stores that sell american candy near me so I'll try the dark Hersheys and the regular one maybe, or the kisses. What other American chocolate would you reccomend (outside of candy bars)?
@@somedonkus69420 I couldn't recommend an other one, my next recommendation would have been candy bars. Americans like baby-puke tasting chocolate, but they are really good in creating all kinds of choco bars.
@@quinn7427 Ferrero Rocher there's a ton of other brands in the world. ._. How can a brand be the top of the world when you can't even find it in a lot of countries unless you go to stores which specifically sell products from other countries that you can't find in normal grocery stores.
@@farmam1501 so your logic is that unless it is a common name for 7 billion people then it isnt #1? What? Living in the US i had never heard of Fererro Rocher until this year
@@quinn7427 The US is not the only country in the world. I understand that it's hard for you to grasp the idea that not everyone likes the same things as you. May I remind you that the video we are watching is literally called "Why Europeans hate the taste of American chocolate".
As a Dutch person who once tried some Hershley kisses I can confirm that sour taste is indeed there. I seriously thought the chocolate was spoiled and asked an American friend about it. "No, it's not. Most of our chocolate just tastes like trash." She said. I sent her a block of Cote d'or last Christmas and she loved it.
I had a girl that was taking a trip to Belgium bring me back some chocolates, they were amazing. Included was Cote d'or and I ordered bulk amounts from their US distributer after that.
Now I understand why my Estonian cousins think our US chocolate tastes "different" and "not as good" as the chocolate there. They have sent me some Kalev brand chocolates in exchange for some Hershey brand chocolates. TBH, I absolutely LOVE their chocolates!!! 🍫🥰
"But it's not our fault!" I meaaaaannnn, you just explained how scientifically they don't need to use the compound anymore, but still add it because people like the taste.
After I tasted European chocolate I was hooked. There’s no turning back to American chocolate. It’s so creamy and delicious. German “Rittersport” and “Merci”is delicious and is not expensive. Most American chocolate is crap compared to European chocolate. Thanks to my middle school German teacher for showing me this.
I sometimes buy a chocolate made in Germany and sold at ALDI stores. I have admit that it has a different taste than the stuff I have had from Hershey .
I have comparsion in between English, Polish, German, Swiss, Japan-Polish (Wedel aka Lotte) and Italian chocolates. The best are Germans, even those cheepest. Have best taste and ingidients. Although the differences aren't huge.
English chocolate is different from German chocolate or Belgian chocolate or Italian, French, ect. English chocolate has a flavor that may taste sour or like cheese to some in Europe too. So it depends were you from and what you grew up with.
I never thought about that but it explains a lot. I'm German and once had chocolate from the UK and hated the taste so much. I wasn't able to eat it, so I melted the chocolate and put it in cake 😄
It does! It tastes cheap! Hersheys Is an insult to chocolate. It should be only be allowed to be referred to as "chocolate product". Like "cheese product". Yep. Hersheys is the equivalent of "cheese product".
@@candieland4276 yes. Someone gave me imported original Hersheys and its taate nothing but fat and sugar, so yucky. My local cheapee chocolate brand even taste better, like Silverqueen.
When I visited friends in America a few years ago I brought some Swiss chocolate along. They said they liked it so much better than American chocolate. Back then, I thought they were just trying to be polite but now I’m not so sure anymore...
There is something to be said for trying really delicious versions of something you love. Trying something entirely new and delicious isn't as much of a revelation as finding out how much better something you already know how to appreciate can should really taste.
The stores ran out of local chocolate here in Jamaica over the holidays, so I broke down and bought a Hershey bar. It was the worst, most disgusting thing I've eaten in my life. Brushed my teeth right way to try to get rid of the taste of vomit, but no luck. Rinsed with hydrogen peroxide afterward, which helped.
American here: I actually hate that anyone who changes anyone's name to suit their own language just give us time and we can learn how to pronounce it and I've made that effort lots of times I've actually seen more latin americans do that than anyone else just in my personal experience I've known people who try to change my brother's name from James to Ha-mez....it's not "Ha-mez" it's James
Living in Europe teaches you to eat less chocolate in terms of quantity, but more in terms of quality. Just go every year to the Salon du Chocolat de Bruxelles and discover all these "artisans chocolatiers". Some are well know like Marcolini, others less known but excellent like Willems.
@Ally_A ikr Milka is quite cheap yet all of their chocolates have a nicely sweet taste with no hint of sourness at all. Even the cheapest chocolate for baking that costs quite less than 1€ (for 200g) tastes better than Hershey's.
I'm American and the only way to get quality chocolate is spending more money on expensive brands like Ghirardelli, Lindt, Godiva etc. I don't like our chocolate candy bars either but some still taste amazing like midnight milkyway, 5th avenue, Yorkie, payday, heath and reese's fast break. I think you just need to avoid the staple ones like Hershey, kitkat and snickers for example
@@vivaeuropa Oh dude, Ghirardelli is so good. Its the only commercial place I'll pay that much for chocolate and ice cream. Lindt and Godiva are good, too, but I like ice cream :P Hersheys cannot even begin to compare.
@@vivaeuropa Yeah but this was about American chocolate. Lindt is Swiss, of course it's totally different. I personally like chocolate bars as well but not the horrible "Christmas figurine" -chocolate which Hershey's kisses apparently taste like based on this comment section. The U.S. is truly the land of marketing (and possibly stupid people too) where basically anything can become BIG
@@vivaeuropa what's wrong with snickers? I quite like it and I am from Finland... Oh wait, that might explain it. Vomit chocolate eaters from US hate our salty liquorice but I think it's fine, especially soft variants.
I'm South African and we're used to relatively high quality chocolate, particularly from Cadbury and Nestle'. When visiting San Francisco and Seattle a few years back I was super keen to taste American chocolate, so grabbed a plain Hershey's bar and Snickers. The Hershey's was an oily, rancid mess. Really awful. Snickers tasted oversweetened and rather synthetic. I didn't bother with any other candy that trip - just didn't seem worth it. When people gift imported chocs from North America and the UAE (this is, for some reason, a common trend for South Africans), it's almost always disappointing. I think we tend to be spoiled for choice here, but I do question the palettes of folks in other countries, and more specifically the quality of consumer goods produced in first world countries.
I often travel through portugal, Italy, spain and France because I live in europe, never have I stumbled upon Cadbury and I love chocolate, of course you can find it if you look for it, but outside of the uk almost nobody eats cadbury, you should've used lindtt as an example, or ferrero.
I think they should've used milka as a comparison, because it's everywhere in Europe, not just the UK. (and milka tastes wayyy better than any other chocolate with the same price tag)
As an American the Hershey's name brings to mind so many fond memories. I love their chocolate. However, Cadbury chocolate does taste better. It has a rich and creamy flavor that Hershey's chocolate doesn't have. Their Caramello bars are my absolute favorite.
They're trying to bring the man back so that he can make cheaper product by lowering cocoa farmers wages further and dispatching the failed attempts in the chocolate.
Cadbury's chocolate is more of a British chocolate than Europe wide chocolate, it is similar in taste but much like Thornton's the brand is a local thing.
I grew up with your average American chocolate, but always preferred gummy candies. My eyes were opened when I was a teenager and my family visited Ireland and the UK. I had never realized that chocolate could taste so rich and delicious, and I finally understood why I had never been a huge chocolate fan. I do love UK Cadbury, but the best chocolate I've ever eaten was from France - Bernachon.
In Europe every country has it's own ''big'' historic chocolate brand. In the UK it's Cadbury, in Germany it's Ritters, in the Netherlands It's Verkade (though Tony's are more popular nowadays) and in France it's Bernachon.
I always grew up with both American and German chocolate, but I never thought one tasted better or worse. My mom would go to germany every few months, and bring back a bar of Ritters dark chocolate, that she would guard because she always hated the taste of American chocolate. Since I grew up both both, I liked them equally until recently, when I noticed the kind of odd taste of Hershey’s chocolate, and that European chocolate was much richer and better tasting.
Honestly, the UK (precisely England) isn't exactly known in Europe for its good food. Granted, part of this perception is an issue of an Asterix comic, in which it is constantly joked about the Brits boiling everything and liking peppermint sauce. But just in general, there is a reason why there are Italian, French, Polish, Spanish, Greek, Irish and even German restaurants, but I have never seen an english restaurant. Best chocolate is a battle between Switzerland, Belgium and Germany I think, with Switzerland usually having a slight edge.
I must say, England has changed over the past few decades with regard to food. There is indeed an English cuisine and it's not bad at all. (I'm not from the UK)
@@ValiaEstri its not like you are limited only to Hersheys, its not like u have the worlds biggest supermarkets which I bet have a lot of other brands and possibly some imports so saying all American choclate is bad is ridiculous.
@@royale7620 Since when did I say all American chocolate? The comment was about Hersheys. Anyway, it's an opinion, no need to get your panties in a wad.
In The Netherlands if you try hard enough, you could find Hershey’s or Cadbury’s but nobody buys it. The top brands are: Tony Chocolonely, Cote d’Or, Milka, Lindt, Kinder, Toblerone and Dutch & Belgian chocolates…
Milka is the most comparable brand to Cadbury in Europe. They're both owned by Mondelez and have very similar tastes. They sell them both here in the UK.
That's cool. Kinda funny how I never really looked for Chocolate on yet but got this recommended anyways in the internet. But agreed, I'm German and once I tried Hershey.... Well it wasn't that good. At least the white chocolate variation was kinda nice
I'm American living in Australia and I immediately noticed a difference between the two types since Australia sells more European chocos at your typical woollies and Coles. I prefer European ones better even today.
For your information CADBURY is no longer a UK brand. The company has a fascinating history but it was bought firstly by KRAFT and is now part of Mondelez. And the recipes already taste cheaper and worse. Thank you so much.
@@PointNemo9 Don't think so. I was given a Cadburys Easter egg and the chocolate of the shell of the egg was much nicer than the taste of a bar of chocolate I had a couple of days later. I've noticed this before.
American here, if you ever had real European chocolate you’d understand why some Europeans say our chocolate taste like vomit. Without having taste it, its hard to make the comparison.
What you call chocolate is what we in Switzerland might call a chocolate product. Meaning that it contains mainly non- chocolate ingredients. I lived in the USA for some years and my experience with much American food is limited to having it tried only once.
@@hahmann Well, there are those 99% or 100% cocoa chocolate, but they are not that much bitter. Because "cocoa" include cocoa butter... Here, a french-canadian is tasting a 100% lindt "chocolat" : ruclips.net/video/PkEqBg6gQK4/видео.html
I’ve heard of the eggs from them but that’s it. And tobacco is good chocolate. I don’t notice a difference in flavor but it’s nice and snappy. Better than Hershey’s but not as good for s’mores cause weird shape
Unfortunately too many Americans have been raised/trained to believe we have the best of everything....or that it is normal. - terrible privatized health care -terrible junk fast food diets -traffic laddened, expensive maintenance car centric suburban sprawls
So what you're basically saying is that Hershey's intentionally "spoils" its milk before use to make it last longer, hence why it tastes sour to the taste buds of us across the water?
@@_TehTJ_ and to Indians, South Americans, Canadians, and Europeans, both English and American chocolate taste like cheap shit. and this is coming from a proud American. Hershey's tastes like morning mouth after a night of drinking, compared to European or Bolivian chocolate which just melts in your mouth with a sweet taste
A lot of other foods have butyric acid. Most French cheeses, butter, goat’s milk, yogurt, etc. Some are acquired tastes, but to say they’re all objectively poor tasting foods is nuts.
@@johncenaplayingstarcraft9580 Hershey's is actually massive in the Arabian Gulf. Back in college, I met a foreign student from there and they absolutely loved Hershey's. They are one of the biggest producers of chocolate in that region so most people associate the Hershey's brand as the default chocolate like in America.
I have never visited the USA but I bought a bar of Hershey's while on holiday in Tobago and it did indeed taste like puke. America does do great things but that chocolate, oh boy it was foul!
Not every country in europe has swiss or belgian chocolate in europe. But in poland, one company named "Wedel" produces chocolate which might just be as good as belgian chocolate tbh. Its very rare outside of Poland and the Czech Republic tho
@@glinnes456 exactly right. from my knowledge (and I am a chocolate connaisseur) Poland has a variety of swiss and belgian chocolates (and yes, a lot of Lindt products). European chocolate just tastes amazingly 😌
I actually prefer American chocolate because of that slight sourness. It provides a counterbalance to the overpowering sweetness present in Euro chocolate and it doesn't make me want to vomit. Who knew that a vomit chemical acts as a vomit deterrent?
Oh man, nobody warned me about this before I visited the US. I bought a Hershey's kiss thinking I was in for an absolute delight. It's funny to look back on now, but at the time I was so gutted. I grew up seeing them in movies and TV shows, I was really looking forward to trying one 😂😭
As an American, I actually like the flavor. But I still feel for you because they almost never sell those individually, just in bags of a few dozen. What'd you do with the rest of them?
@@BonaparteBardithion I can see how if you were used to it it wouldn't be an issue. I wonder if our chocolate would taste just as weird to you? I was there as part of a student trip so I shared them around. Only one person wound up liking them 😁
@@amyporter4335 Glad to hear everyone at least got some novelty out of it. 😁 I've had import chocolate. It's good, but nothing I'd swear by enough to pay twice the price for if I'm looking for a quick nibble. Those Lindt truffles sell pretty good, but I'm not sure if they're the same recipe as the Swiss version.
@@BonaparteBardithion oh for sure. And it's not like it was a deal-breaker, so much of the food we had on the trip was so good. Especially the 'diner-style' food, was really luxurious compared to cheaper eating out options here ☺️ I guess maybe this video could clear up the lindor question. If it has that specific acid in the ingredients list it'll be a US recipe, if not it's probably safe to say it's the same as in Europe 🤷
I guess I can meet both of you half way. I absolutely adore Hershey's kisses. But the rest of the Hershey's lineup make me throw up and I wouldn't even touch it with a stick. I live in India now, but spent a few years in the US, UK and middle east. Overall I'd rate Cadburys, Milka Lindt and the likes exponentially better than Hershey's overall. And I noticed this even in the middle east. People prefer the European chocolate taste over the American one. Goes without saying chocolate in India basically means Cadburys dairy milk. The only saving grace for American chocolates, as far as I'm concerned are some things made by Mars, but then again they're not just chocolate.
I'm from Italy. In the city where I live there is a vending machines shop that also sells candies from the United States of America. When I ate them, I've noticed that indeed their taste is quite different from equivalent Italian or European products. They feel a little more "artificial", don't really know how to say it, and I've thought that maybe they contain more preservatives than their IT/EU brethren. Or maybe it's the reason in this video.
it could be a number of different things. Italy and France are more keyed to a natural dark chocolate, while Americans mostly produce milk chocolate. plus, for bars meant international markets, there might be preservatives, along with the stuff in this video also i dont know what she was on about with british Cadbury. it tastes the same but a little sweeter
it could be a number of different things. Italy and France are more keyed to a natural dark chocolate, while Americans mostly produce milk chocolate. plus, for bars meant international markets, there might be preservatives, along with the stuff in this video also i dont know what she was on about with british Cadbury. it tastes the same but a little sweeter
@@295g295 Considering that the butyric acid artificially makes the milk go bad in order to last longer then I would say that the milk is not fresh. Edit: Please don't be butt hurt about this fact.
I came over to the states from Wales a few years ago, and fancied a nice bar of chocolate, so went down to the hotel shop and bought a standard bar of Hershey's. What could possibly go wrong? I'd heard of Hershey's from TV although at the time it wasn't sold where I lived. Well, I'm sure you know the feeling when you bite into something and it's not the taste you were expecting! My eyes widened and my mouth went into gag mode! I forced the first bite down eventually, but my brain refused to believe what had just happened, I assumed my taste buds hadn't woken up or something as there is no way a chocolate bar should taste the way I'd just imagined! so I took another bite, and holy shit! This chocolate really does taste of puke. I had lots of fun offering a chunk of Hershey's to my friends who were with me on the trip, just to see their reaction! We assumed that my bar was part of a dodgy batch. I know this post reads like I'm dissing American chocolate, ok I am a bit 😂, but if that is the taste you're used to then you obviously won't get the viseral reaction I had. Thanks for the video, I had completely forgotten about my American chocolate until now, so thanks for the reminder.
Well the original "secret process" mentioned at 4:05 sounds more like Hershey just bribed the guy from sanitation security and used the milk spoiled. Later he had to recreate this on an industrial scale obviously.
@ཏྦཱལ་ག་པོ། Hi. Hope this doesn't sound aggressive or shitty, but you can't form butyrate from the breakdown of proteins - only from longer-chain fatty acids. Regards from the UK.
@@Yo-lp4nz It's definitely UK chocolate. I would never consider it a European chocolate. No way lmao. And in the other european countries, cadbury is only sometimes available in those import stores
In different countries some products are called different things like lays is u.s and walkers in Europe even though they are the same product same with this Cadbury is in America and Milka seems to be what Europe has since they are made by the same company.
As an American that has gone out of the country for 2 years now. I really dont like american chocolate anymore. LOL. I fell in love with Galaxy, milka, and cadbury. that's what you call real chocolate!
I love how this video completely ignores the addition of soy lecithin to replace cocoa butter. Just literally ignores it in the middle of reading the ingredients like "no these two ingredient lists are definitely the same!"
Soy lecithin isn't a replacement for cocoa butter, it's an emulsifier - and they did explain the difference between the emulsifiers used in Cadbury chocolate and the emulsifiers used in Hershey chocolate. However, PGPR, the other emulsifier they mentioned (which is used in both) actually IS used to partially replace cocoa butter to make the chocolate cheaper to produce. There are strict regulations on chocolate having to do with how much cocoa butter it has to contain (which is why if you look at a lot of labels you'll see things like "chocolatey coating" or "chocolatey flavor" - those products legally can't refer to those ingredients as "chocolate" because they use fats other than cocoa butter). Thanks to the major chocolate companies lobbying the United States government, they're allowed to replace a portion of the cocoa butter with PGPR (which was only invented 20 years ago) and still call the product "chocolate".
@@kumada84 20 years ago? That means the material is still in its testing phase... wow, you can lobby for anything in the US if you get the right idiot officials and enough indirect "financial aid" if that got through without issues.
@@nouveaucourteduree9836 Fair point. Still just saying Europe doesn't narrow it down much on exactly which country might allow its usage. Each country has its own rules and regulations... and there be a lot of countries here.
"Cadbury, Hershey's biggest European competitor" Everything in that sentence is wrong, but the biggest wrong is even considering Hersey as a competitor
Yeah x) I moved to France and, apart from the odd Cadbury chocolate fingers or cakes you couldn't find actual Cadbury's chocolate to save your life over here x)
Cadbury was purchased by Kraft (US). Note to all commenters - she is comparing the taste of the two most widely available bars IN THE US. She is not reviewing the entirety of Europe's industry.
Yes it is, as Cadbury is just a form of packaging of chocolate by Mondeléz, the conglomerate that formed out if Kraft, and owns Milka, Cadbury, Lu, Marabu, and many more, which is why those chocolates all taste the same and are only available where their brand already is established.
Lindt costs 2-3 dollars where I live curiously. It considered one of the lowest in "proper gift" category. I think german Ritter Sport is the best bang for a buck - for 1-2 dollars it tastes more or less like actual chocolate. Some local chocolate can be very good but their filling game lacks and plain chocolate can bore you sometimes.
i'm a brit who moved to NY and i couldnt believe how disgusting hersheys is, considering its fame. it tastes literally of vomit to me. yanks who move to europe must think they've died and gone to heaven when they taste the chocolate. how does hersheys still have a market share? I'd hate to own hersheys stock
Well, if your taste buds get destroyed in your first years of living on this planet, then you really won’t care how do Hershey’s products taste afterwards))
@@ordenmanvrn7685 people grow with different tastebuds. Although I spent my early childhood in Spain Ill probably spend most of my years in the uk and thus getting used to it so Ill prolly also think hersheys taste like vomit
Well I'm European and i never heard of Cadbury company, the "biggest" in Europe. Kinder, Milka, these are the ones I know if we are talking about leaders
Cadburys outsells both of those. Toblerone is the highest selling European chocolate and Mars is the highest selling American chocolate. So the video is clearly just picking two chocolate brands at random and pretending they're ubiquitous.
@@Mann_mit_Kaffee This isn't much of an argument. Let's change the parameters to something easier to measure. A: "Mohammed is the most common name in the world" B: "But China is the most populous country and I've never heard of a Chinese person called Mohammed" A: "What you're missing is that people in China have more diverse given names and that there are many countries in which Mohammed is exceedingly common, even if those individual countries have lower populations than China. So in fact, China is not a great indicator of global trends on this topic." I think you can see where I'm going with this. Germany (the richest in Europe) certainly does have the leading chocolate market. But it also has a substantially wealthier population than many other European countries, so many German people are interested in high-quality or specialist chocolate proportionally higher than other European states. This leads them to seek out a multitude of different brands and chocolate makers, including organic products, locally made products, etc. As such, Germany does not necessarily determine the most popular brand of chocolate substantially more than other European countries (especially combined).
@@jakub1687 They are falsely equating the UK with Europe as a whole. Cadbury's is one of the most iconic brands in the UK, but not so in the rest of Europe as I understand it.
After I tasted European chocolate at the Polish deli, international food stores, and visited France 🇫🇷 for a month I can no longer fully enjoy Hersey’s anything. All I taste is sugar grains dissolving in my mouth. 😵💫
I remember eating hersheys in some gas station that was produced in europe and then one produced in america and imported here. The differrence was undescribable
Those countries have really good chocolate! I also recommend chocolate from the Norwegian brand Freia. Nidar also has good chocolate, but it is very different from Freia.
@@jeaniehat ALDI chocolate is a mix really. Some of it is good quality even though its quite low cost, but some is total garbage (dairyfine). I have only been to ALDI in the UK so there is also quite a lot of domestic UK chocolate as well.
I taste the sour but honestly the main thing to me is the cacao %. Even if some of the european 30% is cacao butter, it's still less weird fillers and adds savoryness and creaminess. American chocolate often seems like chocolate imitation.
I am also focused on this as well, I am not very experienced with knowledge of food material. However if I know anything about general materials, 30% and 10% are very different. I would assume that the flavour is at least somewhat different due to this.
@@numbernumber25 as the video stated, the 10% minimum is pure cacao (the cocoa butter is calculated separately), where the 30% minimum includes both cacao and cocoa butter, so both minimums end up with about the same amount of pure cacao in the final product.
@@OrangeFluffyCat It did not specifically say pure cacao, but it did say cacao powder. Also so you are saying that the chocolate companies in Europe have to use 3 times as much material in terms of cacao solids and cacao butter to have an equal amount to 100 percent cacao powder. By that I mean if they had 100 grams of pure cacao, to get the same amount of pure cacao they would have to get about 300 grams of cacao butter and cacao solids.
@@numbernumber25 that’s not what I’m saying, you seem confused by the numbers and are taking them literally. It’s about different ways of measuring minimum standards in different areas. For one the minimum seems to be 30% cocoa solids (any percentage of cocoa powder and any percentage of cocoa butter, both adding up to equal 30% of the final product by weight) and the other standard is 10% cocoa powder by weight in the final product at minimum in order to be considered chocolate. The 30% standard one could conceivably be a very light milk chocolate bar with only 5% cocoa powder (and 25% cocoa butter) in the final product. For most consumers tastes though, they’re likely expecting a milk chocolate bar that has about 10% or more cocoa powder in order to not be too much like a white chocolate bar.
@@OrangeFluffyCat Okay, so let me just clarify. So you are saying that for the 30% rule of cacao butter and cacao solids that the amount of actual cacao could be very low like 5%. While on the other hand the 10% rule is that by the end at minimum the product has at least 10% in cacao powder. Okay if that is correct, then this could mean that there could be products labeled as specifically chocolate in Europe that could have a very low percent of cacao by that I mean something that is not considered white chocolate. Also the main part I was confused about was just in general how the percent and amount of cacao solids and cacao butter converted to cacao powder, to me I expected that in general that a European chocolate bar following the 30% rule of cacao butter and cacao solids would have more cacao than the US chocolate bar following the 10% rule of cacao powder.
"Lets now shift our focus to the most importand ingredient: milton hershey" well no miracle american chocolate tastes like vomit if you push people in. This isnt charlie and the chocolate factory you know
Americans ignore whole world and whole world ignores americans first measurement system, then chocolate that tastes like shit compared to european, what is next? 🤣
When I tasted American chocolate for the first time I was always looking at the label to make sure that the chocolate wasn't expired... Not my favourite chocolate for sure 😝
I'm from Finland and my violin teacher once gave me a Hershey's bar. And I did not like it. It just did not taste good. If you wanna have good chocolalte, Milka, Marabou and Fazer are good ones
Fazer is way more superior than Milka, I mean Milka has good chocolate, but they are way to sweet in comparison to Fazers. But still there are good Milka chocolates
Couldn't agree more. Grew up on Milka, but Fazer is just so much better. Tried it once during a student exchange trip and have been missing it ever since
Milka is definitely not good chocolate. It tastes like sugar with coca powder. It’s far too artificially sweet for chocolate. If you want good chocolate go for Swiss or Belgian chocolate.
To set the record straight..Cadbury is a British brand which is extremely famous in Southern Asian Countries. And the Cadbury Bar they took as an example (Diary Milk) is made in India. So yes, it was a poor choice to pick Cadbury as a chocolate that represented European taste.
She also left out that American chocolate is one of the only few chocolate brands that still use fresh milk... and a lot of European chocolate uses vegetable oil to create that smooth creamy texture.... Hershey's chocolate actually melts because it has real milk
@@Lucachetii when I said Farm Fresh I'm talking about the milk comes from local farmers they have it delivered twice a week fresh from the cows... and my source is Me Myself and I I live right down the road from Hershey's I have family members that work there and I have family members that sell their milk to Hershey's.... and people have so many negative things to say about Hershey's and they are one of the only lasts chocolate companies that use real milk.... that's why they add a thin layer of beeswax on the outside of their chocolate bars because chocolate made with real milk melts at a lower temperature.... America is hotter than Europe so they have to add the wax so the chocolate doesn't melt on the store shelves
@@Lucachetii Butyric acid is added in a small dose it has no effect on the chocolate it's just other people especially British people are not use to milk in their chocolate.... because other chocolate company is Will substitute half of the milk with vegetable oil
I live in Australia growing up on Cadbury's chocolate, that's my normal. I purchased a Hersheys chocolate bar at a candy store that imports foreign goods. I took a bite and threw it in the bin, it was disgusting. Biggest waste of $5. We actually have a chocolate factory here is Hobart Tasmania and up until about 2015 you could take a tour of the factory and they would have free samples and also that had an off-cuts store that sold chocolate that had problems, like too many nuts or too little, or toot much mint, or too little. Etc, stuff that didn't meet their quality standards to be sold in store. Sadly I think that is closed now and the few leading years to its closure was basically the prices went up to basically match retail prices.
Not cheaper. More scalable. It isn't that this cost less, it's that this method allowed him to expand production and shipping and increase his market reach with a shelf-stable product. For taste it's not optimal, but for it's time it was a massive innovation that allowed his chocolate to become the standard in the country. Keeping it after refrigeration became viable is a bad idea, sure. But don't misattribute the reasons this happened to mere thrift, this was a deliberate choice that made perfect sense at the time and has just never been corrected.
Honest to god they can probably do it the other way without it costing more, Americans just tend to find chocolate without the sour taste "bland" at this point. Different regions have different palettes defined by historical and cultural context. Neither is inherently better or worse.
I am from Japan. It is always the smell of the Hershey's that gets me strongly when I open up. I thought that I was the only one. Now I am relieved. Thank you!
Another interesting tidbit about cocoa: in its natural state, it's slightly acidic and has a reddish color. It has to have alkalines added to it to neutralize the acid, creating "dutch process" cocoa powder. Cocoa powder in the U.S. is more commonly found untreated, which is why a lot of cocoa-centric recipes call for baking soda.
My dad used to do loads of business in the states. He’d come back with bags and bags of Hershey’s and I always felt too bad to tell him how disgusting they were.
as a 3rd gentration spaniard me nan use to bring us back spanish salimi it would make me and me brother sick i love spanish food but there salimi taste like shit
Here in Finland you can't find Cadbury's chocolate anywhere. Main brands are the Swedish Marabou and domestic Fazer chocolate. Then there are some smaller manufacturers as well like Panda etc.
Yeah, there's Milka in here, but I think it's easily one of the worst chocolates we have. I think Fazer and Panda chocolate are the best of the more popular chocolates that we have here. Marabou is too sweet in my opinion.
0:22 Right off the top: "There's a scientific reason why Europeans think our chocolate tastes so bad... cheddar" Well there's the problem, stop putting cheddar in the chocolate!
I am from India.. Cadbury is a major brand in India as well and I always disliked Hershey's extra sweet chocolate we have here imported from the US. This video sums up everything to me!
guys... Cadbury was probably the biggest competitor of Hersey's in the past, during wartime, which is relevant to what they were talking about when they said Cadbury was Hersey's biggest competitor. They also probably only stuck to comparing Hersey's to Cadbury for simplicity sake, less chocolate brands to think about.
I don't think any of the Mars chocolate brands taste like vomit, and even some Hershey's products are good, like Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (which still has a vague vomity taste if you really look for it, but it's saved by the peanut butter and sugar).
I'm Chilean, I remember buying a chocolate in a American Airport and saying my mother this taste like vomit lol. My mother couldn't eat it also and we trow it away
Chilean too. I've been saying for years that Hershey's milk chocolate has a vomit aftertaste. A Trencito is 10 times better. I've known Americans and even Spaniards that say Chilean chocolate is better than theirs.
@@a2falcone no he probado el chocolate de chile pero si alguien de españa dice eso no es por el motivo del video ya que aqui el chocolate no se hace como en estados unidos y tambien nos sabe a vomito el de allí
Soy Boliviana y no entiendo el amor a los pinches Hersheys. Pero tb vivo en UK ahora y no es q Cadbury u otros productos sean mejor en mi opinión. Osea Lindt y otras marcas sí son buenas pero aun prefiero chocolates q sólo logro encontrar en Bolivia (y no es q sean Bolivianas, muchas son marca Nestlé y Arcor). No sé cuál será la diferencia pero la siento
My fiancé once sent me a carepackage from America with chocolate in it, and I legitimately couldn’t get through it - meanwhile, the chocolate I send from Denmark is something she savours and only takes out during special occasions because it’s just that good.
Canada has both Hershey 🤢 and Cadbury, Lindt, Kinder, Fererro, etc. And I’ve never understood why someone would choose Hershey’s over any of the others.
@@someone.6259 It’s just so cheap like you can literally bio for 1$ and it could feed your entire family. Second of all Hershey it’s not even made for how good it taste in your mouth like I’m sure they said that in the video. Hershey chocolate can’t feed millions of people who are in poverty while European chocolate is made for the rich!
Most stores in the US have at least one or two decent brands of chocolate as well as Hershey's nowadays too, either European brands or at least American ones that don't try to copy Hershey's vomit flavor.
@@isonlygameyuhefftobemad9544 I'm sure some people in North Korea are also just fine with bowing to their dictator. Can't be unhappy if you don't know of anything better.
as a indian many chocolate brands came to india from usa and europe but cadbury won the race in india i think the most successful american chocolate in india is snickers and it has very niche market
I'm a French European that moved to North America, and when I try products that are similar to the one in Europe. the taste are completely subpar, I told this to my wife who is American and she told me because the older you get, your taste buds it less sensitive she said. So I took my wife to Europe and she never question my taste buds again.
Wow, you’re so much better than us. Thank you for explaining.
But I bet you you can never handle Mexican food
Even as a Canadian... Americans really have no idea how bad their packaged food is compared to the rest of the world. Or even their regular food. I will go to a fast food place here, or in Europe (family in the netherlands), but never in the US; the food often looks the same, but tastes like garbage.
American here. Travelled the world, never found the food more appealing. Even French food, just OK (but deserts are good). When in Switzerland, they told me they like American beef more than their own grass fed because it is corn fed and fatty and better tasting -- which I fully agree.
@@FreeManFreeThought It’s cool if you say something European or Canadian is good, but can you not go on and on insulting others? And I thought Canadians were supposed to be nice.
Hershey's kisses taste like that cheap chocolate that you get for free as a merchandise giveaway from some European company not related to food at all
It tastes worse, it really tastes like vomit. Very unpleasant, at least to the European pallet.
How can you be so, so right.
Even as a Canadian, who as a neighbour of the USA, grew up with most of their chocolate. And I can tell you, even to someone who is used to that chemical process? Hershey’s kisses are gross… Hershey’s chip-its? Delicious, but kisses? Weird taste and pretty grainy at first.
@@Chimera_Photography I'm an American and I dont really like the kisses either
The Christmas chocolate Santa or Easter chocolate Easter bunny packed in aluminium for 1€ piece. Those taste trash, sometimes it feels like ur eating the aluminum too
As a German, this is especially extreme, because we are basically used to Swiss Chocolate, seeing Switzerland as our personal chocolate supplier.
Swiss chocolate really is the best. I'm from Scotland and took German in school, and we sent chocolate to a school in Germany and they sent us piles of swiss chocolate and it was actual heaven
I would say belgian chocolate is the best.
@@jensverweert8448 says the belgian., as a swiss I have to disagree :)
@@rob6129 The real chocolate war isnt usa vs europe but belgium vs switzerland
Triggers in Belgium...
I'm a European and I've first heard of Cadbury last year.. It's a UK chocolate, not very popular in Europe. I would say Milka or Lindt are the ones everyone knows about. But Lindt cannot even be put in the same sentence with Hearshy's lol it's at whole different level in terms of quality, taste and variety
“Not very popular in Europe”
Cadbury is literally the second largest manufacturer of chocolate on the planet 😂
@@lilHamster9t7 everyone in EU seems to agree that they mostly never heard of Cadbury, it may be the biggest manufacturer but the chocolates they make are very different UK vs the rest of Europe.
I'm in England and Cadbury tastes cheap, it's like comparing junk food to gastronomic cuisine. It becomes quickly nauseating unlike Milka or Lindt chocolates. Some brands do better on very dark chocolate though.
@@ag.3820 I am european and I have only heard of Milka. I have no idea what a cadbury and a Lindt is
@@qasmokes that’s funny I’m American and I see both Lindt and Cadbury here in the states lol
Interesting to hear about Cadbury as the "standard" in European chocolate, I've never seen this brand in shops in Switzerland, France or Germany. Have to try it, whenever I get to visit the UK next...
cadbury is awful now, they changed their recipe like a year ago and ever since then its sickly and it just isnt nice. it used to be really good dont get me wrong, but ever since that recipe change its been cursed. i thought it was just me, but nope, its quite a lot of people who think this way.
@@lokep0012 Then I will buy a bottle of water with the chocolate, I case I have to rinse my mouth :-)
Cadbury is very much a British brand and isn't popular in mainland Europe. To mainland Europe Cadbury isn't deemed a good chocolate because of the low amount of cocao fat compared to mainland Europe chocolate. Cadbury uses more non-cocoa vegetable fat. Belgium, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Luxembourg and Greece (at least in 1997) ban the use of non-cocoa vegetable fat in the production of chocolate - which might explain why Cadbury's doesn't sell well there are it wouldn't be allowed to be called chocolate.
As such the EU parliament in 1997 passed a motion to ban "milk chocolate" being used for chocolate with high vegetable fat - but I don't think anything came of that because for the years after that vote and while the UK was still in the EU it wasn't renamed to "vegelate" as was proposed.
@@WelshBathBoy Maybe they get their chance in Europe once more with the rise of veganism ;-)
Cadbury is disgusting when you are used to traditional mainland Europe chocolates. I'm living in Ireland where Cadbury is the norm and I wouldn't touch these even if it's a gift.
Who will tell them that Cadbury isn’t ‘Europe’s chocolate’?
It's a Mondelez brand and sold as Milka in Europe.
It's widely available in India... Majority of them know Cadbury in india... Majority of them in India never heard of Hershey.
@@mikebegonia6134 they also sell Milka as a separate brand in the UK. It's not the same as a cadbury's chocolate bar.
@@RottingEarth I never heard of Cadbury chocolate but in my country you see Milka everywhere and it's really good.
I recall there was an attempt to ban UK chocolate being called chocolate as it has so much lower a ratio of coco compared to many continental chocolates (especially Swiss chocolate).
The moment they're calling cadbury european chocolate, you can almost hear all the Belgians and Swiss sigh in contempt.
It's a RUclips short documentary they went with easiest country they could identify as Europe
@@FERTUHG I feel like almost all American made videos that compare anything between America and Europe always use GB or British things as a comparison, thinking that they represent the whole Europe. I don't even know what the hell cadbury is, there are a lot more popular chocolates they could have chosen, like Milka, Kinder, Ferrero and a few others that aren't mainly sold in Britain...
@@VanganPL As a Brit, I can tell you three things that the British have always been SHIT at: Coffee, chocolate and ice cream.
The continentals do them all WAY better.
Hey sell lays kinder also in the uk
@@TryptychUK not really with chocolate idk about coffee and ice cream
if you look into it alot of chocolate you are led to believe was from America such as twix are actually from the UK
I ate a hershey's bar 5 years ago on vacation and my first thought was: Why does this chocolate taste like vomit? I actually threw the bar away, thinking it had gone bad and bought another one a few days later in a different store. It had the same taste that imediately made me think of vomit. I'm so happy to finally figure out why!
It doesn’t taste like vomit. It’s just not good. Vomit is super gross and Hershey’s is so much better tasting. But for chocolates it’s awful I guess. Unless you’re in usa
I had either a Hershey or a Nestle melt in my pocket once. Never had that problem with Lindt.
@@13_cmi Yes it does, I grew up in the U.S all my life and the after taste of that Acidic Hershey's Kiss or bar crap is similar to that after just having thrown up. Not too mention the sourness of it from the smell alone. The Parent's learned quickly that only my middle Sister would eat that shit and began replacing it with Skittles or Jolly Ranchers anything but Hershey's for the rest of us, we just would not eat it.
@@animalyze7120 it’s not the best chocolate but no it doesn’t taste like vomit. Unless your diet is entirely Hershey’s bars.
@@13_cmi why are you like this? when people say it tastes like vomit, its because when they eat it, it tastes like they just puked in their mouth or someone else puked nearby and the smell is confusing their taste buds.
Cadbury chocolate is available in most former countries of the British Empire,I've never seen it around Europe.
And it tastes almost as bad as US chocolate really 😋
As a Belgian, I have to agree. Cadbury and Hershey's are equally bad. They're okay in small quantities or for candy bars and stuff but actually enjoying the taste of the chocolate in either of them is impossible
It's quite easy to find in german supermarkets, at least a small variety of the big bars
Cadbury has a different name in a continental Europe. Name of Cadbury in continental Europe is Milka.
@@David-kn4hb bs
I was so disappointed when I tasted Hershey’s for the first time after hearing so much about it and it was DISGUSTING 😭 young me was so hurt
I know an international friend got a care packet from home including American chocolate. She wanted me to taste them and I did not want to be disrespectful as I hated most of them
Exactly. Awful
Man you guys are weak
@@gmodrules123456789 no man feeling hurt over somebody else's taste in chocolate is weak.
@@babbes4210
“Young me was so hurt”
Getting hurt over chocolate you don’t like is weak and pathetic. If you don’t like, you don’t have to eat it, but we also don’t need to hear about how horrible it was for you. Boo hoo nobody gives a shit.
so its chocolate but with the definitive scientifically explainable vomit taste
I mean, at least when you vomit you taste Hershey's, so its kind of a win.
Or some fancy European cheese
Yes! lol. I remember as a kid thinking Parmesan cheese smelled like vomit, because it absolutely does! Same chemical! Funny how some smells are vile in one context and yummy in another.
freedom taste like dog ass and puke
yes
British here- Cadbury isn't European, I'm pretty sure a lot of Europeans haven't even heard of Cadbury. A better example of a European chocolate would be Milka or Lindt
I'm an American and as you can tell from D.C. Around 9 years old I had a childhood friend bring me chocolates from Belgium and Switzerland respectively after their family had a long Euro vacation and I've never tasted American chocolate the same.
Belgium-like chocolates are absolutely flavors from the heaven!
Ive never tried american chocolate but i want to see what it taste like so bad now
@@Daniel-gs9eh Try the dark Hershey's bars with almonds. Their quality is a little better and they are acceptable if you are used to standard Western European qualities. Still, they do have a little of this strange pungent baby puke smell.
@@Mike.Muc.3.1415 There are a few stores that sell american candy near me so I'll try the dark Hersheys and the regular one maybe, or the kisses. What other American chocolate would you reccomend (outside of candy bars)?
@@somedonkus69420 I couldn't recommend an other one, my next recommendation would have been candy bars. Americans like baby-puke tasting chocolate, but they are really good in creating all kinds of choco bars.
"Hershey may not be on top of the chocolate world much longer"
Since when was it at the top of the chocolate world in the first place?
Who do you think is at the top then lmao Wonka?
@@quinn7427 Ferrero Rocher there's a ton of other brands in the world. ._. How can a brand be the top of the world when you can't even find it in a lot of countries unless you go to stores which specifically sell products from other countries that you can't find in normal grocery stores.
@@farmam1501 so your logic is that unless it is a common name for 7 billion people then it isnt #1? What? Living in the US i had never heard of Fererro Rocher until this year
@@quinn7427 The US is not the only country in the world. I understand that it's hard for you to grasp the idea that not everyone likes the same things as you. May I remind you that the video we are watching is literally called "Why Europeans hate the taste of American chocolate".
I don't get why Americans value Hershey's so much in the first place. There are so many better chocolates. Ferrero Rocher is a good example.
As a Dutch person who once tried some Hershley kisses I can confirm that sour taste is indeed there. I seriously thought the chocolate was spoiled and asked an American friend about it. "No, it's not. Most of our chocolate just tastes like trash." She said. I sent her a block of Cote d'or last Christmas and she loved it.
Imma send one of my American friends a bar of Tony’s Chocolonely
Dutch Chocolate is amazing
ayyy cote d'or! :)
I tried Hershey Kisses once and had to spit it out. Disgusting. I love Swiss and Belgian Chocolate. German chocolate is also very good.
I had a girl that was taking a trip to Belgium bring me back some chocolates, they were amazing. Included was Cote d'or and I ordered bulk amounts from their US distributer after that.
Now I understand why my Estonian cousins think our US chocolate tastes "different" and "not as good" as the chocolate there. They have sent me some Kalev brand chocolates in exchange for some Hershey brand chocolates. TBH, I absolutely LOVE their chocolates!!! 🍫🥰
Might be worth trying. Thanks.
"But it's not our fault!"
I meaaaaannnn, you just explained how scientifically they don't need to use the compound anymore, but still add it because people like the taste.
I know, right? She's making excuses.
@@kaizokujimbei143 i mean, if they like it....
@@ИмяФамилия-ф2д8ш Them liking shit does not excuse the act of eating shit.
If you wanna eat shit then OWN TO THE FACT that you wanna eat shit.
It's at the vary least Hershey's and the US Government's fault.
Haha, when she said that part I couldn't help whispering "it absolutely is".
After I tasted European chocolate I was hooked. There’s no turning back to American chocolate. It’s so creamy and delicious. German “Rittersport” and “Merci”is delicious and is not expensive. Most American chocolate is crap compared to European chocolate. Thanks to my middle school German teacher for showing me this.
Have you tried Estonian , Kalev chocolate , can sometimes find at Russian market stores that can be found around US.
I sometimes buy a chocolate made in Germany and sold at ALDI stores. I have admit that it has a different taste than the stuff I have had from Hershey .
When I go to Europe I always bring my mum some rittersport such nice choc!! Never tried Hershey's bar I've heard too many bad things
I have comparsion in between English, Polish, German, Swiss, Japan-Polish (Wedel aka Lotte) and Italian chocolates. The best are Germans, even those cheepest. Have best taste and ingidients. Although the differences aren't huge.
@@glennso47 That chocolate at Aldi is good stuff. Cheaper and better than Hershey.
English chocolate is different from German chocolate or Belgian chocolate or Italian, French, ect.
English chocolate has a flavor that may taste sour or like cheese to some in Europe too. So it depends were you from and what you grew up with.
I hate how they try to be "cosmopolitan" and then be like EuRoPe Is A sInGlE cOuNtRy
I never thought about that but it explains a lot. I'm German and once had chocolate from the UK and hated the taste so much. I wasn't able to eat it, so I melted the chocolate and put it in cake 😄
@@katzenlady5339 did you try American chocolate?
@@gavind351 No, not as far as I remember
@Pascal Jäger You're right. I wouldn't say it tastes like cheese or vomit or something like that. 😄 But different to german chocolate.
"There's a scientific reason why Europeans think our chocolate tastes so bad."
Yah.
The reason is theirs is so much better.
As a kid I told my councilor that Heshey's tasted like cardboard. The next day I brought Swiss chocolate. He understood.
It does! It tastes cheap! Hersheys Is an insult to chocolate. It should be only be allowed to be referred to as "chocolate product". Like "cheese product". Yep. Hersheys is the equivalent of "cheese product".
@@candieland4276 Totally agreed.
@@candieland4276 yes. Someone gave me imported original Hersheys and its taate nothing but fat and sugar, so yucky.
My local cheapee chocolate brand even taste better, like Silverqueen.
@@candieland4276 I mean Hersheys is practically wartime chocolate/military rations.
@@aterriblefuze9540 in my country military chocolate actually tastes pretty good
3:28 "fine-tuned his cacao" is a wonderful euphemism for paying immorally low prices for beans from the Ivory Coast
This. ☝👏👏
Also called him a "savvy businessman" when he sidestepped regulations in search of profit.
But no one wants to talk about this 🤦🏾♀️ 🇨🇮
@@calebbrown8365 that's what savvy business men do
Good point!
When I visited friends in America a few years ago I brought some Swiss chocolate along. They said they liked it so much better than American chocolate. Back then, I thought they were just trying to be polite but now I’m not so sure anymore...
I'm British and Swiss chocolate is the best, for me.
There is something to be said for trying really delicious versions of something you love. Trying something entirely new and delicious isn't as much of a revelation as finding out how much better something you already know how to appreciate can should really taste.
swiss chocolate is definitely better, but hersheys is tolerable as long as you wash the aftertaste with a drink
@@W81HotPotLickin2nd Sounds odd to want / need to wash away the aftertaste.
When I told them that Hershey's left me a cheese like aftertaste, they called me crazy. Now i know i was also right.
The stores ran out of local chocolate here in Jamaica over the holidays, so I broke down and bought a Hershey bar. It was the worst, most disgusting thing I've eaten in my life. Brushed my teeth right way to try to get rid of the taste of vomit, but no luck. Rinsed with hydrogen peroxide afterward, which helped.
My Belgian ass: cries in French, screams in Dutch and calls the Swiss cousin to complain about American chocolate in German
Hahahahahah
Agreed
Speak ENGLISH!
And comments on RUclips videos in English
@@n.n.8423 Que? No entiendo.
Calling a french guy named "Michel" - Michael is probably even more american than Hershey's chocolate
LMAO
Or a Dutch Michiel being called Michael
@@Lil_Fella99 miii-c-h-al
@@Lil_Fella99 Ja maar kom op, Michiel is ook gewoon niet uit te spreken voor niet NL-ers. (Michelle wordt ook altijd Michel..)
American here:
I actually hate that anyone who changes anyone's name to suit their own language just give us time and we can learn how to pronounce it and I've made that effort lots of times I've actually seen more latin americans do that than anyone else just in my personal experience
I've known people who try to change my brother's name from James to Ha-mez....it's not "Ha-mez" it's James
I had always wondered why my vomit tasted like Hershey’s chocolate...
💀😭
Dude, a lot of other foods have butyric acid. Most French cheeses, butter, goat’s milk, yogurt, etc. I assume you think those taste like vomit too?
That's an interesting perspective. Vomit tastes like Hershey's in the USA, but Hershey's tastes like vomit in Europe.
@@foginxtor1378 Both are true if you ate enough Hershey's chocolate!
@@glasscardproductions4736 You sound really pretentious. You know that, right?
Living in Europe teaches you to eat less chocolate in terms of quantity, but more in terms of quality. Just go every year to the Salon du Chocolat de Bruxelles and discover all these "artisans chocolatiers". Some are well know like Marcolini, others less known but excellent like Willems.
I am so happy that I'm not the only who thinks Hershey's tastes like something that comes for free in a cheap gift hamper.
It's a one dollar candy bar... Who ever had high expectations of it? Lol
Then don’t eat Nestle, they’re worse lol
So true
@Ally_A ikr Milka is quite cheap yet all of their chocolates have a nicely sweet taste with no hint of sourness at all. Even the cheapest chocolate for baking that costs quite less than 1€ (for 200g) tastes better than Hershey's.
@Ally_A completely agreed
You've convinced me fully to avoid american chocolate
I'm American and the only way to get quality chocolate is spending more money on expensive brands like Ghirardelli, Lindt, Godiva etc. I don't like our chocolate candy bars either but some still taste amazing like midnight milkyway, 5th avenue, Yorkie, payday, heath and reese's fast break. I think you just need to avoid the staple ones like Hershey, kitkat and snickers for example
@@vivaeuropa Oh dude, Ghirardelli is so good. Its the only commercial place I'll pay that much for chocolate and ice cream. Lindt and Godiva are good, too, but I like ice cream :P
Hersheys cannot even begin to compare.
@@vivaeuropa Yeah but this was about American chocolate. Lindt is Swiss, of course it's totally different. I personally like chocolate bars as well but not the horrible "Christmas figurine" -chocolate which Hershey's kisses apparently taste like based on this comment section. The U.S. is truly the land of marketing (and possibly stupid people too) where basically anything can become BIG
@@vivaeuropa what's wrong with snickers? I quite like it and I am from Finland... Oh wait, that might explain it. Vomit chocolate eaters from US hate our salty liquorice but I think it's fine, especially soft variants.
I'm South African and we're used to relatively high quality chocolate, particularly from Cadbury and Nestle'.
When visiting San Francisco and Seattle a few years back I was super keen to taste American chocolate, so grabbed a plain Hershey's bar and Snickers.
The Hershey's was an oily, rancid mess. Really awful. Snickers tasted oversweetened and rather synthetic.
I didn't bother with any other candy that trip - just didn't seem worth it.
When people gift imported chocs from North America and the UAE (this is, for some reason, a common trend for South Africans), it's almost always disappointing.
I think we tend to be spoiled for choice here, but I do question the palettes of folks in other countries, and more specifically the quality of consumer goods produced in first world countries.
I often travel through portugal, Italy, spain and France because I live in europe, never have I stumbled upon Cadbury and I love chocolate, of course you can find it if you look for it, but outside of the uk almost nobody eats cadbury, you should've used lindtt as an example, or ferrero.
Lindt and Ferrero are just WAY better chocolate brands. Cadbury is good for comparison because it's a cheap brand as Harshey
I'm in the UK and Cadbury is the worst they definitely should've compared something else
Pls lindt is superior. It wouldnt even be WORTH comparing
I think they should've used milka as a comparison, because it's everywhere in Europe, not just the UK. (and milka tastes wayyy better than any other chocolate with the same price tag)
Imagine making a US - Europe comparison and not even use European chocolate lmao-
As an American the Hershey's name brings to mind so many fond memories. I love their chocolate. However, Cadbury chocolate does taste better. It has a rich and creamy flavor that Hershey's chocolate doesn't have. Their Caramello bars are my absolute favorite.
I never knew how privileged we swiss people are until I tasted foreign chocolate 😅
In that case... no need to try. I’ll stick to Lindt. No need to get disappointed
Lindt tastes aweful once you had unadulterated chocolate. I cannot eat Lindt anymore. Makes me puke.
Same here in Germany with bread.
Foreign bread is awful.
if u want quality chocolate go to belgium, we have the best in the world
How don't you know swiss chocolate is known across the glove?
I'm Italian, never heard of Cadbury in my entire life. My all time favourite is Lindt, it used to be Kinder/Ferrero when I was younger tho.
if you want sweetness overload in a good way Ferrero is the way to go
lol as if, you must be 5
@@phoenixwright7802 what? Why?
Lindt GANG
I like Rittersport
They say that Milton Hershey is still being cloned and ground up as the key ingredient in making Hershey chocolate in America
They're trying to bring the man back so that he can make cheaper product by lowering cocoa farmers wages further and dispatching the failed attempts in the chocolate.
8:20 Yes i tasted Milton Hershey
I always thought Hershey’s was unpleasantly gritty - now I finally know why
@@Wackyshrekbiden hershey sould like a ass rash. Why would anyone eat ass rash
Cadbury's chocolate is more of a British chocolate than Europe wide chocolate, it is similar in taste but much like Thornton's the brand is a local thing.
I grew up with your average American chocolate, but always preferred gummy candies. My eyes were opened when I was a teenager and my family visited Ireland and the UK. I had never realized that chocolate could taste so rich and delicious, and I finally understood why I had never been a huge chocolate fan. I do love UK Cadbury, but the best chocolate I've ever eaten was from France - Bernachon.
In Europe every country has it's own ''big'' historic chocolate brand. In the UK it's Cadbury, in Germany it's Ritters, in the Netherlands It's Verkade (though Tony's are more popular nowadays) and in France it's Bernachon.
I always grew up with both American and German chocolate, but I never thought one tasted better or worse. My mom would go to germany every few months, and bring back a bar of Ritters dark chocolate, that she would guard because she always hated the taste of American chocolate. Since I grew up both both, I liked them equally until recently, when I noticed the kind of odd taste of Hershey’s chocolate, and that European chocolate was much richer and better tasting.
Honestly, the UK (precisely England) isn't exactly known in Europe for its good food. Granted, part of this perception is an issue of an Asterix comic, in which it is constantly joked about the Brits boiling everything and liking peppermint sauce. But just in general, there is a reason why there are Italian, French, Polish, Spanish, Greek, Irish and even German restaurants, but I have never seen an english restaurant.
Best chocolate is a battle between Switzerland, Belgium and Germany I think, with Switzerland usually having a slight edge.
I must say, England has changed over the past few decades with regard to food. There is indeed an English cuisine and it's not bad at all. (I'm not from the UK)
@@ShinyStarfire Yeah, but that is less English cuisine and more Brits discovering what good cuisine is and adapting it for their own use.
So I was right! My family back home thought I was being overly dramatic when I told them Hersheys tastes like actual vomit.
American here and I can confirm it tastes like vomit. European chocolate is superior!
Good chocolate is good.
I’ve had good and terrible from both regions
@@SRDuly2010 i have never tasted american chocolate and hope i never will
@@ValiaEstri its not like you are limited only to Hersheys, its not like u have the worlds biggest supermarkets which I bet have a lot of other brands and possibly some imports so saying all American choclate is bad is ridiculous.
@@royale7620 Since when did I say all American chocolate? The comment was about Hersheys. Anyway, it's an opinion, no need to get your panties in a wad.
In The Netherlands if you try hard enough, you could find Hershey’s or Cadbury’s but nobody buys it. The top brands are: Tony Chocolonely, Cote d’Or, Milka, Lindt, Kinder, Toblerone and Dutch & Belgian chocolates…
Tony Chocolonely makes me so happy!!
Yea, Hersheys bars are almost impossible to find in europe, but idfk why but you can sometimes find cadburys stuff in poland
Exactly
Milka is the most comparable brand to Cadbury in Europe. They're both owned by Mondelez and have very similar tastes. They sell them both here in the UK.
Cote d'or is nasty it makes me spit it out. Sugary fatty chocolate
So you're saying 10% cocoa powder = 30% cocoa powder+butter.
Have you taken a blow to the head?
I'm Australian and I think Hershey chocolate tastes exceedingly bleh.
That's cool. Kinda funny how I never really looked for Chocolate on yet but got this recommended anyways in the internet. But agreed, I'm German and once I tried Hershey.... Well it wasn't that good. At least the white chocolate variation was kinda nice
@@jetlagjack2925 seems topical to the video though, considering Australian chocolate is more similar to European chocolate than American.
Yup. Like tasteless mud
I'm American living in Australia and I immediately noticed a difference between the two types since Australia sells more European chocos at your typical woollies and Coles. I prefer European ones better even today.
I honestly agree with you , it's really meh.......
I’m from Australia, I tried a Hershey bar once and ‘why does this taste like vomit?!’ was my first and only thought.
All US sweets I have tasted are yuck. Candy corn is foul.
And then you passed out?
The more I hear about American food the more I realise that Americans must have broken taste buds
Same
yeah its fucken gross.. if youve grown up in a place where using milk powder alot.. its the taste when milkpowder stales
For your information CADBURY is no longer a UK brand. The company has a fascinating history but it was bought firstly by KRAFT and is now part of Mondelez. And the recipes already taste cheaper and worse. Thank you so much.
Although they deny it I think it comes from the palm oil they started using. Cadburys dairy milk should just use milk solids.
After a few chocolate bars and dessert brands(which I used to love)were bought by Mondelez, their taste is quite bad. It's sad
The recipe is the same.
Yeah, I was wondering about that. It kinda tasted just like Hershey's when I last tasted it.
@@PointNemo9 Don't think so. I was given a Cadburys Easter egg and the chocolate of the shell of the egg was much nicer than the taste of a bar of chocolate I had a couple of days later. I've noticed this before.
American here, if you ever had real European chocolate you’d understand why some Europeans say our chocolate taste like vomit. Without having taste it, its hard to make the comparison.
"... European Cadbury bar ..."
So I guess Europe = UK? I've never seen those in Germany.
I would rather choose Lindt or Ritter Sport for a representative. They are sold pretty much in every European country.
@@krzysztofswiniarski8275 in my opinion lindt is the best chocolate thats readily avaliable
They can't even be sold as chocolate in Continental Europe because the cocoa percentage is too low.
Cadbury is quiet comparable to Milka because both brands belong to Mondelez
@@chrissie9117 Milka brands are far superior, as good as milk chocolate can be
What you call chocolate is what we in Switzerland might call a chocolate product. Meaning that it contains mainly non- chocolate ingredients. I lived in the USA for some years and my experience with much American food is limited to having it tried only once.
They dont even know what switzerland is. Most cant tell the difference between sweden and switzerland. No joke
I could imagine that you have regretted trying it more often than you would like ...
@@hahmann In europe we have dark choclate that starts at 80% all the way to 90+%. Its nice IMO.
And healthier than sweetened chocolate.
@@hahmann Well, there are those 99% or 100% cocoa chocolate, but they are not that much bitter. Because "cocoa" include cocoa butter...
Here, a french-canadian is tasting a 100% lindt "chocolat" : ruclips.net/video/PkEqBg6gQK4/видео.html
In Poland we call these products "chocolate-similar" or "chocolate-like"
I’ve never heard of Cadbury in my life. I was sure it was either Milka, Toblerone, Kinder or Ritter Sport that was the top sellers here in Europe
I’ve heard of the eggs from them but that’s it. And tobacco is good chocolate. I don’t notice a difference in flavor but it’s nice and snappy. Better than Hershey’s but not as good for s’mores cause weird shape
Cadbury is more of a British thing
Biggest seller in Ireland aswell
I just saw Cadbury in Australia.the taste I'd Similar to milka
Rittersport is 😙👌 just amazing
Unfortunately too many Americans have been raised/trained to believe we have the best of everything....or that it is normal.
- terrible privatized health care
-terrible junk fast food diets
-traffic laddened, expensive maintenance car centric suburban sprawls
So what you're basically saying is that Hershey's intentionally "spoils" its milk before use to make it last longer, hence why it tastes sour to the taste buds of us across the water?
Even to us Americans it's very much more "sour" and waxy than British chocolate, we just don't mind and it's cheaper.
@@_TehTJ_ and to Indians, South Americans, Canadians, and Europeans, both English and American chocolate taste like cheap shit. and this is coming from a proud American. Hershey's tastes like morning mouth after a night of drinking, compared to European or Bolivian chocolate which just melts in your mouth with a sweet taste
A lot of other foods have butyric acid. Most French cheeses, butter, goat’s milk, yogurt, etc. Some are acquired tastes, but to say they’re all objectively poor tasting foods is nuts.
Jup!
@@johncenaplayingstarcraft9580
Hershey's is actually massive in the Arabian Gulf. Back in college, I met a foreign student from there and they absolutely loved Hershey's. They are one of the biggest producers of chocolate in that region so most people associate the Hershey's brand as the default chocolate like in America.
I remember the first time I send Hersheys kisses to my mother in Germany- she was like: why are you sending me chocolate vomit? 🤣 now I know why
I tried them and they do taste like vomit. I am from the UK.
Where do I find them I need to try them
@@salz446 have to find special sweet shops that import these treats.
@@salz446 They taste like those 1 euro christmas choclates you get in stores. Disgusting
I have never visited the USA but I bought a bar of Hershey's while on holiday in Tobago and it did indeed taste like puke. America does do great things but that chocolate, oh boy it was foul!
Initial instant response after seeing the title: "idk, because we have Belgium and Switzerland?"
I was also like, why are they talking about an UK product when we have two 'chocolate countries'.
Not every country in europe has swiss or belgian chocolate in europe. But in poland, one company named "Wedel" produces chocolate which might just be as good as belgian chocolate tbh. Its very rare outside of Poland and the Czech Republic tho
@@perfectlynormalhuman5473 i am sure lindt chocolate is sold all over europe. lindt is swiss.
@@glinnes456 tf is lindt, Lithuanian speaking
@@glinnes456 exactly right. from my knowledge (and I am a chocolate connaisseur) Poland has a variety of swiss and belgian chocolates (and yes, a lot of Lindt products). European chocolate just tastes amazingly 😌
I actually prefer American chocolate because of that slight sourness. It provides a counterbalance to the overpowering sweetness present in Euro chocolate and it doesn't make me want to vomit.
Who knew that a vomit chemical acts as a vomit deterrent?
Oh man, nobody warned me about this before I visited the US. I bought a Hershey's kiss thinking I was in for an absolute delight. It's funny to look back on now, but at the time I was so gutted. I grew up seeing them in movies and TV shows, I was really looking forward to trying one 😂😭
As an American, I actually like the flavor. But I still feel for you because they almost never sell those individually, just in bags of a few dozen. What'd you do with the rest of them?
@@BonaparteBardithion I can see how if you were used to it it wouldn't be an issue. I wonder if our chocolate would taste just as weird to you? I was there as part of a student trip so I shared them around. Only one person wound up liking them 😁
@@amyporter4335
Glad to hear everyone at least got some novelty out of it. 😁
I've had import chocolate. It's good, but nothing I'd swear by enough to pay twice the price for if I'm looking for a quick nibble. Those Lindt truffles sell pretty good, but I'm not sure if they're the same recipe as the Swiss version.
@@BonaparteBardithion oh for sure. And it's not like it was a deal-breaker, so much of the food we had on the trip was so good. Especially the 'diner-style' food, was really luxurious compared to cheaper eating out options here ☺️
I guess maybe this video could clear up the lindor question. If it has that specific acid in the ingredients list it'll be a US recipe, if not it's probably safe to say it's the same as in Europe 🤷
I guess I can meet both of you half way. I absolutely adore Hershey's kisses. But the rest of the Hershey's lineup make me throw up and I wouldn't even touch it with a stick. I live in India now, but spent a few years in the US, UK and middle east. Overall I'd rate Cadburys, Milka Lindt and the likes exponentially better than Hershey's overall. And I noticed this even in the middle east. People prefer the European chocolate taste over the American one. Goes without saying chocolate in India basically means Cadburys dairy milk. The only saving grace for American chocolates, as far as I'm concerned are some things made by Mars, but then again they're not just chocolate.
I'm from Italy. In the city where I live there is a vending machines shop that also sells candies from the United States of America. When I ate them, I've noticed that indeed their taste is quite different from equivalent Italian or European products. They feel a little more "artificial", don't really know how to say it, and I've thought that maybe they contain more preservatives than their IT/EU brethren. Or maybe it's the reason in this video.
it could be a number of different things. Italy and France are more keyed to a natural dark chocolate, while Americans mostly produce milk chocolate. plus, for bars meant international markets, there might be preservatives, along with the stuff in this video
also i dont know what she was on about with british Cadbury. it tastes the same but a little sweeter
it could be a number of different things. Italy and France are more keyed to a natural dark chocolate, while Americans mostly produce milk chocolate. plus, for bars meant international markets, there might be preservatives, along with the stuff in this video
also i dont know what she was on about with british Cadbury. it tastes the same but a little sweeter
@@johncenaplayingstarcraft9580 I agree. When I was in the UK then Cadbury felt real sweet
Honestly I just thought we used too much sugar and not enough coco.
Everything from the USA is artificial
Hershey‘s aim was to produce a cheap chocolate - you can‘t say he didn‘t succeed.
Viva la capitalism! (^u^)'
Well ... Calling it chocolate might be a high praise.
It's more like ... Brown bars.
Milton Hershey wanted to make chocolate with fresh whole milk from local farms, not with processed dry milk.
@@295g295 Considering that the butyric acid artificially makes the milk go bad in order to last longer then I would say that the milk is not fresh.
Edit: Please don't be butt hurt about this fact.
@Ryoshikari what's the price? Any estimates?
I came over to the states from Wales a few years ago, and fancied a nice bar of chocolate, so went down to the hotel shop and bought a standard bar of Hershey's. What could possibly go wrong? I'd heard of Hershey's from TV although at the time it wasn't sold where I lived. Well, I'm sure you know the feeling when you bite into something and it's not the taste you were expecting! My eyes widened and my mouth went into gag mode! I forced the first bite down eventually, but my brain refused to believe what had just happened, I assumed my taste buds hadn't woken up or something as there is no way a chocolate bar should taste the way I'd just imagined! so I took another bite, and holy shit! This chocolate really does taste of puke. I had lots of fun offering a chunk of Hershey's to my friends who were with me on the trip, just to see their reaction! We assumed that my bar was part of a dodgy batch. I know this post reads like I'm dissing American chocolate, ok I am a bit 😂, but if that is the taste you're used to then you obviously won't get the viseral reaction I had. Thanks for the video, I had completely forgotten about my American chocolate until now, so thanks for the reminder.
Well the original "secret process" mentioned at 4:05 sounds more like Hershey just bribed the guy from sanitation security and used the milk spoiled. Later he had to recreate this on an industrial scale obviously.
That was my first thought, too. Looks like the secret to using milk after 72 hours was to just use spoiled milk.
Definitely tastes spoiled.
Doesnt make sense since they still used the milk before 72 hours as well as after 72 hours.
@ཏྦཱལ་ག་པོ། Hi. Hope this doesn't sound aggressive or shitty, but you can't form butyrate from the breakdown of proteins - only from longer-chain fatty acids. Regards from the UK.
@ཏྦཱལ་ག་པོ། its not the protein turning into butyric acid, its the fat in the milk.
90% Europeans : never heard about Cardbury chocolate.
Bro like everyone loves Cadbury. Its like the go to thing for someone's birthday or Christmas.
@@Yo-lp4nz no 😭 europe is large continent, we don’t all have the same chocolates
@@oatmeal364 you don't? I thought Cadbury was like a big thing for all Europeans😭😭😭
@@Yo-lp4nz It's definitely UK chocolate. I would never consider it a European chocolate. No way lmao. And in the other european countries, cadbury is only sometimes available in those import stores
In different countries some products are called different things like lays is u.s and walkers in Europe even though they are the same product same with this Cadbury is in America and Milka seems to be what Europe has since they are made by the same company.
My brother brought some chocolates from USA. I really thought those were spoiled somehow
Sorry, but you sound really pretentious
Yeah you sound like a European snob
@@damnjustassignmeone i hope you dont brag then, like most americans who think USA is more advanced somehow
I had the same thing, the other candy were fine but i just thought chocolate had a shorter shelf life then
@@alfredoalcantar8691 nah that shit is disgusting. Lindt gang
As an American that has gone out of the country for 2 years now. I really dont like american chocolate anymore. LOL. I fell in love with Galaxy, milka, and cadbury. that's what you call real chocolate!
I love how this video completely ignores the addition of soy lecithin to replace cocoa butter. Just literally ignores it in the middle of reading the ingredients like "no these two ingredient lists are definitely the same!"
Soy lecithin isn't a replacement for cocoa butter, it's an emulsifier - and they did explain the difference between the emulsifiers used in Cadbury chocolate and the emulsifiers used in Hershey chocolate. However, PGPR, the other emulsifier they mentioned (which is used in both) actually IS used to partially replace cocoa butter to make the chocolate cheaper to produce. There are strict regulations on chocolate having to do with how much cocoa butter it has to contain (which is why if you look at a lot of labels you'll see things like "chocolatey coating" or "chocolatey flavor" - those products legally can't refer to those ingredients as "chocolate" because they use fats other than cocoa butter). Thanks to the major chocolate companies lobbying the United States government, they're allowed to replace a portion of the cocoa butter with PGPR (which was only invented 20 years ago) and still call the product "chocolate".
@@kumada84 20 years ago? That means the material is still in its testing phase... wow, you can lobby for anything in the US if you get the right idiot officials and enough indirect "financial aid" if that got through without issues.
Uh, because it's fucking not lmao. Where the hell did you even get that idea?
@@Elmithian But they said in the video that PGPR is also used in European chocolate under a different name (E4476 I think)
@@nouveaucourteduree9836 Fair point.
Still just saying Europe doesn't narrow it down much on exactly which country might allow its usage. Each country has its own rules and regulations... and there be a lot of countries here.
"Cadbury, Hershey's biggest European competitor"
Everything in that sentence is wrong, but the biggest wrong is even considering Hersey as a competitor
Yeah x) I moved to France and, apart from the odd Cadbury chocolate fingers or cakes you couldn't find actual Cadbury's chocolate to save your life over here x)
Cadbury was purchased by Kraft (US). Note to all commenters - she is comparing the taste of the two most widely available bars IN THE US. She is not reviewing the entirety of Europe's industry.
Yes it is, as Cadbury is just a form of packaging of chocolate by Mondeléz, the conglomerate that formed out if Kraft, and owns Milka, Cadbury, Lu, Marabu, and many more, which is why those chocolates all taste the same and are only available where their brand already is established.
Cadbury is not even sold on the continent ! They'd better taken Milka as a european chocolate.
@@allws9683 America is a continent, too. But you're right in that Hershey's is hardly available on the European* continent.
I'll take 10 dollar Lindt over a kilo of Hersheys ANY DAY. Unless...I got it for free and I'm selling it myself.
Lindt is the S Tier in the chocolate world!
@@Alex-oz2eu Lindt is considered to be rather upper-mid tier here in Switzerland. A very solid choice but nothing special ^^
@@Oliigu Also hier in DE ist des zumindest das beste was man bekommen kann haha
Lindt costs 2-3 dollars where I live curiously. It considered one of the lowest in "proper gift" category. I think german Ritter Sport is the best bang for a buck - for 1-2 dollars it tastes more or less like actual chocolate. Some local chocolate can be very good but their filling game lacks and plain chocolate can bore you sometimes.
@@Alex-oz2eu ne
i'm a brit who moved to NY and i couldnt believe how disgusting hersheys is, considering its fame. it tastes literally of vomit to me. yanks who move to europe must think they've died and gone to heaven when they taste the chocolate. how does hersheys still have a market share? I'd hate to own hersheys stock
I remember trying Hershey’s chocolate syrup as a child and thinking “Is this supposed to taste... good??”
Me too, I've always loved the chocolate, but the syrup was so terrible to me.
Well, if your taste buds get destroyed in your first years of living on this planet, then you really won’t care how do Hershey’s products taste afterwards))
@@ordenmanvrn7685 people grow with different tastebuds. Although I spent my early childhood in Spain Ill probably spend most of my years in the uk and thus getting used to it so Ill prolly also think hersheys taste like vomit
Ironically, the syrup contains 0% actual chocolate. It is very fake tasting. It's very hard to find real chocolate syrup in the US.
@@guriausa Chocolate sauce > "chocolate" syrup
Well I'm European and i never heard of Cadbury company, the "biggest" in Europe. Kinder, Milka, these are the ones I know if we are talking about leaders
Cadburys outsells both of those. Toblerone is the highest selling European chocolate and Mars is the highest selling American chocolate. So the video is clearly just picking two chocolate brands at random and pretending they're ubiquitous.
@@ungratefulmango That's even more strange i have never heard of Cadbury's chocolate if it's outselling Kinder and Milka 😆
@@Mann_mit_Kaffee This isn't much of an argument. Let's change the parameters to something easier to measure.
A: "Mohammed is the most common name in the world"
B: "But China is the most populous country and I've never heard of a Chinese person called Mohammed"
A: "What you're missing is that people in China have more diverse given names and that there are many countries in which Mohammed is exceedingly common, even if those individual countries have lower populations than China. So in fact, China is not a great indicator of global trends on this topic."
I think you can see where I'm going with this. Germany (the richest in Europe) certainly does have the leading chocolate market. But it also has a substantially wealthier population than many other European countries, so many German people are interested in high-quality or specialist chocolate proportionally higher than other European states. This leads them to seek out a multitude of different brands and chocolate makers, including organic products, locally made products, etc. As such, Germany does not necessarily determine the most popular brand of chocolate substantially more than other European countries (especially combined).
Lindt is also very good
@@jakub1687 They are falsely equating the UK with Europe as a whole. Cadbury's is one of the most iconic brands in the UK, but not so in the rest of Europe as I understand it.
"Let's now shift our attention to the most important ingredient: Milton Hershey". Oh no, what did you do to the chocolate, Milton?!
LOL
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Imao I thought the same 😭
Just his Secret Process. ;)
@@GameFreak7744 his special milk
After I tasted European chocolate at the Polish deli, international food stores, and visited France 🇫🇷 for a month I can no longer fully enjoy Hersey’s anything. All I taste is sugar grains dissolving in my mouth. 😵💫
A colleague came back from a trip to the US and she brought back some Hershey's chocolate. I genuinely thought it tasted like vomit
Same!!! We threw it out cause nobody in the office could eat it. It was so awful. And they usually eat everything.
How can you fuck up chocolate so much
I remember eating hersheys in some gas station that was produced in europe and then one produced in america and imported here. The differrence was undescribable
I myself as an American don't prefer American chocolate. I LOVE German, Belgian and swiss chocolates. They know how to use the cream!
You should try Galaxy, its basically just a bar of cream.
Have you tried ALDI chocolate?
@@jeaniehat Yes! I love their stuff! And of course it's delicious because it's from Germany.
Those countries have really good chocolate! I also recommend chocolate from the Norwegian brand Freia. Nidar also has good chocolate, but it is very different from Freia.
@@jeaniehat ALDI chocolate is a mix really. Some of it is good quality even though its quite low cost, but some is total garbage (dairyfine). I have only been to ALDI in the UK so there is also quite a lot of domestic UK chocolate as well.
I taste the sour but honestly the main thing to me is the cacao %. Even if some of the european 30% is cacao butter, it's still less weird fillers and adds savoryness and creaminess. American chocolate often seems like chocolate imitation.
I am also focused on this as well, I am not very experienced with knowledge of food material. However if I know anything about general materials, 30% and 10% are very different. I would assume that the flavour is at least somewhat different due to this.
@@numbernumber25 as the video stated, the 10% minimum is pure cacao (the cocoa butter is calculated separately), where the 30% minimum includes both cacao and cocoa butter, so both minimums end up with about the same amount of pure cacao in the final product.
@@OrangeFluffyCat It did not specifically say pure cacao, but it did say cacao powder. Also so you are saying that the chocolate companies in Europe have to use 3 times as much material in terms of cacao solids and cacao butter to have an equal amount to 100 percent cacao powder. By that I mean if they had 100 grams of pure cacao, to get the same amount of pure cacao they would have to get about 300 grams of cacao butter and cacao solids.
@@numbernumber25 that’s not what I’m saying, you seem confused by the numbers and are taking them literally. It’s about different ways of measuring minimum standards in different areas. For one the minimum seems to be 30% cocoa solids (any percentage of cocoa powder and any percentage of cocoa butter, both adding up to equal 30% of the final product by weight) and the other standard is 10% cocoa powder by weight in the final product at minimum in order to be considered chocolate. The 30% standard one could conceivably be a very light milk chocolate bar with only 5% cocoa powder (and 25% cocoa butter) in the final product.
For most consumers tastes though, they’re likely expecting a milk chocolate bar that has about 10% or more cocoa powder in order to not be too much like a white chocolate bar.
@@OrangeFluffyCat Okay, so let me just clarify. So you are saying that for the 30% rule of cacao butter and cacao solids that the amount of actual cacao could be very low like 5%. While on the other hand the 10% rule is that by the end at minimum the product has at least 10% in cacao powder. Okay if that is correct, then this could mean that there could be products labeled as specifically chocolate in Europe that could have a very low percent of cacao by that I mean something that is not considered white chocolate.
Also the main part I was confused about was just in general how the percent and amount of cacao solids and cacao butter converted to cacao powder, to me I expected that in general that a European chocolate bar following the 30% rule of cacao butter and cacao solids would have more cacao than the US chocolate bar following the 10% rule of cacao powder.
I think that the existence of a "Cadbury" chocolate producer is practically ignored ANYWERE in Europe outside UK.
"Lets now shift our focus to the most importand ingredient: milton hershey" well no miracle american chocolate tastes like vomit if you push people in. This isnt charlie and the chocolate factory you know
I was confused when they she said that. But I am pretty sure orange skinned green hair midgets singing increases flavour
AKA Soylent Green.
Lmao
“Super accessible”
pretty much only sells in the American market and is only eaten by Americans 😅
They sell it overseas too.
@@porcu12345 Yeah barely anyone buys it tho cos people know it's gross
Americans ignore whole world and whole world ignores americans first measurement system, then chocolate that tastes like shit compared to european, what is next? 🤣
When I tasted American chocolate for the first time I was always looking at the label to make sure that the chocolate wasn't expired... Not my favourite chocolate for sure 😝
Don’t get it, not American and absolutely love Hershey’s.
I'm from Finland and my violin teacher once gave me a Hershey's bar. And I did not like it. It just did not taste good. If you wanna have good chocolalte, Milka, Marabou and Fazer are good ones
Fazer is way more superior than Milka, I mean Milka has good chocolate, but they are way to sweet in comparison to Fazers. But still there are good Milka chocolates
Couldn't agree more. Grew up on Milka, but Fazer is just so much better. Tried it once during a student exchange trip and have been missing it ever since
Marabou is awesome
Oh man, any time I'm in Finland, Fazer chocolates are on my shopping list!
Milka is definitely not good chocolate. It tastes like sugar with coca powder. It’s far too artificially sweet for chocolate. If you want good chocolate go for Swiss or Belgian chocolate.
As a someone from the UK I tried a hersheys kiss and I'm not even joking the taste of sick was so overwhelming I felt ill for about an hour afterwards
Yep it sticks to the back of your tongue 🤢
"European chocolate" ah yes, my favourite singular flavour...
My Belgian ass is shaking 😂
@Johan European Hershey is different than American Hershey
Oh I eat European chocolate flavored candy every day
To set the record straight..Cadbury is a British brand which is extremely famous in Southern Asian Countries. And the Cadbury Bar they took as an example (Diary Milk) is made in India. So yes, it was a poor choice to pick Cadbury as a chocolate that represented European taste.
Why.... British chocolate is European.... Why compare to the worst one, or is it comparison between cheapest?
She also left out that American chocolate is one of the only few chocolate brands that still use fresh milk... and a lot of European chocolate uses vegetable oil to create that smooth creamy texture.... Hershey's chocolate actually melts because it has real milk
Fresh is the last thing I would describe American food as, what is your source btw
@@Lucachetii when I said Farm Fresh I'm talking about the milk comes from local farmers they have it delivered twice a week fresh from the cows... and my source is Me Myself and I I live right down the road from Hershey's I have family members that work there and I have family members that sell their milk to Hershey's.... and people have so many negative things to say about Hershey's and they are one of the only lasts chocolate companies that use real milk.... that's why they add a thin layer of beeswax on the outside of their chocolate bars because chocolate made with real milk melts at a lower temperature.... America is hotter than Europe so they have to add the wax so the chocolate doesn't melt on the store shelves
@@Lucachetii Butyric acid is added in a small dose it has no effect on the chocolate it's just other people especially British people are not use to milk in their chocolate.... because other chocolate company is Will substitute half of the milk with vegetable oil
I live in Australia growing up on Cadbury's chocolate, that's my normal.
I purchased a Hersheys chocolate bar at a candy store that imports foreign goods. I took a bite and threw it in the bin, it was disgusting. Biggest waste of $5.
We actually have a chocolate factory here is Hobart Tasmania and up until about 2015 you could take a tour of the factory and they would have free samples and also that had an off-cuts store that sold chocolate that had problems, like too many nuts or too little, or toot much mint, or too little. Etc, stuff that didn't meet their quality standards to be sold in store. Sadly I think that is closed now and the few leading years to its closure was basically the prices went up to basically match retail prices.
lmao you got scammed 5usd for a hersheys 😂🤣
Cadbury is pretty gross too though.
So in simple terms.
Herseys uses "spoiled" sour milk because its cheaper that way.
In the US, it always comes down to money. Always
This explains a lot
Not cheaper. More scalable. It isn't that this cost less, it's that this method allowed him to expand production and shipping and increase his market reach with a shelf-stable product. For taste it's not optimal, but for it's time it was a massive innovation that allowed his chocolate to become the standard in the country. Keeping it after refrigeration became viable is a bad idea, sure. But don't misattribute the reasons this happened to mere thrift, this was a deliberate choice that made perfect sense at the time and has just never been corrected.
Capitalism
Honest to god they can probably do it the other way without it costing more, Americans just tend to find chocolate without the sour taste "bland" at this point. Different regions have different palettes defined by historical and cultural context. Neither is inherently better or worse.
I am from Japan. It is always the smell of the Hershey's that gets me strongly when I open up. I thought that I was the only one. Now I am relieved. Thank you!
Another interesting tidbit about cocoa: in its natural state, it's slightly acidic and has a reddish color. It has to have alkalines added to it to neutralize the acid, creating "dutch process" cocoa powder. Cocoa powder in the U.S. is more commonly found untreated, which is why a lot of cocoa-centric recipes call for baking soda.
My dad used to do loads of business in the states. He’d come back with bags and bags of Hershey’s and I always felt too bad to tell him how disgusting they were.
Naaw it's the taught that counts.
as a 3rd gentration spaniard me nan use to bring us back spanish salimi it would make me and me brother sick i love spanish food but there salimi taste like shit
Cookies and cream is delicious though. Because it's not real chocolate
@@joesmith8701 *Salami
@@omarfuaad9644 thought* :D
"Let's now shift our attention to the most important ingredient... Milton Hershey"
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YOU GOT TO TELL 'EM.......HERSHEY'S IS PEOPLE!!
BA HAHAHAHAHA ¡!! 😂 😂 😂
@@MrAlRats 🤣🤣🤣
Oh no
@@MrAlRats lol that's brilliant
Here in Finland you can't find Cadbury's chocolate anywhere. Main brands are the Swedish Marabou and domestic Fazer chocolate. Then there are some smaller manufacturers as well like Panda etc.
I feel like they're high quality
Tesco&the S-group together brought Maltesers to shops I wish they’d brought Revels too and especially the nut&raisin bar
What about Milka? Milka is everywhere (except the US)
Milka is not my favourite not sure why. The flavour is Ok just never gets me excited to buy the brand🤷♀️
Yeah, there's Milka in here, but I think it's easily one of the worst chocolates we have. I think Fazer and Panda chocolate are the best of the more popular chocolates that we have here. Marabou is too sweet in my opinion.
Why eat Cadbury when you can have Milka, an actual European chocolate?
Whenever I hear about a "top secret reciepe", I think: "O my God, do at least sanitary safety administration know what is it?"
in the 1930s no likely not, and what is sanitary safety administration in the 1890s, by the end of the second world war yes.
They do. If you ever see "natural flavors" on a label, they're referring to stuff like this.
Yeah I hate secret recipe. They are just a way to hide gross methods and ingredients instead of top quality process and ingredients. KFC anyone?
A lot of other foods have butyric acid. Most French cheeses, butter, goat’s milk, yogurt, etc. There’s nothing dangerous about it.
It's vomit
0:22 Right off the top: "There's a scientific reason why Europeans think our chocolate tastes so bad... cheddar"
Well there's the problem, stop putting cheddar in the chocolate!
Cheddar must be not allowed. It's worse than the Taliban, it must be stopped. Greetings from Holland.
I am from India.. Cadbury is a major brand in India as well and I always disliked Hershey's extra sweet chocolate we have here imported from the US. This video sums up everything to me!
guys... Cadbury was probably the biggest competitor of Hersey's in the past, during wartime, which is relevant to what they were talking about when they said Cadbury was Hersey's biggest competitor. They also probably only stuck to comparing Hersey's to Cadbury for simplicity sake, less chocolate brands to think about.
First time I ever had American chocolate I told the person who bought it for me that it was rotten, and they had no idea what I was talking about
Lmfao genetic taste i guess
I European, and I actually never tasted American chocolate but after seeing this video I am scared😂
Same 😂
Do yourself a favour and never, ever try it. It really is horrible.
Interesting but it is actually really bad I mean when I tried one of its herseys bars I almost throw up trust me no need to try one
I (an American) don't eat Hershey's
But knowing other chocolate companies(in America) have it i got to know what European chocolate tastes like
I don't think any of the Mars chocolate brands taste like vomit, and even some Hershey's products are good, like Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (which still has a vague vomity taste if you really look for it, but it's saved by the peanut butter and sugar).
I'm Chilean, I remember buying a chocolate in a American Airport and saying my mother this taste like vomit lol. My mother couldn't eat it also and we trow it away
Chilean too. I've been saying for years that Hershey's milk chocolate has a vomit aftertaste. A Trencito is 10 times better. I've known Americans and even Spaniards that say Chilean chocolate is better than theirs.
@@a2falcone no he probado el chocolate de chile pero si alguien de españa dice eso no es por el motivo del video ya que aqui el chocolate no se hace como en estados unidos y tambien nos sabe a vomito el de allí
@@xiaojunslefteyebrow Lo sé. Por eso aprecio mucho más que lo diga un español que un gringo.
@@a2falcone trencitos are godlike
Soy Boliviana y no entiendo el amor a los pinches Hersheys. Pero tb vivo en UK ahora y no es q Cadbury u otros productos sean mejor en mi opinión. Osea Lindt y otras marcas sí son buenas pero aun prefiero chocolates q sólo logro encontrar en Bolivia (y no es q sean Bolivianas, muchas son marca Nestlé y Arcor). No sé cuál será la diferencia pero la siento
Damn people are getting triggered by Cadbury chocolate being called "European". People have too much free time.
My fiancé once sent me a carepackage from America with chocolate in it, and I legitimately couldn’t get through it - meanwhile, the chocolate I send from Denmark is something she savours and only takes out during special occasions because it’s just that good.
"Fiancé" is masculine, and "fiancée" is feminine. Just so you know. Also, congratulations!
@@AdrianColley Huh - I didn't know that! Cool!
Which one did you sent her?
@@izabella7174 Some Summerbird! They have these wonderful, little gift boxes that look adorable and taste amazing.
@@CrowSongProductions oh it's not available in my country. I'll get it next time I'm in Denmark
Canada has both Hershey 🤢 and Cadbury, Lindt, Kinder, Fererro, etc. And I’ve never understood why someone would choose Hershey’s over any of the others.
Same in the UK, I'm shocked it hasn't went out of business here, no one buys it
If they're cheaper, then I could see a kid trying to buy as much candy as possible with their allowance, as they tend to prefer quantity over quality.
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It’s just so cheap like you can literally bio for 1$ and it could feed your entire family.
Second of all Hershey it’s not even made for how good it taste in your mouth like I’m sure they said that in the video.
Hershey chocolate can’t feed millions of people who are in poverty while European chocolate is made for the rich!
Most stores in the US have at least one or two decent brands of chocolate as well as Hershey's nowadays too, either European brands or at least American ones that don't try to copy Hershey's vomit flavor.
C'mon, you gotta love dem kisses.
It really makes you appreciate the little things in life knowing what some people in other parts of the world have to put up with.
i hate being an american
I mean it’s not that bad. The people here are happy with the chocolate so why bother, eh?
@@isonlygameyuhefftobemad9544 I'm sure some people in North Korea are also just fine with bowing to their dictator. Can't be unhappy if you don't know of anything better.
@@Juhuuu but we do know better? We have better chocolates as an option? We are still quite content with what we have though.
@@isonlygameyuhefftobemad9544 I'm just messing with you guys. It's fine to have different tastes.
as a indian many chocolate brands came to india from usa and europe but cadbury won the race in india
i think the most successful american chocolate in india is snickers and it has very niche market