European VS American Chocolate Taste Test - Comparison/Quality Difference
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Kinder eggs are also good, but illegal in US, as you know, they are more dangerous than the weapons you can buy in the section next to the sweets.
Trump would probably say exactly the same, but without sarcasm 🙄🫣
Imagine your child choking on a plastic toy inside a chocolate egg instead of a bullet! 🙄
@@MLWJ1993 try to swallow a whole kinder egg without opening it to get the toy .....
This is just pathetic :(
@@MLWJ1993 Imagine being that braindead that you eat it whole or the toy inside after you open it, imagine parents being braindead enough not to teach their kids not to eat everything
Milton Hershey: "I need to make the milk stay fresh longer for processing."
Europe: "here, try pasteurising, we use this for decades."
Hershey:"No thank you, I will come up with a process that partially sours the milk and make the chocolat taste like vomit. The comsumer does not care as long it is the cheapest product on the shelf."
Omg you’re so right, the first time I tasted it I thought it was actually spoiled.
supposedly the American military guys liked it like that and continued to make it that way since.
We got the anzac biscuits for the Australian military and they actually do taste good!😄
The lengths some people will go to not pay licensing fees 🤦♂🤦♂
@@andyossiethe millitary guys had to like it, as there was no other choice. Hershey had an exclusive contract with the US governnent to supply their millitary with chocolat during WW2.
And after the war thousands of G.I.s came back home, many of them with PTSD, yearning for that familiar taste.
This clearly gave Hershey a big market advantage ...
So much about conditioning people to like low quality food.
@@marziamira7895
My mom (b1939) more than once told me the story about how after WW2 the american soldiers gave the german kids candy ...
but most rejected their Hershey bars after the first time, bc it tasted "off" and weird
and therefore even had no real value as an exchange object on the black market
Fun Fact - Hershey's can't sell it's chocolate bars in the UK as chocolate. Has to be sold as chocolate flavored bars because it does not contain enough cocoa to qualify as real chocolate.
You should absolutely try Lindt products in particular Lindor
You don't want to kill IWocker, his taste Buds would explode in joy. And the Swiss would have a new Immigrant.
Lindt "After Night" is my guilty sin.
Absolutelly Lindor RED
Lindt is the best by far. Especially the red ones❤ I also like toblerone and Milka dark.
YES! YES! YES!
Dude, I you tried some of the dark chocolate variants we have here it would blow your mind. Like Lindt's 70% with salt flakes and caramel bits. Or the one with orange...
The one with orange 🤤
Lindt is chocolate from Switzerland. So also European 😊
@@mia74de so am I, so yeah, I know where Lindt's from
Lindt salted caramel is yum
@@AsavarKul oder die mit Chillis jammmmy
In the Netherlands for something to be called "chocolate" it has to have at least 35% cocoa. So we wouldn't consider a Hershey bar to be chocolate.
It’s not. It just resembles something close to chocolate.
@Mind-your-own-beeswax products containing less than 35% cocoa are to be called 'cocoa fantasy' overhere.
Which is why _Koetjesreep_ isn't a chocolate bar!
So many Americans food can't be sold in Europe as the foods they are supposed to be. Just like the "bread", which would have to be sold as cake here. 😅
@@MarcKloosmy little brother and i always got chocolate from grandpa. My brother got the "koetjesreep" and i got a small piece of "verkade or droste". And my brother was always so proud and yelling "i got much more than you",while gp and i knew we had the chocolate and he got that yuck. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
And yes, Kinder is completely addictive! If you can find Kinder Bueno give that a try. It’s so so addictive and light to eat…
Toblerone that large will break your teeth! lol
Kinder Bueno would blow his mind :D
The White one is the best one and the hippos
@@heyaxxel Bueno was king until I discovered Kinder Chocofresh
Modern Tobleroneis a lot softer than 10-5 years ago. Less peaks as well now. No need to break teeth or need a lever or hammer to get a bit off now.
We once got an even bigger bar of Toblerone at our work, as a thank you gift from another company.
We had chocolate for nearly a week & actually had to break it into pieces with a hammer! 😆
7:44 The Milka is a different taste because you got their noisette one… (5:43 zoom on the import label) their „pure chocolate“ ones are „Alpenmilch“.
yeah u right I thought the whole time isn't that the noisette one but i prefer Ritter Sport anyway
I was looking for this comment because otherwise I would have commented just that. 🤓👍🏻
Vollmilch is the usual "basic version descriptor" for most brands.
Noisette is better than original anyway due to the hazelnuts.
I was just about to write that too, but you were quicker 👍🏼
Milka Noisette is the one with hazelnut cream
Man, that willpower to only bite itsy tiny bitsy pieces of them is an hellaimpressive superpower Ian has right there!
I'am Dutch but I recommend Belgium chocolate, they are masters! Calabout or cote d'or!❤
Agreed ! The black one from Cote d'Or, with hazelnut stuffing is a real killer !
In 1828, Coenraad Johannes van Houten received a patent for the manufacturing of Dutch cocoa. The process removed cocoa butter from chocolate liquor, the result of milling, by enough to create a cake that could be pulverised into a powder. This would permit large-scale chocolate production.
From my childhood I recall that there were brands like van Houten and Verkade. The latter still exists. I haven't seen van Houten....
Belgian pralines 😋
Cote d’or is goated
Indeed, Belgian chocolate is literally recognized as the best chocolate in the world by experts, and he didn't have one piece in the video...
Swiss here: In the mountain on the toblerone you can see a bear which is the symbol of the city of Bern, where Toblerone comes from. A lot of people here don't really like Toblerone that much. There's a lot of better chocolate in Switzerland than Toblerone
And toBlERoNe has Bern in it 😉
Which one is your favorite swiss chocolate brand?
@juwen7908 I really like Lindor from Lindt or anything from Läderach. Even Frey or Halba make delicious chocolate. Not even mentioning small manufacturer all over the country
@@lionofzion81 Lindor is god tier chocolate. I love our E.Wedel but Lindor is my go to when I see it.
I was just about to say that Toblerone is considered mid at best here haha
Seems to be a trend with US YT-ers trying European chocolate right now. Most seem to discover that it wasn't simply mindless US bashing - it simply *is* better :)
It's a good trend and not just for our European egos (lol), but hopefully people in the U.S realise that they've been eating unhealthy crap and demand better ingredients from the manufacturers. It's very sad, especially considering their lousy healthcare system. In my country, manufacturers follow trends associated with healthier options and if there is someone prominent declaring war on some certain harmful ingredients, then the producers make adjustments. For example, our former first lady declared a war against the trans fats and the manufacturers made adjustments. Same went with some of the harmful E... ingredients. Then there was a trend to have the most % of meat in sausages. You see "88% meat!" or whatever high % written on a sausage packages and so on. If one company starts something like that, others follow. Also, "no added sugar" products are trendy. People demand healthier choices and the manufacturers deliver. Which is nice.
You ever tried americane? not saying its horrible but lets just say its not great. They probable make some good chocolate at some locale manufacturers cause they do make nice stuff in everything else. Its just that their more commercialy stuff is pretty bad.
For me as a German the American chocolate tastes like the eastern German ones. As if the best-before date had expired :D
@@arturobianco848 At one point post WWII, pretty much every US chocolate maker had to change to the Butyric acid Hershey way, because millions of returning GIs had only had Hershey for years and had adapted to the horrible taste. The GIs got their families into eating Hershey and the other companies had to adapt due to falling sales. Nowadays, a fair number have stopped using Butyric acid but many still do because it is now the US standard taste.
@@Thurgosh_OG Still taste pretty yucky if you are used to the good stuff.
E.Wedel is one of the oldest Polish companies producing sweets. The chocolate you bought is the flavor of the Bajeczny bar.
Fun fact, E.Wedel is one of the favorite candy brands in Japan. They liked our chocolate so much that it was bought by the Japanese-Korean Lotte Group in 2010.
And now the official name is Lotte Wedel.
I tried the tiramisu E. Wedel chocolate, and it's amazing (didn't knew that it's from poland). But for a couple of years I can't find that flavour anymore in my country.
Lotte Wedel sounds so german 😅
Sure. I don't know how old are you but I remember taste of simple milky chocolate by Wedel 30 years ago and it's completely different to what you can buy now. Currently it feels more artificial, more like a cheap chocolate-like products 🤢
@@juwen7908 The founder of the company Karol Wedel was the son of German evangelicals Joachim Friedrich Wedel and his wife Maria Christine Friederike Krüger. He was born in Ihlenfeld in the then duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.Germany
@@juwen7908 man who started the company was German during partitions on stolen Polish land
- You have to try chocolates with higher cocoa percentages (>90% ones are excesive in my opinion, 85% ones are a little bit too much too, sweet spot is 70% ones, try the ones from LINDT)
- you also have to try Belgian chocolate, something from Guylian or Neuhaus
E. Wedel is sooo good. Glad you found one of their flavours. Mleczna means milk in Polish.
The Milka is not the standard flavour, which is also Milk Chocolate. This one is noisette (with almonds), but good enough to get to know the brand
Not almond… noisette from french translates as hazelnut.
I love chocolate so when my aunt recently went to the States I asked her to bring me some Hersheys chocolate back with her. I've got to say it was one of the worst experiences I've ever had tasting something, I had one bite and had to throw the rest of it away, it was awful. I've heard the "taste of vomit" quote everyone says and I've got to say it's bang on, it's the most revolting chocolate I've ever tasted. I can honestly say I've never thrown chocolate out before.
BTW, Twix is not an American chocolate, it originated from the UK...
How much cocoa is in hersheys?
@@Chewpacab between 5-13% depending on where in the US you get it
Devi provare il cioccolato fondente!!! Quello che hai provato ha poco cacao e molto burro di cacao... per quello si scioglie in bocca, ma il vero gusto del cioccolato è il fondente!!! Ma non credo ti piacerebbe se ami tanto i prodotti Kinder che noi diamo ai bambini.... questione di gusto (Italian)
If you can find chocolate brands from Nordic countries like Marabou (Swedish), Fazer (Finnish) and Tupla (Finnish), you should try them also.
I agree 100%. Ian has to try Swedish Marabou and Finish Fazer, they taste sooo good.
I love marabou ❤
Marabou nowadays is basically Milka, lol.
Marabou is my favourite
Aren’t we still boycutting Marabou because they are still in Russia?
E. Wedel (pronunciation: Veh-del) is a Polish confectionery company, which has been producing a variety of chocolates, cakes, and snacks since 1851. Wedel is also a well-recognized brand of candy in Poland, considered to be the "Polish national chocolate brand".
The logo of the company is based on Emil Wedel's signature.
Karl Ernst Heinrich Wedel (7 February 1813 in Ihlenfeld † 17 June 1902 in Warsaw) was a German confectioner who brought chocolate cake to Poland. The company C. E. Wedel, which emerged from his business, still produces in Poland today
@@x-pw4qk nobody is denying it, polish company created by german immigrant
Wedel is Japanese since 2010.
I shouted at my screen when you opener the Milka bar. It has a special way of opening it
@IWrocker, Fun fact: European chocolate brands
Cadbury, Milka, Toblerone and Cote d'Or are brands owned by Mondolez International Inc of Chicago (known as Kraft Foods Inc until 2012)
Kinder is produced by Ferrero, which is an Italian company. Nutella is arguably their most famous product.
I prefer Finetti... have you tried that one? Also the store brand from Lidl had a really good "nutella" type of spread, called "Choco nussa"... Now I know they still make it, but it stopped being as great, when they reduced the amount of cocoa in it.
By the way, 'Kinder' is just German for 'children'
True. It is meant for children originally. I always got these kinder eggs for my birthday. There's a toy inside for children.
@@annadine860 and somehow we knew the difference between toys and food... ain't that crazy? 😆
Kinder Surprise can be arguably their most famous, it could share its first place with Nutella. But despite you not buying at your older age Kinder Surprise, It still dominates as one of, if not the most, famous product, since it is go-to chocolate for children, and the soft milky chocolate taste is amazing. I am actually surprised that Kinder hasn't made a Nutella that's white and milk chocolate mix like Nussa that I really like (I haven't had it for a long time now, but it's my favorite regards to smearing chocolate cream/butter)
If you can find it, Finnish Fazer chocolate is pretty dope
I literally just ate some Fazer before watching this video! Hard to come by in the UK but I can get a couple of varieties in IKEA. My fave milk chocolate!
Fazer is like a drug ;) Thanks to the local sailors church up here in Hamburg, Germany I can get my fix on Fazer regulary ;) Always have to have a Salmiakki filled one at home. And ofc some other variations as its sooooo good.
I never knew Fazer was Finnish (:
Yes, absolutely true, so much tastier than the Swedish Marabou (I'm Swedish). Fazer's "Levain" bread for making toast is so good. Their products overall are top class.
Yes! Fazer is the best 😁 Greetings from Finland.
It’s striking me that compared to USA chocolate, like the fizzy drinks, the European products have less artificial “filler” ingredients. It shows the difference that food standards and trading standards can produce. To think, certain individuals want to lower standards in the rest of the world to make it easier to sell US food standards elsewhere!
Of course. The US wants to push their chlorinated Chicken and hormone injected meat, on the rest of the World.
The European Union with its strong regulations makes it even harder for US products
I hate that in my EU country so many food contains glycose-fructose syrup (corn syrup) or palm oil. Bad for healt, both, but dirt cheap.
But have you thought how much money shareholders could make thanks to those regulations?
Are you so heartless and selfish that you believe public health is more important than them affording a second yacht?
@@etienne8110 have you thought about the profit that can be made when using cheaper, unregulated, artificial ingredients!
Tips are Lindt,Cote D'Or,Leonidas, Callebaut and Tony's Chocoloney's
A little late to the party but Eurocrem is a blast from a very distant past. 😀 I had it as a child and later in former Yugoslavia. It started as a spread similar to Nutella, the difference was, half was cocoa flavoured (dark) and half was hazelnut flavoured (white). And basis for both was milk. The bar came later. And if you ask me, the taste today is not the same as it was back then. 😃
I visited Yugoslavia with my parents in summer ´87 & i remember the eurocrem bar. & i remember I loved it. Havent found it anywhere here where I live ( Slovakia ) since, however, i found the candies called Slatka Tajna ( which i also remembered from my vacation ) in my local supermarket a couple of times. Made me happy, cuz i liked those as well :)
what i often heard is that chocolate has a different melting consistency. For example most people in the US bite/chew their chocolate, because it gets somewhat waxy. But most people in europe put a piece in their mouth, and then let it melt on their tongue without biting/chewing it. (of course, normal chocolate only, does not count for crisps, wafers, etc. embedded in the chocolate)
Yeah, i usually let it melt, it tastes way better that way
After knowing that butyric acid IS used in reeses, i couldnt eat peanutbutter Cups Anymore, because the chocolate tastes sour
I let it melt too, this way the taste lasts longer.
@@Papa_Ul this is the way to eat less(for me)😂
I let it melt a little and then breath out of my nose, that way you get all of the aromas, especially with some really dark chocolate
If you do a 2nd vid about chocolate, try to add Lindt.
The one with 99% cocoa.
@@metalafro
You must either be on a low carb diet or a chocolate aficionado to enjoy 99% cocoa chocolate. It tastes like dirt to most people.
@@TheJohn_Highway Yes. There are out there people looking for the highest cocoa concentrates, they enjoy it. Also has an impact on your body, mind and mood
I hope a legend from Belgium sorts you out with some Côte-d'or chocolate. Hard to beat.
Les Galler sont meilleurs , mais plus cher , hélas . mon gros péché se sont les Manon . " chocolat " blanc et crème café . a tomber
@@marclaurent6207 Ah merci!
Ça fait longtemps que j'ai pas visité la Belgique. Voila une belle excuse!
Yes. This.
Oh..those Cote d',Or "elephant" chocolates are sooo nice 😋
Nuts chocolate Côte-d'or, love it too, but not really pure chocolate, it's sugar first, chocolate paste second and nuts third, 41% sugar and 39% chocolate, but delicious.
The eurocream bar is partially what we call nougat in Europe which is made out of hazelnut or other nuts and the creamy texture is similar to chocolate but it has a bit softer bite.
I think its really cute that your wife is filming in the background and giving her own commentary. Love this channel, kudos for trying out something new
In the US chocolate must have only 10% cocoa butter or solids so Hesheys chocolate has 11%. This cannot be called chocolate in the UK or EU where the levels are considerably higher. Milk chocolate must contain at least 25% total cocoa solids, including a minimum of 14% dry milk solids and dark chocolate must contain at least 35% cocoa solids.
Nothing Belgian, so you need to do a part 2 :D. Also Ferrero from Italy has some good stuff.
Kinder is a part of Ferrero, actually.
Belgian chocolate is nothing special anymore. I can get the best chocolate here in Norway 😆😆
Ferrero Rocher 🤤🤤
if only they could avoid palm oil !!!!
@@MrBadbaron it is just the best chocolate in the world. Nothing more, nothing less.
Marabou, Fazer, Lindt are good ones too. The darker Toblerone and the white ones are pretty good also. Maybe should send a package before trumleedis tariffs.
Lindt is bullshit, not good. Don't eat that garbage.
Tony chocoloney, Cote D'or, Verkade.
As a swedish person, marabou is the best according to me
@@assarstromblad3280 Mmmm.. War crimes
I don’t think he’s gonna put tariffs on European chocolate lmao 🤣🤣
I will look for those brands, thank You! 🙏
My favourite is Wedel and another Polish brand Wawel. They have sooooo many diffrent types of chocolates and candys ect. Chocolates to drink from Wedel are from another level. We have in Poland shops Wedel and Wawel shops😉
The Wedel chocolate is inspired by "bajeczny" bar, which is also produced by wedel. If you have a chance to try it, I recomend!!
Many US Americans aren't fans of dark chocolate, neither as marzipan. But as you seem to be not the typical one when it comes to taste, you need to try the 'Marzipan' one from Sarotti or Ritter Sport. Or even better the original Lübecker Marzipan!
I also love Ritter Sport 'Rum Trauben Nuss' which is 'rum raisin and hazelnut'.
It's delicious 😍
Greetings from Berlin 😎
US Americans like things which are really sweet because they put corn syrup in everything.
We get the Rum and Raisin one in the UK only without the nuts!
@@martynnotman3467 I've only ever seen the rum, raisin and hazelnut version of Ritter Sport here in either Asda or Tesco. Where can you get the sans nut version?
@martynnotman3467
Nuts are too dangerous for the british.😁
You godda try Lindt and côté d'or, it's so good
Lindt is overrated and often too sweet.
Cailler from Switzerland. And Tom‘s Guld Barre from Denmark.
In Sweden where I live we have a "American" shelf in my store. I've tried Hersheys, Reeses, Hostess snowball and Twinkies etc and everything tastes chemical, stale and chalky.
I liked Twinkies so much as a child, they were quite common here in Germany back then (because of the GIs I think). I found them as an import in a candy store over 20 years later and I bit into one and spit it down the drain. I don't know if my taste buds have changed or the taste has just become awful
@@eastfrisian_88 It's the Twinkies. It's like biting into a sponge filled with chemicals
Oh yeah. Few years ago I found this store in Poland that had candy imported from USA and Japan and I decided to buy a Twinkie and Snowball. I have never eaten anything so sweet before, it was horribly sweet.
Really? Reese's too?
Reeses are phenomenal in my country.
Try Deserowa from Wedel. That's the most iconic Polish chocolate. And it is just less sweet but not bitter.
i also seem to really like polish chocolates a lot. they do something a bit different than what im used to in the netherlands. sometimes they are almost powdery inside but its really yummy.
No Belgian chocolate? Blasphemy 😂
we need cote d'or, meurisse and leonidas tastetest.
Tony Chocoloney.
It makes sense. Belgian chocolate is a different universe 😁
@aageon
Absolutely!! And I'm french.
@@Temeraire101Tony is a Dutch brand, not Belgian...
Finland is not known for chocolate but we have pretty good ones. If you find some carl fazer brand chocolate somewhere I really recommend to try👍
You do have some amazing licorice though.
European pocket size Toblerone 👍
Talking about Toblerone, can you see the "bear" in the mountain? ToBlERoNe the capital letters form the word Bern, the capital of Switzerland.
That Toblerone is more of a "Gift" size, like the airport souvernir ones. The regular stores dont have those big ones.
If u want to try realy good Wedel product try "Jedyna" by Wedel - its dark chocolate, its like a classic in Poland. Recently Wedel produced Jedyna in 1,1 kg version in nice gold - yellow cardbord packages in celebration of 110 years of first Polish drinking chocolate parlour/caffe. :) Its so good. 🤓But the chunks are so big you need a knife to separate them.
From Wedel you should try chocolate named "Jedyna" it is between milk and dark chocolate and I think it is oneof the best chocolate in the world
You should try Kinder Pingui, its amazing!
yes, but Kinder Maxi King rules 😋
@@A909GA Yes Kinder Maxi king
@@A909GA also good choice!
@@Nako3 isn‘t Pingui a refrigerated product? Difficult to import…
@@Roberternst72 Yes, it is not solid chocolate and has milk in it.
Milk chocolate is not basic chocolate, basic chocolate is just chocolate with nothing else added.
I agree. Basic chocolate is dark chocolate mostly.
In theory, yes, in practice, milk chocolate is the default chocolate sold.
‚Nothing added’ would be grinded cocoa beans… not chocolate…
@@Roberternst72 - "Nothing added" in the sense of "nothing except the ingredients used to make chocolate". 🙄
@@Alias_Anybody - Data to back up that claim?
nice one again :)
if im not mistaken you tried the Milka Noisette, which is not the standard one. Noisette has a chocolate-nut-mixed cream like filling. im not a big fan of these. the standard of Milka would be "Milka Alpenmilch", which is way better imo. just for your information ;)
I 2nd that. Never liked Noisette.
@@elkevera Whaaaat? Noisette is the best! Luckily there is something for everyone :)
The strawberry cheesecake and peanut caramel Milka are really good
Nougat
When growing up, I always wanted to try American sweets. When I was a bit older, I ordered some on the internet and was very disappointed. We got the best sweets in Germany/Europe and many people proved this in videos on RUclips.
Man i love your content. I just wanted to say. The moment i saw on the table WEDEL BAJECZNY i could not wait for you to try that. Its mindblowing. Im Polish and here we have them as a candy bars more often.
You should make a series of video's travelling through european countries and trying foods!
Love from Poland 🇵🇱
Unfortunatly Toblerone is no more a swiss brand, it is ownd by Mondelez and the milk in it is no more from switzerland and most of the produced Toblerones are no more producet in switzerland, this is also the reason why they had to change the desing of the mountain in theyer logo from the Matterhorn with the bear on it to an not to differend mountain with no bear on it.
Damn, that's sad. I liked the original one. =(
it still has the bear. its just not the matterhorn
Americans ruining everything to maximize profits?!? What a shocking discovery!!!
28:00 it says ,,made in switzerland‘‘. And Milka is also a Mondelez brand. But Toblerone just tastes different, then the average chocolate.
@@chris_0018 CNN: Toblerone can no longer claim to be Swiss-made . Just google it. RUclips dosent allow me to put here the link to the articles.
Cote d'or is my favorite chocolate.
Or verkade is very good as well.
Yes, it is very good. For regular chocolate, I enjoy either Lindt for milk choc, or Bournville for dark. For a luxury brand, it must be Godiva.
Cote d'Or elephant now made in mondelez factory in Slovakia
Chocolate made in Europe, Australia and New Zealand is all good. Different standards of good, different brands, different price points - but all better than the great majority of commercially-available chocolate in tbe USA.
I think you should have also tasted Swedish "Marabou Mjölkchoklad" chocolate or Finnish "Fazer Blue" chocolate, too.
Wedel chocolate is really good! Glad you liked it 😊
Polish one - Wedel flavor is Bajeczny, which is a chocolate sweet bar (also their product). If you were able to get that Wedel flavour you should be able to find original Bajeczny chocolate bars as well as they are popular
Karl Ernst Heinrich Wedel (7 February 1813 in Ihlenfeld † 17 June 1902 in Warsaw) was a German confectioner who brought chocolate cake to Poland. The company C. E. Wedel, which emerged from his business, still produces in Poland today
Its chocolate from Germany.
@@x-pw4qk going by that logic Apple or Maxfactor are polish companies
@@GdzieJestNemoIgnore this. It's either a bot or basement AfD supporter trying to do kulturkampf in XXI century.
Fazer from Finland has a lot of different varities, classic milk chocolate and hazelnut are popular
If you liked the crunchy Ritter Sport you have to try Ritter Sport "Knusperflakes".
I'm not a fan of it. Always seems to be so basic
@@gillfox9899 Ritter Sport has about 40 different varieties, basic is the last way I'd describe it.
Kinder is a line of products made by Ferrero since the 60's, so it's italian. Kinder country (kinder cereali/cereals in Italy) is my sister's American friend's favorite chocolate. Every time she goes to America or send her a box from Italy she buys kinder cereali, kinder cards and for her friend's husband pocket coffee, a chocolate praline filled with liquid coffee. BTW kinder cereali is my favourite since I was a child
A few words about some of the brands, and a recommendation below.
Milka - Milka is kind of its own thing rather than a generic chocolate, they base their advertising on alpine milk, but really are all about comparatively high hazelnuts paste content (adding hazelnut paste is not uncommon for chocolate, but usually the content is low enough where you can't taste it), and also it is a bit on a sweeter side. So you don't really buy Milka when you want chocolate, you buy Milka when you want Milka if that makes sense. Recently they been making (copying :P) a lot of various sweets which contain chocolate, where their only distinction is they are using that Milka chocolate.
Wedel (you pronounced it correctly, Vedel) - is among the oldest of still existing polish brands, although the founder was actually German who came to Warsaw. One thing he would be known by early on was drinking chocolate, and the brand keeps several drinking chocolate shops/cafes around the country. Their chocolate is a bog standard chocolate, most of the chocolate brands in EU will be more or less similar to it unless they have a very distinct recipe like Milka. The Bajeczny one (direct translation "fairly tale one", but means/should be translated as "fabulous") you got is based on a smaller chocolate bar of the same name, and indeed they sell a lot of different flavours. Peanut butter is really more or less a new thing in Poland, so sweets with peanuts traditionally would have them either in chunks or completely powdered and mixed in. Even in case of something with peanut based filling/cream it would be thicker and nuttier in taste than american peanut butter.
I would strongly recommend trying "Ptasie Mleczko" sweets made by Wedel, those are airy creamy foams (not exactly marshmallows) in dark chocolate. Those appear to be invented by Wedel in 1936 and later copied by USSR (not sure, but seems like it was a state order to copy those...). However please get the "Vanilla" one, not some fruit, chocolate or mixed flavours, as that is the original, whereas other flavours are really a matter of a personal taste. You don't taste Oreo by trying strawberry one with non-cocoa biscuits after all ;) They are sold in big rectangular boxes (don't worry, they dissappear fast;)), although a small packs with just a few can be found.
Alpinella - that is actually a cheap chocolate subbrand of Terravita who specializes in cheap subbrands/supermarket brands. They are able to make a quality products, but I think they never were a strong seller so a major chunk of their business is probably the cheap stuff. I tried to find something on the net about Alpinella in particular, I don't know if that is true, but there was a mention they don't use cocoa butter, which imo would be a big fail and is likely the reason why you've noticed it is dry. The base of a real chocolate is actually cocoa butter/fat, that was what cocoa bean was originally used for, this is what the first (white) chocolate was made of. The cocoa powder was originally a waste if I recall the story right, and we only learned how to use it later on. Going back to Alpinella, I'm sure it sells, but I don't know anyone who buys it. Perhaps some older people who are nostalgic for "chocolate-like products" of communism era, people who struggle with finances, or have a teste for particular filling it is available in (like, there are not that much chocolates with coconut cream filling on the market, yet those cheap ones always have it). Personally my experience with such cheap chocolates, including from this maker, is more often a miss than a hit, so don't worry about bashing it. Also the brand's name is likely a try to ride the Milka's alpine milk based advertising.
Yoooo you got some Milka! That is the standard chocolate most people eat here in the German-speaking area of Europe I would say. Milka has probably dozens of different kinds of chocolate, you could likely fill an entire week's worth of videos just tasting them (and getting fat in the process 😅) :D. The same could probably be said about Ritter Sport as well. I feel like your wife should also have tasted all of them, would be interesting to see what she has to say :).
Regarding the packaging of the Milka, you open them along the white stripe at the back and the inside edges of the packaging are a bit sticky, so you can completely re-seal them if you got some left over!
When it comes to the Kinder (which means "children" by the way, hence the English term kindergarten!) products I can highly recommend Kinder Pingui (the standard one is ok, but the strawberry and cherry ones are out of this world!) and Kinder Bueno :). Kinder is a brand of the Italian confectionery company Ferrero and was originally marketed for children.
Don't forget Ritter Sport which I prefer over Milka..🤓
@@martinkasper197 I literally wrote that in there :D.
Get your hands on Tony Chocolonely - some 5000 supermarkets in the USA sell it. It's Belgian chocolate from a Dutch company, guaranteed to be very good!
I agree!
Nothing special if you can choose Milka, Wedel, Ritter or Lindt. You have to try the Icelandic chocolate bar from Nóa Sirius is much different than the rest of the company, but it's so fu.king good 🤤
Man i grew up with the Eurocream block. My parents used to have them as kids, i grew up with them too. They were dirt cheap and the best we could get at time. Might not be the best but it has a special place in my heart.
I live in Austria and believe me they are fresher than in Serbia and taste better. It's like Serbians in their own country are second class citizens. It is valid for all other snacks/sweets Jaffa Cakes, Marshmellows, Choco Bananas, chips etc. It's like they are exporting fresh stuff and selling old stock to customers in Serbia.
@@VladimirCvetkovic-cj8vb in belgium you can only find them in "balkan shops" ran by romanians or turks and trust me it is not better haha
@@stefanito_m4354 Well obviously problem is with people importing it and how. Here where i am they can be bought in regular supermarkets like Billa and Spar.
I see the Eurocream bar and other Serbian brands in supermarkets in Bucharest. I do like them. There was a cheap choco and rice bar that I used to buy a lot. Cheers to our neighbours, hope everyone is doing alright.
The brown Hershey chocolate bar has been missing from U.K. supermarkets for a year, it reappeared recently but now says chocolate flavoured candy bar.
We got one to try and all agreed it tasted like Aldi budget chocolate bar that’s 50p, although that’s actually chocolate!
No finnish Karl Fazer milkchockolate? I'm sad.. 😅 If you can get it somewhere, please try it. 😊
My favorite E. Wedel chocolates in tab form are mango, and tiramisu. All time favorites are cocktail filled chocolate barrels.
FERRERO is the Italian maker of Nutella. Kinder is mainly for children. PERUGINA is another maker of chocolate in Italy. Try BACI PERUGINA, you ll love them.
KINDER IS FOR EVERYBODY!!!!
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Milka is not “real” chocolate,lots of plant based oils in it. Lindt is different. I live in EU.
Try Fazer from Finland. Preferable the original called Fazer Blue. Pure milk chocolate
Try Lindt, Red and Black classic chocolate bonbons from Switzerland, Belgian Leonidas, Pierre Marcolini, and such. Those are the next level.
Try Belgian chocolate
E. Wedel is with wafers and nuts. And Alpinella has some delicacies in it. Both are from Poland. Alpinella is subbrand for Terravita, that comes from Poland.
9:00 You're right. In polish you spell "W" like english "V". This brand has been sold to some Korean brand and believe me - now it's not even close to what it used to be back in the days. It's not the same quality nor the same taste, sadly...
Juat got one of your tasting videos recommend and I am now binge watching all of them 😅
You need to try our Swedish brand Marabou and the Finnish brand Fazer.
Twix is from the UK, first produced in 1967 and then introduced to the US in 1976
Twix went on sale here in Germany in 1976 but it was called 'Raider'.
@@Nils.MinimalistI remember them being 'raider' here in Belgium as well, I think they changed it to twix in the early 90's?
Lindt Lindor (red) 😋👌
Lindt recently got exposed for having cadmium and lead in their chocolate. That company is trash.
Aww, you did not get the finnish Fazer. As a swede it kind of hurts, but Fazer blue might be the best basic chocolate there is.
Fazer blue and Lindt.
Nuff said.
Wedel is definitely one of my favourites. It is the "staple" chocolate brand of Poland, but it has a wide range of products (cakes, donuts, etc.). Some of them might even be called gourmet. It also has "chocolate drinkeries" where you can buy a glass of melted chocolate of your choosing. Very expensive, but the experience is amazing. I also agree with other commenters. Belgian chocolates are a must try.
Twix is a british candy meant to be a miniature millionaire's shortbread - one of the best things I had in Britain.
Twix, by the way, was originally British.
Milka has been my favourite for years though.
In my childhood "Twix" was named "Raider" in Denmark. They changed name to "Twix" during the 1990's.
@@billigmad3720 Same in Germany
@@billigmad3720 Same in The Netherlands. You also had "Treets" they were bought by M&M and guess what, they made em worse 😀
in all europe was known as Raider until somewhere in the '90
@@billigmad3720 Few years ago they brought back limited edition original Raider bars for just a month or two in Finland and I saw them selling out everywhere. I liked the taste better than whatever the recipe for Twix was and still is.
You might try Alpia or Lindt; I have to suggest Kinder/Ferrero products as well, as a good friend of mine works for their H.R. at their German HQ. In terms of flavors, I‘d recommend the caramel ones from most European brands.
Lindt is pure dogshit.
You absolutely have to do this again with Belgian and Norwegian chocolate.
I agree with norwegian shocolate, belgian is for my taste too sickly sweet
I can give 10 points to Norwegian - sadly can not compare Belgian
Thanks for a fun video. Kinder is originally Italian brand, I think, and I like it too. My favourite chocolate countries are Belgium and Switzerland, and what comes to the brands, I really encourage you to try Gyulian from Belgium and Lindor from Switzerland. From basic chocolates, Finnish Fazer Blue is also really good. Not as creamy as Belgian and Swiss ones, but pure, simple, and tasty. And this comes from a person, who doesn't eat much chocolate. When I do, I want to have a good quality.
I've never liked the Toblerone either, you should try more normal Swiss chocolate!
Milka actually is low quality by European standards, but the mainstream unfortunately loves it.
By the way, Twix was originally from the UK.
Milka is king here in Prague because Olympic champion and probably the most famous living Czech athlete- Ester Ledecka posts videos eating it all the time.
@@stevemcgowen you sure about this?:D Do you think that everybody eats some chocolate brand because of some athlete? Thats funny.
@@danielpetrucco6513 Yes. People are easily influenced by advertising. People who don't play football buy football jerseys. People who don't play basketball wear Jordans...
I remember it was called Raider before it was renamed.
Well, sometimes you have to indulge in cheaper chocolate. Can't be buying stuff for 10 euro per 50g all the time..
I never saw an american try "Côte d'Or" chocolate from Belgium sadly. They have a lot of different types but even the regular milk chocolate one is incredible in taste. You can go up to super dark chocolate 90% (for ex)
the ingredients are written in order of percentage present in the food. At least in Europe it's like that by law. if they write flour, sugar, etc. it means that the flour will be a higher percentage than the sugar and so on...
Fun fact: In many European countries "Twix" was originally named "Raider". They rebranded it mostly during the 90s to Twix.
In German commercials they had the slogan "Raider heißt jetzt Twix, sonst ändert sich nix" - "Raider is now called Twix, otherwise nothing changes"
This slogan became a phrase in everyday language when people want to point out that changing a minor detail won't impact the status quo at all.
Like: "The neighbor equipped his rust bucket with a new spoiler" - "Ahh, Raider is now called Twix..."
My favorite snack from ferrero (kinder) is "Fiesta": if you just dig your teeth into the bar and breath in from your mouth you get high! You can have material enough for an entire series of video only by covering all the different Ferrero snacks... Great video as always, keep it up!
A classic
Yes, but most people who try it seem to dislike it.
I don't know if you can find it over there, but you should taste chocolate from "Venchi", an Italian brand. Very high quality chocolate
You have to try Sweden "Marabou"
Yes... Nån borde skicka dit en kartong att jämföra Amerikanska produkter med svenska produkter!
@@torulfvikingsson7735 And cranberry jam, there must be jam, even with chocolate.
@@malkontentniepoprawny6885 Not cranberry, we have lingonberry in Sweden
@@user-zf6zn3dz7c Whatever, jam everywhere.
Skip marabou, they still operate in ruzzia.
Try ‘Galaxy’ chocolate
Finnish chocolate Karl Fazer to the suggestion list - as far as I understand, it should be available in the USA too - or at least in Michigan (touchoffinland)
Quite a lot of European chocolate brands have been bought by American companies such as Kraft Foods/Mondelez several years ago, and the recipies have slowly but steadily been altered to be more similar to their products in other markets. Freia in Norway and Marabou in Sweden are two companies which have had that happen to them. I have always preferred Freia over Marabou, but they are by now almost identical. Kraft Foods botched a large party of Freia Melkesjokolade back in 1996, when the new, cheaper ingredients completely changed the colour of the product. The public uproar made them reverse the changes, at least temporarily. A lot of European chocolate are becoming more and more American every year, but at least there is still no buteric acid.
That's why it is best to just buy from a chocolate shop, who makes their own chocolate, the European way.
So sorry...
We had something similar with the American Sarah Lee buying a Dutch coffee brand. In no time the products got through the drain. Sarah Lee sold it back to a Dutch company and the brand is on track again.
Same thing with cadburys uk. Americans fucking it up here too
Kraft bought out Cadbury's & did the same thing. Cadbury's has gone downhill fast in the UK ☹️
Toblerone is also Mondelez!
There are many chocolates in Germany and other European countries. You should try one from "Hachez" (German Brand) and "Lindt" (Brand from Switzerland).
These are also very good brands. I would call them premium brands. Also "Storck Riesen" are really good 😊
Lindt is not phenomenally good compared to master chocolate makers who sell mostly locally.
Hachez wurde von den Dänen aufgekauft. Wir haben aber noch Merci, Stollwerk, Sarotti, Alpia, Trumpf, Ritter und noch ein paar weitere, die mir gerade nicht einfallen.
Kinder makes the good stuff yeah
Kinder surprise ( most favorite when i was kid)
Kinder Choco Fresh ( my most favorite now)
Kinder Bueno White (i love to put it in a freezer)
Kinder Pingui
Kinder Schoko Bons
Kinder Milk Slice
All of them are must try , my mouth was watering as i was writting :D
I put the Kindercountry in the freezer as well
Kinder makes also iPones in China.
i´m in my 30´s and Kinder Country is my favourite from Kinder since early childhood to this day.but i also still like Yogurette once in a while
Finnish Fazer or Swedish Marabou makes the best chocolate in Europe.
Languages on the Milka are German (for Deutschland,Austria,Switzerland), Hungarian, Czech, Slovak - Product of Germany, this is made for 6 countries, there will be different bunch(or how u call it) for different groups of countires.
distributor in East Hanover, New Jersey not Germany's Hanover
On the Polish Chocolate
BAJECZNY - fabulous; mleczna - milk type; nadziewana - filled(stuffed in Czech); z wafelkami i orzeskami - with wafers and nuts
There is a text something like "Remind yourself tastes of childhood kokoa-nuts filling with addition of crunchy wafers ... yes, it's a fabulous candy!"