Hershey's are sold in the U.K. but legally they can't call it "chocolate", instead they are required to call it "chocolate flavour" because it doesn't meet U.K. and European standards for chocolate.
Most European chocolates contain either palm oil, shea oil, animal fats, or E171 all of which are banned in US chocolates due to toxicity/carcinogenic effects or other health concerns. Basically like injecting candle wax into your veins along with cell mutation. Go ahead and enjoy those chocolates though 😂👍
it's not just Europeans, as an Australian, US Hershey's is worse than crap and I won't go near it, Toblerone is amazing and dark Toblerone is my go to chocolate bar
As a doctor myself, I cannot stop repeating to Americans to be EXTREMELY CAREFUL with what they buy in their grocery stores. There are so many products sold in the USA that contain ingredients that are banned in the EU because they are toxic and there’s studies that support the theory that they increase cancer rate and other health issues. This refers especially for candies and sweet things in general. 🆘
@@aghilesbessad6946 yes it’s a direct consequence of not having a national health care insurance system. When you do, the state has a financial incentive to keep its population as healthy as possible to reduce the cost of health care. When you don’t it’s in all the main actor’s interest to have people need as much medical care as possible.
The food packaging in the US is allowed to be blatantly misleading as well. If you find imported PopTarts in the world food aisle of a UK supermarket they tend to have a little sticker on the front. If you peel that back you find out that it is covering the ridiculous claim that pastry filled with jam and covered in icing sugar is somehow "A good source of vitamins and minerals". I also heard that you can find packets of sweeteners in the US that are claimed to be sugar free even though they are in fact just sugar. This is apparently because the legislation in place allows the manufacturer to classify a product as lacking an ingredient as long as less than 5g is present per serving. So they make sure that the serving size in each packet is only 4g, so even though it is 100% sugar they can still call it sugar free.
Just because our minimum requirements for cocoa content is 30% that doesn't mean you'll find many that low... most milk chocolate bars in the UK will likely be over 50% cocoa and dark chocolate tends to be over 60% but Cadbury is a poor example as there are numerous bars over here with 70, 80 and even 90% cocoa in them
Belgian here, and Cadbury is hard to find and not even considered a good chocolate. If you ever were to visit, please try Belgian chocolate. I’m sure you’d love it!
Cadbury’s isn’t even considered ‘good’ chocolate in the UK. It’s just one of the mass market cheap options. I’d probably put it on par with Nestle or Milka. If it’s what you grew up on it’s fine, but compared to better quality UK or European options available here it’s pretty mediocre. Still, it doesn’t taste of vomit so there’s a plus.
@@adventure-phil8339 I'd put Swiss "Lindt"-Chocolate against yours. But to be honest, I don't know Belgian Chocolate so much, because it's not sold in Austria. Besides this Belgian "chocolate mussels", which I don't buy.
I'm an American and we had an exchange student from France staying with us years ago. He brought chocolates from the region of the Pyrenees mountains. Wow was it amazing! I knew then that our US chocolate was crap. We have too many preservatives and processed nonsense in our food!
@@johnchristmas7522 NO its not! What you fail to understand is that Hershey's chocolate was created specifically for the American military in 1942 under the requirement that it had to have a long shelf life, could withstand extreme temperatures, and could be cheaply mass produced. Because of rationing NO OTHER chocolate of ANY KIND was available in world. After four years American GIs, 80% of whom had been too poor to ever have chocolate before, developed a taste for the product. When Hershey's tried to go back to traditional recipes, they found that the only stuff that sold was the war time recipe. In addition Europe did not start producing their chocolates until the middle of the 1950s (February 1953 for Cadbury). Furthermore, because of the time it takes to ship & store European chocolate to the USA requires the inclusion of preservatives which changes the taste of European chocolates so it is not all that different than Hershey's. (Choco butter spoils without similar preservatives to what the US uses).
Cadbury have been producing chocolate bars since the mid-1800s. The end of WWII restrictions isn't the "start" of production, so this doesn't explain why American chocoloid is so different.
@@greyknight5823 You must be a recent graduate, because you do not read or understand very well. Yes Cadbury has been in business since the 1800's, but they were unable to restart their traditional chocolate production until Feb 1953. Between 1941 & 1953 Cadbury did not have dairy milk & sugar in the same amounts as before or as it is now. Furthermore the shipment of chocolate OUTSIDE of Europe requires the the inclusion of preservatives. Hence the taste of Cadbury sold in North America is relatively the SAME as Hershey's. If you are not educated enough to have your facts correct, try to at least read & comprehend.
I second this too. Never tried Hershey's chocolate or other one from this video (I'm from Latvia and I have never even heard about this brand😅) but we have here Milka's chocolate that I really love, Kaleb that is really good too and Laima (local brand I don't really like but I know people who do) and I have friends from Belgium who occasionally send me some chocolate. I would like to see a reaction on European sweets that are, in fact, tasty
I live in Germany and I never noticed the Cadbury chocolate. I usually buy chocolate bars or Milka when I go for junky sweets, but Lindt is much better. It is soooo smooth!❤
Lindt is pretty much in a class of its own. Only some Italian and Belgian chocolate can probably be even lumped in with Swiss chocolate in general But that's for milk/sweet chocolate, in terms of bitter chocolate some Italian stuff we have here is insane
Hershey's is practically inedible. And what's worse is that since Kraft/Mondelez bought Cadbury's, they've slowly been changing even UK Cadbury's to a more American taste. So even comparing a lot of Cadbury's to Hershey's doesn't really tell you how different Hershey style chocolate is to British chocolate, let alone some excellent continental European chocolate.
The same unfortunate process started with Milka chocolate as well. Luckily there are plenty of other brands available here in Germany. For example there is a really good Swiss made Fair Trade chocolate available at Aldi. It's a bit more expensive but much better.
@@habi0187 exactly. I remember Milka tasted pretty good but in recent years, it's bearly edible. Here in Czech Rep., first it was only when manufactured in Poland, but lately, it goes for the one made in Germany as well. BTW: you in Germany are lucky, you have Aldi and their privat mark Moser Roth!
@@habi0187 The cocoa butter is the fancy stuff and real chocolate shouldn't contain other fats, which are cheaper and taste differently. And let's face it, Milka was never good, always too sweet, waxy and weird. The cheapest chocolate at any discounter was and is better than Milka.
@@GGysar I think it's a question of age. I remember Milka maybe 45 years back as quite good. Ok a bit on the sweeter side but overall good. Then the decline started slowly and now it is as you said it's difficult to find a chocolate that tastes worse. The lowest point was reached when they started to pack the chocolate in these sealed plastic foils instead of aluminium and paper.
Trying out souvenir chocolates from the US was one the biggest taste disappointments of my youth, we ended up throwing most of it away since it tasted unedible and I almost threw up 🤢
Hershey's Kisses were a souvenir chocolate brought back to the office from the USA. They had a _really_ unpleasant aftertaste, nobody liked them, they hung around for days and eventually had to be thrown away.
Yeah I agree we got Swiss and Belgian chocolate that is actually good not like these 2 brands. By law in Belgium there are also specifications to make it Belgian chocolate. Don't know if the Swiss have it set by law. Great video btw, I really like your content Ryan :D
@@ayukuro1019 I have seen it here in Spain mostly in the UK people's area of influence. But Spaniards we prefer both Belgium and Switzerland's chocolate or Latin American ones. Latin American chocolate is gold as well but is more the traditional chocolate we bring from america is more harsh and pure normally
+nerd8... I had an ice cream in Italy yesterday and Swiss Chocolate in Switzerland today. The Italian ice cream was good but not great. The Swiss chocolate was fantastic (however it depends on the brand).
I'm British, I went on holiday to Florida over 20 years ago, i was interested to try Hersheys, it was absolutely disgusting, it did taste like vomit, i threw it away. I had no idea it was like that.
It smells like vomit to me, too, which I think makes it even harder to consume. Staff in my former office regularly brought back chocolate from trips to the USA, but only the Americans ate it; the Aussies, Brits and Europeans steered clear. When I brough back stuff from trips to Australia, it all went very quickly.
Idk. It just tastes like milk chocolate to me but kinda plain. They have a bunch of different flavors that actually don’t taste wierd. One example being cookies and cream.
@@gabecollins5585 I've tried different flavours in the hopes it disguises the smell and taste, but I just can't stomach it. I also find the texture a bit powdery at times.
@@Rionnagan If you don’t have a peanut allergy and you haven’t tried Reese’s yet I would highly recommend Reese’s peanut butter cups. The chocolate is much better than normal Hershey’s chocolate and has peanut butter inside. They also have tons of different Reese’s stuff too. Im not sure where you’re from but if they don’t have them where you are they can be bought online. 100% my favorite candy of all time. Even when compared to the fancier stuff. Im not a huge hersheys chocolate bar fan either but if I get them from Halloween or something or Easter I’ll eat them. Reese’s is the way to go for anyone who likes chocolate and peanut butter. Also yeah the chocolate does seem powdery or crumbly. Very messy chocolate.
The first mass produced chocolate bar was 'Fry's Chocolate Cream', first produced in England by Joseph Fry in 1866. That's 34 years before Hershey supposedly "invented" mass production.
She literally said mass production of chocolate bars was impossible until Hershey came along which clearly isn't true. Hershey wasn't even the second to do it. Nestle and Lindt also beat him to it.@@Sean-pm2vd
@@Shoomer1988 my bad. I was just rereading the last sentence in your comment. " That's 34 years before Hershey supposedly "invented" mass production". That's what threw me. Apologies.
"Do you guys have Hershey's kisses?" 😂🤣 No darling, nobody here would even touch that xD You really really need to get a box full of amazing European quality chocolate - especially from Switzerland.
Had an American friend who got a care packet. She wanted to share it with me and I had to spit it out and told her it was off. I couldn't swallow it. She tasted it and it was fine to her. I was so relieved when this video came out as I felt so bad as it was her precious chocolate that she shared
I remember going to America when I was young for the first time and buying a Hersheys. I literally spat it out. I looked everywhere for British, Swiss, Belgium, Italian, German or any nice chocolate and they had hardly anything. I finally found some m&ms which I like but couldn’t believe how little choice there was. Sorry America, as a kid I think you traumatised me😂
LOL what all of you Europeans fail to understand is that Hershey's chocolate was created specifically for the American military in 1942 under the requirement that it had to have a long shelf life, could withstand extreme temperatures, and could be cheaply mass produced. Because of rationing NO OTHER chocolate of ANY KIND was available in world. After four years American GIs, 80% of whom had been too poor to ever have chocolate before, developed a taste for the product. When Hershey's tried to go back to traditional recipes, they found that the only stuff that sold was the war time recipe. In addition Europe did not start producing their chocolates until the middle of the 1950s (February 1953 for Cadbury). Furthermore, because of the time it takes to ship & store European chocolate to the USA requires the inclusion of preservatives which changes the taste of European chocolates so it is not all that different than Hershey's. (Choco butter spoils without similar preservatives to what the US uses).
Video : Hershey ( US) vs Cadburry (UK) . So it is US vs UK not EU. I say this coz Cadburry may be good "chocolate" to the British (i doubt it tho, they have other, better stuff i.m.o.) , but it isnt to me, and many others on the mainland. Something, you'd expect me as a Belgian to say 😂, obviously, but ask Italy, Switzerland, sweden, germany,...and they'll all agree cadburry isnt nearly as good as what they've got on the shelves. 🤘❤️
I still wonder why Cadbury is still the most popular chocolate bar in the UK, when it's gone downhill so much since the days before the Kraft takeover. And don't get me started on how bad creme eggs are these days, ugh.
The first time i ate chocolate in america i was deeply disappointed 😂 my family looked at me with big eyes and asked what my opinion is.. They got disappointed as well😂
I tasted two different kinds of chocolates when visiting Nashville and it was a weird experience. The first chocolate a was local artisan chocolate and it tasted like a grilled beef with smokey flavor. The second piece of chocolate was by Godiva, the Belgian brand, but bought in the US. I usually love Godiva's chocolate but this chocolate was like a lump of pure fat or lard in my mouth. My guess is that they modify their product for the US market.
most likely they do. i bought a snickers in the phillipines (im from northern europe) and it was disgusting, i thought it was a safe choice as it was a snickers, but it was produced in malaysia. the chocolate was 100% different.
I was married to an American and the first time I tried Hershey's chocolate I thought it tasted fine until a few seconds after I started. I thought I'd brought up a bit of bile and couldn't understand why I didnt feel myself retching. That's because I wasn't retching, it was just the taste of the chocolate. Mmmmm yummy......baby puke flavour candy.
When I went to an American summercamp I got one Hershey bar every Sunday as a treat. I could barely get it down. Two years later I returned with a stack of chcolates, which I wasn't supposed to bring in (no sweets except for that one bar each Sunday). Yet my cabin councilor ignored the rule as soon as I broke them out for all to taste. So we scarfed down those chocolate bars from Germany in two days. Nobody spoke about it.
Generally all European chocolate is very tasty (well apart from UK, sorry). But my favourite is Belgian chocolate. They mastered it in my opinion. Heaven.
As someone who was brought up on both, i.e., I'm British but my Dad is American. The American side of my family lives pretty close to Hersheys, so we went there a few times in my younger years. My family used to send us over boxes of chocolate, including Kisses. I can probably take the taste of Hersheys more than most Brits, but as I've got older and I've eaten less of it, the more bitter it tastes and the more I dislike it ... and I used to love Hersheys Kisses in my early 20's. There is a huge difference in the taste of the two chocolates, ours in the UK is much better. It tastes more milky. I even think your Cadburys may taste different to ours.
Of course it tastes different Debbee, Hersheys wouldn't allow Cadburys to market their products in the US. The only way Cadburys could get a presence in the US, was to allow Hersheys to produce the chocolate, and slap a Cadbury label on it.
@harvelle2432 ?? What has my dad got to do with this? Apart from being American. This is something that happened around 25 years ago, times change. I'm most likely older than you, please don't call me hunnie.
Ryan , I can't stop laughing at your sweet little confused face because everything about the commentary on chocolate went in one ear and out of the other one . Love 💕 your outlook on life and the fact that one learns something new every day ( I'm over 70 year's old and will never give up . Thank you , young man .
After knowing this I bought a Hershey's bar from an imported American sweets shop to try it. I expected it to taste like straight up vomit, but it turned out the vomit taste was actually very very subtle 😂 I had to consciously look for it, but yeah it was definitely there, an acidic aftertaste. Not pleasant indeed. Had I not known it was a Hershey's bar, I don't know if I really would've been able to pinpoint what was wrong with it though. It's just bad chocolate, like there are other European cheap chocolates that are bad for other reasons.
@@WookieWarriorz Yes I have to agree with that, my dad brought some back from a holiday in the US & the smell alone was enough to put me off, just grim.
Funny thing: You do like Cadbury chocolate. But for Europeans (outside GB) its even not a really good one - the Cadbury named chocolate itself. Smaller brands are way better. That shows even more the large difference between US chocolate and European products.
Lindt and Novi (Dunno how widespread it is outside of Italy tho) are top tiers in terms of big brands imo. Smaller brands can up the quality even further but that's not stuff you can find everywhere
Many years ago, a work colleague brought some Hershey chocolate back from her US holiday. The moment the Hershey chocolate was opened, you could smell it. It stunk! The chocolate was thrown into a bin outside.
I don't agree with the statement that the cocoa content is the same, just weighed differently. American chocolate can be marketed in the UK or EU as chocolate. It can only be marketed as "Chocolate Flavoured" simply because the cocoa content in US products is so low. Since Kraft bought Cadbury, which was a foolish thing to do, it has become the same poor quality as other Kraft products as they changed the recipe to inferior US ingredients.
Many years ago, in the 1970s, one of the smaller UK confectionery firms that's now owned by Nestle, produced a new chunky chocolate bar, known as the Yorkie. It had and still has plain milk chocolate, chocolate and peanut and raisin and biscuit varieties and therefore directly competed with Cadbury's Dairy Milk, and its Wholenut, and Fruit and Nut varieties. At the time, a lot of people said it tasted like cooking chocolate... The fact it is still around today speaks volumes about its general acceptability as a Cadbury's alternative - along with Galaxy, which is made by Mars - although it tastes much creamier - if in a slightly artificial kind of way! Hersheys, which has also been available in recent years, doesn't come anywhere even close to a Cadbury's or even a Galaxy alternative. With the greatest of respect, America, you are used to eating overly processed foods - we are not. And not only that, we are increasing moving in the opposite direction, to purer chocolate varieties with more natural ingredients. It quite simply doesn't cut the mustard, as far as the British palate is concerned.
regular german stores don't sell hershey's, but you can find cadbury's more often nowadays. i still prefer german chocolate like milka (they changed their recipe recently and it tastes cheap now!) or ritter sport. since hearing about the butyric acid years ago i will not try hershey's ever. the thought alone is just disgusting. i remember we had an incident back when i was in school in one of the chemistry rooms, someone had spilled butyric acid and the room could not be used for the rest of the day, because it smelled so much like vomit that people were throwing up.
Milka was originally Swiss but was sold and the recipe was changed which resulted in Swiss people not liking it anymore and nowadays you won't find it in supermarkets in Switzerland anymore but in Germany it grew in popularity. It's not considered a good chocolate though, Cadbury and Milka are now very similar and belong to the same company. Neither brand is even available in Switzerland because it is considered to be bad. American supermarket level chocolate is far worse though, I'm not a picky eater but it is literally uneatable. Its makes you gag. You can find great chocolate in almost every country, just look for bean to bar brands. Usually small batch and a bit more expensive but absolutely worth the money. There should not be anything but cocoa and sugar in chocolate. If you need more than that, the cocoa you used was of bad quality. That0s how you know whether chocolate is actually good.
Yeah, Milka tastes so weird and overly sweet now, they have for a few years. It used to be my favourite as a child, but now I've stopped eating it entirely
My friend visited America and brought my some of the local sweets. I was very shocked to find out some of them literally taste like vomit. I couldn't even finish a small bar :(
What is interesting (from a europead point of view (french here for me)) is that you the video takes Cadbury as the pinacle of the european chocolate.. for most of us, it is one of the least representative of chocolate. Super sugary, least cocoa, as Kinder, it isn't real chocolate. I'll come to the US pretty soon, and i'll definitely try the american chocolate to make my own proper comparison.
cadbury just has a huge brand prescence worldwide, particualrly in the uk, south africa, india and australia. But i also prefer kinder although id say kinder is way way sweeter than dairymilk. Galaxy is top tier to me with lindt a little below.
Cadbury made changes to the recipe of its Dairy Milk bars in the UK in 2018, which led to a difference in taste, texture and ingredients. The new recipe contained more milk solids and less cocoa solids compared to the old recipe. The change was not well received by some customers and sparked criticism and complaints. It's unclear if the change affected Cadbury Dairy Milk bars in other countries, as the recipe for chocolate can vary from country to country based on local tastes, regulations and supply chains.
My great aunt lives in the US and sent us (in Europe) a box of American stuff, including a Hershey's bar. My little brother and I were kids at the time and could not be more excited to try American chocolate! One bite.. and I spat it out - it tasted off, kind of sour and not tasty at all, like it was beyond its expiry date. I checked the wrapper to confirm, but the chocolate hadn't expired - that was just what it was supposed to taste like. Aw man, my brother and I were so disappointed. After all these years, I finally came to find out why it tasted the way it did to us who are not accustomed to the flavour of butyric acid in chocolate.
And to think there are over three hundred million Americans who use Hershey as the standard for what a chocolate bar should be... Americans who have never eaten a Cadbury or any European chocolate bar ever...
I would like to point out that in US chocolate, some companies add butyric acid to their chocolate, no idea how many do. Butyric acid is what gives it that rancid/sick flavour and why many people around the world actually dont like it. They use it to help with shelf life, which i truly dont agree is worth ruining the flavour for.
The reason Europe use E numbers for the additives is because the EU parliament decided that no matter what country you are in you must be able to find out what is in your food and established a unified list of all food additives. Just google the E number and you will find the ingredients name in every languish used in the countries that uses the E numbers. that way you do not have to learn a new languish every time you travel to a new country just in order to know what you eat.
Aw, now I feel like I should send you some chocolate :) But me as being in Germany, I do know Hersheys from American TV, but I do not know Cadbury's is a company for anything. So it surprises me that this is supposed to be a European company. Checking Wikipedia makes it look like it is mainly (only) present in GB as such, not in mainland Europe. German chocolate companies are mostly Milka and Ritter Sport.
I'm English and my favourite mass produced chocolate brand is Ritter Sport. I was disappointed that, when I visited Berlin in January this year, the Ritter Sport World shop was closed for refurbishment. Cadbury, which is a very famous and popular chocolate in the UK, used to be good before the company was bought by Kraft/Mondelez.
I love chocolate between 70-100% cacao. Yes - 100%, only cacao, Wedel make this miraculous chocolate bars. Wonderful because my children don't want eat it, 70% is no problem for them 😅
If you want quality chocolate try Läderach, it is expensive but super delicious. At easter I had a piece of läderach easter bunny chocolate and after a piece of lindt. Even though lindt is good quality and I normaly like it, in direct comparison it tasted bad. Truly läderach is the superior chocolate
I was horrified by the taste of Hershey. It also tastes sour and bitter to me. It also feels sandy in the mouth. European chocolate is very creamy, sweet and full-bodied. My favorite strain is Ritter Sport Kakao Mousse. It melts in the mouth . I prefer to eat them at room temperature. Then I don't chew them. I suck them very slowly. 🤤
Swiss and Belgian chocolates are the best, especially Swiss chocolates. French chocolates are better than British chocolates. My uncle from France would send Swiss and Belgium chocolates to us or bring them to us when he visits. He loves chocolates. I could tell the differences between US chocolates and theirs right away when I first had them. They are smoother, creamier, richer, with a more subtle but balanced flavor. Even though some of the chocolates are bitter, they still taste richer because of its higher quality and natural flavors. They don’t taste artificial or fake. I hear their chocolate processing method and cocoa content contributes to the higher quality of their chocolates, which has been around for decades. Overall, European chocolates are better than ours. Swiss chocolates are number 1 and the best in the world. 💕 When I hear US Americans praising Hersheys, I find it funny because obviously, they have no clue what the best are.
This explains why when my American colleagues used to bring in Hershey's everyone would leave them uneaten because to us, it does taste like vomit!! Always wondered why it has that taste... Now I know
Please be aware that Cadbury is not considered to be chocolate in Europe as it doesn't contain cocoa butter. It is still chocolately yummie. We don't understand Hershey, we just don't...
Ahh, the fond memories of first tasting a Hershey's bar, and wondering who had vomited in that batch, and looking it up on Google... Big no thanks from me on that stuff.. but I also get what you say about it feeling like wax, it's odd.. also one thing they get a bit wrong in the video is that because the US standard doesn't have requirements for cocoa butter, that makes the producers use cheaper fats instead of the cocoa butter, so the requirement of 10% cocoa powder vs 30% cocoa content still makes a difference, which probably is the reason for the waxy feel..
Here in Australia it's Cabury, followed by various Swiss and Belgian chocolates. The largest independent chocolate maker is the family owned Haigh's Chocolate. These are specialty chocolates made using premium, world sourced cocoa beans. They even produce single source dark chocolate bars. The surprise is the difference in flavor in different region cocoa/chocolate.
While Cadbury chocolate is clearly better than Hershey's I wouldn't call it great. If you want excellent chocolate I would point someone towards the more continental-style European brands, such as Lindt and Green & Black's. Personally, I also prefer darker chocolate over the milk variety - with at least 60% cocoa solids if at all possible.
Cadbury is not so popular here, I'm not sure about whole Europe, but I see Milka or Lindt more often. Lindt is really tasty, also I love Belgium chocolate and Austrian Mozart - with marzipan
Where I live (Central Europe), we do not have Hershey's kisses - I have a morbid curiosity to try one, as so many people say it tastes like vomit and others say it's ok, so which one is it? But then again, my favourite chocolates are 70% cocoa and up, not milk chocolate, so I might not like it anyway.
To Germans even Cadbury does not count as "good" chocolate. And Germany is the Top 1 exporter of chocolate (about 5 billion Euros per year; the top 2 is Belgium with about 3.3 billion, followed by Italy, Poland and Netherlands. The US are in 7th place, the UK in 9th place, Switzerland in 11th place). 😉 Cadbury is by the way since 2010 a subsidiary of Kraft Foods, which became in 2012 Mondelez International (after splitting off Kraft Heinz Company). In 1990 Kraft Foods had already taken over Jacobs Suchard (Jacobs is a leading coffee brand in Germany, Suchard a leading Swiss-German chocolate producer with the main brand "Milka"). Mondelez owns also a number of other chocolate, cookie, snack and confectionary brands like Daim, Oreo, Ritz, Toblerone, TUC (and likes to mix them into Milka and Cadbury products). Imho however even Lindt chocolate (produced in Switzerland and Aachen, Germany) is better (if in most cases a bit too sweet for my taste); generally I prefer Ritter Sport (a 1932 introduced brand of Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co KG, a family-owned company from Waldenbuch near Stuttgart, Germany). (Belgian chocolate however is the best. I won't argue that. Never. 😇)
@@valeriedavidson2785 no, it's not. Knowing polish and german chocolates I can say that in the UK only Galaxy is good, but still... I feel like they changed something, cause it's not the same taste like one year ago (it's a bit worse now - not much, but still).
comparing Cadbury to Hershey is like... comparing two bad things instead of choosing something that actually tastes natural and not processed to hell ^^ Like German or Swiss chocolate. Or Belgian!
First of all, real chocolate contains at least 70% cocoa solids. Everything else is chocolate flavored products. Second, try Lindt brand chocolate. That is the minimum standard. Of course, there are better products. If after a "few weeks" of the "healing bark" of eating Lindt chocolates you still like American chocolate, you should see a doctor and ask for a tongue check. I don't want to scare you (of source, I want), but a loss of taste can mean a serious health problem. 🙊😈
dark chcolate is fucking gross bro aint no one want that bitter ass shit. Theres a reason its called 'milk chocolate' when it contains the eu required 25% cocoa.
Lindt is one of the brands I usually buy, 70% cocoa, I also like the 70% one with orange or with salt, salt and dark chocolate is an awsome combination, a traditional after school snack here where I live is bread (real bread) with salt, olive oil and chocolate, if the bread is toasted the chocolate melts and it's even better.🤤
lindt is more on the expensive side but pretty tasty. my personal favourite here in germany is rittersport! my family loves the salt, honey & almond one but any flavour is good
Im from a central Europe In 2011 I visited America and I saw those Hersheys bars laying everywhere in the stores. I picked one out of curiosity. It was the worst chocolate I have ever eaten. I could not finish it. I thought what the hell is wrong with you America.
When I eat chocolate, I usually eat Milka, Ritter Sport, Lindt, Kinder, Polish brands like E.Wedel or Wawel, sometimes Swedish Marabou from IKEA and they all are great chocolates, often having a slight differences and taste and texture, but I've heard so many bad things about Hershey's that I'm not even willing to try a little bite of it and thankfully I've never seen it anywhere in grocery stores in Poland, our Chemistry teacher once gave us a jar of buttyric acid to smell and lots of my classmates gagged, just can't imagine someone adding it purposely to chocolate
You might like to discover what true chocolate is about (Belgium and Switzerland are neck-to-neck producing the best in the world). Enjoy this (on YT): "11 Facts You DIDN'T Know About Belgian Chocolate" - World's Okayest Candy Story Or this: "How Belgian Chocolates Are Made | Food Secrets Ep. 8" - DW Food
always fun to hear americans talk about the price of hersheys, and that its soo cheap. Here in Austria you can get (quite) good store brand chocolate for 0.35 € per bar. (100g), Milka for about 1 € per bar (100g), and lindt for about 1.5 - 2.0€ per bar (100g). So why is Hersheys in the US for over 1.5 $ per 100g considered soooo cheap?
I worked in a shop where we sold Hershey's kisses and chocolate bars. I did try them twice (I thought the first kiss was just off) and they were terrible. I will never understand how you can eat them.
Maybe because Hershey was Americans first chocolate bar and for many their last chocolate bar... Hershey is the American standard found in every store that sells chocolate bars in America... On the other hand very few American stores that sells chocolate bars stock Cadbury or any other European chocolate bars...
There is an Italian brand, that sells something similar, it's called "bacio". They are delicious, with some hazelnut in the core and also other flavours.
I rarely buy any chocolate other than from the chain Hotel Chocolat. It's not cheap but the range of styles and flavours is huge: dark, milk and white chocolate, nuts, fruit, liqueurs, creamy, crunchy, solid. My current favourites are Billionaire's shortbread, mojito liqueursand, dark chocolate and hazelnut, white chocolate and raspberry, and chocolate-covered crystallised ginger.
Having seen people yearning for Hershey's on (US)American tv-shows, I was of course curious to try it when I travelled to New York. The shock! It had a floury consistency and a sort of pukey flavour. I thought the specific bar I had bought must have gone bad. That was not the case. I feel sorry for Americans in this respect (also).
When I first tried a Hershey's bar I genuinely thought I got an unlucky bad one because it literally tasted like vomit to me. So when I found out there was a scientific reason why it tasted that way to me, it blew my mind.
That is why the chocolate taste so bad : come to Belgium . Taste the follow brands: côte d’or, leonidas, godiva,Neuhaus , Callebaut and local chocolatiers
I bought a bar of Hersheys just to see what it was like when in New York. I had one piece and threw the rest in the bin. I had to buy a drink to get the taste out of my mouth. The problem is that the US government are for business not the people. so bringing in legislation to make food better is met wish stiff resistance as it would cost more. The stuff food producers in the US are allowed to add to products is frightening (as a doctor below has commented). I had some friends come over from the US and were on an extended one year visa due work. They said after 3 months here they both lost weight but were still eating Pizza or having MacDonalds now and then. The lady had a skin rash and it dissapeared within 2 weeks because certain chemicals causing it were not hidden in the food. When they returned to the US they both developed digestion and stomach issues and had bouts of vomitting. They ended up moving to the country and started to grow most of their own food.
During the war my Mom was given chocolate from American soldiers stationed where she lived. When I moved to America she asked me to bring her a bar of Herscheys back but couldn’t eat it because it was so bad. She had got used to Cadburys.
I'm European but now I'm trying to think which one is worse, "Easter Bunny" chocolate or "Advent Calendar" chocolate. They are both bad but in a slightly different way.
I tasted Hershey's once in the UK. It was one of the very few things I've ever actually immediately spat out in my entire life! It absolutely tasted like Sick in my mouth! Definitely inedible to me. And the taste was massively strong.
Since Yanks got their claws into Cadburys, the chocolate has gone really down hill. Its lost its taste. Its more like crappy Yank chocolate. It used to be vastly better. It used to be amazing. Not anymore. Oh and Frys, the British company produced the first chocolate with a different interior. Not Hershey.
In Italy the best chocolate is not the industrial in packages but the one you buy fresh made in padtry shops or what we call cioccolateria (a shop who sells fresh made chocolate only). At Christmas time is very difficult e en get in there but its so good.
They do sell some Hershey's bars in our German supermarkets, I think you can get them in any Rewe. The ones in the colorful paper packaging (given that they didn't adapt it for Germany that is). You can get a bigger variety of their products in bigger cities or shops selling American snacks specifically. Hershey's chocolate, regardless of which one has always tasted extremely bad to me. I grew up used to the super sweet 'Kinder' chocolate products by Ferrero (which contain more sugar in Germany than in Italy) or the infamous Milka (purple cow) chocolate. At some point that chocolate became a little too sugary to enjoy fully and especially Milka bars (the normal ones, the special ones e.g. strawberry cheesecake, butter cookies... are lit) started to feel like one could taste the sugar. I still enjoy Kinder series chocolate because of their recognizable and nostalgic flavour but I now prefer other Ferrero chocolate. My favorite chocolate to this day is Lindt chocolate. It's very accessible in Germany, a very famous brand you can get anywhere. It's a rather expensive brand but it's high quality swiss chocolate. Their chocolate is creamy and milky (🤨) and not 'sugary' at all. It's still quite sweet, don't get me wrong, but it's just the perfect amount that doesn't have one taste literal sugar. I'm talking about most of their flavors and variants but a lot of people also love their famous dark chocolate. I personally don't since I'm a white chocolate fanatic (don't come at me, ik it's technically not chocolate usually) and I enjoy sweet chocolate. It's too bitter to me. About that - Hershey's chocolate tastes bitter but sour and waxy at the same time. The degree of those 'flavors' vary depending on the specific variant but the only Hershey's chocolate I've ever had that is *almost* good is the cookies and cream bar. That's not a good thing for a chocolate brand, especially since it really is only *almost* good. Bad at the end of the day, won't ever buy it again. And why would I with so much chocolate here that's way better. Something else I wanted to touch on since I just remembered is the price point. Hershey's isn't cheap at all but that's not just because it's imported from America. It's just one of the American foods that are overpriced and low/not high enough quality. Milka is probably the most affordable brand amongst the big players in Germany. Ferrero is more expensive but you really are paying for the Ferrero flavor and variety. Lindt is essentially premium chocolate and still reasonably priced. Hershey's chocolate is incomparable to any of these brands, taste and quality wise, yet still somehow priced similarly to Ferrero. It's absurd and I'm not surprised no one ever buys it. Those bars probably become dusty cause I'm sure those that I see in the shelve will remain untouched until they expire. Also - most people in Germany don't even know Hershey's. Only younger people do or those who have been to America before (and America fans ofc, specifically teenagers in this case, they're usually into American candy and snacks). And I can say the same about every other country I've been to.
Just wondering, do you even have Wedel? In Poland this would be a standard accessible chocolate bar (though Kinder are/were common for kids (though not exactly thought of as "chocolate") and we've got plenty of Milkas in the store - and in ads, I remember always being curious and then I got disappointed when I finally had a chance to try it...).
In Sweden we don't have either Hersheys or Cadburry. We got Marabou as the main brand, and a few off brands. It's a Swedish brand sold in most of Scandinavia. As for fancier choices it's usually Swiss chocolate like Lindt.
Fellow Europeans, does Cadbury even exist in your country? I'm from Italy and I've never seen Cadbury here. I've only ever seen it in the UK and my experience with it as a child was traumatising. It was Easter time and a nice bus or taxi driver gave us Cadbury eggs, we were excited as we expected them to be like Kinder chocolate eggs. No. They were filled with white and orange stuff inside instead, which looked and tasted horrible, they were disgusting 😭 I guess I'll have to give regular Cadbury chocolate a try one day, but I'm scared lol
Ive never been anywhere in europe that didnt have cadbury lol even italy literally go to a supermarket and look, what you got though was a cadbury cream egg which im not too found of either but its just caramel mixed with cream inside. Its the only cadbury product with that inside. Galaxy is way better than cadbury imo. Cadbury is huge in australia, india and south africa too.
Ever since Cadbury's were taken over from Mondelez International (a US company). They changed the chocolate bar recipe to cut costs and in doing so, ruining the current taste imo.
My Australian wife tried to visit the Cadbury factory when holidaying in Tasmania with her best friend (2010) and unfortunately for her and due to the H & S regulation there, they no longer conducted tours. A couple of years later I took her to Bournville, the home of Cadbury’s chocolate in the UK since 1824 just a couple of suburbs from where I grew up. She was more amazed by the quaker socialist principles that founded the business of making Drinking Chocolate to provide an alternative to Gin drinking. Together with the town and the community that had been built there than anything else she saw even though she loved the tour of the originally chocolate factory. She loved the township of Bournville as much. Cadbury in Tasmania is made for Southern Hemisphere consumption and was the first overseas factory. The product taste slightly different due to additives to help it retain its shape in higher much ambient temperature here, which my wife commented on when touring the original factory. The only thing I personally really miss is that hardly anyone imports the dark Bournville chocolate which is one of my personal favourite food groups as they don’t manufacture it here. I also live 5 miles (8 km) away from the Darrell Lea factory in Ingleburn NSW and try only to call in there at Easter as otherwise in would be cruel to my wife, who not only loves their products, but also makes a comparable Rocky Road which is to die for! I must admit since it was sold to Kraft foods in 2010 the quality of Cadbury’s has wavered somewhat and there others that are now just as good if not better, like Whitaker from NZ. I do remember my wife comments after she first tasted Belgium chocolate, that ‘she’s died and gone to Heaven’! Similarly I made the same comment about Swiss chocolate when I visited there in my teens. P.S. The Cadbury changed to war production due the raw materials from overseas that went into the bars were no longer available in any volume. NSW in Oz
@@R0d_1984Cadburys is still owned by Mondolez who have taken over Toblerone and I believe Hersheys is also owned by Mondelez. Cadburys recipe has changed and now it is claggy in the mouth and it tastes wierd. Hersheys tastes like cooking chocolate.
A few months ago me and my 2 sons went an imported sweet shop and bought a sh*t ton of US Candy to have a USA day for fun. We ate it all (even tho. some was overly sweet) bar the chocolate. We all said the chocolate was gross, and we ended up throwing out all the chocolate. It literally tasted of vomit / feet to us.
Henry Ford took inspiration from the textile industry, that had been automated and prior to that structured for centuries... The first pre-cursor computer and punched cards, and the first automation process was for textiles, not cars...
Ryan; the real chocolate is the "black/dark (Without any milk)" one and is not bitter at all. In fact, it can taste something sweet!, and it is a natural medicine (if you suffer from any type of cardiovascular disease). The best dark chocolates are organic: the cocoa's grains is purchased directly from organic producers, roasted in old-fashioned ball roasters, adding only raw cane sugar and natural cocoa butter; No soy lecithin, no vanilla, and nothing to get in the way of the pure flavor of the grain! They must contain at least 85% pure cocoa butter, and this must come from the best varieties of "Trinatario", "Criollo" and "forastero-Trinitario" cocoa from Java (Indonesia), Madagascar, Ecuador, Peru , Colombia and Equatorial Guinea (in Africa)
As an Italian, what is Cadbury? I’ve never ever seen it on sale here. Say Lindt, Novi, Perugina, Milka, Ritter, Nestle, Ferrero, seldom Witor’s but Cadbury, at least to me, is unknown.
Having tried chocolate from many different countries, I'd say that Hershey bars are more like candy than chocolate. Because I like parmesan cheese and all other cheeses, I don't notice the taste, so much. But given the choice....Cadbury, Lindt, Milka, Ritter Sport, Fry's, Green and Black's, Thornton's, etc, etc. Proper chocolate. I've even tried Spanish, Israeli, Polish and Russian chocolate....all better than Hershey's.
Best chocolates for me as an European its Cadbury and Milka brands. Also Portugal has its chocolate brands like Avianense, Regina and Arcádia. I've taste american chocolate, Hersheys and Reese's, and it was so terrible, such bad taste, reminded me of when i vomit, the acid aftertaste.
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Hershey's are sold in the U.K. but legally they can't call it "chocolate", instead they are required to call it "chocolate flavour" because it doesn't meet U.K. and European standards for chocolate.
Most European chocolates contain either palm oil, shea oil, animal fats, or E171 all of which are banned in US chocolates due to toxicity/carcinogenic effects or other health concerns. Basically like injecting candle wax into your veins along with cell mutation. Go ahead and enjoy those chocolates though 😂👍
some of the "worst" chocolate in Denmark, is a lot better than the American BS...
@@spyro257 Any EU bad chocolate is divine in USA. :/
American chocolate is gross. Sorry but it is
Hershey's Cookies & Cream is amazing tho
it's not just Europeans, as an Australian, US Hershey's is worse than crap and I won't go near it, Toblerone is amazing and dark Toblerone is my go to chocolate bar
Hah-haaah, you think Hershey's is bad? Bro, try Palmers then run that back at me.
@@-KatastropheMy mayor is called Palmer lol
Absolutely 💯 👍
@@E85stattElektro yeah, a racist prick and bigmouth like his father used to be
Australians are basically just Europeans travelling abroad xD
You even compete in Eurovision. So don't judge yourselves too hard on this :)
As a doctor myself, I cannot stop repeating to Americans to be EXTREMELY CAREFUL with what they buy in their grocery stores. There are so many products sold in the USA that contain ingredients that are banned in the EU because they are toxic and there’s studies that support the theory that they increase cancer rate and other health issues. This refers especially for candies and sweet things in general. 🆘
Me who is obsessed with sugar: Oh dear non-existent god...
this is what happens when you are in a country where health is a business 😢
@@aghilesbessad6946 yes it’s a direct consequence of not having a national health care insurance system.
When you do, the state has a financial incentive to keep its population as healthy as possible to reduce the cost of health care. When you don’t it’s in all the main actor’s interest to have people need as much medical care as possible.
Sorry I can't take anything a doctor has to say seriously
The food packaging in the US is allowed to be blatantly misleading as well.
If you find imported PopTarts in the world food aisle of a UK supermarket they tend to have a little sticker on the front. If you peel that back you find out that it is covering the ridiculous claim that pastry filled with jam and covered in icing sugar is somehow "A good source of vitamins and minerals".
I also heard that you can find packets of sweeteners in the US that are claimed to be sugar free even though they are in fact just sugar. This is apparently because the legislation in place allows the manufacturer to classify a product as lacking an ingredient as long as less than 5g is present per serving. So they make sure that the serving size in each packet is only 4g, so even though it is 100% sugar they can still call it sugar free.
Just because our minimum requirements for cocoa content is 30% that doesn't mean you'll find many that low... most milk chocolate bars in the UK will likely be over 50% cocoa and dark chocolate tends to be over 60% but Cadbury is a poor example as there are numerous bars over here with 70, 80 and even 90% cocoa in them
Belgian here, and Cadbury is hard to find and not even considered a good chocolate. If you ever were to visit, please try Belgian chocolate. I’m sure you’d love it!
Belgian chocolate, Swiss chocolate, German chocolate...surely better than American or Cadbury.
Cadbury’s isn’t even considered ‘good’ chocolate in the UK. It’s just one of the mass market cheap options. I’d probably put it on par with Nestle or Milka. If it’s what you grew up on it’s fine, but compared to better quality UK or European options available here it’s pretty mediocre. Still, it doesn’t taste of vomit so there’s a plus.
@@iantellam9970yeah, same in NZ. I think it was just used for the sibe by side comparison here because it's a company of similar scale to Hershey's
@@adventure-phil8339 I'd put Swiss "Lindt"-Chocolate against yours. But to be honest, I don't know Belgian Chocolate so much, because it's not sold in Austria. Besides this Belgian "chocolate mussels", which I don't buy.
I'd take one of the cheap massproduced swiss chocolats over cadbury any day of the week.
I'm an American and we had an exchange student from France staying with us years ago. He brought chocolates from the region of the Pyrenees mountains. Wow was it amazing! I knew then that our US chocolate was crap. We have too many preservatives and processed nonsense in our food!
Its called GREED........The Dollar is King F the public.
@@johnchristmas7522 NO its not! What you fail to understand is that Hershey's chocolate was created specifically for the American military in 1942 under the requirement that it had to have a long shelf life, could withstand extreme temperatures, and could be cheaply mass produced. Because of rationing NO OTHER chocolate of ANY KIND was available in world. After four years American GIs, 80% of whom had been too poor to ever have chocolate before, developed a taste for the product. When Hershey's tried to go back to traditional recipes, they found that the only stuff that sold was the war time recipe. In addition Europe did not start producing their chocolates until the middle of the 1950s (February 1953 for Cadbury). Furthermore, because of the time it takes to ship & store European chocolate to the USA requires the inclusion of preservatives which changes the taste of European chocolates so it is not all that different than Hershey's. (Choco butter spoils without similar preservatives to what the US uses).
Cadbury have been producing chocolate bars since the mid-1800s. The end of WWII restrictions isn't the "start" of production, so this doesn't explain why American chocoloid is so different.
@@greyknight5823 You must be a recent graduate, because you do not read or understand very well. Yes Cadbury has been in business since the 1800's, but they were unable to restart their traditional chocolate production until Feb 1953. Between 1941 & 1953 Cadbury did not have dairy milk & sugar in the same amounts as before or as it is now. Furthermore the shipment of chocolate OUTSIDE of Europe requires the the inclusion of preservatives. Hence the taste of Cadbury sold in North America is relatively the SAME as Hershey's. If you are not educated enough to have your facts correct, try to at least read & comprehend.
What about fresh chocolate cream the very first chocolate bar 19th century
Ryan, you should open a PO Box and let your fans send you some snacks from all over the world. that way you know how other snacks taste :)
I second this.
I second this too. Never tried Hershey's chocolate or other one from this video (I'm from Latvia and I have never even heard about this brand😅) but we have here Milka's chocolate that I really love, Kaleb that is really good too and Laima (local brand I don't really like but I know people who do) and I have friends from Belgium who occasionally send me some chocolate. I would like to see a reaction on European sweets that are, in fact, tasty
I was so excited to try American chocolate the first time I went to the States...how disappointed I was, it's absolutely vile! M&Ms are crumbly! 🤮🤮🤮
well chocolate is not ideal to send in the mail. when it gets too warm or too cold it changes its taste significantly.
@@DarkSister. wait, the chocolate inside m&ms tastes different? are they insane!?
I live in Germany and I never noticed the Cadbury chocolate. I usually buy chocolate bars or Milka when I go for junky sweets, but Lindt is much better. It is soooo smooth!❤
Milka and Cadbury are both Mondelez brands, so the same shit under different names.
@@mikebegonia6134 then it means it is a low quality chocolate.
@@mikebegonia6134 bullsh*t. just because mondelez owns both brands doesnt mean its the same. Go away with your UK-bs
Lindt is pretty much in a class of its own. Only some Italian and Belgian chocolate can probably be even lumped in with Swiss chocolate in general
But that's for milk/sweet chocolate, in terms of bitter chocolate some Italian stuff we have here is insane
@@lucabertani225 yeah, dark chocolate is definitely superior, but unfortunately I can't take in the bitter taste. It makes me sick...
Hershey's is practically inedible. And what's worse is that since Kraft/Mondelez bought Cadbury's, they've slowly been changing even UK Cadbury's to a more American taste. So even comparing a lot of Cadbury's to Hershey's doesn't really tell you how different Hershey style chocolate is to British chocolate, let alone some excellent continental European chocolate.
The same unfortunate process started with Milka chocolate as well. Luckily there are plenty of other brands available here in Germany. For example there is a really good Swiss made Fair Trade chocolate available at Aldi. It's a bit more expensive but much better.
The question is if in the US they use cacao butter as well or if it's replaced by some other fancy stuff?
@@habi0187 exactly. I remember Milka tasted pretty good but in recent years, it's bearly edible. Here in Czech Rep., first it was only when manufactured in Poland, but lately, it goes for the one made in Germany as well. BTW: you in Germany are lucky, you have Aldi and their privat mark Moser Roth!
@@habi0187 The cocoa butter is the fancy stuff and real chocolate shouldn't contain other fats, which are cheaper and taste differently.
And let's face it, Milka was never good, always too sweet, waxy and weird. The cheapest chocolate at any discounter was and is better than Milka.
@@GGysar I think it's a question of age. I remember Milka maybe 45 years back as quite good. Ok a bit on the sweeter side but overall good. Then the decline started slowly and now it is as you said it's difficult to find a chocolate that tastes worse.
The lowest point was reached when they started to pack the chocolate in these sealed plastic foils instead of aluminium and paper.
Trying out souvenir chocolates from the US was one the biggest taste disappointments of my youth, we ended up throwing most of it away since it tasted unedible and I almost threw up 🤢
Hershey's Kisses were a souvenir chocolate brought back to the office from the USA. They had a _really_ unpleasant aftertaste, nobody liked them, they hung around for days and eventually had to be thrown away.
When American chocolate is heated it accentuates the vomit taste, even when it cools down again.
Happened to me too. And it was supposed to be some kind of delicatessen. It was awful.
How is Cadbury representing the whole of Europe's chocolate? It is sold only on a few European islands. And it's barely OK.
Cadbury is huge af in india, australia and south africa.
Yeah I agree we got Swiss and Belgian chocolate that is actually good not like these 2 brands. By law in Belgium there are also specifications to make it Belgian chocolate. Don't know if the Swiss have it set by law.
Great video btw, I really like your content Ryan :D
I am European and ive never even heard of that brand.
anglo-americans ... they would never push belgium chocolate, because they have no clue
@@ayukuro1019 I have seen it here in Spain mostly in the UK people's area of influence.
But Spaniards we prefer both Belgium and Switzerland's chocolate or Latin American ones. Latin American chocolate is gold as well but is more the traditional chocolate we bring from america is more harsh and pure normally
If an american try chocolate in Switzerland and Ice cream in Italy he's never eat it again in the US 😂
Swiss and Belgian chocolate is the best I've tasted... cheap chocolate isn't worth buying.
+nerd8... I had an ice cream in Italy yesterday and Swiss Chocolate in Switzerland today. The Italian ice cream was good but not great. The Swiss chocolate was fantastic (however it depends on the brand).
@@svenlima Italian ice cream in a "gelateria" that made it artisanally I hope. It depends where you try it 😄
@@sonyabowler7491 Try norwegian chocolate. You would never buy any kind ever again if you taste norwegian chocolate.
Try norwegian chocolate.
I'm British, I went on holiday to Florida over 20 years ago, i was interested to try Hersheys, it was absolutely disgusting, it did taste like vomit, i threw it away. I had no idea it was like that.
It smells like vomit to me, too, which I think makes it even harder to consume.
Staff in my former office regularly brought back chocolate from trips to the USA, but only the Americans ate it; the Aussies, Brits and Europeans steered clear. When I brough back stuff from trips to Australia, it all went very quickly.
absolutely it smells like vomit - couldn’t eat it. i love lindt and cailler
Idk. It just tastes like milk chocolate to me but kinda plain. They have a bunch of different flavors that actually don’t taste wierd. One example being cookies and cream.
@@gabecollins5585 I've tried different flavours in the hopes it disguises the smell and taste, but I just can't stomach it.
I also find the texture a bit powdery at times.
@@Rionnagan If you don’t have a peanut allergy and you haven’t tried Reese’s yet I would highly recommend Reese’s peanut butter cups. The chocolate is much better than normal Hershey’s chocolate and has peanut butter inside. They also have tons of different Reese’s stuff too. Im not sure where you’re from but if they don’t have them where you are they can be bought online. 100% my favorite candy of all time. Even when compared to the fancier stuff. Im not a huge hersheys chocolate bar fan either but if I get them from Halloween or something or Easter I’ll eat them. Reese’s is the way to go for anyone who likes chocolate and peanut butter. Also yeah the chocolate does seem powdery or crumbly. Very messy chocolate.
The first mass produced chocolate bar was 'Fry's Chocolate Cream', first produced in England by Joseph Fry in 1866. That's 34 years before Hershey supposedly "invented" mass production.
She didn't say hershey invented mass production. She said he copied Henry Ford who was the first to use a production line to make cars fast and cheap.
She implied it
She literally said mass production of chocolate bars was impossible until Hershey came along which clearly isn't true. Hershey wasn't even the second to do it. Nestle and Lindt also beat him to it.@@Sean-pm2vd
@@Shoomer1988 my bad. I was just rereading the last sentence in your comment. " That's 34 years before Hershey supposedly "invented" mass production".
That's what threw me. Apologies.
Perhaps she meant the first in the US.....that probably counts as the entire world for some Americans!!LOL
"Do you guys have Hershey's kisses?" 😂🤣 No darling, nobody here would even touch that xD You really really need to get a box full of amazing European quality chocolate - especially from Switzerland.
Had an American friend who got a care packet. She wanted to share it with me and I had to spit it out and told her it was off. I couldn't swallow it. She tasted it and it was fine to her.
I was so relieved when this video came out as I felt so bad as it was her precious chocolate that she shared
I remember going to America when I was young for the first time and buying a Hersheys. I literally spat it out. I looked everywhere for British, Swiss, Belgium, Italian, German or any nice chocolate and they had hardly anything. I finally found some m&ms which I like but couldn’t believe how little choice there was. Sorry America, as a kid I think you traumatised me😂
M&M's in America are different to those Europe, because most of the colouring is banned in Europe
LOL what all of you Europeans fail to understand is that Hershey's chocolate was created specifically for the American military in 1942 under the requirement that it had to have a long shelf life, could withstand extreme temperatures, and could be cheaply mass produced. Because of rationing NO OTHER chocolate of ANY KIND was available in world. After four years American GIs, 80% of whom had been too poor to ever have chocolate before, developed a taste for the product. When Hershey's tried to go back to traditional recipes, they found that the only stuff that sold was the war time recipe. In addition Europe did not start producing their chocolates until the middle of the 1950s (February 1953 for Cadbury). Furthermore, because of the time it takes to ship & store European chocolate to the USA requires the inclusion of preservatives which changes the taste of European chocolates so it is not all that different than Hershey's. (Choco butter spoils without similar preservatives to what the US uses).
Video : Hershey ( US) vs Cadburry (UK) . So it is US vs UK not EU. I say this coz Cadburry may be good "chocolate" to the British (i doubt it tho, they have other, better stuff i.m.o.) , but it isnt to me, and many others on the mainland. Something, you'd expect me as a Belgian to say 😂, obviously, but ask Italy, Switzerland, sweden, germany,...and they'll all agree cadburry isnt nearly as good as what they've got on the shelves. 🤘❤️
Cadbury's isn't far off from Hersheys in becoming the least liked chocolate in Europe too. Hampered by awful cost cutting recipe changes.
Cadburys owned by Mondelez International (originally Kraft Foods) since 2010...
@@Mmjk_12yeah it's pretty nasty now
I haven't eaten Cadburys since it was bought by Kraft.
Head over to IKEA and buy Marabou
I still wonder why Cadbury is still the most popular chocolate bar in the UK, when it's gone downhill so much since the days before the Kraft takeover. And don't get me started on how bad creme eggs are these days, ugh.
The first time i ate chocolate in america i was deeply disappointed 😂 my family looked at me with big eyes and asked what my opinion is.. They got disappointed as well😂
I tasted two different kinds of chocolates when visiting Nashville and it was a weird experience. The first chocolate a was local artisan chocolate and it tasted like a grilled beef with smokey flavor. The second piece of chocolate was by Godiva, the Belgian brand, but bought in the US. I usually love Godiva's chocolate but this chocolate was like a lump of pure fat or lard in my mouth. My guess is that they modify their product for the US market.
most likely they do. i bought a snickers in the phillipines (im from northern europe) and it was disgusting, i thought it was a safe choice as it was a snickers, but it was produced in malaysia. the chocolate was 100% different.
I was married to an American and the first time I tried Hershey's chocolate I thought it tasted fine until a few seconds after I started.
I thought I'd brought up a bit of bile and couldn't understand why I didnt feel myself retching.
That's because I wasn't retching, it was just the taste of the chocolate. Mmmmm yummy......baby puke flavour candy.
When I went to an American summercamp I got one Hershey bar every Sunday as a treat. I could barely get it down.
Two years later I returned with a stack of chcolates, which I wasn't supposed to bring in (no sweets except for that one bar each Sunday). Yet my cabin councilor ignored the rule as soon as I broke them out for all to taste. So we scarfed down those chocolate bars from Germany in two days. Nobody spoke about it.
Generally all European chocolate is very tasty (well apart from UK, sorry). But my favourite is Belgian chocolate. They mastered it in my opinion. Heaven.
As Belgian, I am always surprised when I try chocolate from other country. I mean, only Switzerland in Europe can talk with us 😅
You're right. Greetings from Germany😊
As someone who was brought up on both, i.e., I'm British but my Dad is American. The American side of my family lives pretty close to Hersheys, so we went there a few times in my younger years. My family used to send us over boxes of chocolate, including Kisses. I can probably take the taste of Hersheys more than most Brits, but as I've got older and I've eaten less of it, the more bitter it tastes and the more I dislike it ... and I used to love Hersheys Kisses in my early 20's.
There is a huge difference in the taste of the two chocolates, ours in the UK is much better. It tastes more milky. I even think your Cadburys may taste different to ours.
Of course it tastes different Debbee, Hersheys wouldn't allow Cadburys to market their products in the US. The only way Cadburys could get a presence in the US, was to allow Hersheys to produce the chocolate, and slap a Cadbury label on it.
Your Dad has no taste hunnie xx
@harvelle2432 ?? What has my dad got to do with this? Apart from being American. This is something that happened around 25 years ago, times change. I'm most likely older than you, please don't call me hunnie.
@@debbee0867 Sorry calling you hunnie. I'm 52..................Barbie!!!!
@harvelle2432 We are the same age then. I had Sindy dolls, not Barbies 😁
Ryan , I can't stop laughing at your sweet little confused face because everything about the commentary on chocolate went in one ear and out of the other one . Love 💕 your outlook on life and the fact that one learns something new every day ( I'm over 70 year's old and will never give up . Thank you , young man .
I tried Hershey’s once, and never would do it again! It has so less quality. You should try some from Switzerland or Belgium.
As a European (Swede) I had no idea this was even a thing
Never heard of British chocolate before (France) 🤷🏼♂️
@@clementg2437 What is France?
@@R0d_1984 ??
After knowing this I bought a Hershey's bar from an imported American sweets shop to try it. I expected it to taste like straight up vomit, but it turned out the vomit taste was actually very very subtle 😂 I had to consciously look for it, but yeah it was definitely there, an acidic aftertaste. Not pleasant indeed. Had I not known it was a Hershey's bar, I don't know if I really would've been able to pinpoint what was wrong with it though. It's just bad chocolate, like there are other European cheap chocolates that are bad for other reasons.
Its the smell more than anything honestly, when you crack open a bar youre hit with a blast of baby vomit.
@@WookieWarriorz Yes I have to agree with that, my dad brought some back from a holiday in the US & the smell alone was enough to put me off, just grim.
Funny thing: You do like Cadbury chocolate. But for Europeans (outside GB) its even not a really good one - the Cadbury named chocolate itself. Smaller brands are way better. That shows even more the large difference between US chocolate and European products.
Lindt and Novi (Dunno how widespread it is outside of Italy tho) are top tiers in terms of big brands imo. Smaller brands can up the quality even further but that's not stuff you can find everywhere
Yeah Cadbury's is better than no chocolate, but that's it. Hershey's I worse than no chocolate 😅
Many years ago, a work colleague brought some Hershey chocolate back from her US holiday. The moment the Hershey chocolate was opened, you could smell it. It stunk! The chocolate was thrown into a bin outside.
I don't agree with the statement that the cocoa content is the same, just weighed differently. American chocolate can be marketed in the UK or EU as chocolate. It can only be marketed as "Chocolate Flavoured" simply because the cocoa content in US products is so low. Since Kraft bought Cadbury, which was a foolish thing to do, it has become the same poor quality as other Kraft products as they changed the recipe to inferior US ingredients.
‘WWII had a lot of effects’ made me laugh out loud, what a quote haha 7:26
I live in Germany and I never noticed the brands Cadbury and Hershey's. The most famous Chocolates over here are from Mondelez and Ferrero
Many years ago, in the 1970s, one of the smaller UK confectionery firms that's now owned by Nestle, produced a new chunky chocolate bar, known as the Yorkie. It had and still has plain milk chocolate, chocolate and peanut and raisin and biscuit varieties and therefore directly competed with Cadbury's Dairy Milk, and its Wholenut, and Fruit and Nut varieties. At the time, a lot of people said it tasted like cooking chocolate... The fact it is still around today speaks volumes about its general acceptability as a Cadbury's alternative - along with Galaxy, which is made by Mars - although it tastes much creamier - if in a slightly artificial kind of way! Hersheys, which has also been available in recent years, doesn't come anywhere even close to a Cadbury's or even a Galaxy alternative. With the greatest of respect, America, you are used to eating overly processed foods - we are not. And not only that, we are increasing moving in the opposite direction, to purer chocolate varieties with more natural ingredients. It quite simply doesn't cut the mustard, as far as the British palate is concerned.
regular german stores don't sell hershey's, but you can find cadbury's more often nowadays. i still prefer german chocolate like milka (they changed their recipe recently and it tastes cheap now!) or ritter sport. since hearing about the butyric acid years ago i will not try hershey's ever. the thought alone is just disgusting. i remember we had an incident back when i was in school in one of the chemistry rooms, someone had spilled butyric acid and the room could not be used for the rest of the day, because it smelled so much like vomit that people were throwing up.
Milka was originally Swiss but was sold and the recipe was changed which resulted in Swiss people not liking it anymore and nowadays you won't find it in supermarkets in Switzerland anymore but in Germany it grew in popularity. It's not considered a good chocolate though, Cadbury and Milka are now very similar and belong to the same company. Neither brand is even available in Switzerland because it is considered to be bad.
American supermarket level chocolate is far worse though, I'm not a picky eater but it is literally uneatable. Its makes you gag.
You can find great chocolate in almost every country, just look for bean to bar brands. Usually small batch and a bit more expensive but absolutely worth the money. There should not be anything but cocoa and sugar in chocolate. If you need more than that, the cocoa you used was of bad quality. That0s how you know whether chocolate is actually good.
Yeah, Milka tastes so weird and overly sweet now, they have for a few years. It used to be my favourite as a child, but now I've stopped eating it entirely
@@MrsStrawhatberryI would take some nice Lindt over those any day
My friend visited America and brought my some of the local sweets. I was very shocked to find out some of them literally taste like vomit. I couldn't even finish a small bar :(
What is interesting (from a europead point of view (french here for me)) is that you the video takes Cadbury as the pinacle of the european chocolate.. for most of us, it is one of the least representative of chocolate. Super sugary, least cocoa, as Kinder, it isn't real chocolate.
I'll come to the US pretty soon, and i'll definitely try the american chocolate to make my own proper comparison.
cadbury just has a huge brand prescence worldwide, particualrly in the uk, south africa, india and australia. But i also prefer kinder although id say kinder is way way sweeter than dairymilk. Galaxy is top tier to me with lindt a little below.
Cadbury made changes to the recipe of its Dairy Milk bars in the UK in 2018, which led to a difference in taste, texture and ingredients. The new recipe contained more milk solids and less cocoa solids compared to the old recipe. The change was not well received by some customers and sparked criticism and complaints.
It's unclear if the change affected Cadbury Dairy Milk bars in other countries, as the recipe for chocolate can vary from country to country based on local tastes, regulations and supply chains.
My great aunt lives in the US and sent us (in Europe) a box of American stuff, including a Hershey's bar. My little brother and I were kids at the time and could not be more excited to try American chocolate! One bite.. and I spat it out - it tasted off, kind of sour and not tasty at all, like it was beyond its expiry date. I checked the wrapper to confirm, but the chocolate hadn't expired - that was just what it was supposed to taste like. Aw man, my brother and I were so disappointed. After all these years, I finally came to find out why it tasted the way it did to us who are not accustomed to the flavour of butyric acid in chocolate.
And to think there are over three hundred million Americans who use Hershey as the standard for what a chocolate bar should be... Americans who have never eaten a Cadbury or any European chocolate bar ever...
I would like to point out that in US chocolate, some companies add butyric acid to their chocolate, no idea how many do. Butyric acid is what gives it that rancid/sick flavour and why many people around the world actually dont like it. They use it to help with shelf life, which i truly dont agree is worth ruining the flavour for.
The reason Europe use E numbers for the additives is because the EU parliament decided that no matter what country you are in you must be able to find out what is in your food and established a unified list of all food additives. Just google the E number and you will find the ingredients name in every languish used in the countries that uses the E numbers. that way you do not have to learn a new languish every time you travel to a new country just in order to know what you eat.
Aw, now I feel like I should send you some chocolate :)
But me as being in Germany, I do know Hersheys from American TV, but I do not know Cadbury's is a company for anything. So it surprises me that this is supposed to be a European company. Checking Wikipedia makes it look like it is mainly (only) present in GB as such, not in mainland Europe.
German chocolate companies are mostly Milka and Ritter Sport.
I'm English and my favourite mass produced chocolate brand is Ritter Sport. I was disappointed that, when I visited Berlin in January this year, the Ritter Sport World shop was closed for refurbishment. Cadbury, which is a very famous and popular chocolate in the UK, used to be good before the company was bought by Kraft/Mondelez.
I gave an American friend Lindt chocolate and he nearly lost his mind.. LOL
Hersheys (1894) took inspiration from Henry Ford's Production Line (1908), nice!
I love chocolate between 70-100% cacao. Yes - 100%, only cacao, Wedel make this miraculous chocolate bars. Wonderful because my children don't want eat it, 70% is no problem for them 😅
If you want quality chocolate try Läderach, it is expensive but super delicious. At easter I had a piece of läderach easter bunny chocolate and after a piece of lindt. Even though lindt is good quality and I normaly like it, in direct comparison it tasted bad. Truly läderach is the superior chocolate
If you eat something long enough you can adapt to liking it, or just hate it more.
I was horrified by the taste of Hershey. It also tastes sour and bitter to me.
It also feels sandy in the mouth. European chocolate is very creamy, sweet and full-bodied. My favorite strain is Ritter Sport Kakao Mousse. It melts in the mouth . I prefer to eat them at room temperature. Then I don't chew them. I suck them very slowly. 🤤
Yes, Americans don't know what real chocolate tastes like (or real bread, for that matter) unless they can make it to the UK and Europe.
Great. We just got back from visiting family in the States, and I bought Hershey's Kisses as souvenirs for a few people here in Germany. 🤦♀️🤷♀️
Imho, nothing beats Swiss chocolate, especially Lindt.
as a swiss citizen, this is hard to watch!
My cousin lived in USA for a while,he used to buy stacks of Norwegian chocolate back every time he was in Norway.
Swiss and Belgian chocolates are the best, especially Swiss chocolates. French chocolates are better than British chocolates. My uncle from France would send Swiss and Belgium chocolates to us or bring them to us when he visits. He loves chocolates. I could tell the differences between US chocolates and theirs right away when I first had them. They are smoother, creamier, richer, with a more subtle but balanced flavor. Even though some of the chocolates are bitter, they still taste richer because of its higher quality and natural flavors. They don’t taste artificial or fake. I hear their chocolate processing method and cocoa content contributes to the higher quality of their chocolates, which has been around for decades. Overall, European chocolates are better than ours. Swiss chocolates are number 1 and the best in the world. 💕
When I hear US Americans praising Hersheys, I find it funny because obviously, they have no clue what the best are.
This explains why when my American colleagues used to bring in Hershey's everyone would leave them uneaten because to us, it does taste like vomit!! Always wondered why it has that taste... Now I know
ohhh and they even claim that that is really good chocolate
@@whattheflyingfuck... that's because they're used to what they're used to. Nothing wrong with that. Different taste buds that's all.
Please be aware that Cadbury is not considered to be chocolate in Europe as it doesn't contain cocoa butter. It is still chocolately yummie.
We don't understand Hershey, we just don't...
Ahh, the fond memories of first tasting a Hershey's bar, and wondering who had vomited in that batch, and looking it up on Google... Big no thanks from me on that stuff.. but I also get what you say about it feeling like wax, it's odd.. also one thing they get a bit wrong in the video is that because the US standard doesn't have requirements for cocoa butter, that makes the producers use cheaper fats instead of the cocoa butter, so the requirement of 10% cocoa powder vs 30% cocoa content still makes a difference, which probably is the reason for the waxy feel..
The 10% and 30% are just the minimum. And 30% is already pretty much the bottom of the barrel for chocolate. The really good stuff starts at 70%
Here in Australia it's Cabury, followed by various Swiss and Belgian chocolates. The largest independent chocolate maker is the family owned Haigh's Chocolate. These are specialty chocolates made using premium, world sourced cocoa beans. They even produce single source dark chocolate bars. The surprise is the difference in flavor in different region cocoa/chocolate.
While Cadbury chocolate is clearly better than Hershey's I wouldn't call it great. If you want excellent chocolate I would point someone towards the more continental-style European brands, such as Lindt and Green & Black's. Personally, I also prefer darker chocolate over the milk variety - with at least 60% cocoa solids if at all possible.
Cadbury is not so popular here, I'm not sure about whole Europe, but I see Milka or Lindt more often.
Lindt is really tasty, also I love Belgium chocolate and Austrian Mozart - with marzipan
Where I live (Central Europe), we do not have Hershey's kisses - I have a morbid curiosity to try one, as so many people say it tastes like vomit and others say it's ok, so which one is it?
But then again, my favourite chocolates are 70% cocoa and up, not milk chocolate, so I might not like it anyway.
Tasted a Hershey Bar once. As a father of 3, "Baby Vomit" sums it up perfectly.
I really enjoyed your videos and comments plus learning more about the world around me
To Germans even Cadbury does not count as "good" chocolate. And Germany is the Top 1 exporter of chocolate (about 5 billion Euros per year; the top 2 is Belgium with about 3.3 billion, followed by Italy, Poland and Netherlands. The US are in 7th place, the UK in 9th place, Switzerland in 11th place). 😉
Cadbury is by the way since 2010 a subsidiary of Kraft Foods, which became in 2012 Mondelez International (after splitting off Kraft Heinz Company). In 1990 Kraft Foods had already taken over Jacobs Suchard (Jacobs is a leading coffee brand in Germany, Suchard a leading Swiss-German chocolate producer with the main brand "Milka"). Mondelez owns also a number of other chocolate, cookie, snack and confectionary brands like Daim, Oreo, Ritz, Toblerone, TUC (and likes to mix them into Milka and Cadbury products). Imho however even Lindt chocolate (produced in Switzerland and Aachen, Germany) is better (if in most cases a bit too sweet for my taste); generally I prefer Ritter Sport (a 1932 introduced brand of Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co KG, a family-owned company from Waldenbuch near Stuttgart, Germany).
(Belgian chocolate however is the best. I won't argue that. Never. 😇)
I agree as a frenchy the Belgian Neuhaus , Godiva etc are the best even the côte d’or brand🐘 is sublime❤
Cadbury's is hardly classed as chocolate in most of Europe, so Hershey's cannot possibly be seen as chocolate at all.
Cadbury is a very old company based in England. Even though it has changed over the years it is still delicious.
@@valeriedavidson2785 no, it's not. Knowing polish and german chocolates I can say that in the UK only Galaxy is good, but still... I feel like they changed something, cause it's not the same taste like one year ago (it's a bit worse now - not much, but still).
comparing Cadbury to Hershey is like... comparing two bad things instead of choosing something that actually tastes natural and not processed to hell ^^ Like German or Swiss chocolate. Or Belgian!
What is Cadbury? I'm European and I have never seen that brand to be sold here.
First of all, real chocolate contains at least 70% cocoa solids. Everything else is chocolate flavored products. Second, try Lindt brand chocolate. That is the minimum standard. Of course, there are better products. If after a "few weeks" of the "healing bark" of eating Lindt chocolates you still like American chocolate, you should see a doctor and ask for a tongue check. I don't want to scare you (of source, I want), but a loss of taste can mean a serious health problem. 🙊😈
dark chcolate is fucking gross bro aint no one want that bitter ass shit. Theres a reason its called 'milk chocolate' when it contains the eu required 25% cocoa.
Lindt is one of the brands I usually buy, 70% cocoa, I also like the 70% one with orange or with salt, salt and dark chocolate is an awsome combination, a traditional after school snack here where I live is bread (real bread) with salt, olive oil and chocolate, if the bread is toasted the chocolate melts and it's even better.🤤
I think it should be clear to everyone, buying the cheapest chocolate and expecting good quality and taste does not fit together.
lindt is more on the expensive side but pretty tasty. my personal favourite here in germany is rittersport! my family loves the salt, honey & almond one but any flavour is good
Tony's Chocolonely from the Netherlands are also pretty good.
Im from a central Europe In 2011 I visited America and I saw those Hersheys bars laying everywhere in the stores. I picked one out of curiosity. It was the worst chocolate I have ever eaten. I could not finish it. I thought what the hell is wrong with you America.
I loved your skittles with sour sugar coating though
When I eat chocolate, I usually eat Milka, Ritter Sport, Lindt, Kinder, Polish brands like E.Wedel or Wawel, sometimes Swedish Marabou from IKEA and they all are great chocolates, often having a slight differences and taste and texture, but I've heard so many bad things about Hershey's that I'm not even willing to try a little bite of it and thankfully I've never seen it anywhere in grocery stores in Poland, our Chemistry teacher once gave us a jar of buttyric acid to smell and lots of my classmates gagged, just can't imagine someone adding it purposely to chocolate
You might like to discover what true chocolate is about (Belgium and Switzerland are neck-to-neck producing the best in the world).
Enjoy this (on YT): "11 Facts You DIDN'T Know About Belgian Chocolate" - World's Okayest Candy Story
Or this: "How Belgian Chocolates Are Made | Food Secrets Ep. 8" - DW Food
always fun to hear americans talk about the price of hersheys, and that its soo cheap. Here in Austria you can get (quite) good store brand chocolate for 0.35 € per bar. (100g), Milka for about 1 € per bar (100g), and lindt for about 1.5 - 2.0€ per bar (100g).
So why is Hersheys in the US for over 1.5 $ per 100g considered soooo cheap?
I worked in a shop where we sold Hershey's kisses and chocolate bars. I did try them twice (I thought the first kiss was just off) and they were terrible. I will never understand how you can eat them.
Maybe because Hershey was Americans first chocolate bar and for many their last chocolate bar... Hershey is the American standard found in every store that sells chocolate bars in America... On the other hand very few American stores that sells chocolate bars stock Cadbury or any other European chocolate bars...
There is an Italian brand, that sells something similar, it's called "bacio". They are delicious, with some hazelnut in the core and also other flavours.
I rarely buy any chocolate other than from the chain Hotel Chocolat. It's not cheap but the range of styles and flavours is huge: dark, milk and white chocolate, nuts, fruit, liqueurs, creamy, crunchy, solid. My current favourites are Billionaire's shortbread, mojito liqueursand, dark chocolate and hazelnut, white chocolate and raspberry, and chocolate-covered crystallised ginger.
Having seen people yearning for Hershey's on (US)American tv-shows,
I was of course curious to try it when I travelled to New York.
The shock! It had a floury consistency and a sort of pukey flavour.
I thought the specific bar I had bought must have gone bad.
That was not the case. I feel sorry for Americans in this respect (also).
You have to try lindt chocolate or any other swiss chocolate, still the best european.
When I first tried a Hershey's bar I genuinely thought I got an unlucky bad one because it literally tasted like vomit to me. So when I found out there was a scientific reason why it tasted that way to me, it blew my mind.
That is why the chocolate taste so bad : come to Belgium .
Taste the follow brands: côte d’or, leonidas, godiva,Neuhaus , Callebaut and local chocolatiers
I've visited Belgium this summer. Nice country ...kind people ..... Delicious chocolate.....😋😋. Love from Spain❤
I bought a bar of Hersheys just to see what it was like when in New York. I had one piece and threw the rest in the bin. I had to buy a drink to get the taste out of my mouth. The problem is that the US government are for business not the people. so bringing in legislation to make food better is met wish stiff resistance as it would cost more. The stuff food producers in the US are allowed to add to products is frightening (as a doctor below has commented). I had some friends come over from the US and were on an extended one year visa due work. They said after 3 months here they both lost weight but were still eating Pizza or having MacDonalds now and then. The lady had a skin rash and it dissapeared within 2 weeks because certain chemicals causing it were not hidden in the food. When they returned to the US they both developed digestion and stomach issues and had bouts of vomitting. They ended up moving to the country and started to grow most of their own food.
During the war my Mom was given chocolate from American soldiers stationed where she lived. When I moved to America she asked me to bring her a bar of Herscheys back but couldn’t eat it because it was so bad. She had got used to Cadburys.
I'm European but now I'm trying to think which one is worse, "Easter Bunny" chocolate or "Advent Calendar" chocolate. They are both bad but in a slightly different way.
I tasted Hershey's once in the UK. It was one of the very few things I've ever actually immediately spat out in my entire life!
It absolutely tasted like Sick in my mouth! Definitely inedible to me. And the taste was massively strong.
Since Yanks got their claws into Cadburys, the chocolate has gone really down hill. Its lost its taste. Its more like crappy Yank chocolate.
It used to be vastly better. It used to be amazing. Not anymore.
Oh and Frys, the British company produced the first chocolate with a different interior. Not Hershey.
im a former baker in Denamrk, i wouldnt even use amarican chocolate if it was the last type of chocolate i could find
In Italy the best chocolate is not the industrial in packages but the one you buy fresh made in padtry shops or what we call cioccolateria (a shop who sells fresh made chocolate only). At Christmas time is very difficult e en get in there but its so good.
Wouldn't that be a good ad like "No babys were abused to vomit into our chocolate" ? 😄
You should try Lindt chocolate. It’s better than cadburys.
They do sell some Hershey's bars in our German supermarkets, I think you can get them in any Rewe. The ones in the colorful paper packaging (given that they didn't adapt it for Germany that is). You can get a bigger variety of their products in bigger cities or shops selling American snacks specifically. Hershey's chocolate, regardless of which one has always tasted extremely bad to me. I grew up used to the super sweet 'Kinder' chocolate products by Ferrero (which contain more sugar in Germany than in Italy) or the infamous Milka (purple cow) chocolate. At some point that chocolate became a little too sugary to enjoy fully and especially Milka bars (the normal ones, the special ones e.g. strawberry cheesecake, butter cookies... are lit) started to feel like one could taste the sugar. I still enjoy Kinder series chocolate because of their recognizable and nostalgic flavour but I now prefer other Ferrero chocolate. My favorite chocolate to this day is Lindt chocolate. It's very accessible in Germany, a very famous brand you can get anywhere. It's a rather expensive brand but it's high quality swiss chocolate. Their chocolate is creamy and milky (🤨) and not 'sugary' at all. It's still quite sweet, don't get me wrong, but it's just the perfect amount that doesn't have one taste literal sugar. I'm talking about most of their flavors and variants but a lot of people also love their famous dark chocolate. I personally don't since I'm a white chocolate fanatic (don't come at me, ik it's technically not chocolate usually) and I enjoy sweet chocolate. It's too bitter to me. About that - Hershey's chocolate tastes bitter but sour and waxy at the same time. The degree of those 'flavors' vary depending on the specific variant but the only Hershey's chocolate I've ever had that is *almost* good is the cookies and cream bar. That's not a good thing for a chocolate brand, especially since it really is only *almost* good. Bad at the end of the day, won't ever buy it again. And why would I with so much chocolate here that's way better. Something else I wanted to touch on since I just remembered is the price point. Hershey's isn't cheap at all but that's not just because it's imported from America. It's just one of the American foods that are overpriced and low/not high enough quality. Milka is probably the most affordable brand amongst the big players in Germany. Ferrero is more expensive but you really are paying for the Ferrero flavor and variety. Lindt is essentially premium chocolate and still reasonably priced. Hershey's chocolate is incomparable to any of these brands, taste and quality wise, yet still somehow priced similarly to Ferrero. It's absurd and I'm not surprised no one ever buys it. Those bars probably become dusty cause I'm sure those that I see in the shelve will remain untouched until they expire. Also - most people in Germany don't even know Hershey's. Only younger people do or those who have been to America before (and America fans ofc, specifically teenagers in this case, they're usually into American candy and snacks). And I can say the same about every other country I've been to.
Just wondering, do you even have Wedel? In Poland this would be a standard accessible chocolate bar (though Kinder are/were common for kids (though not exactly thought of as "chocolate") and we've got plenty of Milkas in the store - and in ads, I remember always being curious and then I got disappointed when I finally had a chance to try it...).
In Sweden we don't have either Hersheys or Cadburry. We got Marabou as the main brand, and a few off brands. It's a Swedish brand sold in most of Scandinavia.
As for fancier choices it's usually Swiss chocolate like Lindt.
Fellow Europeans, does Cadbury even exist in your country?
I'm from Italy and I've never seen Cadbury here.
I've only ever seen it in the UK and my experience with it as a child was traumatising.
It was Easter time and a nice bus or taxi driver gave us Cadbury eggs, we were excited as we expected them to be like Kinder chocolate eggs. No. They were filled with white and orange stuff inside instead, which looked and tasted horrible, they were disgusting 😭 I guess I'll have to give regular Cadbury chocolate a try one day, but I'm scared lol
Never heard of it, never seen it either. I bet is not any good, and that's the reason why
Won’t find any in France nor Belgium. Maybe because we prefer to eat real chocolate and not those chocolate looking sugar bars 😂
Never i have never seen it in my life
Ive never been anywhere in europe that didnt have cadbury lol even italy literally go to a supermarket and look, what you got though was a cadbury cream egg which im not too found of either but its just caramel mixed with cream inside. Its the only cadbury product with that inside.
Galaxy is way better than cadbury imo.
Cadbury is huge in australia, india and south africa too.
Ever since Cadbury's were taken over from Mondelez International (a US company). They changed the chocolate bar recipe to cut costs and in doing so, ruining the current taste imo.
My Australian wife tried to visit the Cadbury factory when holidaying in Tasmania with her best friend (2010) and unfortunately for her and due to the H & S regulation there, they no longer conducted tours. A couple of years later I took her to Bournville, the home of Cadbury’s chocolate in the UK since 1824 just a couple of suburbs from where I grew up. She was more amazed by the quaker socialist principles that founded the business of making Drinking Chocolate to provide an alternative to Gin drinking. Together with the town and the community that had been built there than anything else she saw even though she loved the tour of the originally chocolate factory. She loved the township of Bournville as much. Cadbury in Tasmania is made for Southern Hemisphere consumption and was the first overseas factory. The product taste slightly different due to additives to help it retain its shape in higher much ambient temperature here, which my wife commented on when touring the original factory. The only thing I personally really miss is that hardly anyone imports the dark Bournville chocolate which is one of my personal favourite food groups as they don’t manufacture it here.
I also live 5 miles (8 km) away from the Darrell Lea factory in Ingleburn NSW and try only to call in there at Easter as otherwise in would be cruel to my wife, who not only loves their products, but also makes a comparable Rocky Road which is to die for!
I must admit since it was sold to Kraft foods in 2010 the quality of Cadbury’s has wavered somewhat and there others that are now just as good if not better, like Whitaker from NZ. I do remember my wife comments after she first tasted Belgium chocolate, that ‘she’s died and gone to Heaven’! Similarly I made the same comment about Swiss chocolate when I visited there in my teens.
P.S. The Cadbury changed to war production due the raw materials from overseas that went into the bars were no longer available in any volume. NSW in Oz
Cadburys has been owned by an American company ( Mondelez International (originally Kraft Foods)...
@@R0d_1984Cadburys is still owned by Mondolez who have taken over Toblerone and I believe Hersheys is also owned by Mondelez.
Cadburys recipe has changed and now it is claggy in the mouth and it tastes wierd. Hersheys tastes like cooking chocolate.
You just mentioned my favourite chocolate.
Belgian chocolate mmmm tasty.
@@denisemeredith2436 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hershey_Company
A few months ago me and my 2 sons went an imported sweet shop and bought a sh*t ton of US Candy to have a USA day for fun.
We ate it all (even tho. some was overly sweet) bar the chocolate. We all said the chocolate was gross, and we ended up throwing out all the chocolate.
It literally tasted of vomit / feet to us.
In Belgium you have to have at least 43% pure cacao or you are not allowed te call it chocolate
Henry Ford took inspiration from the textile industry, that had been automated and prior to that structured for centuries... The first pre-cursor computer and punched cards, and the first automation process was for textiles, not cars...
Ryan; the real chocolate is the "black/dark (Without any milk)" one and is not bitter at all. In fact, it can taste something sweet!, and it is a natural medicine (if you suffer from any type of cardiovascular disease). The best dark chocolates are organic: the cocoa's grains is purchased directly from organic producers, roasted in old-fashioned ball roasters, adding only raw cane sugar and natural cocoa butter; No soy lecithin, no vanilla, and nothing to get in the way of the pure flavor of the grain! They must contain at least 85% pure cocoa butter, and this must come from the best varieties of "Trinatario", "Criollo" and "forastero-Trinitario" cocoa from Java (Indonesia), Madagascar, Ecuador, Peru , Colombia and Equatorial Guinea (in Africa)
As an Italian, what is Cadbury? I’ve never ever seen it on sale here. Say Lindt, Novi, Perugina, Milka, Ritter, Nestle, Ferrero, seldom Witor’s but Cadbury, at least to me, is unknown.
Having tried chocolate from many different countries, I'd say that Hershey bars are more like candy than chocolate. Because I like parmesan cheese and all other cheeses, I don't notice the taste, so much. But given the choice....Cadbury, Lindt, Milka, Ritter Sport, Fry's, Green and Black's, Thornton's, etc, etc. Proper chocolate. I've even tried Spanish, Israeli, Polish and Russian chocolate....all better than Hershey's.
I'd choose a Galaxy bar any day over Cadbury's 👍🇬🇧
Best chocolates for me as an European its Cadbury and Milka brands. Also Portugal has its chocolate brands like Avianense, Regina and Arcádia.
I've taste american chocolate, Hersheys and Reese's, and it was so terrible, such bad taste, reminded me of when i vomit, the acid aftertaste.