• Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    I’m assuming you of course are aware, but that is a tasting note. As in hersheys will specifically call out that tasting note as intentional if you do a tasting tour. It explained why I only ever liked their special dark and hates their regular bar.

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      11 hours ago

      It’s a tasting note, because the original Hershey’s milk chocolate chemist accidentally spoiled the milk as part of his process.

      It took a decade or two to figure out what was wrong, but by then the American public was used to vomit tasting milk chocolate.

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          6 hours ago

          That may be what it is now, but the original cause was spoil d milk. Because Hershey refused to use powdered milk, he had just bought a massive dairy farm and insisted on using fresh milk.

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          9 hours ago

          Hershey doesn’t use powdered milk. Hershey himself stubbornly insisted on the recipe using fresh milk because he had ignorantly bought up a bunch of cows before getting the recipe nailed down.

          And that’s why American chocolate is bad, or so the legend goes.

          Source: I’m from Pennsylvania and have taken the Hershey factory tour many times since childhood.

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      6 hours ago

      It was very word for me. Like with most American products that were in TV series, but weren’t available in Europei was anxious to try them first time I went to the states.

      Mountain dew was amazing. Taco Bell was not all I imagine it to be, but Hershey’s was just straight up disgusting.