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Not really true. American chocolate is an acquired taste, but it's supposed to taste like that. Companies deliberately add butyric acid to make it taste like Am
by asdfionionio 9y ago
Not really true. American chocolate is an acquired taste, but it's supposed to taste like that. Companies deliberately add butyric acid to make it taste like Americans expect.
A lot of people don't like it. A lot of people do.
- jjoonathan 9y agoI was recently in London and decided to try a non-US KitKat as there had recently been a ruckus on reddit about how much better they were supposed to be. It tasted like a chocolate-covered cracker. Nothing wrong with that, but chocolate covered crackers are a crowded space in the confections market and without the "malted milk" taste, which I suppose must come from the butyric acid, I found the non-US KitKat to be a completely uninspired contender. That taste is the thing that makes KitKat bars unique and exciting to me. To each their own, but I hope the one-sided nature of the media frenzy (US BAD! FOREIGN GOOD!) doesn't end in the mediocritization of a wonderful candy bar.
- Jarb 9y agoThat's like saying American beer is an acquired taste. Maybe so, but the bottom line is it's still a shitty imitation of the real thing. Hershey's is mealy, flavorless, sugary (high fructose corn syrupy?) garbage period.