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Similar in Eastern Europe after the fall of USSR when western snacks came on the market and we fell pray to advertising after decades of isolation: "Those sugar
by FirmwareBurner 2y ago
Similar in Eastern Europe after the fall of USSR when western snacks came on the market and we fell pray to advertising after decades of isolation: "Those sugary western snacks can't be bad for you since they come from the developed west and rich westerners eat them". Oh boy, if we only knew back then what we know today. Probably why a lot of millennials today don't look very healthy.
- llm_trw 2y agoI imagine it has more to do with the smoking and drinking rates than sugar. I very clearly remember an aunt of mine losing her mind in the 90s about me drinking coke, while smoking when she was pregnant.
- Tade0 2y agoI'm from the region and to me it was always about "ooh, this is real chocolate, not Compound chocolate". Even as recently as a decade ago local producers would be using vegetable oils and less sugar so as to keep costs down. I remember being surprised how much sugar there was in plain cookies in Italy. British sweets I cannot touch to this day because they're commonly packed with salt as well as sugar. Same goes for American products - Reese's cupcakes are my holiday season guilty pleasure which inevitably gets me sick every time. They're violently flavourful. On the flip side when I visited Ukraine in 2006 I noted that the local pralines had barely any sugar. The Swiss and Germans seem to understand sweets on a deeper level than the rest. Notable exception is Lindt, which roasts the cocoa beans to seven hells for consistency, achieving a consistently sour-bitter aftertaste in its products.
- FirmwareBurner 2y agoLindt is bottom of the barrel slop with fancy branding attached to it. It's the McDoanlds/Starbucks of chocolate.