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Am I the only European who actually likes Hershey's?! I can't say it's better than Swiss or than Cadbury chocolate, but it's not worse either! It's just a diff
by nnq 13y ago
Am I the only European who actually likes Hershey's?!
I can't say it's better than Swiss or than Cadbury chocolate, but it's not worse either! It's just a different experience!
...I like the "rugged" and slightly "sour-ish" taste of Hershey's and that fact that it actually fills your mouth with a strong flavor. And that it doesn't just melt instantly in your mouth, but you can actually chew it. And that it doesn't feel like "50% sugar": to me all European chocolates are just too fucking sweet, except for the dark chocolates. But I like milk chocolate that is not so fucking sweet and doesn't just fucking melts in your mouth before you even had the chance to taste it, and the extremely subtle yogurt-ish flavor of the Hershey added on top just makes it perfect to me. Cadbury too has some of these attributes but the Swiss brands taste just wrong to me.
Even if it was a historical accident, to me Europe just misunderstood chocolate (except for the dark high cocoa chocolates that they did get right), and I really hate it that Hershey's is so hard to find in Europe.
- swah 13y agoI used to love Hershey's, but then in a trip to Uruguay ("free shops" for brazilians) I found the (until then) mythical Lindt. I have no idea about its market share in US though.
- nnq 13y agoIf you like Lindt you'll also like other Swiss chocolates, so go ahead and try them :)
- swah 13y agoThe other ones are even harder to find, I suppose.
- pionar 13y agoWhy mutual exclusivity? I like Lindt chocolate as well (on occasion, I find it a little overbearing on the sweetness), but I also love just a good, plain Hershey bar. You can love more than one thing at a time for different reasons.
- swah 13y agoSure... But then I also like some brazilian brands that are like Hersheys (also made here those days I guess)
- kjjw 13y agoI don't know if you are the only European that likes Hershey's chocolate, but being a European that has tried Hershey's chocolate, I can say with confidence that you are completely nuts.
- dagw 13y agoAm I the only European who actually likes Hershey's?! I honestly don't mind it when compared to European chocolates in the same price bracket. It's obviously not the same product, but also not a worse product. At the end of the day given a choice between between cheap shitty Hershey's and cheap shitty Cadbury, I'll choose the Hershey's, mainly since Cadbury is far too sweet. It's also probably the only time ever where an American product is less sweet than its European equivalent. Of course if I'm in a store spending my own money I'll chose neither and buy a more expensive, but smaller, piece of higher quality dark chocolate.