Why Europeans Hate the Taste of American Chocolate - Cheddar Explains
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- Опубліковано 9 чер 2024
- There’s no visual difference between American chocolate and European chocolate - but there’s definitely a taste difference. Cheddar explains the scientific reason why American chocolate tastes “sour” to European consumers.
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The moment they're calling cadbury european chocolate, you can almost hear all the Belgians and Swiss sigh in contempt.
It's a UA-cam short documentary they went with easiest country they could identify as Europe
@@FERTUHG I feel like almost all American made videos that compare anything between America and Europe always use GB or British things as a comparison, thinking that they represent the whole Europe. I don't even know what the hell cadbury is, there are a lot more popular chocolates they could have chosen, like Milka, Kinder, Ferrero and a few others that aren't mainly sold in Britain...
@@VanganPL As a Brit, I can tell you three things that the British have always been SHIT at: Coffee, chocolate and ice cream.
The continentals do them all WAY better.
Hey sell lays kinder also in the uk
@@TryptychUK not really with chocolate idk about coffee and ice cream
if you look into it alot of chocolate you are led to believe was from America such as twix are actually from the UK
Who will tell them that Cadbury isn’t ‘Europe’s chocolate’?
It's a Mondelez brand and sold as Milka in Europe.
It's widely available in India... Majority of them know Cadbury in india... Majority of them in India never heard of Hershey.
@@mikebegonia6134 they also sell Milka as a separate brand in the UK. It's not the same as a cadbury's chocolate bar.
@@RottingEarth I never heard of Cadbury chocolate but in my country you see Milka everywhere and it's really good.
I recall there was an attempt to ban UK chocolate being called chocolate as it has so much lower a ratio of coco compared to many continental chocolates (especially Swiss chocolate).
I'm a European and I've first heard of Cadbury last year.. It's a UK chocolate, not very popular in Europe. I would say Milka or Lindt are the ones everyone knows about. But Lindt cannot even be put in the same sentence with Hearshy's lol it's at whole different level in terms of quality, taste and variety
“Not very popular in Europe”
Cadbury is literally the second largest manufacturer of chocolate on the planet 😂
@@lilHamster9t7 everyone in EU seems to agree that they mostly never heard of Cadbury, it may be the biggest manufacturer but the chocolates they make are very different UK vs the rest of Europe.
I'm in England and Cadbury tastes cheap, it's like comparing junk food to gastronomic cuisine. It becomes quickly nauseating unlike Milka or Lindt chocolates. Some brands do better on very dark chocolate though.
@@ag.3820 I am european and I have only heard of Milka. I have no idea what a cadbury and a Lindt is
@@qasmokes that’s funny I’m American and I see both Lindt and Cadbury here in the states lol
I ate a hershey's bar 5 years ago on vacation and my first thought was: Why does this chocolate taste like vomit? I actually threw the bar away, thinking it had gone bad and bought another one a few days later in a different store. It had the same taste that imediately made me think of vomit. I'm so happy to finally figure out why!
It doesn’t taste like vomit. It’s just not good. Vomit is super gross and Hershey’s is so much better tasting. But for chocolates it’s awful I guess. Unless you’re in usa
I had either a Hershey or a Nestle melt in my pocket once. Never had that problem with Lindt.
@@13_cmi Yes it does, I grew up in the U.S all my life and the after taste of that Acidic Hershey's Kiss or bar crap is similar to that after just having thrown up. Not too mention the sourness of it from the smell alone. The Parent's learned quickly that only my middle Sister would eat that shit and began replacing it with Skittles or Jolly Ranchers anything but Hershey's for the rest of us, we just would not eat it.
@@animalyze7120 it’s not the best chocolate but no it doesn’t taste like vomit. Unless your diet is entirely Hershey’s bars.
@@13_cmi why are you like this? when people say it tastes like vomit, its because when they eat it, it tastes like they just puked in their mouth or someone else puked nearby and the smell is confusing their taste buds.
so its chocolate but with the definitive scientifically explainable vomit taste
I mean, at least when you vomit you taste Hershey's, so its kind of a win.
Or some fancy European cheese
Yes! lol. I remember as a kid thinking Parmesan cheese smelled like vomit, because it absolutely does! Same chemical! Funny how some smells are vile in one context and yummy in another.
freedom taste like dog ass and puke
yes
I'm a French European that moved to North America, and when I try products that are similar to the one in Europe. the taste are completely subpar, I told this to my wife who is American and she told me because the older you get, your taste buds it less sensitive she said. So I took my wife to Europe and she never question my taste buds again.
Wow, you’re so much better than us. Thank you for explaining.
But I bet you you can never handle Mexican food
Even as a Canadian... Americans really have no idea how bad their packaged food is compared to the rest of the world. Or even their regular food. I will go to a fast food place here, or in Europe (family in the netherlands), but never in the US; the food often looks the same, but tastes like garbage.
American here. Travelled the world, never found the food more appealing. Even French food, just OK (but deserts are good). When in Switzerland, they told me they like American beef more than their own grass fed because it is corn fed and fatty and better tasting -- which I fully agree.
@@FreeManFreeThought It’s cool if you say something European or Canadian is good, but can you not go on and on insulting others? And I thought Canadians were supposed to be nice.
"This thing tastes like vomit. Not figuratively but actual human sick." -someone
You must have tasted some good sick
Adam Ragusea fan?
ive only tried hersheys once when i was a kid and that's how I described it then, they chocolate truly is disgusting
"There's a scientific reason why Europeans think our chocolate tastes so bad."
Yah.
The reason is theirs is so much better.
"Hershey may not be on top of the chocolate world much longer"
Since when was it at the top of the chocolate world in the first place?
Who do you think is at the top then lmao Wonka?
@@quinn7427 Ferrero Rocher there's a ton of other brands in the world. ._. How can a brand be the top of the world when you can't even find it in a lot of countries unless you go to stores which specifically sell products from other countries that you can't find in normal grocery stores.
@@farmam1501 so your logic is that unless it is a common name for 7 billion people then it isnt #1? What? Living in the US i had never heard of Fererro Rocher until this year
@@quinn7427 The US is not the only country in the world. I understand that it's hard for you to grasp the idea that not everyone likes the same things as you. May I remind you that the video we are watching is literally called "Why Europeans hate the taste of American chocolate".
I don't get why Americans value Hershey's so much in the first place. There are so many better chocolates. Ferrero Rocher is a good example.
"But it's not our fault!"
I meaaaaannnn, you just explained how scientifically they don't need to use the compound anymore, but still add it because people like the taste.
I know, right? She's making excuses.
@@kaizokujimbei143 i mean, if they like it....
@@user-ie7vo1hj3j Them liking shit does not excuse the act of eating shit.
If you wanna eat shit then OWN TO THE FACT that you wanna eat shit.
It's at the vary least Hershey's and the US Government's fault.
Haha, when she said that part I couldn't help whispering "it absolutely is".
Now I understand why my Estonian cousins think our US chocolate tastes "different" and "not as good" as the chocolate there. They have sent me some Kalev brand chocolates in exchange for some Hershey brand chocolates. TBH, I absolutely LOVE their chocolates!!! 🍫🥰
Might be worth trying. Thanks.
I’m lucky to be living in Belgium.
As a German, this is especially extreme, because we are basically used to Swiss Chocolate, seeing Switzerland as our personal chocolate supplier.
Swiss chocolate really is the best. I'm from Scotland and took German in school, and we sent chocolate to a school in Germany and they sent us piles of swiss chocolate and it was actual heaven
I would say belgian chocolate is the best.
@@jensverweert8448 says the belgian., as a swiss I have to disagree :)
@@rob6129 The real chocolate war isnt usa vs europe but belgium vs switzerland
Triggers in Belgium...
Calling a french guy named "Michel" - Michael is probably even more american than Hershey's chocolate
LMAO
Or a Dutch Michiel being called Michael
@@Lil_Fella99 miii-c-h-al
@@Lil_Fella99 Ja maar kom op, Michiel is ook gewoon niet uit te spreken voor niet NL-ers. (Michelle wordt ook altijd Michel..)
American here:
I actually hate that anyone who changes anyone's name to suit their own language just give us time and we can learn how to pronounce it and I've made that effort lots of times I've actually seen more latin americans do that than anyone else just in my personal experience
I've known people who try to change my brother's name from James to Ha-mez....it's not "Ha-mez" it's James
Living in Europe teaches you to eat less chocolate in terms of quantity, but more in terms of quality. Just go every year to the Salon du Chocolat de Bruxelles and discover all these "artisans chocolatiers". Some are well know like Marcolini, others less known but excellent like Willems.
As an American the Hershey's name brings to mind so many fond memories. I love their chocolate. However, Cadbury chocolate does taste better. It has a rich and creamy flavor that Hershey's chocolate doesn't have. Their Caramello bars are my absolute favorite.
Cadbury chocolate is available in most former countries of the British Empire,I've never seen it around Europe.
And it tastes almost as bad as US chocolate really 😋
As a Belgian, I have to agree. Cadbury and Hershey's are equally bad. They're okay in small quantities or for candy bars and stuff but actually enjoying the taste of the chocolate in either of them is impossible
It's quite easy to find in german supermarkets, at least a small variety of the big bars
Cadbury has a different name in a continental Europe. Name of Cadbury in continental Europe is Milka.
@@David-kn4hb bs
As a kid I told my councilor that Heshey's tasted like cardboard. The next day I brought Swiss chocolate. He understood.
It does! It tastes cheap! Hersheys Is an insult to chocolate. It should be only be allowed to be referred to as "chocolate product". Like "cheese product". Yep. Hersheys is the equivalent of "cheese product".
@@candieland4276 Totally agreed.
@@candieland4276 yes. Someone gave me imported original Hersheys and its taate nothing but fat and sugar, so yucky.
My local cheapee chocolate brand even taste better, like Silverqueen.
@@candieland4276 I mean Hersheys is practically wartime chocolate/military rations.
@@aterriblefuze9540 in my country military chocolate actually tastes pretty good
“The most important ingredient: Milton Hershey.”
Hmm, I can really taste his remains
I think that the existence of a "Cadbury" chocolate producer is practically ignored ANYWERE in Europe outside UK.
I'm an American and as you can tell from D.C. Around 9 years old I had a childhood friend bring me chocolates from Belgium and Switzerland respectively after their family had a long Euro vacation and I've never tasted American chocolate the same.
Belgium-like chocolates are absolutely flavors from the heaven!
Ive never tried american chocolate but i want to see what it taste like so bad now
@@Daniel-gs9eh Try the dark Hershey's bars with almonds. Their quality is a little better and they are acceptable if you are used to standard Western European qualities. Still, they do have a little of this strange pungent baby puke smell.
@@Mike.Muc.3.1415 There are a few stores that sell american candy near me so I'll try the dark Hersheys and the regular one maybe, or the kisses. What other American chocolate would you reccomend (outside of candy bars)?
@@somedonkus69420 I couldn't recommend an other one, my next recommendation would have been candy bars. Americans like baby-puke tasting chocolate, but they are really good in creating all kinds of choco bars.
Hershey's kisses taste like that cheap chocolate that you get for free as a merchandise giveaway from some European company not related to food at all
It tastes worse, it really tastes like vomit. Very unpleasant, at least to the European pallet.
How can you be so, so right.
Even as a Canadian, who as a neighbour of the USA, grew up with most of their chocolate. And I can tell you, even to someone who is used to that chemical process? Hershey’s kisses are gross… Hershey’s chip-its? Delicious, but kisses? Weird taste and pretty grainy at first.
@@Chimera_Photography I'm an American and I dont really like the kisses either
The Christmas chocolate Santa or Easter chocolate Easter bunny packed in aluminium for 1€ piece. Those taste trash, sometimes it feels like ur eating the aluminum too
Cadbury is good (but in the UK we're biased) but clearly the best chocolate is from an actual Chocolaterie from Belgium or Switzerland. Been to one in Ypres, Belgium and it was glorious!
thanks for this video! i live in germany and had a really good bar of chocolate that tasted more acidic than i was used to some years ago and loved it. I've been looking for a chocolate with a similar taste ever since, but unsuccessfully. I've never tried hersheys but i think this might be the taste I've been looking for in all the other bars i tried. Im gonna get some tomorrow to try and edit in if it really was the butyric acid or not
So how was the chocolate?
3:28 "fine-tuned his cacao" is a wonderful euphemism for paying immorally low prices for beans from the Ivory Coast
This. ☝👏👏
Also called him a "savvy businessman" when he sidestepped regulations in search of profit.
But no one wants to talk about this 🤦🏾♀️ 🇨🇮
@@calebbrown8365 that's what savvy business men do
Good point!
I had always wondered why my vomit tasted like Hershey’s chocolate...
💀😭
Dude, a lot of other foods have butyric acid. Most French cheeses, butter, goat’s milk, yogurt, etc. I assume you think those taste like vomit too?
That's an interesting perspective. Vomit tastes like Hershey's in the USA, but Hershey's tastes like vomit in Europe.
@@foginxtor1378 Both are true if you ate enough Hershey's chocolate!
@@glasscardproductions4736 You sound really pretentious. You know that, right?
As a European, this makes me want to try Hershey’s. Curious what it tastes like!
You're not missing much, but if you like chewing wax, give it a try! They really are like eating a chocolate-scented wax bar. (I used to eat them a lot when I was a teenager, but I can't stand them now.)
Wax, it tastes like chocolate flavored wax. And this is from an American!
@@colemarie9262 Well, you’ve convinced me. I’d still like to try it one day, though, just for the fuck of it.
Apparently, you guys have shitty chocolate and shitty cheese. How do you guys _live?_
In european stores there is usually a small variety of Hershey's bars. I buy them sometimes because of their unusual sorts like the one with brezels in it. And i like the thickness of those bars. I can confirm that they are tasting different but i would not say that they are not edible.
@@pluspiping old ass 😂 shut your mouth speaking as if you know what your saying
I was a kid when Hershey's started to sell chocolate here in Brazil. I distinctively remember noting that the chocolate tasted funny, different from the other Brazilian brands I was used to. However, I don't know if I found it sour. It was just different and good in its own way.
As a Dutch person who once tried some Hershley kisses I can confirm that sour taste is indeed there. I seriously thought the chocolate was spoiled and asked an American friend about it. "No, it's not. Most of our chocolate just tastes like trash." She said. I sent her a block of Cote d'or last Christmas and she loved it.
Imma send one of my American friends a bar of Tony’s Chocolonely
Dutch Chocolate is amazing
ayyy cote d'or! :)
I tried Hershey Kisses once and had to spit it out. Disgusting. I love Swiss and Belgian Chocolate. German chocolate is also very good.
I had a girl that was taking a trip to Belgium bring me back some chocolates, they were amazing. Included was Cote d'or and I ordered bulk amounts from their US distributer after that.
My Belgian ass: cries in French, screams in Dutch and calls the Swiss cousin to complain about American chocolate in German
Hahahahahah
Agreed
Speak ENGLISH!
And comments on UA-cam videos in English
@@n.n.8423 Que? No entiendo.
Another interesting tidbit about cocoa: in its natural state, it's slightly acidic and has a reddish color. It has to have alkalines added to it to neutralize the acid, creating "dutch process" cocoa powder. Cocoa powder in the U.S. is more commonly found untreated, which is why a lot of cocoa-centric recipes call for baking soda.
"Let's now shift our attention to the most important ingredient: Milton Hershey"
okay, got it, american chocklate contains human flesh, makes sense.
I was so disappointed when I tasted Hershey’s for the first time after hearing so much about it and it was DISGUSTING 😭 young me was so hurt
I know an international friend got a care packet from home including American chocolate. She wanted me to taste them and I did not want to be disrespectful as I hated most of them
Exactly. Awful
Man you guys are weak
@@gmodrules123456789 no man feeling hurt over somebody else's taste in chocolate is weak.
@@babbes4210
“Young me was so hurt”
Getting hurt over chocolate you don’t like is weak and pathetic. If you don’t like, you don’t have to eat it, but we also don’t need to hear about how horrible it was for you. Boo hoo nobody gives a shit.
90% Europeans : never heard about Cardbury chocolate.
Bro like everyone loves Cadbury. Its like the go to thing for someone's birthday or Christmas.
@@Yo-lp4nz no 😭 europe is large continent, we don’t all have the same chocolates
@@oatmeal364 you don't? I thought Cadbury was like a big thing for all Europeans😭😭😭
@@Yo-lp4nz It's definitely UK chocolate. I would never consider it a European chocolate. No way lmao. And in the other european countries, cadbury is only sometimes available in those import stores
In different countries some products are called different things like lays is u.s and walkers in Europe even though they are the same product same with this Cadbury is in America and Milka seems to be what Europe has since they are made by the same company.
I came over to the states from Wales a few years ago, and fancied a nice bar of chocolate, so went down to the hotel shop and bought a standard bar of Hershey's. What could possibly go wrong? I'd heard of Hershey's from TV although at the time it wasn't sold where I lived. Well, I'm sure you know the feeling when you bite into something and it's not the taste you were expecting! My eyes widened and my mouth went into gag mode! I forced the first bite down eventually, but my brain refused to believe what had just happened, I assumed my taste buds hadn't woken up or something as there is no way a chocolate bar should taste the way I'd just imagined! so I took another bite, and holy shit! This chocolate really does taste of puke. I had lots of fun offering a chunk of Hershey's to my friends who were with me on the trip, just to see their reaction! We assumed that my bar was part of a dodgy batch. I know this post reads like I'm dissing American chocolate, ok I am a bit 😂, but if that is the taste you're used to then you obviously won't get the viseral reaction I had. Thanks for the video, I had completely forgotten about my American chocolate until now, so thanks for the reminder.
I can't get over the fact that this video looks like it's interlaced
Interesting to hear about Cadbury as the "standard" in European chocolate, I've never seen this brand in shops in Switzerland, France or Germany. Have to try it, whenever I get to visit the UK next...
cadbury is awful now, they changed their recipe like a year ago and ever since then its sickly and it just isnt nice. it used to be really good dont get me wrong, but ever since that recipe change its been cursed. i thought it was just me, but nope, its quite a lot of people who think this way.
@@lokep0012 Then I will buy a bottle of water with the chocolate, I case I have to rinse my mouth :-)
Cadbury is very much a British brand and isn't popular in mainland Europe. To mainland Europe Cadbury isn't deemed a good chocolate because of the low amount of cocao fat compared to mainland Europe chocolate. Cadbury uses more non-cocoa vegetable fat. Belgium, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Luxembourg and Greece (at least in 1997) ban the use of non-cocoa vegetable fat in the production of chocolate - which might explain why Cadbury's doesn't sell well there are it wouldn't be allowed to be called chocolate.
As such the EU parliament in 1997 passed a motion to ban "milk chocolate" being used for chocolate with high vegetable fat - but I don't think anything came of that because for the years after that vote and while the UK was still in the EU it wasn't renamed to "vegelate" as was proposed.
@@WelshBathBoy Maybe they get their chance in Europe once more with the rise of veganism ;-)
Cadbury is disgusting when you are used to traditional mainland Europe chocolates. I'm living in Ireland where Cadbury is the norm and I wouldn't touch these even if it's a gift.
I never knew how privileged we swiss people are until I tasted foreign chocolate 😅
In that case... no need to try. I’ll stick to Lindt. No need to get disappointed
Lindt tastes aweful once you had unadulterated chocolate. I cannot eat Lindt anymore. Makes me puke.
Same here in Germany with bread.
Foreign bread is awful.
if u want quality chocolate go to belgium, we have the best in the world
How don't you know swiss chocolate is known across the glove?
My parents are both from Europe and I love the taste of Hershey’s chocolate since I was born in America. A great way to eat the chocolate is if you have milk first before you eat it like in cereal as while I do love it, it can leave a burning sensation in your throat (it’s hard to explain) until you drink water hence why I recommend having milk first before you eat it.
İts not hard to explain. Vomit also leave a burning sensation in your throat until you diring water.
Excellent video. Thank you
When I visited friends in America a few years ago I brought some Swiss chocolate along. They said they liked it so much better than American chocolate. Back then, I thought they were just trying to be polite but now I’m not so sure anymore...
I'm British and Swiss chocolate is the best, for me.
There is something to be said for trying really delicious versions of something you love. Trying something entirely new and delicious isn't as much of a revelation as finding out how much better something you already know how to appreciate can should really taste.
swiss chocolate is definitely better, but hersheys is tolerable as long as you wash the aftertaste with a drink
@@W81HotPotLickin2nd Sounds odd to want / need to wash away the aftertaste.
When I told them that Hershey's left me a cheese like aftertaste, they called me crazy. Now i know i was also right.
After I tasted European chocolate I was hooked. There’s no turning back to American chocolate. It’s so creamy and delicious. German “Rittersport” and “Merci”is delicious and is not expensive. Most American chocolate is crap compared to European chocolate. Thanks to my middle school German teacher for showing me this.
Have you tried Estonian , Kalev chocolate , can sometimes find at Russian market stores that can be found around US.
I sometimes buy a chocolate made in Germany and sold at ALDI stores. I have admit that it has a different taste than the stuff I have had from Hershey .
When I go to Europe I always bring my mum some rittersport such nice choc!! Never tried Hershey's bar I've heard too many bad things
I have comparsion in between English, Polish, German, Swiss, Japan-Polish (Wedel aka Lotte) and Italian chocolates. The best are Germans, even those cheepest. Have best taste and ingidients. Although the differences aren't huge.
@@glennso47 That chocolate at Aldi is good stuff. Cheaper and better than Hershey.
After I tasted European chocolate at the Polish deli, international food stores, and visited France 🇫🇷 for a month I can no longer fully enjoy Hersey’s anything. All I taste is sugar grains dissolving in my mouth. 😵💫
as a indian many chocolate brands came to india from usa and europe but cadbury won the race in india
i think the most successful american chocolate in india is snickers and it has very niche market
Initial instant response after seeing the title: "idk, because we have Belgium and Switzerland?"
I was also like, why are they talking about an UK product when we have two 'chocolate countries'.
Not every country in europe has swiss or belgian chocolate in europe. But in poland, one company named "Wedel" produces chocolate which might just be as good as belgian chocolate tbh. Its very rare outside of Poland and the Czech Republic tho
@@perfectlynormalhuman5473 i am sure lindt chocolate is sold all over europe. lindt is swiss.
@@glinnes456 tf is lindt, Lithuanian speaking
@@glinnes456 exactly right. from my knowledge (and I am a chocolate connaisseur) Poland has a variety of swiss and belgian chocolates (and yes, a lot of Lindt products). European chocolate just tastes amazingly 😌
I am so happy that I'm not the only who thinks Hershey's tastes like something that comes for free in a cheap gift hamper.
It's a one dollar candy bar... Who ever had high expectations of it? Lol
Then don’t eat Nestle, they’re worse lol
So true
@Ally_A ikr Milka is quite cheap yet all of their chocolates have a nicely sweet taste with no hint of sourness at all. Even the cheapest chocolate for baking that costs quite less than 1€ (for 200g) tastes better than Hershey's.
@Ally_A completely agreed
I'm lactose intolerant, and I notice a difference between certain types that don't even have milk, but I think those have to do with different ingredients. My favourites are still Swiss chocolate, like Stella Bernrain which is often imported at organic stores.
I had the fortune of finding an ungodly amount of Milka at the 99 cent store. Having a Romanian step grandma, I knew what I would be missing out on if I didnt but half of them. Hershey is soooo bitter and burns my mouth.
So I was right! My family back home thought I was being overly dramatic when I told them Hersheys tastes like actual vomit.
American here and I can confirm it tastes like vomit. European chocolate is superior!
Good chocolate is good.
I’ve had good and terrible from both regions
@@SRDuly2010 i have never tasted american chocolate and hope i never will
@@ValiaEstri its not like you are limited only to Hersheys, its not like u have the worlds biggest supermarkets which I bet have a lot of other brands and possibly some imports so saying all American choclate is bad is ridiculous.
@@royale7620 Since when did I say all American chocolate? The comment was about Hersheys. Anyway, it's an opinion, no need to get your panties in a wad.
"Cadbury, Hershey's biggest European competitor"
Everything in that sentence is wrong, but the biggest wrong is even considering Hersey as a competitor
Yeah x) I moved to France and, apart from the odd Cadbury chocolate fingers or cakes you couldn't find actual Cadbury's chocolate to save your life over here x)
Cadbury was purchased by Kraft (US). Note to all commenters - she is comparing the taste of the two most widely available bars IN THE US. She is not reviewing the entirety of Europe's industry.
Yes it is, as Cadbury is just a form of packaging of chocolate by Mondeléz, the conglomerate that formed out if Kraft, and owns Milka, Cadbury, Lu, Marabu, and many more, which is why those chocolates all taste the same and are only available where their brand already is established.
Cadbury is not even sold on the continent ! They'd better taken Milka as a european chocolate.
@@allws9683 America is a continent, too. But you're right in that Hershey's is hardly available on the European* continent.
The stores ran out of local chocolate here in Jamaica over the holidays, so I broke down and bought a Hershey bar. It was the worst, most disgusting thing I've eaten in my life. Brushed my teeth right way to try to get rid of the taste of vomit, but no luck. Rinsed with hydrogen peroxide afterward, which helped.
Cadbury's chocolate is more of a British chocolate than Europe wide chocolate, it is similar in taste but much like Thornton's the brand is a local thing.
I’m from Australia, I tried a Hershey bar once and ‘why does this taste like vomit?!’ was my first and only thought.
All US sweets I have tasted are yuck. Candy corn is foul.
And then you passed out?
The more I hear about American food the more I realise that Americans must have broken taste buds
Same
yeah its fucken gross.. if youve grown up in a place where using milk powder alot.. its the taste when milkpowder stales
Hershey‘s aim was to produce a cheap chocolate - you can‘t say he didn‘t succeed.
Viva la capitalism! (^u^)'
Well ... Calling it chocolate might be a high praise.
It's more like ... Brown bars.
Milton Hershey wanted to make chocolate with fresh whole milk from local farms, not with processed dry milk.
@@295g295 Considering that the butyric acid artificially makes the milk go bad in order to last longer then I would say that the milk is not fresh.
Edit: Please don't be butt hurt about this fact.
@Ryoshikari what's the price? Any estimates?
I always figured they used a process for milk that was invented for military use, like powdered milk or condensed milk.
I don't like Hershey chocolate, but their founder certainly made a lot of strides in making chocolate accessible to the common people.
I like the narrator. Nothing more inspiring than a young person who is well spoken.
They say that Milton Hershey is still being cloned and ground up as the key ingredient in making Hershey chocolate in America
They're trying to bring the man back so that he can make cheaper product by lowering cocoa farmers wages further and dispatching the failed attempts in the chocolate.
8:20 Yes i tasted Milton Hershey
I always thought Hershey’s was unpleasantly gritty - now I finally know why
@@theflushee6202 hershey sould like a ass rash. Why would anyone eat ass rash
You've convinced me fully to avoid american chocolate
I'm American and the only way to get quality chocolate is spending more money on expensive brands like Ghirardelli, Lindt, Godiva etc. I don't like our chocolate candy bars either but some still taste amazing like midnight milkyway, 5th avenue, Yorkie, payday, heath and reese's fast break. I think you just need to avoid the staple ones like Hershey, kitkat and snickers for example
@@vivaeuropa Oh dude, Ghirardelli is so good. Its the only commercial place I'll pay that much for chocolate and ice cream. Lindt and Godiva are good, too, but I like ice cream :P
Hersheys cannot even begin to compare.
@@vivaeuropa Yeah but this was about American chocolate. Lindt is Swiss, of course it's totally different. I personally like chocolate bars as well but not the horrible "Christmas figurine" -chocolate which Hershey's kisses apparently taste like based on this comment section. The U.S. is truly the land of marketing (and possibly stupid people too) where basically anything can become BIG
@@vivaeuropa what's wrong with snickers? I quite like it and I am from Finland... Oh wait, that might explain it. Vomit chocolate eaters from US hate our salty liquorice but I think it's fine, especially soft variants.
I'm South African and we're used to relatively high quality chocolate, particularly from Cadbury and Nestle'.
When visiting San Francisco and Seattle a few years back I was super keen to taste American chocolate, so grabbed a plain Hershey's bar and Snickers.
The Hershey's was an oily, rancid mess. Really awful. Snickers tasted oversweetened and rather synthetic.
I didn't bother with any other candy that trip - just didn't seem worth it.
When people gift imported chocs from North America and the UAE (this is, for some reason, a common trend for South Africans), it's almost always disappointing.
I think we tend to be spoiled for choice here, but I do question the palettes of folks in other countries, and more specifically the quality of consumer goods produced in first world countries.
Hersheys is filth. When I first tasted a bar I took it back for a refund. The guy ate a bit and said it was perfect.
I am a huge fan of Ritter Sport and Kit Kats. I went to the chocolate factory in Germany and made my own chocolate when I was 17. Loved it!
Interesting, nice to hear.
English chocolate is different from German chocolate or Belgian chocolate or Italian, French, ect.
English chocolate has a flavor that may taste sour or like cheese to some in Europe too. So it depends were you from and what you grew up with.
I hate how they try to be "cosmopolitan" and then be like EuRoPe Is A sInGlE cOuNtRy
I never thought about that but it explains a lot. I'm German and once had chocolate from the UK and hated the taste so much. I wasn't able to eat it, so I melted the chocolate and put it in cake 😄
@@katzenlady5339 did you try American chocolate?
@@gavind351 No, not as far as I remember
@Pascal Jäger You're right. I wouldn't say it tastes like cheese or vomit or something like that. 😄 But different to german chocolate.
I remember the first time I send Hersheys kisses to my mother in Germany- she was like: why are you sending me chocolate vomit? 🤣 now I know why
I tried them and they do taste like vomit. I am from the UK.
Where do I find them I need to try them
@@salz446 have to find special sweet shops that import these treats.
@@salz446 They taste like those 1 euro christmas choclates you get in stores. Disgusting
I have never visited the USA but I bought a bar of Hershey's while on holiday in Tobago and it did indeed taste like puke. America does do great things but that chocolate, oh boy it was foul!
Why eat Cadbury when you can have Milka, an actual European chocolate?
Just after WW2 as a small boy in the UK, chocolate was rationed. I only - if lucky - saw the tiniest bars (Nestles). The girl who worked in shop below our apartment was dating a US 'fly guy' who maybe to impress the girl, brought me HUGE Hershey bars. Even now the taste takes me back to those days.
I grew up with your average American chocolate, but always preferred gummy candies. My eyes were opened when I was a teenager and my family visited Ireland and the UK. I had never realized that chocolate could taste so rich and delicious, and I finally understood why I had never been a huge chocolate fan. I do love UK Cadbury, but the best chocolate I've ever eaten was from France - Bernachon.
In Europe every country has it's own ''big'' historic chocolate brand. In the UK it's Cadbury, in Germany it's Ritters, in the Netherlands It's Verkade (though Tony's are more popular nowadays) and in France it's Bernachon.
I always grew up with both American and German chocolate, but I never thought one tasted better or worse. My mom would go to germany every few months, and bring back a bar of Ritters dark chocolate, that she would guard because she always hated the taste of American chocolate. Since I grew up both both, I liked them equally until recently, when I noticed the kind of odd taste of Hershey’s chocolate, and that European chocolate was much richer and better tasting.
Honestly, the UK (precisely England) isn't exactly known in Europe for its good food. Granted, part of this perception is an issue of an Asterix comic, in which it is constantly joked about the Brits boiling everything and liking peppermint sauce. But just in general, there is a reason why there are Italian, French, Polish, Spanish, Greek, Irish and even German restaurants, but I have never seen an english restaurant.
Best chocolate is a battle between Switzerland, Belgium and Germany I think, with Switzerland usually having a slight edge.
I must say, England has changed over the past few decades with regard to food. There is indeed an English cuisine and it's not bad at all. (I'm not from the UK)
@@ShinyStarfire Yeah, but that is less English cuisine and more Brits discovering what good cuisine is and adapting it for their own use.
In The Netherlands if you try hard enough, you could find Hershey’s or Cadbury’s but nobody buys it. The top brands are: Tony Chocolonely, Cote d’Or, Milka, Lindt, Kinder, Toblerone and Dutch & Belgian chocolates…
Tony Chocolonely makes me so happy!!
Yea, Hersheys bars are almost impossible to find in europe, but idfk why but you can sometimes find cadburys stuff in poland
Exactly
Milka is the most comparable brand to Cadbury in Europe. They're both owned by Mondelez and have very similar tastes. They sell them both here in the UK.
Cote d'or is nasty it makes me spit it out. Sugary fatty chocolate
On the European mainland Cadburys chocolate is considered to be foreign chocolate only found in small British imported food stores or in the small foreign food aisle in a supermarket.
I was planning to travel to Hersheypark in 2020, but...2020 and all. Not for the chocolate, but for the rollercoasters!!!
"... European Cadbury bar ..."
So I guess Europe = UK? I've never seen those in Germany.
I would rather choose Lindt or Ritter Sport for a representative. They are sold pretty much in every European country.
@@krzysztofswiniarski8275 in my opinion lindt is the best chocolate thats readily avaliable
They can't even be sold as chocolate in Continental Europe because the cocoa percentage is too low.
Cadbury is quiet comparable to Milka because both brands belong to Mondelez
@@chrissie9117 Milka brands are far superior, as good as milk chocolate can be
"European chocolate" ah yes, my favourite singular flavour...
My Belgian ass is shaking 😂
@Johan European Hershey is different than American Hershey
Oh I eat European chocolate flavored candy every day
To set the record straight..Cadbury is a British brand which is extremely famous in Southern Asian Countries. And the Cadbury Bar they took as an example (Diary Milk) is made in India. So yes, it was a poor choice to pick Cadbury as a chocolate that represented European taste.
Why.... British chocolate is European.... Why compare to the worst one, or is it comparison between cheapest?
I tried Hershey's... It was really really... Sour? It really reminds me of German Christmas calendar chocolate but with a sour background taste that slowly fades away.
For good European chocolate forget Cadbury. It's Milka, Marabou and Freja where it is with cheap high quality milk chocolate.
God damn, every time I hear milk, it reminds me of a story that my grandfather tells me. He was saying that back then farmers would add water to milk but then the milk would turn light blue so, farmers would add chalk to the milk to make it more white. But there was a problem with adding chalk, it would taste funny then, farmers would add ground up calf brains to the milk to add its creamyness to it and thats why the FDA was founded. I do not know if it is true, my grandfather was an AG agent for the state of Wisconson for 40+ years so, im assuming.
Thats factually correct.👍
What you call chocolate is what we in Switzerland might call a chocolate product. Meaning that it contains mainly non- chocolate ingredients. I lived in the USA for some years and my experience with much American food is limited to having it tried only once.
They dont even know what switzerland is. Most cant tell the difference between sweden and switzerland. No joke
I could imagine that you have regretted trying it more often than you would like ...
@@hahmann In europe we have dark choclate that starts at 80% all the way to 90+%. Its nice IMO.
And healthier than sweetened chocolate.
@@hahmann Well, there are those 99% or 100% cocoa chocolate, but they are not that much bitter. Because "cocoa" include cocoa butter...
Here, a french-canadian is tasting a 100% lindt "chocolat" : ua-cam.com/video/PkEqBg6gQK4/v-deo.html
In Poland we call these products "chocolate-similar" or "chocolate-like"
I'm Australian and I think Hershey chocolate tastes exceedingly bleh.
That's cool. Kinda funny how I never really looked for Chocolate on yet but got this recommended anyways in the internet. But agreed, I'm German and once I tried Hershey.... Well it wasn't that good. At least the white chocolate variation was kinda nice
@@jetlagjack2925 seems topical to the video though, considering Australian chocolate is more similar to European chocolate than American.
Yup. Like tasteless mud
I'm American living in Australia and I immediately noticed a difference between the two types since Australia sells more European chocos at your typical woollies and Coles. I prefer European ones better even today.
I honestly agree with you , it's really meh.......
I have brought European chocolate to America and no matter what the variety, European chocolate always seems to melt in the LA heat while the American chocolate does not so much. I have noticed the same difference between Australian and European chocolate.
Is this also because of the difference in milk preservation, or is this down to another ingredient?
2:49 The flagship factory is in Hershey, Penn. it’s named after Milton Hershey and is only within driving distance.
I'm Italian, never heard of Cadbury in my entire life. My all time favourite is Lindt, it used to be Kinder/Ferrero when I was younger tho.
if you want sweetness overload in a good way Ferrero is the way to go
lol as if, you must be 5
@@phoenixwright7802 what? Why?
Lindt GANG
I like Rittersport
"Let's now shift our attention to the most important ingredient: Milton Hershey". Oh no, what did you do to the chocolate, Milton?!
LOL
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Imao I thought the same 😭
Just his Secret Process. ;)
@@GameFreak7744 his special milk
British here- Cadbury isn't European, I'm pretty sure a lot of Europeans haven't even heard of Cadbury. A better example of a European chocolate would be Milka or Lindt
Actually, the Hershey factory now has a small town built around it called Hershey, pennsylvania. But it is really close to Lancaster.
"Let's now shift our attention to the most important ingredient... Milton Hershey"
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YOU GOT TO TELL 'EM.......HERSHEY'S IS PEOPLE!!
BA HAHAHAHAHA ¡!! 😂 😂 😂
@@MrAlRats 🤣🤣🤣
Oh no
@@MrAlRats lol that's brilliant
So what you're basically saying is that Hershey's intentionally "spoils" its milk before use to make it last longer, hence why it tastes sour to the taste buds of us across the water?
Even to us Americans it's very much more "sour" and waxy than British chocolate, we just don't mind and it's cheaper.
@@_TehTJ_ and to Indians, South Americans, Canadians, and Europeans, both English and American chocolate taste like cheap shit. and this is coming from a proud American. Hershey's tastes like morning mouth after a night of drinking, compared to European or Bolivian chocolate which just melts in your mouth with a sweet taste
wine, vinegar, certain cured meats, and a number of other fermented foods are made via intentional "spoiling".
A lot of other foods have butyric acid. Most French cheeses, butter, goat’s milk, yogurt, etc. Some are acquired tastes, but to say they’re all objectively poor tasting foods is nuts.
Jup!
In Czechia we dont even have Cadbury. You will mostly find Swiss brands of chocolate. Most commong brands would be Milka, Lindtt, Ritter Sport.
As an American that has gone out of the country for 2 years now. I really dont like american chocolate anymore. LOL. I fell in love with Galaxy, milka, and cadbury. that's what you call real chocolate!
For your information CADBURY is no longer a UK brand. The company has a fascinating history but it was bought firstly by KRAFT and is now part of Mondelez. And the recipes already taste cheaper and worse. Thank you so much.
Although they deny it I think it comes from the palm oil they started using. Cadburys dairy milk should just use milk solids.
After a few chocolate bars and dessert brands(which I used to love)were bought by Mondelez, their taste is quite bad. It's sad
The recipe is the same.
Yeah, I was wondering about that. It kinda tasted just like Hershey's when I last tasted it.
@@PointNemo9 Don't think so. I was given a Cadburys Easter egg and the chocolate of the shell of the egg was much nicer than the taste of a bar of chocolate I had a couple of days later. I've noticed this before.
I’ve never heard of Cadbury in my life. I was sure it was either Milka, Toblerone, Kinder or Ritter Sport that was the top sellers here in Europe
I’ve heard of the eggs from them but that’s it. And tobacco is good chocolate. I don’t notice a difference in flavor but it’s nice and snappy. Better than Hershey’s but not as good for s’mores cause weird shape
Cadbury is more of a British thing
Biggest seller in Ireland aswell
I just saw Cadbury in Australia.the taste I'd Similar to milka
Rittersport is 😙👌 just amazing
There are several UK and European manufacturers (some large, some small) who do one or another peanut butter chocolate confectionery - Hotel Chocolat is one, and we currently have some peanut butter KitKats in the cupboard.
I agree the commercial brands are not good but their are many small homemade chocolate shops that are excellent.
I often travel through portugal, Italy, spain and France because I live in europe, never have I stumbled upon Cadbury and I love chocolate, of course you can find it if you look for it, but outside of the uk almost nobody eats cadbury, you should've used lindtt as an example, or ferrero.
Lindt and Ferrero are just WAY better chocolate brands. Cadbury is good for comparison because it's a cheap brand as Harshey
I'm in the UK and Cadbury is the worst they definitely should've compared something else
Pls lindt is superior. It wouldnt even be WORTH comparing
I think they should've used milka as a comparison, because it's everywhere in Europe, not just the UK. (and milka tastes wayyy better than any other chocolate with the same price tag)
Imagine making a US - Europe comparison and not even use European chocolate lmao-
Whenever I hear about a "top secret reciepe", I think: "O my God, do at least sanitary safety administration know what is it?"
in the 1930s no likely not, and what is sanitary safety administration in the 1890s, by the end of the second world war yes.
They do. If you ever see "natural flavors" on a label, they're referring to stuff like this.
Yeah I hate secret recipe. They are just a way to hide gross methods and ingredients instead of top quality process and ingredients. KFC anyone?
A lot of other foods have butyric acid. Most French cheeses, butter, goat’s milk, yogurt, etc. There’s nothing dangerous about it.
It's vomit
Short answer: it’s because of a process called “lipolysis” using butyric acid that makes milk chocolate more stable but also gives it that sour taste because it’s also found in vomit.
She also left out that American chocolate is one of the only few chocolate brands that still use fresh milk... and a lot of European chocolate uses vegetable oil to create that smooth creamy texture.... Hershey's chocolate actually melts because it has real milk
Fresh is the last thing I would describe American food as, what is your source btw
@@Lucachetii when I said Farm Fresh I'm talking about the milk comes from local farmers they have it delivered twice a week fresh from the cows... and my source is Me Myself and I I live right down the road from Hershey's I have family members that work there and I have family members that sell their milk to Hershey's.... and people have so many negative things to say about Hershey's and they are one of the only lasts chocolate companies that use real milk.... that's why they add a thin layer of beeswax on the outside of their chocolate bars because chocolate made with real milk melts at a lower temperature.... America is hotter than Europe so they have to add the wax so the chocolate doesn't melt on the store shelves
@@Lucachetii Butyric acid is added in a small dose it has no effect on the chocolate it's just other people especially British people are not use to milk in their chocolate.... because other chocolate company is Will substitute half of the milk with vegetable oil
My brother brought some chocolates from USA. I really thought those were spoiled somehow
Sorry, but you sound really pretentious
Yeah you sound like a European snob
@@damnjustassignmeone i hope you dont brag then, like most americans who think USA is more advanced somehow
I had the same thing, the other candy were fine but i just thought chocolate had a shorter shelf life then
@@alfredoalcantar8691 nah that shit is disgusting. Lindt gang
I remember trying Hershey’s chocolate syrup as a child and thinking “Is this supposed to taste... good??”
Me too, I've always loved the chocolate, but the syrup was so terrible to me.
Well, if your taste buds get destroyed in your first years of living on this planet, then you really won’t care how do Hershey’s products taste afterwards))
@@ordenmanvrn7685 people grow with different tastebuds. Although I spent my early childhood in Spain Ill probably spend most of my years in the uk and thus getting used to it so Ill prolly also think hersheys taste like vomit
Ironically, the syrup contains 0% actual chocolate. It is very fake tasting. It's very hard to find real chocolate syrup in the US.
@@guriausa Chocolate sauce > "chocolate" syrup
guys... Cadbury was probably the biggest competitor of Hersey's in the past, during wartime, which is relevant to what they were talking about when they said Cadbury was Hersey's biggest competitor. They also probably only stuck to comparing Hersey's to Cadbury for simplicity sake, less chocolate brands to think about.
I never eat milk chocolate, just dark chocolate, so I'll just talk about the chocolate. My go to chocolate has always been Hershey's Special Dark, and in recent years it was Hershey's Special Dark Nuggets with almonds. Mmm, chocolate heaven, but starting in the past year or two, we started getting them with stale or even rancid almonds (had to spit them out and rinse or eat something else to get rid of the taste), so I bought a bag of plain Special Dark, and that's when I noticed the chocolate had changed for the worse. Then they made the nuggets smaller. I started reading about a cocoa shortage which is now being called a crisis, and figured they must be cutting costs, resulting in cutting quality. All I know is Hershey's Special Dark ain't what it used to be. Can anyone suggest a good replacement?
First time I ever had American chocolate I told the person who bought it for me that it was rotten, and they had no idea what I was talking about
Lmfao genetic taste i guess
Well the original "secret process" mentioned at 4:05 sounds more like Hershey just bribed the guy from sanitation security and used the milk spoiled. Later he had to recreate this on an industrial scale obviously.
That was my first thought, too. Looks like the secret to using milk after 72 hours was to just use spoiled milk.
Definitely tastes spoiled.
Doesnt make sense since they still used the milk before 72 hours as well as after 72 hours.
@ཏྦཱལ་ག་པོ། Hi. Hope this doesn't sound aggressive or shitty, but you can't form butyrate from the breakdown of proteins - only from longer-chain fatty acids. Regards from the UK.
@ཏྦཱལ་ག་པོ། its not the protein turning into butyric acid, its the fat in the milk.
That’s funny… my grandparents used to bring chocolate back from Austria and I literally detested it… preferring Hershey’s well over any other brand. The only time I get Cadbury anything is when I want a Cadbury egg. Now I’m going to have to really pay attention when I eat a Hershey bar to see if I can detect the sourness.
I've tried Hersheys chocolate, but was it true to the American recipe, or just an export version sent to foreign contries?