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Hershey's is the only widely produced American chocolate with the acid "flavor", probably the only one at all because its widely disliked. Hershey's also makes many of the other supermarket chocolate sold here that isn't bile flavored but they are still pretty gross.

Any other slightly smaller manufacturer of chocolate in america is doing something dramatically different, and if all you've had is junk food candy, it's no surprise you'd think that's all there is.

Its the same in Europe, without the vomit of course. Most of my experience with EU and UK chocolate has been slimy milky mush, which I think is pretty awful. I know that's not all European chocolate, but the mass market stuff is pretty rough no matter where you go.

Every time someone posts something like this about food and I don't notice the badness, I wonder if it is because I'm an unsophisticated rube and have never had anything better so of course I wouldn't know the difference while the poster is refined. Or if it's just that different people have different taste buds and preferences. Or if it's because the internet and human brains have negativity bias and are more likely to post "x food nasty" than "x food mediocre (actually mediocre, not the way people use it as a synonym for "bad" nowadays)" or "x food good".

Especially with big brands, and nowadays big American brands giving the horrible things the United States of America is doing—similar to how people are very happy to call people's looks ugly when their personality is ugly even if they don't look all that bad—emotional sentiment either legitimately affecting their judgment of other qualities, or them knowing the thing isn't actually that bad but they'll exaggerate the badness because they have grievances with other qualities besides, say, the food's taste or person's looks.

All this to say I've eaten Hershey's (gotten them as gifts, don't purchase it myself) and do not think it is awful, is it actually this bad and I'm a rube blessed with no taste and thus the ability to enjoy more things? Is it the internet being the complain-y internet, especially with Hershey's probably being a big brand and being American which are unpopular nowadays, regardless of the actual quality of the chocolate? Or a mix of the two?