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[–] Emotional_Series7814@piefed.zip 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

IIRC, the reason American chocolate tastes like vomit to Europeans is that early Hershey products used a method of milk stabilization that created butyric acid in the product

They've since switched to other methods, but now they add butyric acid because the distinctive bitter-sour became something that Americans expected from chocolate to the point that chocolate without it didn't taste 'right' to them