Adam Ragusea on why Hershey's chocolate tastes like vomit to some folks:
It's nearly impossible to live in Europe, then to come back to America and still like Hershey's chocolate. Sure, I'll eat it on occasion: as Ragusea says in the above video, we Americans have grown up with Hershey. But its status is much diminished in my eyes thanks to my exposure to European chocolate. (You don't need to go to Europe to avail yourself of such chocolate, of course, but you might not be getting the real deal: read on.)
Ragusea takes us on a historical tour of chocolate's ancient beginnings and evolution over the centuries. Along the way, he compares Hershey's to its British rival Cadbury, being careful to note that side-by-side comparisons can be misleading since both Hershey's and Cadbury use slightly different formulae/recipes when producing chocolate for the foreign market (i.e., trying a Cadbury manufactured in—or sent to—the States isn't the same as trying a Cadbury made in the UK and aimed at the UK market; the same is true for Hershey's). While Hershey's doesn't taste like vomit to me, I still find it a decidedly inferior chocolate. Give me Lindor truffles any day of the week.
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