Goodnight sweet Cadbury in the US, aka Brits make fun of our chocolate: the thread

[Pike]

I swear to god I really can't taste the difference. I like Hershey's With Almonds more than most anything I tried when I was abroad.

But you guys do have Kinder Bueno which is better than literally every American candy bar combined, so...

[Aulayna]

In the decades to come, historians will look back at this precise moment in time as the start of the downfall of the United States of America.

[Loony BoB]

I remember reading about how the Cadbury recipe in New Zealand got changed and my kinsmen cried blue murder over it. It changed back within a year, apparently!

American chocolate tends to be really subpar, but I gotta say I adore the mint M&M's.

Cadbury is good, but there are other better chocolates out there these days. Thorntons truffles are heavenly. I occasionally import a few Whittaker's Peanut Slabs from New Zealand and it tastes freakin' amazing every time. Chocolates bought at local markets tend to be pretty good over here, too.

[Iceglow]

American food in general is usually worse than it's British counterpart, which perhaps isn't surprising given how much overly processed things are. Hilarious video I remember watching showed Irish folk trying American foods. Irish food generally being a bit blander than even British food (what with it all being potatoes and all )

What is surprising is how America smurfed up chocolate. I mean the reason most American food is so bad to us European folk is the sweetness and over processed style of it all. Froot Loops for example is so sweet I'm surprised there isn't an EU law forbidding it's sale. Chocolate is the one thing I half expected the USA to get right and yet, somehow... they failed again. It's pretty depressing really.

[Shorty]

Hershey's has their hands in a lot of chocolate here. I dislike straight up milk chocolate by Hershey's like regular Hershey's bars or Kisses, etc, because they taste horrific. However, I think their Symphony bars are lovely and taste quite like European chocolate to me, and I also enjoy their cookies and cream bars and things like that.

While I think this is a bulltrout mandate and that it will only hurt the chocolate industry, I dislike the general slagging on American chocolate by non-Americans because, well, that's bulltrout, too. There are many fabulous chocolatiers who receive less attention because they are smaller and don't distribute nearly as wide, and they shouldn't all be judged by Hershey's. That's like judging all fast food by McDonald's, or judging all Mexican food by Chipotle. It's not an accurate comparison.

Hershey's would do well to take more European consideration into their recipes like using more actual cocoa and less sugar, but the cost of cacao beans has been on the rise for years, so in keeping tradition of the rest of corporate America, they've chosen to sacrifice quality for quantity, which is a pity.

American food in general is usually worse than it's British counterpart

This is quite hilarious. We have wonderful food here.

[Madame Adequate]

Yeah uh, American food is smurfing amazing.

[Loony BoB]

In my experience, both sides of the pond have amazing food if you actually know where to go. Both have awful food too.

[Mirage]

"chocolate"

I'm sure you in fact mean "random stuff covered in a thin layer of watered(milked?)-out chocolate".

[Psychotic]

I dislike the general slagging on American chocolate by non-Americans because, well, that's bulltrout, too. There are many fabulous chocolatiers who receive less attention because they are smaller and don't distribute nearly as wide, and they shouldn't all be judged by Hershey's.

Actually in fairness, See's and Ghirardelli both are pretty great - San Francisco has got it going on when it comes to chocolate.

I am entirely with Huxley on this, American food in general absolutely rules.

[Pumpkin]

I like Cadbury, but I also like Hershey's. Those Hershey's bars with the almonds are friggin delicious.

I am sad about maybe Kitkats though? I really like me some of those

[escobert]

American food in general is usually worse than it's British counterpart, which perhaps isn't surprising given how much overly processed things are. Hilarious video I remember watching showed Irish folk trying American foods. Irish food generally being a bit blander than even British food (what with it all being potatoes and all )

Uhhh pretty much everything I eat comes from around me and isn't processed unless I want to be a piggy and get food at a grocery store. I shop at the CO-OPs for breads and that sort of stuffs and local farmers markets for veggies. Unless it's winter then I have to get some veggies at the Co-op. My meat comes from the farm I work and live on. It's almost as if people think all of the USA is one giant city or some trout.

Chocolate is meh.

[Crop]

Hershey Bars quite literally have the aftertaste of vomit.

If we're talking about US food in general though, 99% of it hands down beats UK food in my experience.

[Ayen]

Damn, Brits. Keeping all the chocolate to themselves. Not that I can blame them.

So, when do we invade?

[Pike]

I think the difference between myself and most of you is that I don't really like just plain chocolate by its lonesome. Either the American kind, the UK kind, or any other, really. I mean, it's okay, but nothing special. Chocolate needs to have nuts or peanut butter or mint or hazelnut or something in it, and then it gets really good

[Quindiana Jones]

Hershey Bars quite literally have the aftertaste of vomit.

If we're talking about US food in general though, 99% of it hands down beats UK food in my experience.

It's because a component used by Hershey's to make their stuff is the same crap in vomit.

Kraft bought Cadbury's, right? Is that when they started going downhill?

Seriousness aside, with American stuff, I've found that the bigger the company, the less faffed they are about quality. It doesn't guarantee a consistent lack of quality but an average dip, in my experience. Cadbury's, despite being massive, always had a big focus on high quality but affordable chocolate. I wonder why this is (if indeed it actually is, or if it's just my limited experience).

Does America get Thornton's? More specifically, do you get the big bags of toffee off-cuts covered in chocolate? Oh my... the absolute best.