r/comics • Shave Your Eyebrows • 10h ago

OC- Animated [OC] America's Greatest Sin

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u/Dillo64 9h ago

This is a surreal thread, I always loved kisses, didn’t know they were hated apparently? Is this like a DNA thing where some people taste it bad and others taste it good?

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u/DathomirBoy 8h ago

It’s not about Kisses, it’s about American chocolate. It does taste off to most non-Americans. I don’t get the vomit taste personally but there’s something funky about it for sure

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u/Enchelion 8h ago

American chocolate isn't different from other countries chocolate. Hershey's chocolate is different.

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u/DathomirBoy 8h ago

AMERICAN Hershey’s. Canadian doesn’t taste like that. And Hershey’s owns production rights over most mass produced chocolates in America, so a good majority of them taste like that.

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u/boosesb 7h ago

They own production of other brands chocolate?

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u/AgrajagTheProlonged 7h ago

The own production rights to some, including Cadbury iirc. You can definitely get good chocolate in the States that isn’t made by Hershey

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u/Dull_Quit3027 21m ago

To be fair Cadbury has also turned to shit, ask any Brit about the eggs, and you will get a litteral tirade, I used to like their Flakey stuff, because it was nice to melt in your mouth, it is not nice to melt in your mouth anymore

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u/sillysnailfriend 7h ago edited 7h ago

I don't know all the legal stuff but I know Hershey's manufactures KitKats in the US (which are made by Nestle elsewhere), and I think Cadbury chocolate too. I've had KitKats sent to me by my friends in Canada and they were very different chocolate. But they definitely don't manufacture all chocolate.

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u/DathomirBoy 6h ago

Yep. Idk why but it’s how it is

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u/GoldenSonOfColchis 5h ago

Chocolate, and confectionery in general, is (relatively) cheap to produce, but setting up production is expensive. Importing is also very expensive, so utilising existing factories is often a no go as well.

What happens is that brands will work out a deal with an established brand to produce their confections, slap their logos on them, and send them out to market. This ends up meaning that a lot of the actual chocolate is produced in the same factory with the same recipe.

Cadbury's and Nestle for example use them for a lot of their chocolates, meaning a KitKat in the EU tastes completely different to a KitKat in the US.

There are benefits to this outside of money as well. Hershey's is already the most popular chocolate in the US, using their chocolate when making your confections means its already adjusted to the American palate.

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u/TheGreatLuck 7h ago

Lol eww you guys must have terrible chocolate cuz you're actually eating hershey's?! That's arguably the absolute worst chocolate. America has no taste buds so we don't count. And we have no shame. So we don't count. But you guys? I thought you were better than that.

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u/DathomirBoy 6h ago

Hershey’s in Canada is a different formula due to different manufacturing standards. I’d argue it’s better. You’re basing your opinion off the American formula

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u/TheGreatLuck 6h ago

Again why even go with an American company in the first place? It's weird as shit super trashy.

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u/DathomirBoy 5h ago

You’ve got to be trolling. I don’t eat exclusively American chocolate lol, I actually prefer dark chocolate so I only eat it when it’s made avalible, like at my office

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u/tazerrtot 3h ago

?? People just eat what's there, and if it doesn't taste like vomit like it does in the States people aren't gonna think about it lol. Why would Canadian's know the American version of the chocolate tastes bad if the Canadian version is fine?

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u/Hot-Pepper6610 7h ago

Are there any good american chocolate brands? I can't find any good ones.

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u/AquaPhelps 6h ago

Ghirardelli is american

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u/Hot-Pepper6610 6h ago

Good shout, I didn't know that.

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u/Enchelion 5h ago

Supermarket fancy? Ghiradelhi, Chocolove.

Supermarket basic? Dove (aka Galaxy outside the states)

Regional (PNW): Fran's, Theo, Spinnaker.

International award-tier: Eldora, Good Now.