r/comics • u/shave_your_eyebrows Shave Your Eyebrows • 9h ago

OC- Animated [OC] America's Greatest Sin

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u/just4browse 9h ago

Butyric acid is found in vomit. Do you know what else it’s found in? Butter. Parmesan cheese. Many other dairy products.

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u/OmniPepperthefirst 9h ago

Guess the vomit stuff is stronger in the taste of the chocolates then?

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u/just4browse 9h ago

Probably not. Hershey’s is just cheap on the ingredients, so it doesn’t taste very good. But people latched onto the butyric acid explanation because butyric acid is in vomit. Even though the taste of vomit isn’t created by butyric acid, not alone.

And Hershey’s hate is a more recent phenomenon, caused by declining quality over the years. Butyric acid’s been part of the recipe from the beginning, ever since Hershey first tried reverse engineering Swiss milk chocolate.

I wonder if anybody would even equate the taste of Hershey’s to vomit without the influence of the internet. I agree it tastes bad, but nothing like vomit

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u/xenomachina 6h ago

And Hershey’s hate is a more recent phenomenon, caused by declining quality over the years.

How recent? I remember complaining about the weird chemical flavor of Hershey's chocolate over 25 years ago.

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u/just4browse 5h ago

I don’t know. But Hershey’s is over 130 years old so 25 isn’t that much, relative to Hershey history