| > But characterizing it as tasting like “vomit” … is spin. It really isn’t spin- It’s a common perception for people who aren’t accustomed to it. Search for “Hersheys chocolate tastes like vomit” and as a control, search for some other brand of chocolate tastes like vomit (I did lindt but you could use anything I’m sure). All the hits I got on the lindt search were references to hersheys tasting like vomit. On the hersheys search I got (for example) https://cookingsmoke.com/why-does-hersheys-chocolate-smell-l... https://enersection.io/why-does-hersheys-taste-like-vomit https://decorwithstyle.com/does-hersheys-chocolate-have-vomi... (“Debunking the Myths: Does Hershey’s Chocolate Contain Vomit?”) https://www.chefsresource.com/why-does-hershey-taste-like-vo... A reddit thread “Does Hershey's taste like vomit, or are all Europeans snobs?” (Which, why not both?) …etc etc lots of similar hits all for the same sort of thing. Now for calibration I didn’t grow up with fancy European chocolate. I grew up in Africa with bloody horrible chocolate but even so I was genuinely shocked and disgusted the first time I tasted Hersheys. I had expected something, well… something that didn’t taste like vomit. Versus the first time I had, say Lindt or Godiva or Leonidas or Guylian chocolate I was surprised and delighted by how much better it tasted than the chocolate that I had grown up with. I get this is 100% a question of cultural norms and acquired taste, but to say it’s spin is definitely not true. |