[mcv]

> That would be fine except Hershey's chocolate really isn't very good. They use way too much sugar and not enough cocoa to really make it respectable chocolate.

That description sounds a lot like the chocolate milk we drank in Indonesia; it tastes very watered down with added sugar. Totally undrinkable. Chocolate milkshakes were the only way to get something chocolaty, milky and drinkable.

Interestingly, lots of stuff about Indonesia struck me as surprisingly American (for a former Dutch colony in Asia), but I hadn't considered that this could also be true for their chocolate milk.

[pionar]

I think the discussion is about "milk chocolate", a solid chocolate used in candy, not "chocolate milk", milk flavored with chocolate. 'Tis an interesting transposition, though!

[mcv]

You are absolutely correct that there's a difference between mil chocolate and chocolate milk. However, the comparisons with both having less chocolate and more sugar in the US is relevant for a comparison of American vs European tastes.