• FelixCress@lemmy.world
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    This is partly due to the use of butyric acid, which gives US chocolate a slightly sour note — which is often unsettling to European palates

    It is not “unsettling”, it is disgusting. Taste like vomit.

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    US chocolate covers the entire range from shit that can barely be described as chocolate to the highest quality chocolate that can be produced. I find it easy to buy high quality chocolate at the grocery store whenever I want, its just as accessible as shitty chocolate. Trying to paint US chocolate as one thing is disingenuous or ignorant.

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      …come on. That is how things are done, its the same as US beer, in general its shit but I am sure there are loads of microbreweries that everyone here will declare as prime beer. The reality is the everyday common and known brands, making up most of the market are dogshit.

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      the highest quality chocolate that can be produced

      Do ye hear yourselves.

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      Thag perception is because the “shitty” chocolate is mass marketed and widely available. You’re not gonna find gourmet artisan chocolate at a 7-11.

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        The problem is not the fact that they put foreign stuff into it. The problem is that they still call it “beer” then. Or “chocolate”.

        This is fraud. They should outright forbid that!

        Do you still call it water when there is 25% sand and 25% cement in it?

        Do you still call it running when they sit down and rest after every 10 meters (or feet or whatever)?

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        Very true. You can get great locally made beer in every single state. The US has an incredible brewing scene, you can find the highest quality examples of almost every kind of beer in the US. You can also find plenty of the disappointing mass produced bullshit beers just like in every other beer drinking country. I feel bad for all the beer lovers who buy into that bullshit and think its representative of US beer because they are really missing out. There’s plenty of things to criticize the US for but a lack of quality beer or chocolate is not it.

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          plenty of things to criticize the US for but a lack of quality beer or chocolate is not it.

          It most definitely is. Things which are called “chocolate” or “beer” in the USA are often unfit for human consumption and at least they wouldn’t be able to call these beer/chocolate in Europe.

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            They have the commoner stuff and the rich people stuff, and because the rich people stuff exists they get to claim it as better.

            Americans are all temporarily embarassed millionaires, thats why they bote against their own interests.

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              Yeah you genuinely do have to treat us like we are in a cult.

              The difference between USians is at any one point how much do we realize we are trapped in a cult?

              Most of the time I am self aware, most.

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    Not to defend the US on pretty much anything, but there’s basically tiers of chocolate. Low quality mass produced chocolate (hershey’s, kit kat, etc) is almost always waxy, overly sweet, and sometimes has that weird butyric acid additive. Mid tier is like your Ghirardelli: popular nationally but more expensive than your low tier chocolate, still often quite sweet but you can at least get dark chocolate. High tier is usually regional artisan chocolate. I like Theo in the PNW but I think that’s going national lately.

    All of this is NOT a recommendation to buy these chocolates of course. Go get Tony’s Chocolonely if you can find it.

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      Calling it fake is a bit cynical, although I understand where you’re coming from. They just pad it with fillings or other stuff to reduce the chocolate content and presumably increase the profit margin. Also possibly to distinguish from other brands. Which isn’t to say that chocolate with a higher cocoa content doesn’t taste better. It does and I prefer a higher dose of cocoa myself too.

      Peanut butter is the same. I started eating 100% peanut spread instead of peanut butter. It’s so good. Now whenever I get regular peanut butter, it barely tastes like peanut to me.

      Fun fact, a German company has been working on synthetic chocolate for a while now. Apparently it is indistinguishable from real chocolate. Haven’t tasted it myself though.

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        My friend, you seem to have some very strange misunderstandings padded with your own self-satisfied explanations.

        Proper peanut butter is simply roasted unsalted peanuts crushed into a paste. Anything beyond that you’re getting into tampering and “chalk in milk” territory.

        If you purchase spread, what you are getting is peanuts where the natural peanut oil has been separated and reserved, and replaced with inferior soybean oil.

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    It isn’t chocolate if you didn’t add a nearly lethal amount of high fructose corn syrup to it, the rest of the world are such fools lol

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      Shortening (vegetable fats) is a common ingredient in cheap low quality chocolate in Europe too.

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    However, the market is now growing rapidly and is replacing traditional sweets, especially among younger people. “Indian chocolate is considered an insider tip at the moment,” says Julia Moser, “The cocoa beans there have a very distinctive fruitiness with a nutty note.”

    Indian chocolate would sell well in the US: Americans love anything nutty.