I don't understand how they cant see that once we leave we leave. If you bite into that and hate it; its a cycle broken and we we unlikely to trust the product ever again.

I didn't know Hershey's used Cocoa, I thought the main ingredient was vomit.

Guys (and gals), there's simple solution to all that: learn to bake.

We are a community of makers. We write our apps ourselves, we host our shit by ourselves, we stream our music and our movies by ourselves. So what should we do when bad corporations are taking away our snacks? Make them yourself!

Recipes are free and open. The tools are not expensive (not much RAM in the oven). There's nothing stopping us.

So, do we need baking community?

Edit: So... !baking@lemmy.curiana.net ? It's my self hosted server. Will that work?

"We are proud to announce our products are completely free of any natural ingredients!"

This has been that way for a while now. Reeses and Hershey's suck. They use a PINCH of cocoa powder and their chocolate tastes and feels like wax. The peanut butter filling is basically peanut flavored sawdust. They spend crazy amounts of money reduce ingredient costs while still maintaining a somewhat edible product. They end up with "chocolate favored wax/oil and sugar". Boycott them. You can get way better chocolate at Aldi.

I took two bites and had to spit it out

That's how I reacted the first time I tasted Hershey's chocolate.

I recently had something sold as chocolate that contained 0% cocoa, its just a chunk of palm oil. First time I have ever had chocolate so bad I threw it in the bin. I can also taste it in Cadburys now, or they have increased their palm oil amount since I had eaten it previously.

I will be checking ingredient lists more often when buying chocolate now. If palm oil is the main ingredient it can fuck off.

“One German brand, the Nestlé-owned Choco Crossies, recently announced it was eliminating cocoa altogether from its new Snack Vibes line, replacing it with ChoViva, a lab-grown chocolate alternative made from fermented sunflower and grape seeds.”

How the fudge did we end up in this dystopian nightmare? ಥ_ಥ

I only eat the opposite type of chocolate, that being chocolate so dark its 90-97% coco content. I want my chocolate so natural, earthy, and bitter that it tastes similar to chocolate (that's just my preference not that it makes me any better or worse than anyone else).

Club, one of my childhood favourites with the advert song of "If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit, join our club" -- no longer has enough cocoa to be legally called chocolate.

Madness.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c86737yg3jlo

... I just buy bags of ghiradelli dark chocolate baking chips, and eat a handful, when I feel like snacking on chocolate.

They have 72% cacao chips, but that is bit too rich for my taste and my wallet, 60% seems to hit the spot.

Much cheaper per weight than actual ghiradelli chocolate squares or whatever.

And you can just toss a few into some fresh hot coffee, stir for a minute, kablamo choco-coffee.

Anyway, yeah, most US 'chocolate' is disgusting.

There is no corner they aren't willing to cut.

EU has laws stating how much raw cocoa a product that calls itself chocolate must have.

US has none of that

hershey isnt real chocolate, they add a bitterent that why it taste like shit, i think its butyric acid.

~~Candy makers~~ capitalists

FTFY

It's fascinating how hard some sectors are fighting to forbid replacement meats or milks to call themselves steak or milk. But those products barely resembling the original name are completely allowed to call themselves chocolate or fruit juice (based on some concentrate and some other stuff).

Well obviously it sucks that the fake cocoa is disgusting, but I have to say I kinda am for the effort of trying to create an alternative, given how the cocoa producers are notorious for exploiting child labor and how terrible it is for the environment

Another way of reminding us there is enshittification.

Nearly no one touches the chocolates at most supermarkets I went to. Far cry from when 40 years ago, workers from overseas would include chocolate bars in care packages.

That real cocoa are mostly from developing countries, not all are politically stable.

When you can taste the enshittification of everything.

They'll phase anything but sugar.

Gotta love capitalism

That's how I've felt about soft drinks in the UK since they pulled the sugar tax, now every drink just tastes of sweeteners. I'm guessing most people can't taste them or something but I can't stand them.

Pretty interesting that this was something I remember being warned about 26 years ago

But the real appeal of mass market chocolate like Hershey’s has always been its cheapness.

There it is.