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Originally posted by pedropcola:
There are only two acceptable uses for Hershey bars. One is obviously s’mores. The other is putting it in the freezer and than when the mood strikes, grabbing a knife and the peanut butter jar and making your own peanut butter cups.

Now, THAT is my favorite way to enjoy a Hershey bar! Way better than Reese's PB cups.

Europeans are far pickier than Americans when it comes to food. Though it pains me to admit it, bread and chocolate are just two things they kick our asses with, food wise. They can afford it of course, since we paid for the bulk of their national defense needs after world war two until after the end of the cold war.

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Originally posted by GWbiker:

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Originally posted by Johnny 3eagles:
My wife use to work at Hershey Chocolate in Hershey PA. Lord she smelled good when she came home from work.

I drove thru Hershey more than several times. The whole town smells good.

Even a bad steakhouse smells damn good out in parking lot when they are grilling.

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Originally posted by MelissaDallas:
Hershey’s doesn’t taste like you remember it as a kid because in 2008 they ruined most of their products by removing most of the cocoa butter and replacing it with vegetable oil as a cost saving measure

Yup.

My great Uncle Nate used to bring us the Golden Almond Bars he would buy in Hershey and distribute to us kids at Christmas . It was much better then. The taste has changed.

All chocolates have cocoa butter added and that also adds to the taste.mmmmmmmmmmmmmm

For me, it’s Ghirardelli 100% unsweetened cacao – the best that I know of. I buy 4oz bars that are scored to break easily into eight 1/2oz squares. I could easily eat a couple of bars, but have to limit myself to one square per day for weight management.

Part of my after-supper treat.

So what brand of European chocolate (in every major variety category like milk, dark, etc.), readily available stateside, is the best to buy and enjoy?

I've a relative that swears by European Bounty chocolate covered coconut bars versus US Mounds, saying there is no comparison.

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Originally posted by bald1:
So what brand of European chocolate (in every major variety category like milk, dark, etc.), readily available stateside, is the best to buy and enjoy?

Ritter chocolate bars, hands down. Available anywhere pretty much, damn good chocolate.

I've lived in the area all my life & Hershey's chocolate doesn't seem as good as I remember. Of course, when I was a kid, candy bars were five cents & there weren't a whole lot of choices.

Now I prefer the small, bite size pieces of Dove dark chocolate, dark w/caramel, and dark w/peanut butter.

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Originally posted by reloader-1:
Ritter chocolate bars, hands down. Available anywhere pretty much, damn good chocolate.

+1 for RitterSport. Halbbitter is my favorite. I was thrilled when they started hitting US shores.

I dunno. I can devour a bag of those Hershey Nugget assortments. I can’t buy them anymore. The ones with the toffee bits are the devil.

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Originally posted by 83v45magna:
Europeans are far pickier than Americans when it comes to food. Though it pains me to admit it, bread and chocolate are just two things they kick our asses with, food wise.

French bread, yes. I’ve had chocolates from all over the world, grew up near Hershey and used to work in Switzerland so I know my chocolates...
And there’s no better tasting chocolate than Gertrude Hawk in Dunmore, Pennsylvania. I used to give it to my Swiss colleagues who were food snobs and everyone of them never said a thing about Swiss chocolates being the best after that. It’s the crack cocaine of the chocolate world!

When I was deployed to Cervia, Italy, during Allied Force I used to get these individually-wrapped bites of heaven called “Pocket Coffee”. They had a liquid center filled with espresso. Oh my goodness they were the best thing ever!

Now, I think Dove squares, Lindt truffles, and Ghirardelli squares are the bomb. But I’ve never turned down Hershey’s chocolate either.

See's Candies. Chocolates to die for. A little pricey at $25.00 a pound.

 
I'm definitely not choicy when it comes to chocolate, but I prefer M&Ms over Hersheys.

I watched video on how the British think Hershey’s taste like vomit. It had to do with how they process the milk iirc. Basically they said if you didn’t grow up eating Hershey’s then it probably will taste gross.

Found it. https://youtu.be/J44svaQc5WY

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Originally posted by GWbiker:

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Originally posted by Johnny 3eagles:
My wife use to work at Hershey Chocolate in Hershey PA. Lord she smelled good when she came home from work.

I drove thru Hershey more than several times. The whole town smells good.

Not the entire town. They put a sewage treatment plant in and if the wind hits right, the whole town smells like shit. Have to drive past it to go to one of our favorite restaurants.

Also small world, guy I used to work with retired from the Reese's plant.

I only stopped in Hershey one time and it smelled great. But I stopped at Troegs brewery, so...

Aldi carried Choceur Peanut Butter Cups vs Reese peanut butter cups , Choceur wins hands down, i tried it on 3 different people to see if I was crazy. The Choceur isn't gritty and is better all around.

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Originally posted by frayedends:
I watched video on how the British think Hershey’s taste like vomit. It had to do with

I just read an article that compared Cadbury‘s milk chocolate to Hershey‘s milk chocolate. It was interesting to see that Cadbury listed cocoa/chocolate as the first ingredient followed by cream and milk and then sugar but Hershey listed sugar as their first ingredient.

A former co-worker was a chocolate enthusiast and he called Hershey's "street chocolate." I've never been a big fan, but he showed me what high-end chocolate tasted like. Even I could tell the difference.

I have been to Hershey PA once on business for a convention and once for my son's travel baseball tournament. You could smell chocolate all over the place. My son and I DIG Recess' peanut butter cups and we were driving by the plant and opened the windows and just breathed it in. Both were good trips.