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Decorative Jord
@jnatc.im

Capitalism is not at its “end stage” and you would not be able to tell the difference between today’s chocolate and the chocolate of your childhood in a blind taste test. Everyone in your life only agrees because they all watch the same Instagram Reel slop you do.

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Decorative Jord
@jnatc.im

The idea that American milk chocolate “tastes sour” is a textbook example of something invented out of whole cloth online and spread as an easy way to signal to your audience that you’re worldly and discerning just like they are. No it doesn’t. That isn’t true.

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Decorative Jord
@jnatc.im

It’s kind of perfect if you think about it. No normal non-online person would ever describe the taste of a Hershey’s milk chocolate bar as anywhere close to “sour.” So claiming that something so unintuitive and false for most people is *obvious* just signals you know something everyone else doesn’t.

Strong Jersey איתן
@eitang.bsky.social

Can't speak to any taste changes because I haven't had one in forever, but the big brands have been messing around with reducing the cocoa content in order to avoid hiking the price too quickly. It's not like it was a particularly high quality to begin with - it's fine, I'm sure it's still fine.

Rune
@runefar.bsky.social

I gotta disagree with you here. Though I wouldn't say "taste sour is the difference. One of the major differences for me is that American chocolate tends to lack the milky taste itself and have a slight irony taste. That said I do think brands like Ghirardelli are better at this