• CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world
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    When I was a kid, my family went to go visit some extended family in rural southern France. It was going to be over Halloween, and since the French don’t celebrate it, we brought some American Halloween candy for them to try. To our surprise, they loved it, especially the Reese’s cups. We had expected them to find it gross, since they had much higher quality chocolate in Europe.

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      A bar of Hershey’s, you can really taste the butyric acid that forms during their unique process. In a Reece’s cup, the high sugar content of the filling (it’s not really even peanut butter) overpowers it. I actually like Reece’s but Hershey’s is a last resort chocolate.

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    I don’t like this food.

    Ok, there’s lots of stuff I don’t like. Why not grab a Snickers?

    It’s an abomination!

    Whoa there, it’s just a Reese’s cup…

    phillistine depravity!!

    Look, that’s excessive, isn’t it? And there’s only one L in phi-

    AMERICA BAD!!!

    Calm down, psycho! Holy shit touch grass!

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    Woah Woah Woah. I’m Canadian and peanut butter and chocolate is also a thing here. Peanut butter may be my favourite thing. Why am I catching strays?

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    Peanut butter is an abomination and against the scriptures and an insult to God. Change my atheist mind.

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    A gazillion years ago I was in a shop that had an american aisle, so I bought some some american chocolate that had peanut butter in it. Reese’s, I think?

    Anyways it tasted slightly like chalky chocolate vomit with peanut butter on it.
    I thought I’d got a bad batch so the next time I saw some I got something from Hershey’s. Again, chocolate vomit.
    Never had any of that shit since.

    Cadbury’s in the UK have been adding extra things to their chocolate bars for years now. My cynical brain tells me it’s to mask the fact that they’ve changed things and lowered the quality of their products.
    When did this happen? A few years after it was sold to Kraft, an american ‘food’ company…

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      American regular grocery store brands of chocolate are horrible. Hershey’s and all the rest. Of course it’s the cheapest ingredients drowned in sugar to cover the otherwise poor taste. Cadbury’s now tastes waxy to me. Used to be pretty good. All in the name of profit.

      Aldi in the US actually has really decent chocolate, their Choceur label for milk chocolate is quite good. Good luck finding it, I think the tariffs killed the availability, haven’t seen any for weeks.

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      I thik a lot of the US stuff are things you have to grow with. If you taste them once you’re an adult, you see them for what they are and they’ll never work for you. Hershey and Oreo being the obvious examples for me.

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    The same idiots that say this are the ones who think Nutella is some transcendental ambrosia even though it’s more palm oil than either hazelnuts or cocoa.

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      Same types of people think pineapple don’t belong on pizza. Fucked in the head is what I call em.

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    There are virtually infinite things to shit on us Americans for, and most of them deservedly so. But this one ain’t it.

    Give me peanut butter and chocolate or give me death.

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    I’ll make it even better! Chocolate, peanut butter, and a sprinkle of salt

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    Chocolate and jelly sandwiches are much better than peanut butter and jelly sandwiches though. Fight me.

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    To whom it may concern:

    Please be advised that your meme will be slathered with creamy peanut butter and drizzled with melted chocolate. Afterwards, you may immediately go and pound sand.

    Should you decide to spread this misinformation further, we will be forced to place a bounty on you. When you are captured, you will be taken to Hershey Park and doused with Hershey’s chocolate syrup in front of many peanut  butter & chocolate lovers.

    For good measure, the public will be armed with crunchy peanut butter balls dipped in milk chocolate if you attempt to escape (dark chocolate covered peanut butter balls sold separately).

    Sincerely,

    The American Committee for Chocolate & Peanut Butter Advancement

    and

    The Reese’s Foundation