Why Hershey bars taste like vomit (and I love them)
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"Hershey: Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams," by Michael D'Antonio: www.simonandschuster.com/book...
2015 BBC article about Hershey vs Cadbury: www.bbc.com/news/magazine-319...
2008 NYT article that deals with the butyric acid issue: www.nytimes.com/2008/02/13/di...
U.S. legal standards for milk chocolate: www.accessdata.fda.gov/script...
E.U. legal standards for milk chocolate: eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conte... - Jak na to + styl
"I've had Hershey's more times than I've thrown up"
don't brag
Lol I can’t understand the joke from your side, but I sure appreciate it
Are you okay? 🥺
When I was a kid I had a lot of digestion problems so I would throw up like once a week on average
Humblebrag?
I hate Hershey bars unless their dark chocolate, and everyone thinks I’m nuts
Adam when he throws up: "mmmmmm chocolate"
When you think about it... it's disgusting🤢 and hilarious🤣 at the same time.
well said
European kid:
What does American chocolate taste like?
Me:
Just drink a liter of hot chocolate, let it ferment for half an hour and vomit it out.
I don’t taste Hershey chocolate when I throw up.😔
@@NoName-ms8jb you have to consume regular chocolate first 500g or something and then try to throw up.
That remark about parmesan containing butyric acid actually solves a childhood mystery for me. See, a babysitter had made pasta for dinner at one point and a very confused younger me thought it smelled like vomit for some reason. It was likely the parmesan cheese causing that, combined with the fact that I had been sick pretty recently at the time. Somehow I smelled it in the food and, possibly because of how recent the memory of that illness was, I couldn't smell much else besides sick in that.
It confused the ever-living daylights out of me at the time. Probably confused the babysitter, too.
I remember feeling that way too, I always dumped tons of that paper canned Parmesan cheese on my sketti. It always smelled like bo-wap.
My little sis got in the pantry and decided to make a snack of some green-can Parm. I guess she managed to spill some. My mom went in the pantry and asked who threw up.
That was decades ago, and I think I went in there and it did smell like it. But it never did again.
Hershey's always has a taste unlike other chocolate, but never like vomit, for sure.
I’ve tried the Euro version once, and while I didn’t associate the taste with vomit, I did feel that the bar was sour/rancid, which is essentially in a roundabout way what it is. Then again I’ll argue that Finnish Fazer milk chocolate is the best general purpose milk chocolate in existence due to childhood indoctrination as well.
I've tried a lot of different chocolates in my life, and Fazer's Marianne chocolate is my favourite of all. I like the Marianne candies as well, in the chocolate bar form it's amazing.
Hershey tastes to me like the same as Cadbury and Milka
As a Swede Fazer > Marabou any day :)
Fazer is very good stuff and I've had it maybe twice ever.
@@Grandmaster-Kush And Freia > Fazer
This is actually my first time hearing people say Hershey's tastes like vomit, what the heck
Same!
Yup
It tastes soo cheap and bad
lol its something i've always noticed but was never really able to describe. it's not overbearing, it still tastes like chocolate, just a little...off
FlyTkSociety yeah me too
There was a kid that kept stealing my son's lunch in 1st grade. The teacher wouldn't do anything to prevent it so I sent in a chunk of baker's chocolate with his lunch. His lunch was never touched again after that
That's big brain parenting. I had to fend them off myself and went to principal's office multiple times till the teachers realized I'm innocent (relatively).
How did he steal his lunch? Or why didn't the kid try to speak up.. I'm honestly just very curious is you don't mind
@@littleamig0 First grade public school. My son confronted other kid and the teacher. No change. We brought it up with the teacher and no change.
Not illegal like laxatives (you could get arrested for poisoning, ask reddit lol)
@@YeetusTheFetus wait fr? How could you get arrested for poisoning your own food which someone else steals?
As an American, I also grew up eating this stuff, simply because it's EVERYWHERE. However as I got older and tried other kinds of chocolate from brands like Lindt and Ghirardelli, I now understand how Hershey's tastes like vomit. Tastes pretty nasty to me now and I probably haven't had any in over 7 or 8 years because of this 😅
as i still mature i find that i start to notice that i don’t enjoy chocolate or junk food anymore
@@cyrilespejo doesn't have to do with maturity it may be because as you age so does the variety of gut microbes and your taste perception. I wonder if you were to reverse your age if your taste would too
Lindt sucks too. At least the ones with the creamy filling. Tastes artificial as fuck.
@@cebswood1standard Lindt chocolate is really good tho
@@cebswood1Just get a regular Lindt bar. They are amazing.
I've never heard of someone saying that Hershey's tastes like vomit, but I also didn't grew up eating it, and when I tried for the first time, it had a "plastic feel". I usually don't eat chocolate like other foods, chewing to the smallest amounts, what I usually do is just feeling the chocolate in the mouth and letting it melt on his own, and Hershey's don't melt that well, but the taste for me was pretty fine, I've had better, but it definitely wasn't the worst
Adam: This tastes like *_VOMIT_*
Hershey's: ...oh sorr--
Adam: IT'S AMAZING, I LOVE IT
Hershey's: eh?..
*wheeze--!*
the flavor changes
the first time I had a Hershey bar it tasted like vomit but not the second time
@@jeff-hd9og that's called stockholm syndrome
@@jeff-hd9og second time I tasted it, still tasted like vomit.
This is why we love Adam: he creates videos NO ONE asked for, but are incredibly fascinating and relatable.
I was going to comment literally the exact same comment but I saw this! Thumbs up! 👍
He knows what we need
He makes what he wants and I love him for it!
@@delbrooke7655 absolutely its refreshing to see someone that doesn't really follow trends but always makes his videos top notch!
He also treats people like they're individuals, with tastes unique to themselves. So when people try to play the old game of "This good, that bad," he says, "depends on individual tastes."
We could use more people thinking about others as individuals.
I am a very unique case in this conversation because I grew up in America with Hershey’s chocolate but I was born with a severe anxiety disorder that makes it so that whenever I panic I vomit, on top of that I panic very easily so the statement “I haven’t thrown up more than I’ve eaten chocolate” is actually the opposite for me. And the taste of the acid is more related to vomit than chocolate with me so Hershey’s chocolate does taste like vomit to me. I’ve always wondered why that is and now I know why
That’s actually really interesting.
im in the american raised with hershey, but i can identify/taste the process he talks about lol
even since i was pretty young spanning deep into my adult years, american candy chocolate and hersheys especially taste v much like that acidic butyric twang and i cant stand it 😅
@@its2467When my American ex-gf sent me a whole box of treats, there was a Hershey's bar among them. I let my whole family try it and we all decided it was the only thing not safe to consume anymore so we threw it away. I only later found out that it tasted rancid because of the butyric acid. If you'd have asked me back then I wouldn't necessarily have said "vomit", but it certainly had a strong taste of sour milk which was very unpleasurable considering it's supposed to be a dessert.
I actually really like unsweetened baking chocolate. Or at least I did when I was a child. Haven't tried it in over 10 years come to think of it.
I remember running away as my grandmother chases me with her husband's cane because I'd always break into her stash.
It's hard, sorta crunchy and crumbly, and very bitter. I've always enjoyed bitter foods, and the hardness is nice for satiating my neurodivergent need to chew ice without actually chewing ice.
Hey, I used to love baking chocolate as a wee lad myself,!
Oddly enough I also enjoyed baking chocolate as a kid. Like you I haven't had it in a long time though.
Chocolate tends to have iron in it, and apparently chewing ice is a symptom of iron deficiency. I had a craving for snow and ice, and my sister in law told me shed read that.
I started putting cocoa and or blackstrap molasses in my coffee, bye bye ice and snow craving. The snow thing had been uncontrollable.
depending on what type or what brands of cooking/unsweetened chocolate, there are some that might have other stuff mixed in, just not mixed to the smoothness of eating chocolate
i rememver sneaking in the pantry and trying to get my choccy cravings from gnawing on Abuelita, blocks of chocolate still had sugary particles integrated thru the thick bars
but, its a chocolate meant for specific recipes and is an inhredient,
so when young undiscerning me would scrape my teeth against the rock solid chunks, salt and some other things confused my childish tongue, (and tbh id prob appreciate the complexity of those flavors as an adult now lol)
anywho, as an adult w some iron issues now, im lowkey gonna steal these ideas to curb my own cravings masking my deficiencies 🫠
The Adam from a parallel dimension would say "You know this Hershey's bar doesn't have the same creamy and fatty taste that I'm used to, but it's still a good treat. Long live the empire!"
*Mirror Universe ;)
I got so confused by this comment I actually started thinking about ADAM from Netflix's Dark
Yes! The lore continues!
The worst part of this video is even if you didn’t think Hershey bars tasted like vomit before, now that you make the connection in your brain they do
The worst part of the video is when Adam used Tik Tok. How can an intelligent person use such a compromised app?
@@seanrawlinson gotta do what you gotta do for this business
@@seanrawlinson You seem to be using Facebook according to your youtube channel. Wouldn't you classify Facebook as compromised?
Still good af.
@@NeroDesignz You're really going to compare using an independent US company like Facebook to TIkTok which is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party?
Humor is when you pick up on things they were only a fleeting thought to someone else. Your channel is so fantastic, you're awesome to listen to and probably even better to talk to.
He’s not only a chef but a food philosopher. Really great content! Love it!
“Why my steak taste like a seasoned cutting board ( and i love it)”
The combo.
Yes I love it
Cursed
Isn’t it weird that you taste something and know what it is but you’ve never had it?
🤣🤣
3:55 - Something he doesn't tell you about Hershey which is very cool and crazy is that when Hershey started making chocolate he no longer had the caramel business. Hershey went to the worlds fair, saw one of the first industrial chocolate making machines on demo there. He then sold his caramel business and bought one of the machines. At this point he'd never been in the chocolate business and didn't have a recipe so he retreated to that estate to figure out how the hell to make chocolate before he went bankrupt. And he did.
Honestly that was one heck of a risk.
And it exactly tastes like it...
@@MrKrtek00 underrated!
This guy is great. I love how he uses great sources for what hes explaining. So hard to find this much effort in mainstream media let alone youtube.
Yea the vomit flavour is what hit me with my first try of hersey.
But i am spoiled, just across the border from Belgian artisinal chocolate.
Also 96% dark with hazelnuts is my favourite bar.
(but imho, only good fermented food is the occasional beer)
Your liver hates you
@@Leaked1ndex yea, but so do my kidneys, ovaries and lungs.
Atleast this is my own doing
Hershey: Why I season my MILK and NOT my CHOCOLATE!
陳Connor 😂
陳Connor video on the right: why I season my butter not steak lol
The meme is kinda old
Why I season my evaporator and not my milk powder
陳Connor lolllllll 😂😂
I remember bringing back a bag of Hershey's Kisses from the states, after everyone telling me how amazing they are. They didn't taste like vomit to me, but more like really cheap chocolate that's been left out in the sun for too long. Dull, no lasting flavor, no creaminess. I don't think Cadbury is a gold standard here in the EU (at least outside the UK), but I would never ever choose Hershey's over Lindt or Guylian, which you can acquire for very reasonably cheap prices in any supermarket.
Cadbury used to be the best of the best in the UK, but unfortunately it's in US hands now and most of it tastes like wax and dissapointment with about 400 bars with various shit shoved in. I'd kill for a bar of the old Cadbury stuff but Lindt and even Milka fill the gap when the cravings hit.
It might've melted and re-hardened in transit then, although I don't personally recall how it effects the flavor and texture.
Ghirardelli chocolate is pretty good quality chocolate in the US, and I definitely prefer it to Hershey.
Lindt used to be my absolute favorite, but all lindt products contain barley malt which doesn't play nicely with my Celiac disease. But Ghirardelli is a good substitute
I prefer dove chocolate (I'm american) tastes somewhat similar to Hershey (still different, though) but is WAY creamier and literally melts in your mouth
The Hershey chocolate available here in India tastes fine.
But Cadbury is better. Particularly daily milk Silk which just melts once you put it in your mouth.
More expensive
Dairy milk is just too sweet at this point....
@@tan_VO5 I only eat silk.
@Raj Panda you should try lindt lindor chocolate
yea cadburys expensive lol
I'm European and I have moved to America recently, I can't eat Hershey's. I just can't. I have survived with Lindt 85% cocoa and chocolate that I have found in Lidl or Aldi. I'll pay twice the price for chocolate rather than buying Butyric acid chocolate bar. It's like cilantro, I just can't eat it.
When I lived in Germany in a shared house, we had an American come over to live in the house (we all worked for the same company as students) and before she arrived, she kindly sent a big box of American treats for us to try! When we tried the Hershey bar, we all (British, French, and Germans) thought it must have spoiled during shipping and were amazed when she arrived and told us it was fine! “You mean that’s what it’s supposed to taste like??? 🤯”
Keith Bromley When I went across the pond for the first time I was so excited to taste Hershey’s. Wow was I disappointed!
@Jules Juerez Wasn't that tootsie rolls? Because Hershey's didn't last and would melt?
shut up you fucking non american people always find ways to talk shit about us Americans. Also sorry that Hersey's is not as fancy as your dumb fuck chocolates.
@@DreamlandKing Charming. No need to be offended. As this video attests, it’s an objective fact that Hershey’s contains butyric acid, the delicious molecule that gives vomit and Parmesan cheese their distinctive flavours.
I say to each their own. I personally prefer not to have a smattering of vomit in my chocolate, but maybe I’m weird.
@Epitaphzz might not have been the American recipe
British Hershey bars taste completely different. Exactly like a "Yorkie Bar" if you've ever tried one of those before. A alightly malty chocolate taste.
Yanks can't wank dat good choco either I guess
It doesn’t it still tastes like sick 🤢🤢🤢
@Madella Milka for me XD
I haven’t eaten chocolate for so long I forgot what Hershey’s taste like
I am gonna have to disagree with this one, the ones we get in shop are sometimes just, shipped from America, they taste good enough but nothing like a yorkie, not really my thing that bar, the white chocolate ones are the best ones for texture and flavour, I’m not really a flavour person though, more texture.
As an Australian I guess I finally know why despite having many US products, our chocolate market is dominated by Cadbury's
Just tried Hershey's for the first time here in Australia and googled why it tasted like vomit. Interesting and also 🤮. Maybe it will grow on me I will try some again some day.
NEVER EVER eat Hershey's chocolate
Alternate title: Budget Markiplier tells you your tastebuds suck for 13 minutes
Way underrated comment. Offbrand Mark
@@treygreen5015 not offbrand, just alternate reality
James tru
@imraan ibrahim you good?
@imraan ibrahim too many? prescription? Do you need help?
Bruh is everyone vomit tastes like sugar here? Seems like I'm missing out
What makes Hershey's chocolate taste like sick is the milk.
Love the way u just eat ur vomit
nah i tried my dogs vomit and it does not taste like Hershey bars.
@@melostrich it tasts like human vomit not dog vomit xDDD
It's Jemmy stop overreacting if u hate the chocolate then don’t eat it, simple no need to write a essay of how much the chocolate taste bad to u
I am also from Pennsylvania-and therefore, Hershey’s milk chocolate bars were a pretty common desert (for sure they are the only chocolate that goes with graham crackers and roasted marshmallows!), but as I got older I grew to appreciate savory flavors over sweet ones. So as an adult, I’m not much of a milk chocolate fan-I enjoy dark chocolate much more. Dark chocolate paired with almost any kind of fruit is my absolute favorite.
Lived in the US my whole life, recently started eating only organic or low sugar chocolate and then went back and ate some Hershey's and other processed stuff and immediately noticed the vomit taste.
I'm a chemist and cringe when people get science wrong, either straight-up wrong or say words you can tell they don't understand. Adam does a good job of making the science understandable without dumbing it down to the point of it being wrong. Good job.
"Im a chemist" yea but you're arent a well known one your no one special
@@TexterEX So what? He thanks Adam for conveying the science, and he agrees with the presentation - as a chemist (even one of millions with no known particular accomplishments), he can judge that the material is correct, he spent considerable effort studying it. Why you have to piss on that? Also your grammar is atrocious, you might want to learn at least something before you denigrate other people.
Hey man I don't care if he's a chemist or not he's just praising a hard-working youtuber and that's something to appreciate
@@TexterEX I find it crazy how many people equate popular with good.
And everybody's special :-)
@@TexterEX Just because he’s not a “well known” chemist doesn’t mean that he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
So interesting. When I was 14 someone brought a Hershey’s bar to school and we all thought that it was joke chocolate meant to taste like vomit. I remember one girl started screaming after she spat it out 😂
damn I never loved Hershey but I didn't know it was that bad to other people 💀
🤣🤣🤣
@Royal S did u watch the video?
I'm American I swear I do not taste vomit from it. 😐
I never thought of it like that i grew up on Hershey chocolate so it tastes like chocolate
As an American who absolutely hated milk chocolate my entire life, you have no idea how vindicated I feel that the rest of the world agrees with me on this
After learning about butyric acid from this video, I then went to search on whether butyric acid is in kombucha, which it is! This explains why every time I try kombucha, it has the aftertaste of spoiled food or vomit. I thought i was just not used to it
I was thinking, "no Hershey's doesn't taste like sick" then we reminded later in the video that our UK version is a different recipe. I've never eaten the genuine thing
It’s not the British Hershey bar that tastes like baby sick, it’s the American one. For my 21st (19 years ago) I went to Las Vegas, San Francisco and LA and tried Hershey kisses and had to spit it out because I found the sour milky, baby vomit taste disgusting. I thought I had just bought a bad bag and tried another bag in SF which again I had to spit out. Ghiradelli’s in SF was lovely chocolate though, so I only have the baby sick impression of Hershey’s. I was last in the US a few years ago and tried a Hershey bar but I think it had Oreos in it and I didn’t get the sick off flavours. I’m not sure if that was because it was a different recipe to the kisses I’d tried years ago, if the recipe had been reformulated or whether the Oreos had overwhelmed the acid.
@@peterdunlop7691 yeah i live in the US alot of them have a flavor like that, i don't eat Hershey's much thanks to that, but they have alot of good chocolate brands here
I'm from Australia and tried Hersheys kisses that I got directly from America. Still tasted great
I’ve had Hershey’s before but I don’t live in the US so the title confused me haha. Still don’t like Hershey’s though, it tastes really flat/bland.
I'll send you a USA bar for a UK bar 🥺
Alternative title: Man goes full nerd when everyone said his favorite chocolate tasted like vomit
Adam : hersheys is my favourite chocolate .
Person : ya know , that chocolate tastes a bit like vomit .
Adam : SO YOU'VE CHOSEN DEATH?
Tbh that's how I often react when someone "attacks" stuff I deem sacrosanct. And for some reason people still like me. I bet they just stick around to have some weird facts to tell during family dinners
@@anishogale7574 also Adam: but you're right it does
Hahshahahahahahahhahaha
@@Sk0lzky tell me the stuff you like so I can tell you why you are wrong.
As a european... I really loved Hershey's when I tried it! That aftertaste felt pretty unique to me, exotic even. Maybe I'll buy another bar someday
Judging by internet discourse I have to say that this simply cannot be allowed 😉
I tried american chocolate and hershey's kiss when I was 4 years old and I immediately spat it out. it was from a friend of a relative and we all thought it went bad on the way home.
"Why I season my vomit, not my chocolate"
Hmm...
tasty
LMAO
Why i hold the tv, not the remote
Nice reference!
The idea that I've simply become acclimated to the taste of vomit is a weird one. I have puked a handful of times and I never thought Hershey, but it's interesting to see how some people immediately can make out that distinct flavor.
i can kind of see what he means, but i think what tastes more like vomit is anything buffalo wing sauce flavored. hersheys never registered as "vomit" tasting to me
@@cagneybillingsley2165 Do you only vomit after pounding three dozen wings? 🤣
We are also acclimated to it in different foods. Cheese for example also has Butyric acid in it, the thing that makes hersheys taste like vomit. We are used to Butyric acid being in salty food like cheese. The combination of Butyric acid in sweet things does probably make the taste stand out more because we are not used to that.
Hollandaise sauce has that vomit taste too. Like it's not the first taste you get from vomit, it is the after taste, when you already done vomiting, there's a stinky taste that stays for a while.
I always wondered why vomit always taste like bad milk, guess that explains...
I'm from the US and I also realized Hershey's tastes like Vomit one day, and then I had it a few times again so I had to search it up. I was shocked that I found actual results. Hershey's used to be so good to me until just a few months ago
I got a bag of them for Halloween and couldn't get through it...I was so bummed
it takes me forever to watch your amazing videos because i keep having to go to the pantry because your videos make me crave.
I once sat on a buss and i felt this delicious smell of strong sharp cheese, i found out about 15 sec later that the person behind me had puked on the back of my seat...
Lmao
*proceeds to lick vomit*
I cant stop laughing at “buss” 😆
@@themaximum97 y
How do you feel a smell, please teach me
I love how Adam is a defender of the "folksy" or "average" or "common" tastes and approaches to cooking, while at the same time encouraging people to raise their game--in both the culinary and gastronomy aspects of food and culture. Plus the history lessons and myth debunking are always interesting.
A really unique approach that I love, like a more homebound Anthony Bourdain, but Adam is still in a class of his own
Regular Slime jesus christ
Regular Slime lmao
agreed.....he takes such an unpretentious and un intimidating approach
Too many big words in that sentence lmao
@@joeb7975 Even compared to contemporaries like Binging With Babish, I feel like Adam kind of edges him out because while Andrew strives for the pinnacle of the art form, Adam is by comparison "over it" (hearkening back to his Marco Pierre White vid) and really resonates with his audience. Cooking videos are supposed to inspire us, right? Between Babish and Adam, who's more likely to inspire you to get into the kitchen?
I can't believe there are even people who eat Hersheys in the first place. After I eat it a strange brown liquid that I cant swallow pools up in my throat and I have to spit it out. Also it tastes like plastic
When I first tried Cadbury chocolates because of my British aunt mailing them to me as a kid, I thought it tasted like flowers. I thought the chocolate had a very strange floral taste to it that I had never tasted in chocolate before.
If you’re American and can’t really taste the “sick” but are curious, eat a piece of Hershey’s and while it’s still in your mouth take a sip of a citrus soda (Mountain Dew, Squirt, Fresca). The citrus elevates the pungent flavor
That sounds absolutely disgusting
yo facts never eat a Hersheys bar after drinking soda i learned that when i was a kid,
OH MY GOD. My entire life I've hated orange and chocolate and have equated it to eating citrus after brushing one's teeth. I maintain to this day that orange brings out the worst flavors in chocolate. now i am vindicated :)
as a person who's been often told i should drink less soda and more water, i cant stand drinking soda after eating anything remotely sweet, i either need water, or coffee/tea with no sugar (when i normally add 5 t.spoons of sugar to coffee/tea)
@@ysag.1227 try a Terry’s Chocolate Orange around Christmas time. They usually sell them in Walgreens and CVS. It uses European chocolate and it’ll totally change your perspective on that! And it breaks apart like an orange into sliced
Non-american here: Hershey's doesn't taste like vomit to me but it does taste quite plasticky when compared to most european brands, which taste smoother and round
I prefer some of the small local candy makers in my are. More expensive but damn if it isn't worth every penny.
Hmm yes the best descriptor for a flavor. Smooth, round. I personally prefer my food to taste trapezoid.
no it tastes like vomit
Just consider if you're comparing it to hand-crafted, more expensive chocolate. Not a fair comparison.
it smells and taste like butt for like the first 2 seconds then it’s fine
I recently went to The United States and tried Hersheys. I couldn’t believe people actually ate it and enjoyed it. Absolutely tasted like sick to me. Left an aftertaste in my mouth as if I just threw up. Glad to see I’m not the only one.
Boom! Thank you for this video. I never understood why folks from Europe disliked our chocolate here in America. I grew up here and I have always loved it. Like you I always found that Chocolate like Swiss, German and most others from Europe just felt like didn't taste as good to me yet I was suppose to believe that their chocolate was better and that ours was nasty. I didn't mine eating their chocolate just don't prefer it over ours. Now thanks to you I have a better understanding of why our taste in chocolate can be so different. I think taste can be connected with psychological triggers in our brains and if we are used to eating something from a young age we become used to it. To me Hershey chocolate taste is rich creamy and sweet and I love it also chocoa is naturally very bitter which I like in dark Chocolate. I bet if my parents would have given me some unsweetened chocoa like for baking the first time I tryed it I would hate it today and wouldn't be such a chocoholic. Lol great video.
Europeans use less sugar or sweet ingredients and their chocolate don't have that acid reflux smell.
I can say Ghirardelli Chocolat is the one that seems more similar to Italian chocolate, but costs much more. Medium quality Italian chocolate is cheaper than United States one.
As a European having tried Hershey's, I can only confirm. However, Cadbury has really fallen in quality in the last 30 years and I agree that it tastes oily and too sweet. You should try Lindt or Fazer or similar high quality, but still mid-prized milk chocolate.
Either way, if you enjoy Hershey's - good for you!
Cadbury and Milka as well are so sweet and milky that it's overbearing imo
Lindt is wonderful.
I wonder if you would run into the same issue with Lindt chocolate being different in the UK/Europe versus America? Wouldn't surprise me at all as tastes vary from place to place and what is desirable in the USA may be less so in Europe.
Oh man, Lindt is the stuff. Have you ever tried Novi tho?
@@Zelnyair thats what it definitely is. There chocolate has gone down in quality so much due to cheaper ingredients and recipes. The only recipe they didnt change was the original dairy milk bar
This guy is like the Vsauce for food
What is food 🤔
Better than Vsauce
Vsauce is the Adam Ragusea of science
So true tho
have you seen his soup video?
I had my first shmores yesterday with American ingredients I thought the chocolate (Hershey's) had a cheesy aftertaste (I do love parmesan on my pasta), needless to say everyone thought I was mad. Glad to find out that I was not mad and there was a basis to it.
An interesting experiment I saw play out on a foraging page that I'm a member of on facebook saw one of its very knowledgeable members attempt to make a chocolate substitute using the fruits/seeds of the lime tree. By lime I mean English lime or linden tree as opposed to the one that bears citrus fruit. She was basing it on the writings or a French pharmacist who may or may not have actually existed (very vague I know) but the outcome according to her was a very resonable approximation of a cocoa flavour. From recollection I believe the trick lied in the amount of roasting time you allowed the linden pods/seeds/fruits (whatever the fuck they are called) considering the linden tree is a hell of a lot more prolific and grows in a greater variety of climates it might make for a cheaper chocolate flavour solution to the right enterprising company with deep pockets who has the time to bring something more mass scale to market. Another plant that is reputed ro have a chocolate flavour is the himalayan honeysuckle (sometimes known as pheasant berry) that is often planted as an ornamental plant. My previous experience of those berry's is of more of a burned caramel type flavour though. But rather pleasant in its own way. Considering the fruit has ro be incredibly ripe before that flavour profile kicks in though doesn't lend itself well to scaling for map production as they're not the easiest things to pick at that stage
According to the law of snobbery and objectivity, I will now only consume:
100% pure ethanol
100% raw steaks with no seasoning, room temperature
100% raw cocoa beans
nah you gotta bite into the live cow its the only way to truly experience steak
Tips fedora*
Be sure to hydrate plenty with 100% H2O. Water so pure, it absorbs your minerals.
But this law can be applied to water, grain products, gold and other expensive metal, right?
Well roasted cocoa beans are pretty fucking good...
2:18 I was expecting him to pour milk all over the counter
Me too
haha yeah, like a HowToBasic skit.
@@tryptamigo you beat me to it
Same 😒
Lol me too
I've always loved Hershey's milk chocolate with almonds. I grew up with it and I enjoy the taste but the smell is a different story. There is always a slight tinge of vomit to its smell. Thanks Adam for showing us why it is!
As a European I tried US imported Hershey one time. It wasn’t bad but it wasn’t the best chocolate I ate. But still that cheap 39 cent chocolate bar was better than Hershey 😅
this reminds me of the disgust I often see when I tell people Little Caesars is my favorite pizza restaurant. even I admit that if objectively bad pizza existed little caesars would be close, and I agree with my wife's assessment that it tastes like cardboard with a thick layer of heartburn. but I don't taste that, I taste playing monopoly with my grandmother before her parkinson's ruined her mind. she was a terrible cook so when I'd visit she always got little caesars. so it tastes like fun times with people I love :)
That might be why I like Domino's so much even over some very fancy takeaway pizza options, too... while Pizza Hut and Papa John's don't do anything for me in that regard. I'm tasting the sleepover parties and watching the very first 2005 Doctor Who episode, moreso than the flavour in and of itself.
I like to think of Little Caesars "the grilled cheese of pizza". But a question: Have you ever re-baked a Little Caesars pepperoni pizza?
Get an extra, refrigerate it overnight, then throw it onto a perforated pizza pan and toss into a 350°F oven until the cheese starts browning and bubbling. Turns it into something like a somewhat crunchy breadstick crust with a nice top.
You just have to eat it hot and it’s good.
Gay
Hey man at least you don't like Pizza Hut.
I love how not-snooty your content is. It's so easy to just tear down the working man's chocolate but you can offer a constructive, informative take on it.
I was gonna ask what snooty was then I realized I've been reading how the Europeans in the comments section are acting like.
imagine my surprise when my American friend recommended this and said it was his favorite chocolate, and I got one and it tasted like vomit. I thought it had gone bad and tried another one and it tasted vomit too so I understood this is just how it tastes.
you made me go look at the ingredient list of my Meiji bar, and I just realize the sticker for import says "Chocolate Flavored Confectinery" and indeed vegetable oil in it. Also, looks like japanese choco is "inferior" as well b/c half the portion is added sugar w/ milk comes before cocoa - doesn't stop me from eating it though.
I actually like sour food, but I always hated Hershey b/c my mind expects a chocolate to be bitter/sweet. But I've never related the taste as vomit since it doesn't smell from far away and I never tasted vomit before.
I'm neither European nor American, I remember the first time I bought Hershey's, I was so excited because it's something that I've always saw in movies and all, and it's not easy to find it in my country so I bought a big bag. After the first bite I was really disgusted by it, I thought that I was tricked and that it probably was rancid because of poor storage or something. Up until this video, I really thought that was the case, but well ... now I know it's how it's supposed to taste. I also now realise why it's super unpopular in my country and why it's so hard to find it (despite the easy availability of other American brands).
Are you from Syria?
@@DrRiq no, but why?
Latinooooo hmmm?
Who buys the chocolate Hersheys, cookies and cream is lit
where r u from im from asia and i think the recipe for hersheys here is more like the uk version than the yankee version
"Why do people say Hershey's tastes like vomit?"
Have heard exactly 0 people tell me it tastes like vomit before.
"Tastes like shit" sure... but not vomit...
I found it once in a really big supermarket with an international isle (I like in the UK) and it immediately tasted like vomit. The cookies and cream Hershey's is great tho
@@greyprincezote3976 yes! The cookies and cream is the best
Yeah it smells like ass because the milk. But ass and vomit are different. It doesnt smell or taste like puke at all to me
This
@@greyprincezote3976 Yeah It's good, but for whatever reason it gives me a sore throat, not full pain, but discomfort.
My chemistry teacher once showed us butyric acid - and that stuff smelled like vomit 100%. I couldn't have imagined this would be in any desert food..! lol
Here in Ireland, most of my friends seem to really hate hersheys and think they taste gross and bitter. Personally, I find the the plain milk chocolate hersheys bars just ok, but I really enjoy the cookies and cream ones. Not quite as much as a Cadbury or milke bar, but still pretty good. I was kinda surprised by the idea that some Americans find European chocolate bland though. I'd imagine if anything, most Americans aren't so keen on our chocolate cause its too fatty or has kind of a grainy, floury texture sometimes
It's just what Americans grew up on, less so now. I remember my first trip to the UK in my 20s and I pulled over to a gas station and grabbed a Cadbury bar. Was blown away by how good it tasted. The Cadbury in the US is owned by Hersheys so they make sure to muck up the quality here.
Hershey's cookies and cream is so tasty
@@JoshuaC923 That's more candy, not chocolate. They have some good stuff as far as candy goes. For example I consider Peanut M n Ms, Snickers and Reece's Peanut Butter Cups (Not Herehey's I know0 Candy and enjoy them throughly. However, any of Hershey's chocolate is bottom rung filth.
I don't find Hershey's bitter. Well, maybe more bitter than other milk chocolates, but compared to actual quality chocolate and dark chocolate, it isn't bitter. It just doesn't takes like much besides wax, sugar, and a little puke
@@marcd2743 I'm wondering how many Americans in their 30s/40s really never got to try brands like Ghirardelli or Lidnt as a kid. That stuff was easy to find growing up and from the first taste, it completely ruined Hershey's for me. While usually a bit more expensive, I never had trouble finding better chocolate than Hershey's in the supermarket
Man I sure wish my vomit tasted like Hershey bars. I’d be puking every day if it did.
I wish Hershey bars tasted like my vomit. I would at least be able to swallow it in a situation where i cant spit it out
Hey ED warning buster
My vomit does. Only when I've eaten a bunch of Hershey bars before though.
Celi Phon this is a video about chocolate tasting like vomit, i dont know what you expected to find in the comments
@@lunarpanda7436 i was joking
Anything tastes like vomit if you eat too much of it and throw up, technically.
i mean well uh maybe yes i don't know
I love the philosophy included in the explanation. I watched a very short explanation video and came back to yours and I'm glad I did
I live in the middle east, and when I visited America and tried Hershey I immediately checked if it was spoiled 😂. It was good the second time tho
I was so dissapointed when i tried hershey's for the first time. It tasted really bad since i grew up eating brands like milka, kinder, galeb and najljepše želje which all had a very smooth taste unlike hershey's which tasted kinda acidic.
Never heard it described as acidic but it makes so much since now that I have
Back in 93 or so i bought a bunch of Kindereggs in Germany. loved them. The kids got little toys to collect and the chocolate was pretty good. They couldn't sell them in the US because Helicopter mothers made a whole lot of fun stuff illegal. Like Lawn Darts in the 70' and 80s.
Naw
@@spudthegreaterusa8386 yum yum even tho im not german or european or idk im asian :)
i used to like hershey’s but now the reason i don’t like it is it’s sweetness. also because i tried kinder once and it definitely is so much better
* People debating about Hershey's and Cadbury supremacy *
Me, an intelectual : - Lindt -
Omg yes. Bruh their chocolate is so smooth ( that’s the only way I could describe it without it sounding weird
it’s too sickly though, but it is beautiful
Dove dark chocolate all the way.
Hershey's sucks.
Those Lindt truffle balls are so amazing
galaxy caramel is s-tier
Dude the other day I practically spat out a Hershey's kiss and thought it was some ancient relic. How interesting!
The best part about Hershey, PA is that the entire town just smells like Chocolate .... even standing right next to the gas pump at sheetz lol
I'm from S. Louisiana and my husband is from central PA and brought me up there on a family visit and it was amazing. I half expected the chocolate from the factory to be better .... it wasn't. But it was fun :D
Funnily enough I actually kind of like unsweetened baking chocolate, not because it actually tastes very good but because when I was a preteen I was very into baking, so we usually had baking chocolate around, and sometimes I would sneak into the kitchen at night to eat some because I really wanted chocolate and it’s all we had. I was so desperate for chocolate in any form that I forced myself to enjoy this lmao
Haha thats how kids are lol, even if its bad. Its good if its the only you have
call it an acquired taste!
That's exactly his point though, a lot if things taste good because that's what you grew up with
I used to eat tooth paste when I was a kid lmao
same and now I buy it in bulk bags and eat it bc it's good asf
As a Greek who tried Hersheys once, i have to agree with the vomit taste. In GR we have ION and Lacta mainly (First one is local brand), they taste 10x times better.
Although Cadbury is not really a good example of mass produced quality chocolate. I would choose the Milka brand for this.
Btw do they sell hersheys chocolate here in Greece? Never seen one in any store and I would like to try it just to see how bad it really is. ION ftw though I love that brand
ion is peepopoopoo and lacta is way too sweet.
Bro I have ion and Hershey’s and in my opinion Hershey’s isn’t bad compared to it 😂
In my opinion, Milka has gone down in quality in the past ~10 years.
It's not bad, but it's also definitely not as good as other similarly priced options (even some supermarket store-brands taste better).
I don't have both with me atm but to me Milka is too sweet, even sweeter than Cadbury (from memory) a bit overbearing
Glad you like them. It would be hard to find Hershey anywhere here in Scotland. I had exactly one bite and spat it out. Each to their own.
If you can find it, try the Belgian milk chocolate "Cote d'Or". From what I see it is the same price as Hershey's bars.... around $2 for a 7,5Oz - 200g bar. Every time I had people try it, they liked it very much. Ohhh I see they sell a Cote d'Or bar for $22 in wallmart this is way too expensive compared to price in Europe!
Alternate title: How nostalgia affects one's sense of quality and why marketing targets children.
Good one. Probably the reason why people like Milka at all.
@George Henry calm down m8
is it weird that I never tasted milka?
@@edgydog2473 I feel sorry that you had to witness that
@George Henry wtf is wrong with you
I was so excited to try my first Hersheys bar when I was a teenager, i was horrified that it tastes like sick to me. I never really thought about it again, I thought it was just me!
the hype is that high for hershey huh
@@static7985 yeah when I was little it wasn’t sold in Ireland! And if someone brought you back a bar it meant you had relatives rich enough to go on holiday in the US 😄
@@clairyboots. we still give chocolate to relatives in india
@@clairyboots. same with me im from england and its quite rare to grab a hold of hershey but anyway I was like 12 and my local shop finally got a hold of hershey bars i was so excited to try it. I took a bite and was so pissed of it tasted like vomit. I also payed a good £2.50 for it
@@AA-el7ot It's so weird to find out it's not just me who thought this!
Europe here (yes, the whole peninsula; excluding the islanders - whom I respect and love, but they’re just different)! I had Hershey’s a lot of times (various kinds) in the US and at airports. But the only time I experienced the vomit taste was by Hershey’s Kisses, which I bought in Nepal alongside the (supposedly same kind of) regular milk chocolate bar (which tasted like non-vomity chocolate).
I tried American harsheys chocolate for the first time 2 days ago. I so wanted to like it . Sadly it did indeed taste like vomit to me. Yet it got me thinking that the sour flavour would add complexity to the flavour for those who are used to it. So chocolate from Scotland (where I'm from) or Europe would perhaps taste boring to those who are used to hersheys. You answered my thoughts in this video. I personally love dark chocolate 70% cocoa. Great video
I'm from Europe and one time my highschool teacher gave us Hershey's kisses to try. It was years ago and since then it has bothered me why it tasted like vomit lol. I thought maybe she gave us expired chocolate or something
Yeah, I'm sticking with Milka
tf is milka
@@yourfavoriteyeehaw4490
One of the best chocolate brands
@@yourfavoriteyeehaw4490 Swiss chocolate Brand, which mascot is a purple cow
@@kevanerdelaghetto never heard of it. but okay
@@yourfavoriteyeehaw4490 it's the best of the best! You need to try. Also, NESTLÉ'S CHOCOLATE SOOOOO GOOD!!!!
If my vomit tasted like Hersheys, then I should be living like Willy Wonka right now
edit:
i don't vomit a lot. But when I vomit, I would bottle it up lmao
same lmao
Does that imply that you vomit frequently? I took this as a joke about eating disorders (which i love bc i can relate)
@@selenalamothe997 perhaps you can take it that way! i personally suffer from both an ED and gastroesophageal problems, so i relate too lol.
Willy Wonka's amazing river of vomit
@@yatzibe try viagra for your ED :)
I just bought one today in the american part of my supermarked. I had heard about the vomit part and thought "naaah, no way it tastes like vomit" and at first it did not. It tasted like a chocolate called pålægschokolade. Was like " eh it's alright, not the best but..." and then it came, not a straight up vomit taste, but the aftertaste of voimt. So yeah ain't gonna have more of that.
Did get a bit of fun a little bit after, when I picked up my sister and she was like "uuuuh chocolate, can I have a bite?"
Now i want to see a video with Milka Bars and Lindt.
Lot'a folks say they are the undisputed best.
"I don't like Hershey's chocolate."
"Ah, you're one of the people who think it tastes like vomit?"
"What? No, it's just too sweet. Gimme some dark chocolate."
But what about Hershey's special dark?
Dark chocolate is the grossest thing man has ever made
The bitter-sweetness of Dark Chocolate tastes like a dance of flavors is happening right inside your mouth. It's like the balance of Yin and Yang where it's neither too sweet nor too bitter, which makes you both feel like an innocent child nibbling away at a sweet piece of candy, and a mature adult relishing in some fine cuisine delicately tailored to fit your very preference of taste
Tldr: I love Dark Chocolate, as it tastes perfectly balanced, as all things should be
Dark Chocolate taste like if an old man took a shit and put sugar in it.
@Leon Delalić
Taste is very subjective
As a European, personally, I neither like Hershey’s or Cadbury’s chocolate. Hershey does taste a bit like vomit to me and Cadbury just doesn’t taste very good either. The chocolate I normally go for in a grocery store is Côte d’Or, Lindt or Ritter which are luckily all very affordable where I live.
My persobal favorite is milka chocolate
I love lindt, every variety, I hadn't the opportunity to taste the other brands yet. I get a box of lindt like only once a year, it's expensive af and hard to find where I live. Hershey's and Cadbury are both good to me, but I eat Nestles or Milka more often. I never tried to rank them.
Hershey chocolate milk taste very bad... Cadbury are too sweet.... i had to agree cote d'or and lindt are the best commercial chocolate
I agree with you. Though I haven't tried Hershey's, I don't like Cadbury. My favourite chocolate is Ritter and Lindt! But I prefer Ritter.
I'm an American who grew up eating Hershey (but got Cadbury's at Christmas sometimes for some reason) and as an adult I prefer Lindt or chocolate bars from Ikea.
One food with strong butyric acid taste I know is Bryndza, Slovakian cheese used in mostly in food called "Bryndzové halušky" (halušky are similar to gnochi). On the first try many people dislike this food, but when you get used to it, it is delicious. But yeah, it smells and testes kinda vomity.
Hey! I grew up in Bernville PA And we used to go to Hershey Park too! I was super young and hardly remember much... but was there... probably around the same time as you actually.... late 80s early 90s....?
The moral of this story is: You don't have to like it, just don't be a snob about it.
But what if a big part a person's personality is made from not being something, especially if that something is American. Also, Europeans become more unfavourable towards Cadbury post-Brexit vote.
@@EastofVictoriaPark i always thought that cadburys is a bit too sweet
@@dabloodsploder4280 Im from the us and hersheys are just an ok chocolate bar to me nothing special but I find so many other chocolate bars better like cadbury or nestle in my opinion
yeah don't be a snob about vomit-flavoured food lol
@@ssldlse I mean... Junk food is junk food. You're not exactly aiming for more than "just okay" when you're buying a $2 chocolate bar.
"It may taste like sick, but he found a money saving method."
Nothing more American than that...
I know right
Why is there mold all over this cheese? French guy: "Oh, no, it's meant to be there."
@@balamx2802 stonks
farrex0 belguim chocolates are 10 times beter than everything else shut up
@@jochemtemmerman6515 I love Belgium chocolate, but how is that in any way related to what I said?
The distinctive bile acid is still consumed today in many cultures. I think in Europe sour flavours aren't used as much in general. The US sour flavours are use many places.
As someone who doesn't live in either place, I grew up eating mass-market chocolate from all over pretty much. I used to eat quite a lot of Hershey's chocolate (though my favourite was the white chocolate), but just the other day I had a milk chocolate Hershey's Kiss a colleague brought to the office and I could barely even keep it down because of the taste.
I don't know if it's just that my preferences have changed, or if I'd just stopped eating Hershey's chocolate for too long and lost that tolerance for it.
Strange food from any other country: It's an acquired taste! You'd love Lutefisk if you were raised in Norway!
Strange food from the US: Why is the US so disgusting?-
no one hates the US more than the US
@@livelife5763 well and every other country
@@faber7507 massive doubt. 😐
@@livelife5763 oh, everyone else hates you guys as well, trust me
We it lutfisk in Sweden too, and I still don't like it. It's like eating paper. We also have surströmming, the rotten herring, but very few people like that nowadays. I think more US youtubers than Swedes eat surströmming now.
Hershey's to me, as an American, comes off as oddly grainy compared to a lot of other chocolate. I can't say I ever noticed much acidity, but I'd have to do a taste test.
Really? I think Hershey's is smooth to a mildly unsettling degree (at least on its own). Chocolate needs a little grit.
hi adam! i'm a new subscriber and i've been enjoying your videos a lot. thank you for putting out engaging and quality content!
my boyfriend and i have tried to temper chocolate (unsuccessfully) in order to make a chocolate dipped biscotti. i was wondering if you would consider doing a video navigating this process and the science behind it? thank you in advance!! we both love your work.
After I started eating Dark Chocolate, I couldn’t go back to Hershey’s milk. At the very least, it’s too sweet. Not enough actual coco for me to crave that kind of “chocolate”
I’m in the US