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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.

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.

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

You vill eat the chocolate-style cube.

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

~~Candy makers~~ capitalists

FTFY

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.

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

I took two bites and had to spit it out

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

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 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).

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

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

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?

How to say you come from the States without saying you come from the States.

“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

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

... 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.

Gotta love capitalism

Hey I started a new community: Enshitification.

I posted this Reese's article the other day.

It's for articles like this but also personal experiences, like things you noticed going to shit.

So if you want to rant a bit about a product quality decrease, feel free to post about it there.

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).

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

US has none of that

I'm quite glad I have these in my local store.

https://eat-love-chocolates.myshopify.com/products/moule-au-beurre-darachide

They're about 5$ for one cup. Considering Reese goes for 3$ for the regular pack of 3 in vending machines, I think it's fine. The 5$ cup is much more than 5 times better than one Reese cup. More like 500 times.

All chocolate in the future will now be white chocolate.

A buddy of mine has everything but his birthday is coming up …. I found the ideal indulgence: a $20 chocolate bar!

No it’s not one of those monsters, it’s normal sized. But it’s single sourced beans, gold medal award winning, local farm fresh dairy , infused with whiskey from a local distillery. That’s something he’s never had!

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

When you can taste the enshittification of everything.

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.