Consumer Reports said on Wednesday it had found "concerning" levels of lead and cadmium in a third of various chocolate products it tested recently, and called on Hershey to reduce the amounts of heavy metals in its chocolate.
Bullshit, there’s plenty of good chocolate in any major retailer. I can go to my local grocery store and find Godiva, Ghirardelli, Lindt, Ritter, along with a wide selection of miscellaneous European imports.
The stuff you’ll find in stores is not “premium chocolatier in the Swiss Alps” quality, but it’s decent chocolate and it’s not hard to find.
I think a large detterent for many is the price difference. Hershey’s kind of matches that snack price for a little treat you’d find at the front counter. Going back to the good stuff and seeing it 3 or 4 times the price will lose a lot of people. There’s a reason people say you get what you pay for though…
I am buying $1 bars of dark chocolate at dollar general now. Luckily I haven’t really had good chocolate, so I don’t know what I am really missing, and I like it better than Hershey’s milk chocolate to me. Claims profits help literacy, so I doubt it is really that great of a chocolate when you get down to it. But I like it and that is enough for me.
There’s a large range of smaller brands too. Pascha, Cultura, Raaka, Taza, Lily’s, Theo’s, Tony’s, Green and Black, Alter Eco… plus dozens of tiny regional brands. It’s about like craft beer.
That town has gotten pretty ritzy in recent years since Lady Gaga moved in next door and they added a fancy new production center near the airport. Big name tours use the space to build and test lighting and sound setups, so there’s a lot of rock stars in town.
I haven’t eaten Hershey’s in so long because I remember it tasting mildly of vomit. Am I the only one who thinks the flavor has hints of vomit? What even is that?
Ah, I see. You do realize that reacting to “processed” things isn’t really actually a thing though right? Those are all pretty different. Either you’ve got an allergy to something they have in common or you’re letting all the fear mongering get to your head. Oooorrrrr I suppose you may get a bit of a totally normal upset stomach if you never eat anything but fresh food and then have some cookies. Which is again totally normal because it’s now not something that you regularly have in your diet.
Either way, the processed food fear mongering is frankly getting kind of old. You’re not reacting to processed foods because they’re all “processed”. That’s not really how it works with such a variety. The way people with less resources are shamed or made to be afraid of perfectly accessible and shelf stable food isn’t really acceptable anymore. I really wish you guys would go back to being “intolerant to gluten” again or something else for attention. That actually did wonders for the people that are actually intolerant lol. I hear blaming everything on ADHD is very popular right now!
Also, please make your chocolate taste less nasty Hershey.
serious question: why not simply buy some other chocolate that tastes better?
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The options are essentially Nestle or Hershey chocolate here in the US. You kinda gotta pick your poison
Bullshit, there’s plenty of good chocolate in any major retailer. I can go to my local grocery store and find Godiva, Ghirardelli, Lindt, Ritter, along with a wide selection of miscellaneous European imports.
The stuff you’ll find in stores is not “premium chocolatier in the Swiss Alps” quality, but it’s decent chocolate and it’s not hard to find.
Big agree. People won’t admit it, but they just buy what they’re familiar with and complain about it being bad.
I think a large detterent for many is the price difference. Hershey’s kind of matches that snack price for a little treat you’d find at the front counter. Going back to the good stuff and seeing it 3 or 4 times the price will lose a lot of people. There’s a reason people say you get what you pay for though…
That’s fair and probably true also!
I am buying $1 bars of dark chocolate at dollar general now. Luckily I haven’t really had good chocolate, so I don’t know what I am really missing, and I like it better than Hershey’s milk chocolate to me. Claims profits help literacy, so I doubt it is really that great of a chocolate when you get down to it. But I like it and that is enough for me.
Chocolate made it all the way down to snack price because of slavery and a lack of safety. So I no longer treat chocolate as a snack.
There’s a large range of smaller brands too. Pascha, Cultura, Raaka, Taza, Lily’s, Theo’s, Tony’s, Green and Black, Alter Eco… plus dozens of tiny regional brands. It’s about like craft beer.
The only American chocolate I like is made by Wilbur. Far, far better than anything Hershey or Nestle makes.
I used to go to the Wilbur museum all the time! The milk chocolate Wilbur buds are some of the best chocolates I’ve ever had.
Unfortunately the factory in Lititz shut down in 2016 so the town doesn’t smell like chocolate anymore.
Never been there, never even knew this little fact but now I’m sad for that town.
That town has gotten pretty ritzy in recent years since Lady Gaga moved in next door and they added a fancy new production center near the airport. Big name tours use the space to build and test lighting and sound setups, so there’s a lot of rock stars in town.
The factory still sells chocolate, too.
ugh sounds horrible
You can find way more than that available at a chocolate shop, organic/natural grocery store or coffee shops and bookstores.
For mass produced maybe but there’s tons of quality options all over the states
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Cadbury. Now with more Cadmium.
If I had to name any chocolate that tastes like it has lead and cadmium in it, that’d be Hershey’s.
I haven’t eaten Hershey’s in so long because I remember it tasting mildly of vomit. Am I the only one who thinks the flavor has hints of vomit? What even is that?
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Honestly, I can barely taste it, so I don’t mind. I don’t think Hershey is that bad. It’s not good, but it’s not bad. It’s the cheap stuff.
Lead and cadmium aside. No food product should have either of those in it.
It burns my throat when I eat it, along with other super processed foods that are somehow legal
Like what? What super processed foods burn your throat? Genuinely curious.
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Ah, I see. You do realize that reacting to “processed” things isn’t really actually a thing though right? Those are all pretty different. Either you’ve got an allergy to something they have in common or you’re letting all the fear mongering get to your head. Oooorrrrr I suppose you may get a bit of a totally normal upset stomach if you never eat anything but fresh food and then have some cookies. Which is again totally normal because it’s now not something that you regularly have in your diet.
Either way, the processed food fear mongering is frankly getting kind of old. You’re not reacting to processed foods because they’re all “processed”. That’s not really how it works with such a variety. The way people with less resources are shamed or made to be afraid of perfectly accessible and shelf stable food isn’t really acceptable anymore. I really wish you guys would go back to being “intolerant to gluten” again or something else for attention. That actually did wonders for the people that are actually intolerant lol. I hear blaming everything on ADHD is very popular right now!
i’m weird, i guess. i like the ‘nasty’ american chocolate. i just can’t afford it except on november 1st.