I donโt see how you can possibly enjoy US chocolate. It tastes like sawdust thatโs been drowned in sugar and soaked with baby vomit.
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It tastes like that, by the way, because thatโs roughly what it is. American chocolate (Iโm talking about the non-fancy stuff) has a lot more sugar and a lot less cocoa than its European counterparts. Some producers also allegedly put their milk through a process called controlled lipolysis which produces butyric acid. Whatโs that when itโs at home? Itโs something thatโs found in vomit. God knows what else Americans get up to in their chocolate factories. A lawsuit recently filed in New York alleges that Hershey, which has the licence to produce Cadbury products in the US, โfails to discloseโ that some of its chocolate products โcontain unsafe levels of lead and cadmiumโ.
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There may be identifiable reasons that explain why US chocolate is so gross but hereโs what I have a hard time understanding: why do Americans, who excel at many things, stand for this? Why are they so complacent about their terrible healthcare system and their chlorinated chicken and their rancid chocolate? Iโm not being a chocolate snob here (well, Iโm only being a little bit of a snob), because thereโs a serious side to this: Europe is a lot stricter about many food additives than the US. Americans have basically been poisoned into believing that their chocolate tastes nice, I reckon.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/โฆ#USA
Why is American chocolate so disgusting? You really donโt want to know
It tastes like sawdust thatโs been drowned in sugar and soaked with baby vomit โ and Iโve finally discovered why, writes Arwa MahdawiArwa Mahdawi (The Guardian)
