Scandalously, American Kit Kat are made with Hershey chocolate instead of Nestle. Woe be us.
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Hershey is made in the US of A.
Why do you hate America?
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(Bother! A brief cockup on the ISP front seems to have consigned my first attempt at a reply to oblivion.)
I believe I have only had KitKat in American guise, but I have certainly not noticed a change in Flake in over 40 years. It has been, however, far too long since last I enjoyed a Flake plunged into the heart of a Cornish Cream.
Hershey’s is hands down the worst commonly available chocolate. And I say that as an American.
Not everyone agrees with that. I definitely prefer Hershey’s basic milk chocolate to Nestlé’s, for both flavor and texture.
Now we’re doing Reginald Perrin?
Great.
Super.
I don’t think Hershey makes Flake or Curly Wurly or any of those goodies. Just eggs and bars of some sort (Dairy Milk they ain’t).
There’s certainly a huge difference between even a Nestlé Kit Kat and its evil Hershey twin (we’re talking a Löwenbräu-class difference here).
I find that Hershey chocolate has an absolutely appalling aftertaste.
It’s probably one of those thing like Marmite or cilantro. Some think it’s the greatest thing ever, some think it’s the bastard spawn of Satan.
There is something about Hershey’s plain milk chocolate, true. It could be simply that no other milk chocolate bar is as readily available in the U.S. I believe Nestle’s most popular U.S. product (by far) is Crunch; you almost never see a plain Nestle bar. (The other contender would be Nestle Toll House morsels, which of course are semi-sweet chocolate chips, not a sweet chocolate bar.)
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Yes, it tastes like it was made with spoiled milk. This is Hershey’s basic plain chocolate and chocolate sauce. Dove bars and other premium Hershey’s products don’t necessarily have this characteristic.
There’s a local ice cream shop I went to – one of those places that makes the ice cream on the premises – I had a chocolate ice cream and it was nasty. Then I saw the sign that said “Made with real Hershey’s chocolate sauce.”
Yeah, that’s why. That stuff is rank.
Since this is a thread about Brits and their odd ways, I feel it’s not inappropriate to mention (for information only - not a nitpick or disagreement with the above) that to British ears, ‘plain milk chocolate’ is a contradiction in terms (‘plain chocolate’ is what is elsewhere known as ‘dark chocolate’).
Nestlé has marketing problems when it comes to chocolate bars. Usually, what you see at the checkout and in candy aisles is a wall of Hershey with a bit of Mars and a tiny bit of Nestlé (Crunch and Baby Ruth).
They have milk chocolate chips now. I’ve also seen Ghirardelli (Lindt & Sprüngli) milk chocolate in baking aisles. Maybe Nestlé too.
On the rare occasions when I have to have chocolate, I make straight for the baking section these days.
Y’all better stop bashing our friends from across the pond (unless you’re some kind of foreigner and take my meaning for “pond” to be something besides the North Atlantic Ocean.
For one thing, I’d love to see a current cite for that post up-thread claiming that Brits wash their dishes bare-assed, using their pubic tufts like a Brillo pad to scrub off encrusted food particles before pee-rinsing the dishes . I’m quite certain most Brits don’t do that anymore, at least not the ex-pats.
British people make perfectly fine butlers, scullery maids and chimney sweeps—best in the world, in fact. They make pretty damn good funeral clowns, too—I know from firsthand experience.
All-in-all, British people are just like you and me (assuming “you” are American), just a little different in a…how shall I say, humorously bizarre manner.
But, seriously, it’s not nice to make fun of other peoples “ways”. Making fun of physical aberrations is ok, though.
I mean, ye gads, have any of you ever noticed British people’s teeth! There’s something funky going on there, people. They are like 2 opposing horseshoe-shaped rows of Chiclets (dingy, yellowed Chiclets of all shapes and sizes) set in Playdough gums. Then a cherry bomb firecracker goes off from the inside, blowing the Chiclets outward…but then someone takes a tiny hammer and hammers some of the Chiclets inward and some into a snaggle-tooth formation. Total chaos.
And, don’t even get me started on their two front upper teeth. First of all, there’s always a gap between them large enough to have a small mouse scuttle back and forth between them. And, talk about big…these are a couple of giant Chiclets, let me tell you. If a British child sings to his parents, “all I want for Christmas are my two front teeth”, mom and dad better start saving up for some serious shipping charges.
But, to British people’s credit, they have evolved the design of their front teeth into very efficient functionality (better than that of a horse, in fact). They are angled ~45 degrees from the frontal plane of the skull, maximizing the yield from each bite of their crumpets (lubricated with copious amounts of tea), like this.
And, as for their bad culinary reputation, that’s not their fault either. With all those teeth going every which way but loose (well, I guess some of them are indeed loose), they continually stab and traumatize their tongues with their sharp inward directed teeth. This creates a lot of scar tissue surrounding the tastebuds, making them completely tasteless. If you have no taste, you can’t be expected to make food that tastes good.
Those cockamamie teeth are the reason they speak funny, too. Don’t blame them.
Anyway, stop making fun of British people, it’s not polite, and British people are very polite.
Me mum was a Brit and she would have approved of this message.
Indeed, the British do not have the preoccupation with perfectly straight gleaming teeth that most Americans do.
It occurs to me, concerning the British sense of humor, that this not rinsing thing may be a nation wide joke they are playing on the United States.
Ahem. Yours might be prettier old chap, but ours are healthier.
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Pish posh, that data’s skewed because a good many of the huddled masses that our benevolent nation takes under it’s patriotic bald eagle’s wing are Eastern European. 
It is probably due to the same diet that causes so many of us to be overweight.
Whaddaya mean “us”, tubby?
“so many of us”.
A lot of folks, not necessarily you. I dress out at 112 lbs, how about you, Tibby?
I would be ideal weight if I were very, very tall…like Shaquille O’Neal standing on the shoulders of Kareem Abdule Jabbar tall.
Now, please excuse me, I have some Twinkies and Oreo cookies to buy…