Are you seriously suggesting that people who don’t like Hershey’s and think there’s better tasting, better textured chocolate are only saying that because it’s cheap and they’re snobs? I assure you, if I could love Hershey’s as much as Lindt, for the price, I’d gladly just eat Hershey’s. It’s simply not as good IMO. Trust me, I’m [del]a cheapskate[/del] quite thrifty, but when I want some good chocolate, it’s worth it to get the good stuff. I feel the same way about coffee.
I don’t really eat much candy, but when I’m in the mood for chocolate, I’d step over my mother for a Flake. God they’re messy, but damn they’re good.
I always wondered who ate 3 Musketeers…Can’t stand the things myself. Gimme a Snickers bar any day.
When I moved to the Caroline Islands and started consuming dairy products from Australia instead of the US, they tasted a little odd to me. Whether or not it was true, we all believed that Australian cows ate different feed from American cows, and thus the resultant milk was different in flavor. This was said to affect the taste of milk chocolate as well.
We got Cadbury’s milk chocolate from Australia and at first I didn’t like it so well as a good old American chocolate bar like Hershey’s … now I much prefer Cadbury’s, period, wherever it was produced.
Whether the feed-affecting-the-taste-of-the-milk story is true or not I have no idea, and even if it is, this should have no bearing on what sort of dark chocolate you like.
Yes, just like they do for horse meat and fromage de tête…
Sometimes, you know, things can actually be dismissed or liked on their own merits. At the low-budget end, for example, I find Californian wine way more palatable than French. Not everyone’s an idiot.
So… no love for Milka?
I was just going to mention Milka. Yum! I grew up with Hershey’s (with almonds, the only good kind). Then I lived for 6 months in Germany with a host family, and the lady of the house put these giant Milka milk chocolate bars on our beds to welcome us to her house. That was great stuff! I ate Milka the entire time I was there and I brought some home. (I just went to their website to discover they are owned by Kraft Foods, but they have no US website.)
I’m not a chocolate connoisseur; I like milk chocolate and hate dark chocolate, but as milk chocolates go, Hershey’s pretty much sucks. I prefer the creamier chocolates like Milka, Dove, and Cadbury. My husband, who IS a chocolate connoisseur, thinks the Hershey’s new special dark chocolates are okay but not particularly special. These days I buy the dark chocolate kisses, because my kids like them and my husband will eat them if he has a severe chocolate craving and he hasn’t been baking recently. Neither one of us will eat milk chocolate kisses anymore.
I wish Hershey’s was better. Their Symphony chocolates are much better than their regular chocolate, but not as good as Dove.
I like Hershey’s chocolate. I like Campbell’s condensed soups. And I like American cheese. So there! 
See, I eat American cheese and Campbell’s soups, especially if they’re what’s there and we’re in a hurry or something. I recognize their limitations, though, and given my druthers I’d eat real cheese instead of a bland and/or somewhat artificial substitute, or homemade/better quality soup.
But Hershey’s doesn’t taste in any way to me inferior as chocolate. And I still don’t get the “gritty”.
(And I like New York wines, even over California wines.)
Hersey’s is only good for coloring in a book. It’s so god awful waxy. Almost any other brand is better. Don’t judge American chochlate by one cheap ass brand.
Hmmm. If Hershey’s were French…
I think if Hershey’s were French, the French public would have burned the factory to the ground.
At the risk of being branded a heretic for all time, I dislike Flake even more. Same sour/bitter/chemical-y taste plus all the charming mouth feel of sawdust. I bought a couple because of all the raves here, eagerly bit into the first, and thought ‘wow is that ever nasty!’ I don’t know what the appeal is.
Mmm… Campbell’s tomato soup and a grilled cheese sammich. Mmm…
With a Hershey Bar for dessert?
With almonds!
I will say this for Hershey’s: it’s better than the chocolate-oatmeal drop cookies in my fridge right now. I either didn’t add enough butter or too much oatmeal or both, but those are the dryest lumps I’ve ever made. And I have to eat them because I made them and it’s the only sweet in my house right now.
And Duplin County wine is better than both NY and California wines. 
Hershey’s now offers “Hershey Whole Bean” Chocolate and “Cacao [sic] Reserve” Signature line of chocolate, which appears to be a series of four high-end chocolates. So that’s five seperate chocolates they are making and marketting as more sophisticated.
Based on their ads, they appear to be more pure, more upscale, etc. Taste will tell.
Hershey’s knows the deal. The make Chocolate candy that Americans are used to, but they know the chocolate industry and all that goes into growing, buying and using the ingredients and whay kind of product can be had and at what price. They know they make candy, and they know that they need a different chocolate if they want to talk about real chocolate and the market creep by other brands. With mega-supermarkets everywhere in the USA, American consumers are finding all sorts of variety…and showing they are willing to pay a little more for real chocolate.
:eek: Wiiittcchh!!!
nah i’m not the biggest fan of Flakes either, but they’re still in a different league. I’d eat a Flake.
I suppose I’d eat a Hershey in some sort of survival situation. Probably slightly more nutritious than eating clay, even if they taste the same 
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Hershey’s is “normal” chocolate. Not mouthwatering orgasm chocolate like the great majority of foreign chocolates I have tasted; just plain, ordinary chocolate. Sometimes, I want ridiculous, complex, indescribable chocolate. Sometimes, I want something I don’t have to think about.
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Actually, I was blissfully eating a Milka chocolate bar produced in Germany when I wrote my first post in this thread. Didn’t mention it in the name of brevity. But I found it good.