This reminds me of a comment from Popper's book about chocolate purists. Maybe you can get him to add it. (yes, he has infiltrated every part of our lives, even Baylen's blog)
cynic
· 1 year ago
So you can't taste the difference, but you feel betrayed?
Look. If the Hershey's products still used cocoa butter but tasted worse, that would be cause for complaint. If they substituted vegetable oil and consequently tasted better, that'd be cause for celebration. This is only cause for indifference.
This is candy we're talking about, the one thing on this earth that should be judged solely by its taste. There's no nutritional value in a Mr. Goodbar to begin with. As long as it tastes the same, and hasn't gotten any worse for you, who cares what goes into it?
LoveThatChocolate
· 1 year ago
So does this effect the Dark chocolate as well? Very disappointed. I can't believe they couldn't cut back some where else. Maybe in the packaging or something. I really don't need fancy packaging.
ylem
· 1 year ago
Don't buy Hersheys. They moved their manufacturing plant from Hershey, PA to Mexico which put a lot of people out of work. That's when everything changed in their products. They also make Reeses peanut butter cups. They've changed too: very little chocolate cup and the filling doesn't have much peanut butter mixed in, if any.
Factcheck
· 1 year ago
Where are the antioxidants? The same place they were before this change. Anti-oxidants are present in the cocoa powder, not the cocoa butter. Replacing the latter with vegetable oil solids doesn't affect anti-oxidant content. But honestly, this misses the point, because eating candy bars will give you almost no anti-oxidants in the first place. After all, when you eat a candy bar, you're basically eating fat and sugar with a little cocoa powder mixed in. Second, some studies suggest that eating milk chocolate, or consuming chocolate and milk together negates any health benefits of anti-oxidants present in the chocolate. So, to get both (1) lots of anti-oxidants and (2) to benefit from them, you need to eat either dark chocolate or cocoa powder. The dark chocolate can have non-cocoa butter fats, it doesn't matter (though it's not as tasty). It can have lots of sugar or not, it doesn't matter (as far as anti-oxidants are concerned!)
Now, as for this "mockulate" having a different mouthfeel; i.e. not melting like chocolate ( = cocoa powder, cocoa butter and sugar), well, that's right. But honestly, I don't think that this change will affect the taste of the candies, as opposed to a hershey bar, much at all.
read the label. M&M's is not pure chocolate inside--it has a good percentage of peanuts in it.
cybele
· 1 year ago
Thanks for the mention, Baylen!
cynic said, "Look. If the Hershey’s products still used cocoa butter but tasted worse, that would be cause for complaint. If they substituted vegetable oil and consequently tasted better, that’d be cause for celebration. This is only cause for indifference."
I'm saying they do taste worse and I don't think that the Watchamacallit is the best demonstration of that. Try a Mr. Goodbar or Krackel ... get a bag of Miniatures and compare the quasi-chocolate in the Krackel to the Hershey's Milk Chocolate. (Whether you like it or not is another matter, but it's noticeable.)
There is nutritional value in a Mr. Goodbar, in fact during the depression it was sold as "a tasty lunch" and contained protein, calcium, fiber and sugar. Not really a great lunch, but for a nickel in hard times it was better than other things you could get for a five cents. But I agree, if you're eating for pleasure, it should be pleasurable.
Seriously, come back here after you've had a Mr. Goodbar and let me know how that went. Hershey's says that customers prefer it made with palm oil.
ylem - Hershey's didn't move their manufacturing from PA to Mexico. They moved their manufacturing from CA & Canada to Mexico. The PA plant is still chugging away.
Admiral of the world.
· 1 year ago
This is terrible. As a consumer, I do feel fooled.
But what next? water in our ice cream?!?! ("triple churrrrned") more ethanol in our gas?!?!? (*coughcough*) lack of sufactants in our cleaning products? (just use water- you cant see the difference!)
sigh. this would not have happened in Europe.
thanks for bringing this travesty to our attention!
Gene Keyes
· 1 year ago
You should check what has happened to Breyers Ice Cream, now made with "modified milk ingredients"; see my commentary "The Identity Theft of Breyers Ice Cream" at http://www.genekeyes.com/blog.html#Breyers
Sarah
· 1 year ago
Hershey's "chocolate" is not chocolate in the first place. It has a horrible taste and its colour doesn't even resemble the colour of the chocolate. I'm amazed that the American public got so used to this inferior product that they came to think of Hershey's product as the real thing. What's up with that sour taste in kisses? Try some good European chocolates. There is no way Europeans won't be able to tell the difference between chocolate and mocolate, because the chocolate sold in Europe is actually real.
Choco
· 1 year ago
Actually, EU regulations are WORSE on this case than the FDA -- all cadburry and other types of European chocolate are allowed to have up to 5% of chocolate butter substitutes before they don't count as choclate.
Go figure?
Amanda
· 1 year ago
Mars has pledged to use 100% chocolate. Interesting read:
I'm allergic to milk, and was unpleasantly surprised with an asthma attack after eating Hershey's "All Natural EXTRA DARK Pure Dark Chocolate." Usually dark chocolate means - no milk, and I couldn't figure out what had provoked my coughing. But when I looked at the label Hershey's dark chocolate includes milk fat and milk.
I used to like Hershey's but have lost all respect for the company, even though they did send me a refund for the cost of a bar of chocolate when I complained to the company. But they haven't changed their recipe.
@#%@<#%#@
Dave in North Carolina
gogi
· 6 months ago
Desperate times call for desperate measures. Good thing that they're still in business. I just hope that chocolate companies as well as other business that are hurting in the recent economic recession would quickly and fully recover from its choking grasp. We shouldn't focus on the forceful change that companies undergo, but rather have high hopes for them in getting back to the best that they once were.
Miami Carpet Cleaning
· 6 months ago
I love hershey's, especially kisses. It's good to know that even the economy is worsening, hershey's still affords to start selling mockolate.
chiropractic coaches
· 6 months ago
Some people think that eating chocolate is a bad idea but chocolate has also good effects for your health, too bad for this company but there are lots of companies that had been affected because of the global crisis we are experiencing right now
Oakley Goggles
· 6 months ago
we cant blame the hershey corporation for almost all companies now a days are experiencing the global crisis, it is good that hershey had come up to an alternative way
nvaleo
· 6 months ago
Indeed the company is very resourceful, instead of stop producing the product they had found new way or alternative way to make it.
Pussy Pumps Fiona
· 6 months ago
Not only are chocolates yummy and healthy, they are also aphrodisiacs that give us energy. We could just keep our fingers crossed and hope that Hershey's and other chocolate manufacturers recover from the economic crisis and get back to their gleaming luster.
custom automation equipment
· 6 months ago
It is only understandable that the company resorted to such tactics because of the economy's harsh status. Let's just pray that the company, as well as other businesses that have been gravely affected by the recession will fully recover soon.
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· 5 months ago
Very nice that there is something that can be replaced with chocolate. i would to taste this. At the same time it helped Hershey to cope up with recession.
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· 4 months ago
I love Hershey’s chocolates I dont know why they are losing marking share I like to Hershey’s chocolates alot!
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ClubPenguinCheats
· 4 months ago
If the Hershey's products still used cocoa butter but tasted worse, that would be cause for complaint. If they substituted vegetable oil and consequently tasted better, that'd be cause for celebration. This is only cause for indifference.
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· 4 months ago
we cant blame the hershey corporation for almost all companies now a days are experiencing the global crisis, it is good that hershey had come up to an alternative way...
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· 3 months ago
The removal of cocoa butter violates the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s definition of milk chocolate, so subtle changes have appeared on the labels of the Hershey’s products with altered recipes.
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Lemonade Diet
· 2 months ago
Not only are chocolates yummy and healthy, they are also aphrodisiacs that give us energy. We could just keep our fingers crossed and hope that Hershey's and other chocolate manufacturers recover from the economic crisis and get back to their gleaming luster.
Etude House
· 2 months ago
Not only are chocolates yummy and healthy, they are also aphrodisiacs that give us energy. We could just keep our fingers crossed and hope that Hershey's and other chocolate manufacturers recover from the economic crisis and get back to their gleaming luster.
เครื่องสำอางเกาหลี
· 2 months ago
Indeed the company is very resourceful, instead of stop producing the product they had found new way or alternative way to make it.
Printable Address Labels
· 1 month ago
Desperate times call for desperate measures. Good thing that they're still in business. I just hope that chocolate companies as well as other business that are hurting in the recent economic recession would quickly and fully recover from its choking grasp. We shouldn't focus on the forceful change that companies undergo, but rather have high hopes for them in getting back to the best that they once were.
creamchula
· 2 weeks ago
Hershey’s is still the best for me
ครีมหมอจุฬา
· 1 week ago
Mars has pledged to use 100% chocolate. Interesting read:
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Look. If the Hershey's products still used cocoa butter but tasted worse, that would be cause for complaint. If they substituted vegetable oil and consequently tasted better, that'd be cause for celebration. This is only cause for indifference.
This is candy we're talking about, the one thing on this earth that should be judged solely by its taste. There's no nutritional value in a Mr. Goodbar to begin with. As long as it tastes the same, and hasn't gotten any worse for you, who cares what goes into it?
Now, as for this "mockulate" having a different mouthfeel; i.e. not melting like chocolate ( = cocoa powder, cocoa butter and sugar), well, that's right. But honestly, I don't think that this change will affect the taste of the candies, as opposed to a hershey bar, much at all.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate#Circulat...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoa_butter
and perhaps
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouthfeel
cynic said, "Look. If the Hershey’s products still used cocoa butter but tasted worse, that would be cause for complaint. If they substituted vegetable oil and consequently tasted better, that’d be cause for celebration. This is only cause for indifference."
I'm saying they do taste worse and I don't think that the Watchamacallit is the best demonstration of that. Try a Mr. Goodbar or Krackel ... get a bag of Miniatures and compare the quasi-chocolate in the Krackel to the Hershey's Milk Chocolate. (Whether you like it or not is another matter, but it's noticeable.)
There is nutritional value in a Mr. Goodbar, in fact during the depression it was sold as "a tasty lunch" and contained protein, calcium, fiber and sugar. Not really a great lunch, but for a nickel in hard times it was better than other things you could get for a five cents. But I agree, if you're eating for pleasure, it should be pleasurable.
Seriously, come back here after you've had a Mr. Goodbar and let me know how that went. Hershey's says that customers prefer it made with palm oil.
ylem - Hershey's didn't move their manufacturing from PA to Mexico. They moved their manufacturing from CA & Canada to Mexico. The PA plant is still chugging away.
But what next?
water in our ice cream?!?! ("triple churrrrned")
more ethanol in our gas?!?!? (*coughcough*)
lack of sufactants in our cleaning products? (just use water- you cant see the difference!)
sigh. this would not have happened in Europe.
thanks for bringing this travesty to our attention!
Go figure?
http://www.marshealthyliving.com/chocolate.jsp
I love your blog, btw. I've added your link to my blog. Might you check out mine?
www.saltysourspicysweet.blogspot.com
I used to like Hershey's but have lost all respect for the company, even though they did send me a refund for the cost of a bar of chocolate when I complained to the company. But they haven't changed their recipe.
@#%@<#%#@
Dave in North Carolina
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