Hershey’s Promises to Use Only Real Chocolate After Backlash | The change follows weeks of complaints from a grandson of the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup inventor and other vocal consumers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/business/hershey-reeses-recipe-real-chocolate.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YFA.ujOP.yYZOCCeo1mhl
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Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 133d
"chocolate" in mainstream candy is such garbage now. I couldn't bring myself to get the kiddos Reese's peanut butter eggs this year and I used to love those
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 29 pts · 133d
I refuse to buy anything except real chocolate bars by lindt or similar "premium" brands
Honestly, some of the best chocolate you can get is just semi-sweet baking chips
Angrydeuce@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 133d
Dude and what the hell is it with that weird vomity aftertaste? I swear to god I dont remember it being that way when I was a kid but something in the new chocolate just leaves such a nasty aftertaste on my mouth...
IamSparticles@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 133d
In order to stabilize the milk they use in the milk chocolate bars and make them last longer on the shelf, they treat it with a process that converts some of the milk fats into butyric acid. That's the vomit flavor. I'm sorry to report that it has probably always tasted that way, you just didn't notice. They've been using the same process since the early 20th century.
jeeva@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 133d
It was popularised after world war 2, iirc, so it's been the way it is for a good while.
lemmyng@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 133d
Finally! No more vomit-flavored chocolate!
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net · 39 pts · 133d
No, they're going back to vomit flavor chocolate. There was a recent change that made it even worse, and they're undoing it.
gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 133d
This sounds like a metaphor for American politics
kspes@eviltoast.org · 15 pts · 133d
Yeah, what is up with that?? When i visited the US a few years ago, i bought a hershey bar and it was the most vile, disgusting thing i ever ate. I still remember that vomit flavour, uggghhhh
Typhoon@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 133d
It tastes like vomit because Hershey chocolate contains butyric acid, which is also found in vomit.
Haquer@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 133d
They started using a lot of palm oil and other ingredients to pad out the "chocolate". Why put chocolate in your chocolate
Fredselfish@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 133d
But technically I hear the coco plant the thing we make chocolate from is going extinct due to climate change. They know this and are trying to get ahead of it.
But one day folks there will be no real chocolate.
lemmyng@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 133d
You'd think more chocolate lovers would be against this. Holy fuck, that's bleak.
superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 133d
Its a race to the bottom, I guess we are used to it by now
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 133d
They add an ingredient to make it taste like bile because that's the taste WW2 vets were accustomed to after eating chocolate rations that had gone bad. It's gross.
So this will probably still taste like vomit, it'll just be made with real cocoa again instead of palm oil.
yakko@feddit.uk · 14 pts · 133d
When you figure out how easy it is to make buckeyes, you never feel smart buying Reese's again.
twistypencil@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 133d
What are buckeyes?
SloppyJoe@toast.ooo · 13 pts · 133d
Chocolate covered balls of peanut butter. https://preppykitchen.com/buckeyes/#recipe
yakko@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 133d
It's outrageous how much better they are homemade with decent peanut butter and real chocolate. You don't even have to temper the chocolate correctly, just form them in cupcake papers or scraps of baking parchment, pop em in the fridge, and devour.
I like to use chunky peanut butter, and add flake salt.
SloppyJoe@toast.ooo · 2 pts · 131d
100% Growing up my great grandma would make buckeyes. No store bought candy compares.
Flake salt is amazing! I just learned about it last year, a friend added it to chocolate chip cookies.
Chef's kiss.
twistypencil@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 133d
Ok, I'm making this. I take chunks of chocolate and dip them in peanut butter every single day, this would make it so much easier
uhmbah@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 133d
Thanks for posting!
Fredselfish@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 133d
Thanks going try this one.
Bahnd@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 133d
The seed of state tree of america's favorite place... Ohio.
But also the confectionary of the same name is dope.
Melobol@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 133d
Aaand now a lit of people will go out and buy some. It will be a bit more expensive but it is better materials.
Then tey will get a positive reinforcement and they more likely buy again next time.
Genius marketing.
Ohh and every news outlet talking about it also. For freaking fee
ccunning@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 133d
We call it Hershey’s Classic®️
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 133d
Hershey was off the road and into the weeds for a bit there but now they are back on the highway!
kreskin@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 133d
yes they are backtracking to producing merely bad chocolate.
Outdated4134@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 129d
They spelled Reecee wrong