Remember in the early influencer era when every food-related account had to have a “Guess what, guys? Turkish delight isn’t even good! Giggle! Narnia lied!” Pepperidge Farms remembers
Replies
I will defend American pies and non-box cakes to the death (Paul Hollywood can step on a Lego) but when it comes to candy, we live in a glass house and really need to stand down. (Influencer screams in horror at Mexican chili candy, I deploy the squirt bottle)
aug 27, 2025, 9:58 am • 21 1 • view
(Shouts) You have the palate of a toddler, your chocolate tastes of wax and you left the path of light when hoarhound ceased to be a major flavor!
aug 27, 2025, 10:04 am • 33 2 • view
My insomniac impulse to yell at Americans for their appalling relationship with food continues.
aug 27, 2025, 10:12 am • 18 0 • view
I bet you subconsciously want us euros to back you up, that's why it happens during your night and our noon 🤔 Anyway fuck them licorice haters
aug 27, 2025, 10:44 am • 2 0 • view
Well that and I watch food content to drift off to sleep because it’s usually low stakes
aug 27, 2025, 1:59 pm • 1 0 • view
If you come here, you need to instead go to a little mom and pop bakery or ice creamery or fudge factory because those places are delicious, avoid name brand candy.
aug 27, 2025, 10:15 am • 21 0 • view
Also marzipan is good actually
aug 27, 2025, 10:46 am • 4 0 • view
Hershey single-handedly ruins the US's chocolate reputation internationally.
aug 27, 2025, 10:59 am • 1 0 • view
What's the deal with American chocolate? It's not just the quality milk and sugar, there's something else going on there.
aug 27, 2025, 10:05 am • 1 0 • view
It has definitely changed in the last ten or fifteen years. I think they found a legal loophole to use less cocoa or something
aug 27, 2025, 10:08 am • 1 0 • view
Was so excited to try the famous Hershey’s chocolate on my first visit to NYC (from australia) in 2005 and my dad, brother and I all thought it was disgusting. Was like eating chalk or something like that.
aug 27, 2025, 10:12 am • 5 1 • view
That's consistent with pringles refining themselves as "not a potato chip" for tax reasons. news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/busines...
aug 27, 2025, 10:11 am • 1 0 • view
Hershey's apparently have a special process in treating the milk used which either produces or uses butyric acid. The flavour this gives is considered 'tangy' by Americans while many Europeans find it reminds them of vomit.
aug 27, 2025, 11:01 am • 7 2 • view
I once heard that Hershey's add beeswax, so the chocolate bar won't melt in your pocket. Not sure if that is true, but they for sure are formulated for heat stability. What kind of madness is that? The whole purpose of chocolate is to melt in your mouth 😭
aug 27, 2025, 10:54 am • 1 0 • view
I miss hoarhound candy, but even as a child it was only available in old "country stores" located in tourist areas.
aug 27, 2025, 1:22 pm • 1 0 • view
Americans bought Cadbury’s and ruined our Creme Eggs by making the chocolate sickly to fit in with US tastes. They’d better not ruin our Dairy Milk chocolate! If they want that sort of sweet sickly chocolate they already have Hersheys.
aug 27, 2025, 10:03 am • 0 0 • view
Made by foreign exchange students they enslaved via legal loophole and trickery!
aug 27, 2025, 10:05 am • 0 0 • view
My daughter worked in the US for the summer as a student and I had to send her giant bars of Cadbury’s Dairy Milk in the post. Whenever the parcels arrived all the US students working with her used to turn up at her room asking if they could have some. Of course it’s not legally chocolate in the EU.
aug 27, 2025, 10:08 am • 1 0 • view
I like Turkish delight, but then I also like musk sticks, which are another old fashioned divisive treat. I do not like licorice or aniseed.
aug 27, 2025, 11:38 am • 1 0 • view
I had some friends that got a super large assortment of Turkish delight one Christmas. We all ate ourselves sick because it was one of the best things any of us had ever eaten and we couldn't stop ourselves. I've tried buying a few here and there since, but the cheap ones are awful.
aug 27, 2025, 10:25 am • 2 0 • view
Yes and in some cases, they made their own to taste it and confectionery is an art, you can’t just toss it together
aug 27, 2025, 10:41 am • 1 0 • view
Years ago a colleague of mine brought some echt Turkish Delight back from a trip to visit family in Turkey & it was So. Good.
aug 27, 2025, 11:04 am • 2 0 • view
aug 27, 2025, 11:06 am • 0 0 • view