Why American chocolate tastes like VOMIT | QI - BBC 

Ffs this happend to me today , bro milka is the shit.

English chocolate is far superior

Same from NZ

Same, absolutely same

Chocolate: Swiss Belgian Austrian Looooooooooong chasm English (pre Kraft) Loong chasm Rest.

Nah Hershey's is good chocolate, it really depends on what you have eaten earlier before you ate the chocolate. Food gets stuck in your teeth and remains on your taste buds, the sweetness of the chocolate stimulates your taste buds allowing you to taste more than you normally would. And if you have a dirty mouth you may taste a vomit taste.

Brush your teeth and wash your mouth out more and then try some Hershey

@@user-yf8pi5of7i Nah dude look it up, there are tons of articles explaining why it happens (and tons of personal accounts from Europeans who were shocked by how disgusting American chocolate tastes)

@@user-yf8pi5of7i nope. hersheys is gross. its scientifically proven. the milk is fermented, and it is an acod that is found in vomit

T ! American chocolate literally contains the same acid as found in vomit, hence why it tastes like vomit. If your food tastes like vomit, it is bad lmao.

"I can confirm it definitely tastes like throw up" Sounds like they brainwashed you, or you've never vomited in your life.

You know Hershey is one place Ghirardelli is an older American brand of chocolate. Also English food as a whole tastes and looks like vomit pretty much. Their barbecue sauce is just vinegar basically.

But it isn’t Americans chocolate that tastes like that it’s one brand. Never heard anyone say that about other brands besides Hershey. And they don’t say it about Hershey’s kisses for some reason just the bars which do seem to taste different I don’t know why.

​@@ComeAlongKay nestle crunch chocolate tastes like vomit too

​@@ComeAlongKayhersheys kisses absolutely taste like throw ul

"... but only to Americans"

@@oddctioum You must not have read the above comment from a British person.

@@getin3949 and now you want me to read 249 comments and guess wich one you meant?

Because they're eating a chocolate that actually taste good

Been to states many times and I tried Hersheys but wow what crap 😳, nit as creamy as British chocolate

It’s also the same acid in many cheeses like Parmesan

same. tasted like a mix of chocolate and throwing up

Oh please it might have a bit of tangyness from it but its nothing like vomit. I suppose you also hate parmesan?

As an American I like it. It's weird, the sweeter smoother chocolates are good too, but I have acquired the taste.

Omg what 😂😂 hersheys is so sweet to me

@@hafsa1903 sweet with an aftertaste of throw up?

Oh it does. I'm from Germany originally and was really taken aback by the vomit-y aftertaste of Hershey's and hot Dunkin' lattes. It's really quite terrible.

You instantly notice the difference taste between a $1.50 Hershey bar and a $4 Cadbury, Ghirardelli or Lindt Chocolate bar at Walmart, once you had those $4 chocolate bar with 99% cocoa chocolate it's hard to go back.

@@jason4275 99% is much too much for me. 80 - 85% is the most I like. I still don't think Hershey's tastes like vomit though!

@@bolttracks i Highly Disagree. Hershey's Tastes Sweet And Delicious For Me. i Don,t Taste Vomit in Any Chocolate.

Theirs only 1 Kind of Chocolate other Than Dark Chocolate That Ever Tasted Bad For Me. i Don,t Remember What The Name of it Was. i Just Remember it Looked Wierd it Smelled Terrible And it Tasted Like Shit. it Made Me Nauseous Just To Touch My Tongue To it. When i Actually Ate it i Got Super Sick And Started Pukeing My Guts out All Day And My Stomach Started Burning Like it Was on Fire.

Hershey's isn't really sweat compared to European chocolate bars. It's rather the opposite.

@@yannick245 you are correct - Hershey has a distinct taste (taste that I find very unpleasant). Hershey's chocolate contains butyric acid, which can also be found in parmesan cheese, sour yogurt and, yes, vomit. The chemical in return gives the chocolate a distinct tanginess rarely encountered in any other brand of chocolate. The idea behind it (adding this acid) to prolong shelf life: Hershey’s founder wanted chocolate being affordable to average people ( back than it was a luxury item); in order to do so, it had to be produced in large quantity and survive transportation, storage….

​@@marinacochran4596 So in other words the taste is just a relict of the old days that prevents non-us customers from liking it

A child could afford and mass produce a chocolate bar that can last 6 months without losing it's taste and that was the problem quantity over quality.

Chocolate is from mexico

Hershey's has 1.5 times more cocoa than a Cadbury bar, get your facts straight before you get into a pissing contest. Cadbury's chocolate is very light in color meaning less cocoa. It's all good in it's own way to all different types of tastes.

@@getin3949 just checked Hershey's website, Hershey Bar chocolate contains 11% chocolate solids so I was wrong when I said 20 % You are basically buying sugar. Cadbury chocolate is 40% - not fantastic but at least you can taste the chocolate over the sugar.

Meant to add that as far as pissing contests go, the quality of average US food is pretty low. Especially when you include 55 pesticides banned in the EU, form be growth promoters, also banned, animal welfare issues, portion sizes and and the level of fat and sugar.

@@getin3949 😂 Americans are so sensitive about their country they have to be the best at everything or they throw their toys out of the pram. Maybe get your 'facts' from somewhere outside of US propaganda outlets in future.

Cocoa pure confectioners chocolate, taste super bitter. Cocoa doesn't make chocolate, chocolate is a mix.

no, they were just being polite. 🤮

@@MrDohers But they actually asked for more. No one asks for more vomit.

@@michaels5092 haha, true. Was just joking anyway, clearly lots of people like it, just not for me!

Possibly, I can’t stand a lot of Italian cheeses due to the renet.

This is a very good explanation!

It's not logical to like the taste of vomit.

⁠​⁠@@Zodroo_TintThen it must be illogical to like parmesan cheese because it has the same acid in it.

I don't know.. but speak for yourself. I prefer European chocolate after detoxing from the taste of American.

@@irl-hdr4080 The differency is, that tangy flavor can be a good thing in cheese, but never in sweets xD

@@Zodroo_Tint But remember we're talking about one component of the overall taste of vomit, not vomit itself. And remember that the reason we have that natural revulsion is an evolved response so that we avoid doing the things that make us vomit, it doesn't mean that it's a 100% inviolable rule, just like aversion to mold is natural, but we are an intelligent species and can recognize when certain strains are safe and even tasty.

Nice story

loved it??

I’m in the UK-tasted gross 😂 like honestly I ate the whole thing because I though it would get better..nope 😂 I forgot about it but recently remembered it form this title 😂 horrible day 😔

It wast as bad as wanting to literally throw up but it was pretty bad - my mouth was vomit tasting for the whole day 😔 couldn’t even emojis the American food!

@@akoddio UK chocolate is better! My friend brought me some and it's wayyy better!

No that is not correct. And it's not "in summary" at all. If you want to just try to pick on American chocolate I wouldn't go there. There's so many things in the UK that people from other countries call call you on.

@French blue8 I absolutely agree with you. Some people just like to feel they are superior to other people. And what they are comparing is a Hershey candy bar. America has a lot more different types of chocolates and Gourmet chocolates also that we make that they could have compared it to but they didn't. They compared it to a run of the mill kind of lower class chocolate. They sure as heck wouldn't like that if we compare that for them. And you're right too about the Germans. The US has been England's ally in wars and I'm sure we'll always be there for them if need be. So I guess we can just ignore the rude ones who say our chocolate taste like vomit. Consider the source? 😁

@@sharoncolewilgis8696 Are all Americans ridiculously thin skinned as well, or are there gourmet Americans who don't immediately go on the defensive over the tiniest slight?

@French blue8 Yeah, it's nice of you to repeatedly turn up late. 🤗

@@TheValeyard92 well, I think it's not being thinned skinned if you take offence to someone who says a chocolate bar from my country tastes like vomit. Nope, not thin thin skinned at all. But it was a nice try.

I’ve had European style chocolate on numerous occasions & I still like the American style. I don’t dislike like Euro chocolate, but sometimes it can be too sweet. I like the slight bitterness of American chocolate.

@@irl-hdr4080 My god i've tried Hershey's and it does take like vomit, seriously how can like that stuff?

@bitemyshite No they aren't. Milton Hersey specifically selected Derry Township Pennsylvania due to the number of dairies in the area. Condensed milk is used because that is how milk chocolate is made. It's made with either milk powder or condensed milk.

@bitemyshite Bituryic acid is naturally occurring in all dairy products.

@bitemyshite There is a great Hershey biography by Michael D'Antonio that covers how that happened. It wasn't because it took longer for the milk to get there and thus it started to spoil, but because the process used to boil the milk down was done at a low temperature, and then left to cool for an extended period of time in the cooking vats. It was THEN that the butyric acid developed. Hershey himself made a comment on the "snappy" taste of the new batch when his engineer finished the prototype recipe. As for why this taste persists, consider the two relevant situations where someone would taste butyric acid: 1. When they throw up. 2. When they taste Hershey. For a European, they will taste butyric acid when they throw up, and not when they eat their chocolate. So they will have the association ingrained in them from youth of the association of that flavor with the grossness of throwing up. For an American, they will eat Hershey a LOT more than they will experience the taste of throwing up, so that flavor (when they eat the chocolate) will be more closely associated with their memory of how "chocolate" tastes than it will with the comparatively few times they have experienced it as a component of throwing up. In both cases, both Americans and Europeans don't have a problem with the flavor as it exists in Parmesan cheese, but in both cases, those two groups of people grew up with that flavor in said cheese, so when they taste the butyric acid portion of the cheese flavor, it triggers "cheese" much more than it does "vomit". The contrast is that Europeans likely didn't grow up with a butyric acid flavor component in their chocolate of choice, so it exists as a standout flavor when they do taste it in a Hershey, and when it stands out, and is out of place, it will sense-memory land on the first non-chocolate thing, which is vomit. Americans don't have that since, just like with Parmesan, the butyric acid flavor component is a normal part of their sense-memory of what chocolate tastes like, so the association is food-first, not vomit-first.

Cadbury in the US is MADE in the US. British made Cadbury hasn't been sold in the US for years now. So, you DO like US chocolate Jason, ya Dork. Don't always try to follow the crowd.

I’m from the home of Cadbury, I salute you sir!

Was it Hershey's? :p

@@MoveForwardMMA simp

@@Fuller17HD Butthurt Hershey's rep.

I'll call you overly patriotic! LOL

Do you mean "bring it up" as in make it a topic of conversation, or "bring it up" as in vomiting it back up after eating it?

@@klaxoncow topic of conversation.

@@klaxoncow LMAO good one.

Xenophobe

I'm from Germany and really like our beer. But the classic Budweiser is a good option if you're in the mood for a very mild lager beer. It's not a bad beer! German Pils(ner) is intense in hops _("hopfig")._ So if you want to have a ligher beer, you can order a _"saures Radler",_ which is 50% beer and 50% carbonated water. The classic Budweiser is a good alternative if you also like Lager taste. The hate is a little overblown, especially by Englishmen with their pisswarm beer. I don't think that there's any word wide popular English beer brand! Even the English themselves go for foreign beer brands on a regular base. You can see them drinking Foster's or Beck's all the time. If there wouldn't be a kangaroo on the Forster's can, I'd probably thought of Forster's as a British beer. I can see how it became suitable for the masses. Why they made an even milder one with Bud Light, I don't know. There isn't really much of, what you call beer taste, left. By now Americans have a wide range of craft beers available, that are even recognized and awarded internationally.

San Miguel is from Spain. What made you think it's American?

That is your opinion Julie and you're sticking to it.

That's opposite for me as I lived in the UK

You might be onto something there.

Is it from British chocolate companies but made in the US/Canada, or actually imported from the UK? I ask because a lot of stuff branded as Cadbury in North America is actually made by Hershey, to a different recipe than in the UK.

You should try to find a Canadian local chocolatier and see what you think. I was told by one of them that most chocolatiers buy already processed cocoa beans, so they all kind of taste the same. However some will import their own beans and make it from scratch.

UK chocolate is shit I've lived there

@@cavs6663 it's fit

The only kisses you’ll ever get.

@chris jones Look! A salty Brit!

It's not old milk, it's the cooking process which incidentally ferments the acid.

Google Cadbury vs. Hershey for cocoa content. If you don't like it, don't eat it.

Just like UK snacks I've loved there it's shit

Ironically enough, it was in seeking a way to use liquid milk rather than dried milk (as was the standard European practice at the time for mass-market chocolate bars) that Hershey ended up with his signature recipe. And the liquid milk method WAS the cheaper method.

@@Archangel-cw7mq interesting

Not continental Europe? Austrian, German and Swiss chocolate is the best ones I think.

Or it could be down to moisture somehow getting on the chocolate.

You can buy variety boxes of British sweets online. Worth every cent. British sweets are the best on earth.

@@keeperofthecheese they aren't lol😂 trust me I lived there America's candy is 1000x better

@@cavs6663 their candy is 1000x better then your football skills thats for sure can you try trick pep into signing you for man city please? EDIT:For anyone who is confused his name was ALI DIA before he changed it to le bron

Yep

Should've taken a leaf out of the Premier League's book and added fake audience noise.

@@ScoopMeisterGeneral I'm reminded of 'The Road to PS5' as well

@@ScoopMeisterGeneral Congratulations! You just invented the laugh track! 😂

@@Extispex It would be a new concept to introduce to panel shows, though.

@@Iranian.Shia-kurd eh?

@@Iranian.Shia-kurd 'are you misses him'

+ Nobiles Novus homo "Hershey’s is 30% Cacao solids" not even close... In the UK, chocolate must contain at least 20% cocoa solids. In the US, on the other hand, cocoa solids need only make up 10%. A Cadbury Dairy Milk bar contains 23% cocoa solids, whereas a Hershey bar contains just 11% hersheys would not be legally allowed to call their version of a chocolate bar CHOCOLATE in the UK, and most true chocolate loving brits would rather there was more cocoa solids in their UK bars like they have in Switzerland or belgium "I read it’s also due to the high contents of cocoa butter" No, you just dreamed it.

@@TheComputec Tell that to the New York Times article. “dark may be King but milk chocolate makes a move” - by Julia moskin. Or better yet look up something before you try to debunk something. We have the largest search engines available on the Internet today... I’m just saying. You’re using RU-vid yet you’ve never heard of Google.

@@nobilesnovushomo58 It might say cocoa content 30% but cocoa solids (the important bit that gives chocolate it's flavour) is only 11%. The rest is cocoa butter which is just fats. These have no nutritional benefits and don't add to the teste, just the mouthfeel by making it feel softer in the mouth. It's no good knowing how to search for something on Google if you don't have the critical thinking skills to interpret information. Enjoy your puke flavoured candy bar !

Yeah, you just have to be a bit discerning.

but british choclate isn't even in the top list of european choclate. As far as I've tried choclate brands. I prefer the swizz choclate

@@krunschold Most people prefer Swiss chocolate I think.

I was going to add that. When you think of great European chocolate, you think of Italy, Switzerland, Austria and Germany first.

Swiss Belgian German Italian

We have those too. Hersheys is still good.

Because a lifetime of eating American chocolate has destroyed your palate.

@@gwishart Nah! I like the Brits, but I think you guys have kept saying that just cause you want to. I've heard some say "it tastes like dirt" and have pretended to gag. I can accept that maybe you taste a slight difference. But to say it tastes like dirt or vomit? Come on!! It's just chocolate! I can say I dislike something and not exaggerate like that.

I get you man i've tasted both cadbury and hershey i like them both people these days are just so picky and so sensitive not that i don't get i'm also pretty picky

@@Kay2be2mr yeah man idk, I like both haha

@@Kay2be2mr Vomit contains Butyric acid . Hershey's chocolates have Butaric Acid. If your chocolate has the same ingredient as vomit then it is bad. End of conversation.

No we still pasteurize it, required by law for milk sold for human consumption in commercial levels. Getting raw milk is actually sketchy in some cases, and usually you have to get it as "animal food"

They're still upset about losing that war.

@yeoldebiggetee oh shit, we've been recolonized? I had no clue. 😂🤣

Depends which brands. Shitty mass produced chocolate from Europe is of higher quality than shitty mass produced chocolate from the US, but if you buy great artisan chocolate from either the US or Europe it should both be similarly good.

R u dumb? Where have you got adding more milk from it’s about the fact you use the same acid that’s in sick to preserve the milk you use for chocolate not AdDiNg MoRe MiLk

Orion, cadburry, Milka, Belgian chocolate, toblerone, bio chocolate, Swiss chocolate, Lindt, etc.

Today bought cadbury milk dairy chocolate at a 7-11 and it opened in the car and powder got every where..

No it doesn't. You just want your name to show up here and act like you know something. All of the words that you used in a row, you sound like you're a kid or a young teen. Go play with your dollies or on your cell phone. SMH

@@sharoncolewilgis8696 it smells like fresh vomit.

@@Charlotte66666 well darn you must vomit a lot if you know exactly what the fresh vomit smells like. LMAO. And you appear to be so young by your picture also. Seriously, do you have an eating disorder maybe like bulimia that you smell lot of fresh vomit??

@@sharoncolewilgis8696 no, I've smelt American chocolate before and that's exactly what it smells like.

@yeoldebiggetee 😂😂😂

thats the complete opposite of what they are saying

​@@j63636nope The process of processing that milk cause a natural process in which it produces butylic acid The same thing happens in cheese