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Hershey
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5 Jul, 2010
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Reviewer:
A customer from Kansas USA
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This is so funny to me. I am shocked that Europeans don't like Hershey's Chocolate. I think it has the best chocolate flavor. I like the bars better than the Kisses. I think it has a salty sweet bitter flavor. It melts the best and makes great S'mores.
10241
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A neutral reviewer?
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5 Jul, 2010
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Reviewer:
A customer from New Zealand
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I'm from New Zealand so see myself as neutral in the US vs. UK debate. I just tried hersheys and was really surprised by the aftertaste... there is definitely a hint of vomit there... but it is the same hint of vomit that you get in strong cheese. So if you like strong cheese you might like hersheys... though I can't say I recommend them.
10214
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horrible
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29 Mar, 2010
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Reviewer:
A customer from Scotland
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i bought some for my boyfriend while on a trip to London as i knew he had tried Hershey's in america and liked it. but we both agreed that it tasted like vomit, i don't recommend it at all
10044
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vomi de bébé
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26 Jan, 2010
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Reviewer:
Claude from québec(canada)
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J'ai 4 enfants et je sais reconnaître l`odeur du vomi.J'ai tout de même essayé un hershey kisses et je dois avouer que c'est le pire aliment que j'ai goûté.
Cybercandy Translation:
Baby vomit
I have 4 children, and I know the smell of vomit. I still tried some Hershey's Kisses and I have to say it's the worst food I've ever tasted.
9917
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Hilarious!!!!
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26 Jan, 2010
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Reviewer:
heartshinegirl@yahoo.com from Oxnard, California USA
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I'm American. I'll never forget the first time I took a Hershey Bar over to Wales for my boyfriend to try... it was HILARIOUS!~~ He put it in his mouth and then ran over to spit it out in the trash and told me it tasted like dog's vomit! I cracked up! I thought he was joking! Then I researched how they make the chocolate and how they use butyric acid to make it. Well, Butyric acid is one of the ingredients in Vomit, Sour Milk, etc.... so of course it's similar in scent/taste. However, to us American's we never associated the Butyric acid in the chocolate bar with the butyric acid in vomit, but I guess to someone who's never had a candy bar with butyric acid in it would! Butyric acid is used (I believe) as a preservative. Too bad it's distinct scent and flavor repulses those of you who are not used to it being in chocolates! Hershey isn't the only company by the way that uses it, just the first and I believe they create it in a very natural way (letting the milk go funky) but in a sterile process. Anyhow, this is hilarious to me. My favorite Chocolate however is still the American version of Cadbury. The UK version tastes different to me.
9893
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Jason the chocoholic says eughhhh!!!
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26 Jan, 2010
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Reviewer:
Karen from County Durham, UK
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Thought I'd give one of these to my husband for part of his xmas pressie, and he said
9872
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Great...But
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22 Jun, 2009
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Reviewer:
from scotland
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I'm from the UK and love hershey chocolate! I really dont get the vomit thing, I've never noticed anything like that. Cant help but wonder why anyone would get so worked up about people from the uk not liking it though. One or two people are even bringing the war into it! relax people, its just chocolate :D
9609
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Okay....
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1 Jun, 2009
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Reviewer:
A customer from CA
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I'm English but now live in America, the first thing I did at the airport was buy a Hershey bar...Not quite what I thought it would be! I proceeded to bring Cadbury's Milk Chocolate back from England and all my American friends loved it! Even those that loved Hershey's had to admit that Cadbury is better. I don't absolutely hate Hersheys, if the kisses are on the table...I'm gonna eat some :D
I think it's defiantly not 'vomit' or anything but I will never spend money on it!
9594
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Well if you
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26 May, 2009
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Reviewer:
A customer from Europe
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I like a high cocoa content in chocolate but I find Hersheys repulsive in exactly the same way I'm sure I'd find drinking spoiled milk repulsive. It's definitely the sour milk that's used in the recipe that makes this chocolate unpalatable for many Europeans. I'll be sticking to Belgian.
9579
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OMG I
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21 Apr, 2009
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Reviewer:
A customer from London
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I absolutely love chocolate, any sort will do i'm not fussy or snobby. However, on the few occasions people have brought Hershey's into work I have been convinced that the chocolate had gone off or past its sell by date, why does it have that oh so pungent cheese taste. aarrrgh. It's only the milk chocolate, the dark chocolate is very nice. I'm glad I found these reviews as i'm the only one in work that seems to be able to detect the vomit taste. Maybe people with super senses can tase it! LOL
9534
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hmm its not great but vomit is an exageration!
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12 Mar, 2009
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Reviewer:
from wiltshire
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ok so im not really a fan of hersheys its general taste is not very chocolatey and the after taste isnt great either but seriously guys?? vomit?? cheesy feet? thats a bit excessive and the taste definitely doesnt burn your mouth!! i am from england and i am not being a snobby european since i love most other american sweets i just prefer a bit of dairy milk :p
9368
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Its alright.....
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24 Nov, 2008
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Reviewer:
A customer from Essex
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Its ok but after youve eaten it you sometimes get the taste of coca beans in your mouth.
9264
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I don
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27 Oct, 2008
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Reviewer:
Jon from UK
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I am amazed by the amount of people visiting this site that have such a vivid recollection of what vomit tastes like, I clearly haven't been eating enough! Anyway, spend a pound and make your own mind up people, I love Hersheys but I alos like Galaxy and Dairy Milk so stop ranting !!
9205
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Sour cheese anyone?
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7 Oct, 2008
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Reviewer:
from chicago, IL
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This stuff is nasty, sour milk tasting spud. Even my fingers smell like Hershey squirts after handling a bar. Absolutely the worst chocolate ever made. [...]
9123
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Grotesque
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6 Oct, 2008
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Reviewer:
A customer from Staffs, England
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This is disgusting, tastes exactly like vomit as per other reviews. People that love this chocolate have never eaten Cadbury's Green and Blacks!!
9107
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Hershey
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22 Sep, 2008
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Reviewer:
A customer from Seoul, South Korea
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Some of us like the taste of home, despite the snobby European views of inferiority. I am a Canadian currently working in South Korea, and I have always liked Hershey's Chocolate. I find European chocolates too sweet, and with the stuff here they are so obsessed with the amount of cocoa that the stuff is too bitter. Hershey's is sold all over Korea, and I like going to Costco to get a big bag of the kisses. Typical European attitudes, everything is sooooo better in Europe. Well its not. If it was, wouldn't we all want to live there??? Well stick to your stuff, and stop complaining about ours. You guys make a lot garbage that shouldn't be sold, but somehow finds its way around the world to some people that like it.
9083
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Absolutely Vile
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20 Oct, 2008
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Reviewer:
Trent from San Diego
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9078
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iicck! that bar tastes sooo wrong...
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8 Sep, 2008
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Reviewer:
A customer from crayon canyon
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i love all kinds of chocolate. but this bar in particular was seriously the most foulest, vomit-tasting rubbish in a form of a bar i'ver ever palletted(sp?)
8990
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Hershey is still the best
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8 Sep, 2008
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Reviewer:
A customer from Washington
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I have traveled over the world, and tasted about every major brand of chocolate in the world. There are a lot of great chocolates out there, but to me the humble, inexpensive Hershey kiss and bar is still my fav.
PS, I've introduced Hershey chocolate to Germans, English, Swiss, French, Canadians, Mexicans , Japanese et al and they've all thought it was excellent chocolate even if they preferred other brands.
8950
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Good to know I
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8 Sep, 2008
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Reviewer:
karenhansell@comcast.net from Napa, California
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Wow! It's so comforting to read that all these people feel the same way I do about Hershey's! I've even been accused of being un-American because I think Hershey's smells like vomit and has a foul taste! I think they use rotten fat and fake ingredients. There are good American chocolates, like See's, Ghirardelli, Godiva, Paul Newman's, etc. I think a lot of people just don't know what good chocolate is... Hershey's is all they ever had.
8923
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chocolate thats worth persisting with
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8 Sep, 2008
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Reviewer:
A customer from wales
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8920
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dont breath in!
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8 Sep, 2008
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Reviewer:
pj from stourbridge
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i had a few miniatures and did a few tests as i couldnt believe the sweaty cheesy sock taste (i used to have hersheys years ago and it never tasted like that! maybe they now use sour milk?) anyway i found that if i put the miniature in my mouth and kept my mouth closed for the entire duration of the eating it tasted great but if i did the same and opened my mouth or let any air in the foulness began! strange that it doesnt happen with the miniature kracknell or goodbars!
8870
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Dear god, no.....
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8 Sep, 2008
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Reviewer:
A customer from NY
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Saying Hershey's tastes of sick isn't even a comparison, it does literally taste of vomit, with a flavor that burns your tongue and throat so much that you feel like you've just upchucked. I'm not even joking or exaggerating, I'm deadly serious. There couldn't be a worse chocolate even if i put actual vomit in the recipe.
8869
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SPEW.
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8 Sep, 2008
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Reviewer:
from Australia
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This is not chocolate. It tastes like cheap, nasty, rank SPEW... Each to their own I suppose. Some people like cheap cask wine, some people like hersheys chocolate....
8856
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My God!
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8 Sep, 2008
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Reviewer:
david_55_m@yahoo.com.au from Sydney
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Throughly disgusting. The worst chocolate I have ever tasted. It made me feel billious. Why would you create a chocolate that tasted like vomit?
8853
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Sweeter than wine
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8 Sep, 2008
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Reviewer:
A customer from st andrews
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Probably the best chocolate in the world !!
8832
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Nothing special
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19 May, 2008
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Reviewer:
Hayley from Bristol UK.
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Everyone i offered this chocolate to said that it tastes like sick but i didn't notice anything untill i sucked it and it went a little tangy but wasn't anything i'd make a fuss over. It tasted very bland and didn't satisfy my sweettooth very well.
8781
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Hershey
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19 May, 2008
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Reviewer:
A customer from Brazil
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I find all of these review very interesting. I never noticed anytype of vomit smell. I grew up on Hershey being American. And it is interesting how those from a different culture can see things because of the way people are brought up to experience food. I guess next time that I eat a hershey bar I will check that smell out.
I love Hershey bars! I get them shipped to me here in Brazil from my sister sometimes. They have them here in Brazil but they taste like crap! They change the formula here to suit to the taste of the Brazilian. So I hate Brazilian Hershey chocolate. Stupid marketing! I want to write Hershey to complain for not sticking to principle.
I love the original though. I will eat them forever
8768
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Why? Just why?
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23 Mar, 2008
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Reviewer:
A customer from London
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There is absolutely nothing in the world that tastes worse than Hersheys. I couldn't believe how foul it was, so when I went to America I bought a bar and gave it to my friend to eat, pretending it was the best thing ever. She nibbled a tiny bit off one corner, tasted it for about ten seconds, and then went and threw up. I felt sick just with the smell of it.
I took a whole load of miniatures back to test on my colleagues, and two weeks later only a few are gone... nobody will eat them. These people eat anything! Do not go near this chocolate. You will regret it.
8714
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Disgusting!
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23 Mar, 2008
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Reviewer:
A customer from Swindon
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When I first tried a Hershy's bar I thought it was fantastic! When I saw this site I thought I must definately get some more. I warn you... Don't! A previous review I recall reading is totally right! It tastes literally of sick! Just DONT get this 1!!!!
8688
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Really does taste like vomit!
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23 Mar, 2008
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Reviewer:
A customer from Yorkshireman in Florida
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Having spent the past 36 years in England eating Cadbury's, it came as a real shock to eat Hershey's milk chocolate and find out it tasted of sick!(Theres even a reference to this in one of the Shrek movies..the gingerbraed man vomits and out comes a Hershey's Kiss!!) It's the marmite of chocolate..you love it or hate it. Needless to say, I hate it.
8687
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horrible!!
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23 Mar, 2008
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Reviewer:
Emily Woodives from Leeds
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hersheys has to be the worst chocolate i have ever tasted in my life!! Whilst on a trip to New York me and my boyfriend bought a bar because we wanted a chocolate fix!! it ended up in a bin on broadway. How can anybody like chocolate that tastes like sick??
8678
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Yuck!
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3 Mar, 2008
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Reviewer:
James from York
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It really does taste awful. I brought my mum some and she thought it was comedy chocolate.
8647
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Step away from the American Candy...
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15 Feb, 2008
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Reviewer:
A customer from London
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It tastes like sick - possibly the most revolting chocolate I have ever tasted.. and I have some experience in this matter. Worse than cheap Easter egg choc - do not go near this, no matter how much the packaging entices you.... and can someone please tell Bryan the American that Cadbury or Swiss is the only way to go, thanks!
8631
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Certainly an acquired taste.
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26 Nov, 2007
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Reviewer:
James Allen from London
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My American housemate introduced my to Hershey bars at University (the poor girl was very upset when she realised we Brits didn't sell them in our shops.) First time I tried a bar I didn't understand the big deal, and many of my fellow British housemates refused to ever eat another bar. Strangely though the unique tasting chocolate grew on me, and by my second or third bar I fell in love with it. Hersheys tastes so good that I now find it difficult to eat Cadburys or Galaxy chocolate anymore which is sickly sweet in comparison. It does smell a little funky though, and I wish the bars were a little bigger since they're very thin.
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yuch!
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26 Nov, 2007
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Reviewer:
A customer from london
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Having enjoyed their cookies and cream bar, I was looking forward to munching on this. How disappointing - the chocolate has a bizarre smell and appearance, and tastes like cooking chocolate, and has the texture of the cheapo stuff you used to get in funfairs in the 70s and 80s
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Hershey has changed their formula
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31 Oct, 2007
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Reviewer:
dschulz from New York
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Since I live in the states I, like millions of other americans, grew up eating Hershey chocolate. Last week however, my daughter gave me a piece of her bar and it tasted like cheap, awful chocolate. I thought maybe it was a bad bar or something so I bought one myself. Nope, they definitely changed their formula. It now tastes like the cheap chocolate you might find in the dollar store with some strange name to it. Almost a weird cheap vanilla taste like they substituted real vanilla with some artificial flavoring. Definitely a mistake on their part. I myself have been buying more expensive, organic chocolates because I would rather pay more money and indulge once in a while for the real thing. It's a shame that Hershey has done this and it's only a matter of time before people catch on but then again we are so used to processed foods in this country that maybe they will get away with it.
8382
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More to US chocolate than Hersheys
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25 Oct, 2007
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Reviewer:
A customer from SF Bay, California
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To the reviewer who said that all American chocolate is bad, that is NOT TRUE. Scharffen Berger chocolate is among the best there is. Ironically, it was bought out by Hershey a few years ago. (Hershey does suck, though.)
8380
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Tastes like vomit
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15 Oct, 2007
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Reviewer:
Izzy from London
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I tasted Hersheys chocolate for the first time ever today. I love good chocolate but nothing prepared me for this miserable experience. Who the heck came up with the recipe and do they really use cocoa beans? Cadburys, I do not like but Galaxy is good. I love 70% solids dark chocolate or a good quality milk chocolate. In order to ever eat Hersheys again, I would need to have my sense of taste removed, be tied up and force fed it. Awful, awful stuff.
8356
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Hershey -- spoiled milk is in the recipe
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30 Aug, 2007
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Reviewer:
yunbe from Boston
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As a lifetime lover of chocolate and living in the US, I guess I had just gotten used to Hershey's and thought it was great. That was until I visited Munich Germany and bought some milk chocolate made locally at a chocolate shop there. It was by far the best chocolate I had ever eaten. Hershey's is not even in the same league. Then I watched a TV documentary on chocolate with a good segment about Hershey. Their recipe calls for the milk to go sour before the bars are made. That's exactly why it tastes spoiled. Since I had that German chocolate, I don't even eat a free Hershey bar.
8269
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Tastes like really cheap chocolate
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28 Jun, 2007
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Reviewer:
A customer from Canada
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I'm from Canada, so I grew up eating a lot of American chocolate. Honestly, Hershey's is the suckiest kind of chocolate I've ever tasted. The texture is gritty and it makes my throat feel bad. It also tastes weird, and it smells. No sense of richness. I wouldn't eat Hershey's chocolate if there was a choice.
8178
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I thought it was just me.
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28 Jun, 2007
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Reviewer:
A customer from Atlanta, Ga
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I was born and raised in the U.S., and I have always felt that Hershey Bars, and Kisses taste like vomit. The have an awful aftertaste. I'm relieved to know others share this opinion.
8176
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better than cadburys
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7 May, 2007
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Reviewer:
A customer from Lincolnshire
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I'm from the UK but while visiting family in colorado springs I tried Hershey milk chocolate for the 1st time.Admitted the smell is a little different but I prefer hersheys to cadburys.I find cadburys a bit sickly sweet.
I now get bars of hersheys sent to me in the mail from my aunty in the US as I cant find it in the UK.
8087
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Disgusting
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22 Feb, 2007
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Reviewer:
Does it really matter? from New York
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Even the most expensive chocolate made in the USA sucks. And Hershey's is the most horrible of them all. And anything Kraft makes in the USA sucks as well. I don't know why. And also. it's true that American Cadbury is not good, neither is the American Nestle. Yuck.
7937
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Hershey
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21 Feb, 2007
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Reviewer:
A customer from Texas, USA
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As an American I whole heartedly agree with those in the UK that Hersheys is nasty. I've always thought is smelled at tasted like spoiled rotten milk...glad to see I wasn't the only one who thought that. I wasn't too suprised to find out that's exactly what was in it!
7927
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Ohh my gosh!!!
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2 Feb, 2007
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Reviewer:
A customer from United States
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Ohh my gosh. The first time that I ever tried hershy's chocolate my mouth was in a chocolate heaven! I dont know why anybody whould not love hershey bars!! Who ever says that it is nasty i beg to differ!! Thank-you!....I love this product!!
7890
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Cheesy chocolate
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7 Jan, 2007
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Reviewer:
FruityLoops from Cheltenham, UK
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I loooove hersheys chocolate! My partner hates it.
I don't really consider it proper chocolate mind and would never compare it to Cadburys (I hate) or Galaxy (I love) as it isn't really comparable. I know it smells odd but I've never noticed the vomitty aroma lots of people have mentioned. To me the chocolate tastes like a mixture of chocolate and cheese, mmm!!
Was distraught to find a new taste version of Hersheys tasting like boring Cadburys the last 2 times we've been to Canada, could only find the original taste in a tiny niche sweet shop :-(
7837
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Even my 3 year old refused to eat it!
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21 Dec, 2006
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Reviewer:
A customer from Bristol
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My husband and I visited New York and thought that it would be really nice to take our 3 and 6 year old back a bag of Hershey's Kisses each. I couldn't wait to try them when they opened them, but had to hide my contorted face from my children when the taste of sick hit the back of my throat. My 3 year old instantly said that they tasted 'yucky' but my 6 year old battled on for a few days before finally admitting to not liking them! My husband tried one to see what the fuss was about and also instantly said 'eugh they taste like sick'!
7812
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US chocolate tastes really discustin
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14 Dec, 2006
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qsdvgh@yahoo.com from
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I dont know why this is, but until I came to the US i loved chocolate. Now it makes me sick when i think of it.
Every kind of popular chocolate ive tried in the US has this bizzare flavour that makes my stomach turn upside down. Are they replacing cocoa with something else? I dont know. Maybe some of you can confirm this...
European chocolate tastes just like it always did...
7805
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The vomity smell and sour taste is an aquired appreciation.
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14 Dec, 2006
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Reviewer:
dougzim@fastmail.fm from US of A
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Please UK reviewers have an open mind! Sometimes terrible tasting things taste good. Take Scotch for example.
7804
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great novelty...but a genuinely weird taste range
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29 Oct, 2006
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Reviewer:
A customer from England (South Coast)
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I was in new york recently to, i bought a selection of things for myself and my friends. I bought a couple of Times Square bars and I thought the first bar tasted quite nice, shared between friends, etc, they liked it too. But on opening the second bar, it smelled complete different to the first, and tasted sour...this may be because of temperature, i refrigerated the second bar which may have effected it, but shouldn't have cos cadbury is lovely from the fridge! The same happened with those milk chocolate kisses! I bit one and the taste was vile...i had to spit it out (sorry fans)! These were refirgerated also...but i can say, the caramel filled kisses were amazing! I finished the whole packet! Anyway, when i go back, i know what to get and what not to get...but i am confused with why the taste seems to vary so much!
7733
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Nice Wrapping....
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9 Aug, 2006
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Reviewer:
jean from glasgow
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I am just back from New York and visited the Hershey and must say the shop and staff were lovely. I did purchase several tins of Hershey chocolates also some bars. I tried some while I was there, once you get past the smell it is ok, but not a patch on Cadburys. Sorry.
7538
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Sounds like Sour Milk
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29 Jun, 2006
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Reviewer:
A customer from Manhattan, New York
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Hershey always used to use up the milk that had gone sour to make their chocolate, it was cheaper and supported local farmers. The taste has never changed, which is why some people detect that 'high' taste or smell in the product. Obviously it would be a marketing disaster for them to change the taste today, but it explains why someone who is new to the taste and smell of Hersheys picks up on the essence of putridity
7413
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sucks, but doesn
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26 Jun, 2006
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Reviewer:
astroman from Houston
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As a kid I ate hersheys because thats what we had, but now that there are all sorts of other brands in the US i won't touch it. The things is...Hershey's doesn't really taste like chocolate.
It is mass produced as cheaply as possible with huge marketing campaigns to a mostly captive/ignorant audience. It might have been good years ago, but by now they've found a sweet spot of lousiness that maximizes profits and most people don't know any better after watching Hersheys commercials for decades. To any other Americans on here, try non-Hersheys sometime Lindt truffles are good and cheap.
7384
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WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE!!!!!
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21 Jun, 2006
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Reviewer:
A Kid from New York
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HERSHEYS ROX MY SOX!!!!! How can you british peoples dispise it? I LUV IT!!!!! I mean its not like I hate the UK either, Monty Python Rox! Just STOP SLAMMING AMERICAN CLASSICS LIKE THE HEERSHEY BAR OHTAY?
7354
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Best thing ever
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4 Jun, 2006
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Reviewer:
A customer from Wisconsin, USA
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Coming from the states, I was quite disappointed when I realized there were no Hershey bars in London (by the way, they are made in Hershey, PA). I've grown up eating them on s'mores and all melty on warm days and love them to death. The taste is smooth and rich and if you break the bar into the mini bars it can last forever! I've tried some Cadbury's chocolate now while I'm here in London and the taste to me is a bit off. But to each their own!
7304
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this gets a zero!!
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25 May, 2006
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Reviewer:
A customer from Syracuse ,New York
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Thank you for everyone who agrees that it smells like puke!! it truly does, and for the one's who have'nt realized that yet , just put your nose over it when you open it up ...the best milk chocolate is Marabou ( from Sweden ), nothing beats their taste...
7262
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I suppose its chocolate if it contains cocoa
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17 May, 2006
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Reviewer:
Debbie from Liverpool, UK
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You really cant get away from the smell of it, I really have no idea where it comes from (and I know it sounds nasty) but it really does smell of vomit.
If you ignore the smell it is a bit chalky/waxy in the texture department but if your really desperate its not bad.
It gets 2 stars because its dieters chocolate - the taste/smell seems to get worse the more of it you eat. If I want less sugar I would rather eat cadburys bournville.
Hersheys does not give american chocolate a good name, I just wish more people would discover Ghiradelli - its creamy, tastes caramelly, and melts like a velvet kiss over your tongue. I discovered Ghiradelli in San Francisco and it beats all european chocolate hands down. Hersheys could learn a few lessons from them, especially on how to improve the smell!
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we all loved it
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14 May, 2006
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A customer from London
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At birthdays, people in my class gave out Hershey's milk chocolate and Hersheys kisses. And we all loved it. People who actively don't like Hershey's chocolate are probably actively looking for sites to complain on. I haven't met anybody who didn't like it.
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Hershey
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7 May, 2006
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bigbubbs523 from USA
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Hershey's Chocolate is wonderful. It goes great with all that tea in Boston harbor. cheers
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the best in the world
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7 May, 2006
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A customer from USA
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Hershey's chocolate is a great product. If it wasn't, it wouldnt still be around after 112 years. Now some of you Brits might not like it (or most of you) but thats okay because it's not made for you. Its made for Americans. And we won both world wars because of it...and the Revolution...and the war of 1812. So by all means buy your Cadbury and stop slandering our sweet sweet Hershey's Chocolate...and you're welcome for beating germany.
7201
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Yuck!
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26 Apr, 2006
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A customer from London
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Both smells and tastes terrible! Not a patch on good ol' Cadburys....
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Disgusting smell, but a strangely addictive taste
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27 Feb, 2006
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A customer from London
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This is an odd one. The first thing that hits you when you open a bar of Hershey's is the smell: like rancid essence of bile. It's really pronounced, and is evidently enough to put most people off Hershey's for life. It nearly did me. But oddly, once (or if) you get past the smell then the chocolate itself is none too bad. It's quite creamy, rich tasting, with a nice melt-in-the-mouth quality. Some have commented on its graininess. I admit, it never really struck me as that big of a deal, though if you like your chocolate super smooth you might want to take that into account.
Anyway, I must be a glutton for punishment because I bought another bar. Sure enough, same stench, same surprisingly pleasant taste. Maybe it's the brand name calling to me (and it does have such a nice wrapper) but I now buy a bar every time I'm in the States. And a funny thing has happened. I no longer notice the smell, and I find myself craving the chocolate more and more when I'm away. Whatever addictive chemicals they inject into the formula must be doing their job...
All 'joking' aside, if I were rating this on taste alone it would be a firm four. But honestly, the smell is going to be too much for many to ignore, so I have to knock a star off. Sure, it's not up there with the very best Belgian and Swiss brands, but as a commercial candy bar it certainly holds its own. Just try not to vomit first time round.
6951
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Oh yuck!
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22 Feb, 2006
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A customer from Cincinnati/Wiltshire
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Ok so America is great for lots of things but trust me chocolate aint one of them! I took cadbury's over to them and they were in heaven...a gap in the market??
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Disgusting
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18 Feb, 2006
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christian_jackson from London, England
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I tried Hersheys when I was on holiday in New York and thought that it was absolutely disgusting. But 'hey ho' I thought, it's world-famous so maybe it's just me, so I brought some back for the office as is the tradition when you've been on holiday. To say I was unpopular is an understatement. It's difficult to say what they hated more - those or the fish-flavoured sweets I brought back from Denmark...
6893
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Avoid it
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15 Feb, 2006
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A customer from Maidstone, Kent, UK
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Completely agree with the comments about different tastes but then how do the americans manage to make such an excellent product as Ghirardelli chocolate? All mass produced chocolate in the UK is now getting too sweet so go for a good quality like Green and Blacks, more expensive but worth the outlay.
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stunning
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14 Feb, 2006
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A customer from South Wales
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I tried hersheys last summer while i was in florida and the smell put me off at first but it tasted absolutely gorgeous and i had cravings for it when i came back to the UK.....stunning :D
6863
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US cocoa comes from S. America
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14 Feb, 2006
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feezor from Indiana, USA
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In watching a documentary on chocolate it said the reason european chocolate tastes different from US is because we get our cocoa from different continents, which are different types of cocao plants. I'm sure some companies also add their own little unique differences that we grew up on, but foreigners aren't accustomed to. So I think that proves that it is aquired tastes, depending on where you live. I often hear people say that when they visited UK or europe the chocolate tastes like cheap Easter or Christmas candy. but I've heard that europeans say they can't find good tasting chocolate over here. Even the Cadbury's and Dairy Milk made in the US is made more to suit our taste, so visiting europeans wonder what we've done to it. And we wonder why, besides the candy bars, oreos taste bad in the UK. The chocolates I find in our import stores tastes nasty to me so visitors could get their european candy there and be satisfied. My son-in-law recently attends Edinburgh University and I have been sending my daughter items that she says doesn't taste the same over there, like chocolate, peanut butter, oreos, pickles..but they are getting used to some of the differences, and will have to get used to it again when they come back here to live.
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Very aquired taste
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26 Jan, 2006
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A customer from California
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After I came to the US I tried Hersheys milk chocolate; the sour milk aftertaste is nasty. I agreed with other reviewers, British chocolate is better than USA. Then I tried Ghirardelli. A really excellent chocolate, by any standards. So all ex pats, if you do not like Hersheys strange taste, buy Ghirardelli
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Hearty flavor and texture; maybe acquired taste
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20 Dec, 2005
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A customer from Chicago, Illinois
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I am so glad to find this collection of reviews because while I really enjoy Hershey's milk chocolate and sometimes actually prefer it (especially the version with almonds) to the other common ones around here such as Lindt, Cadbury, Toblerone, Milka, Chunky, Nestle, Ghirardelli, Dove etc., it DOES have a definite bile taste that is especially noticeable as an after-effect in the back of the mouth and throat. I was always kind of amazed at this being part of the experience whenever somebody offered me a Hershey's Kiss at work etc., but I never checked to see if anyone else noticed the same thing, perhaps because I thought it was just my subjective take and that it was weird to still like Hershey's if it tasted that way to me! (I think a kind of warning aura of this effect is often noticed as soon as you pop it in your mouth -- seems like especially if it's a Kiss, though I don't see why that would be -- maybe that comes from the smell that others are talking about.)
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Smells like SICK, Tastes like SICK, Must be Heshey
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24 Nov, 2005
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Phil Leary from Warwickshire, UK
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My boss bought me back some Hershey's Chocolates from New York. (I don't think she likes me) The Peanut choc was great, the dark chocolate was great, the milk chocolate was (and tasted like)VOMIT. I thought that someone in the factory had barfed in the chocolate till I found this website. BELIEVING IS SMELLING AND TASTING!
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If I could put no stars I would
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14 Nov, 2005
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A customer from Telford
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Hersheys chocolate sucks. England has the nicest choclate by far...Galaxy and Cadburys...yum yum. I bought bars of Cadburys and Galaxy chocolate whilst I was in America and they tasted foul...definately not made in any English factory. I was cheated out of my money.
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DIY Delicious
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11 Nov, 2005
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Reviewer:
mtrix4asma from Manchester
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This chocolate is DIY Delicious full of a creamy chocolate that knocks you off your feet. You feel as though your in heaven and everything is beautiful...
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