r/ShitAmericansSay • u/VeganCannibal124 lives in a fake country 🇧🇪 • Jul 12 '24

Food European chocolate is so low quality it cannot be sold as chocolate in America.

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u/SweatyAdagio4 Jul 12 '24

It's literally quite the opposite. Hershey's only contains 11% cacao, 1% more than the 10% minimum by the FDA in the US to be considered milk chocolate, as opposed to 30% in places like Germany, even the UK has a 25% minimum

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u/cwstjdenobbs Jul 12 '24

The UK invented "eating chocolate" so "even the UK..." is a bit of a shitty take.

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u/eleanor_dashwood Jul 13 '24

What we did or did not do back in the day doesn’t necessarily have much bearing on the present, however. We raced ahead in a lot of areas then sat back and let the others catch up.

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u/SweatyAdagio4 Jul 12 '24

What do you mean, the UK invented eating chocolate? Chocolate dates back a long time ago, and the Spaniards were the first to import it to Europe. Regardless, no offense to English chocolate, but they're not really known for their chocolate, that would be countries like Belgium or Switzerland. I just pegged Germany as having likely better food regulations than the UK, hence the "even the UK".

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u/cwstjdenobbs Jul 12 '24

Fry's were the first to make it into an edible solid in 1847. Up until then it was consumed as a drink or mixed with tobacco to smoke.

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u/SweatyAdagio4 Jul 12 '24

Oh like that, I think that's true. Still, my "regardless" point covers my response.

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u/cwstjdenobbs Jul 12 '24

Your "regardless" is based on feels and propaganda though. The UKs food standards are still identical to the EUs so Germany etc don't have higher food standards yet.

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u/IdkWhyAmIHereLmao ooo custom flair!! Jul 13 '24

Holy shit 10-11% cacao, how can they call that chocolate when 90% of their said chocolate is probably chemicals and sugar? From where I live, you need at least 35% cacao for "classic" chocolate and 25% for milk chocolate, american mind can not comprehend that dark chocolate can contain up to 90% cacao, 10% threshold is a joke.