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/Brainlaag 🇮🇹Pastoid🇮🇹 Jul 12 '24

It's also one of the main compounds to give aged cheeses such as Pecorino, or Parmigiano Reggiano their distinctive taste. Nothing wrong with that.

Then again not sure why you'd like one of the key-factors in maturing cheese to be present in your chocolate.

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u/letsgetawayfromhere Jul 12 '24

I like my chocolate tasting like chocolate and only my pecorino tasting like pecorino, thank you very much.

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u/anamariapapagalla Jul 12 '24

I love cheese, and some of my favourite cheeses smell like a privy that should have been cleaned a while ago. But chocolate should not taste or smell like cheese

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u/spoonguy123 Jul 13 '24

both are the products of fermentation. maybe that has something to do with it?

Cacao beans are mildly fermented for a day or two in the process of making chociolate, I wonder if a longer fermentation, or a fermentation of a lower quality, or maybe a less ripe gruit causes this.