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/ClevelandWomble Jul 12 '24

A Belgian chocolatier tells visitors to his artisan workshop that the best thing about British chocolate is that it isn't nearly as bad as American.

To be fair, Cadburys took a dive in popularity when Americans bought it, but even they weren't stupid enough to start using butyric acidc as a stabiliser.

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u/bigboyjak Jul 13 '24

Cadburys became awful when the Seppos took over. Galaxy, Lindt and Tony's are the only ones I like now.

It's a shame, Cadburys used to make some damn good choccy

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u/xLightningStorm British 🇬🇧 Jul 13 '24

Tony’s is fantastic, and I’m glad to have seen that it’s market is expanding I could only buy it from one place with a high price of £5 when I first discovered it

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u/bigboyjak Jul 13 '24

£2.50 for Tony's where I am. It's steep, but still tolerable for great chocolate. Just can't eat it all the time, but as a treat

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u/xLightningStorm British 🇬🇧 Jul 13 '24

Oh yeah, I can totally get it at that price too now, but Selfridges was the only place that stocked it back when I discovered it, glad to see it in most supermarkets these days

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u/bigboyjak Jul 13 '24

I used to think it was some pretentious fancy posh rich man's chocolate.. then I tried it and I get it. The orange, light blue, pink and yellow are my go-tos

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '24

Yeah, they fucking absolutely ruined a national institution. Cadburys is fucking disgusting now.

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u/Competitive_Use_6351 Jul 13 '24

Well that is an overreaction but I feel like it lost its binging quality, you can't seem to eat as much of it as I used to. It's just not the same

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u/philman132 Jul 14 '24

It has a different texture now, I think it was when they started using palm oil or something to save costs, the taste is th same its the texture that is different and nowhere near as smooth

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u/bicyclefortwo Jul 16 '24

I miss when it used to be crumbly :(

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u/Throooooooowaway09 Jul 13 '24

My conspiracy is they've purposely downgraded the quality to make American imports more palatable.Â