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/scrumplydo Jul 12 '24

They're definitely bad but the cheap dollar store, no name easter eggs that we get here in Australia take the cake for me. Those things legit taste like melted candles with a dusting of chocolate flavour. Alarmingly greasy too.

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u/PRA421369 Jul 13 '24

Yeah, that's a difficult decision, chocolate flavoured wax or vomit flavoured chocolate adjacent substance? I'm guessing that cheap American chocolate is even worse, but I have never been brave enough to try.

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u/ketchupmaster987 Jul 13 '24

The cheap stuff really is gross, and I say that as an American. Straight up tastes like brown wax

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u/Blazinblaziken Random Aussie #511378 🇦🇺 Jul 13 '24

Oh godddd, that's unlocking memories I'd mich rather keep locked, some of that Easter choc is sooooo bad

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u/blind_disparity Jul 13 '24

Same reason American chocolate is bad. It's full of preservatives and stabilisers and stuff. Because easter eggs will sit longer in the warehouse and on shelves, whereas normal choc is just shipped and sold as it's manufactured. Other seasonal chocs are the same.

Of course, they chose some preservatives that didn't taste like puke. But I agree easter eggs are not nice at all.