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[IncompleteSenten]

I just finished my Xmas gift shopping online. One of the things I bought was a pack of American chocolate. I resisted temptation for about half an hour then nicked a pack of Hershey kisses.

They taste like vomit. Actual vomit. And I can't get the taste out of my mouth. I've swished with mouthwash, everything. It's like the smell has set up home in my nostrils and the taste at the back of my throat.

Still, I suppose it's a good thing I will not now be giving my son the gift of vomit for Christmas.

I feel so sorry for Americans I want to send the poor sods emergency parcels of actual chocolate.

Right after I gargle with a cup of skunk spray to freshen my mouth.

I'm suffering with covid loss of taste and everything tastes disgusting, soapy metal that coats your mouth.
I wonder if Hershey kisses would reinstate my taste reaction??

Tesco sell a paper cup filled with mixed American sweets for a couple of pounds (in their world foods aisle). Some of them are delicious, some of them disgusting. I bought some for my DC one Christmas and they loved trying out the sweets they had heard of from films - not just the nice ones but for the Russian roulette element Maybe your DS would like that, OP?

I tried Hershey once almost 20 years ago and everyone was raving about how good they were, I thought they were teasing me as I honestly could not taste anything except vomit. I also wonder if certain people have a certain gene or something as it’s a very distinctive taste and people do seem to either love it or hate it.

Oh god, I tried them once when delayed at a US airport. They really compounded my misery. I still can't believe the Americans really eat such awful stuff.

Hershey's stuff all taste like vomit 🤮

@CaputApriDefero

Hershey's kisses DO TASTE LIKE VOMIT!! But some people love them. I can't fathom it. I wonder if people who think coriander tastes soapy (me) think Hershey's taste vile, because it must be something to do with some kind of taste gene if some people think they're delightful.

I think it's just because they're used to it over there!

I have a morbid desire to try it. I won't though.

I have never tried it, but if they are as bad as Orios, I never will.

Why is American confectionery oftern so lame?
Even the peanut butter comes nowhere near the decent (non palm-oil ) versions available over here.

As a bit of a warning, candy corn is another American sweet that looks appealing and tastes awful.

You think it's going to be the texture of a milk bottle and the flavour of a foamy banana.

In reality its the texture of a liquorice allsort and the flavour is so insipid its unnameable.

They are so awful.

@Fatgalslim - I do not like chocolate - not any chocolate let alone US chocolate - but parma violets - what a blast from the past - Thank you for reminding me

But why as a thank you do people always buy chocolate - I hate the stuff. I don't like cake - I do not have a sweet tooth - not to be smug - give me cheese & I could pretty much eat half my own body weight in it.

There is some lovely chocolate in the US (like Ghirardelli and Guittard) but the mass produced stuff is utterly disgusting. I was very excited when Cadburys started becoming widely available, until I tried it and realised that that is now also disgusting :-(

Come on OP, American chocolate is famously dire. I was at college in the US back in the day and my mum would send me big bars of Galaxy chocolate.( not posh I know) u There would be a little gaggle of girls waiting for me to open it. Sadly the Americans have got hold of Cadbury’s so we can look forward to more tinkering with our beloved brands.

Even Americans don't like candy corn!

My DD calls them Hershey Shitses, as they do in fact, taste like turds

I always think that they don't taste of vomit, exactly, but that first drink of water you have after you've vomited. That always has that sweet yet acrid vomitty aftertaste.

And yet- I know someone who actually likes them. He's quite sane in all other areas, but obviously has a little breakout of insanity where these little poo parcels are concerned.

I have to say though OP- you're quite, quite wrong about Parma Violets. They're nearly as gross as Hershey's. Like eating perfume.

We didn't used to buy the Hershey chocolate when we lived in the US, but the Hershey cookies and cream chocolate tasted nice. We bought Dove chocolates instead, tasted more normal. I think they are Galaxy here in the UK

@CaputApriDefero

Hershey's kisses DO TASTE LIKE VOMIT!! But some people love them. I can't fathom it. I wonder if people who think coriander tastes soapy (me) think Hershey's taste vile, because it must be something to do with some kind of taste gene if some people think they're delightful.

I love coriander but Hershey's definitely tastes like vomit to me

There was a woman where I used to work who had moved to the UK from the US. She claimed that US chocolate was amazing and that Tootsie rolls were the food of the gods. To prove her claim, she brought a tub of Tootsie rolls into work. She took a mostly full tub of them back home that evening. They were rank.

They are disgusting

@IncompleteSenten

I just finished my Xmas gift shopping online. One of the things I bought was a pack of American chocolate. I resisted temptation for about half an hour then nicked a pack of Hershey kisses.

They taste like vomit. Actual vomit. And I can't get the taste out of my mouth. I've swished with mouthwash, everything. It's like the smell has set up home in my nostrils and the taste at the back of my throat.

Still, I suppose it's a good thing I will not now be giving my son the gift of vomit for Christmas.

I feel so sorry for Americans I want to send the poor sods emergency parcels of actual chocolate.

Right after I gargle with a cup of skunk spray to freshen my mouth.

Do you still have? Most Americans only use them for these cookies

www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/classic-peanut-butter-blossom-cookies/a3563f6e-96b0-443f-ae0a-53cef4be6db6

What? I like them. I have been to Hershey factory in Hershey, PA. I even got a certificate there in chocolate tasting, accredited as the University of Hershey.
I love all chocolate which is problematic.

I tried them and can still summon the awfulness 35 years later. It also coats your teeth so you can't shift the fuckers and because they are impervious to hot and cold drinks you cant dissolve them.

I also loathe coriander, bananas and Earl grey tea, which triggers my gag reflex even to smell it.

No one could ever accuse me of being a food avoider, but these things are in my room 101.

It's such a revolting "chocolate". Goodness knows what they actually make it with!!

@MarineBlue33

What? I like them. I have been to Hershey factory in Hershey, PA. I even got a certificate there in chocolate tasting, accredited as the University of Hershey. I love all chocolate which is problematic.

Go to the Cailler chocolate factory in Switzerland. They have an all you can eat tasting room. It’s creamy chocolatey amazingness.

American confectionery I’m general is dire. Corn bread (is supposed to be savoury but was actually like cake) is the most disgusting closely followed by Twinkies. All Hershey’s tastes like vomit.

Reece’s Peanut Butter Cups however …

I threw them in the food caddy, mango

Mind you, I could always fish them out, shake off the potato peelings and dinner scraps and bake them into cookies because I genuinely doubt it would be possible for them to taste any the worse for it 😂