Sensible Erection | Hershey's slowly moving past the "chocolate" moniker

Saturday, 9 August 2008

Hershey's slowly moving past the "chocolate" moniker

quote [ It strikes me as odd that Hershey’s new Pure Chocolate campaign comes on the heels of their attempts to dilute the definition of chocolate. ]

Yet one more example of big corp destroying a good thing. (Not that Kissables were ever a good thing)

This all of course ties back to the definition of "chocolate":
http://www.typetive.com/candyblog/item/fda_chocolate_definition_change/

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-may19apr19,0,4511657.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail

[by sythe@4:07amGMT] [+9 WTF]

Comments

mwoody said @ 4:17am GMT on 9th Aug
*sigh* Another food falls to the industry. Remember kids: American Cheese isn't.

On a related subject, Costco carries Mexican Coke now (at least in southern CA). It's stunning how much better actual sugar is than corn syrup, and even moreso that American bottlers still try to claim otherwise.

sythe said @ 4:22am GMT on 9th Aug
I get cane sugar based sodas whenever I can. Only type of soda I'll drink in non-diet form.

f00m@nB@r said @ 4:32am GMT on 9th Aug
non-soda nantucket nectars juice drinks has a couple of "flavors" which use cane sugar. some arizona green tea (in plastic bottles) uses cane sugar, too.

DarkShadowRavenDragonGrrl69 said @ 12:14pm GMT on 10th Aug
Diet soda tastes like ass.

DarkShadowRavenDragonGrrl69 said @ 12:14pm GMT on 10th Aug
*unwashed ass.

Sorry about that.

sythe said @ 2:22pm GMT on 10th Aug
Less so once you drink it for some time. If I drank non-diet I would be the size of a house and my legs would have already fallen off (6 can/day habit).

TheCooler said @ 4:43am GMT on 9th Aug
That's a big thing?

Rorschach said @ 6:00am GMT on 9th Aug [Score:1 Insightful]
Bah, whatever. I love the taste of domestic Coke, especially glass bottle Coke.

damnit said @ 6:13am GMT on 9th Aug [Score:1 Underrated]
you need to try Mexican coke. It's pretty much the same formula everybody else in the world gets.

mrklipp said @ 6:31am GMT on 9th Aug
Try some coke with real sugar. If you can't get the mexican kind, if you live in an area with a decent Jewish population, you can get coke made with real sugar around passover, it's labeled, but iirc, it has a yellow cap as well to make it easier to spot.

It really does make a huge difference, even if you already love regular coke. The soda equivalent of condom free sex, it just feels better, even if you are already happy with the other kind.

radioelectric said @ 8:57am GMT on 9th Aug
And it gives you AIDs?

mrklipp said @ 9:04am GMT on 9th Aug
See, that's why you want to be in a committed monogamous relationship with your fizzy drinks.

astropig7 said @ 2:04pm GMT on 9th Aug
No, that’s Pepsi.

ComposerNate said @ 2:09pm GMT on 9th Aug [Score:4 Funny]

radioelectric said @ 5:26pm GMT on 9th Aug [Score:1 Insightful]
It's only a matter of time before the Classics turn on the Classiques for being French.

b said @ 6:01am GMT on 9th Aug
i've always actually wondered: is "american cheese" the processed stuff? like velveet or kraft singles? the little orange dealies in the individual wrappers? is that what americans call "american cheese"?

TheCooler said @ 7:01am GMT on 9th Aug
Some people call it yellow cheese but yes, that is exactly what it is. You should look up government cheese.

foobar said @ 7:16am GMT on 9th Aug
I don't think kraft singles is (it's an "edible oil product"). American cheese is basically the hot dogs of cheese; all the leftover bits that would otherwise be thrown away smooshed together.

arteitle said @ 10:32pm GMT on 9th Aug
Where are you getting this info from?

foobar said @ 12:25am GMT on 10th Aug
Random trivia kicking around my skull. Probably wikipedia.

snowfox said @ 9:31pm GMT on 9th Aug
Yes. If you order american cheese on a hamburger in the US, you will be given some kind of Krapt single. It is not actually cheese although it contains some of the same ingredients. I always thought it looked like fake plastic cheese from a grocery store play set.

arteitle said @ 10:31pm GMT on 9th Aug
FYI: American cheese. It's not made from cheese leftovers as urban legend would have you believe, but neither is it aged like real cheese would be. It's a processed cheese.

¿ said @ 7:19am GMT on 9th Aug [Score:2 Insightful]
You find it stunningly better? It's a cleaner flavor w/ less aftertaste, but I found it underwhelming after much hype. Yes, w/ a taste test, you'd easily discern the difference but it wasn't to the same jump in flavor as say, fresh vs canned pineapples.
Maybe it was the case I bought, but the bottled Mexican variety also loss carbonation substantially faster than the stuff in the states.
I've yet to try the passover Coke to compare since it sells out fairly quickly these days.

Cash said @ 8:52am GMT on 9th Aug
Yeah, but do they carry Columbian coke? I doubt it.

lilmookieesquire said @ 1:30pm GMT on 9th Aug
You have yo know which packages to buy.

snowfox said @ 9:28pm GMT on 9th Aug
We have them at the same store here in Texas too. There is also something called Dublin Dr. Pepper which is DP made with real sugar. I suspect that with the current cheapness of sugar and rising costs of corn syrup that bottlers will revert to using sugar for the same cost reasons they went to corn syrup.

badger said @ 4:24am GMT on 13th Aug
kosher coke has sugar beet sugar as well,has that old coke bite that us ancients remember from when we were kids.

I also think the glass bottles keep the flavor better then the al. cans,but that could be just me.

monday said @ 4:18am GMT on 9th Aug
Again, the internet proves that somewhere, someone's really, really into absolutely everything.

strangeffect said @ 10:54am GMT on 9th Aug
"Alert and distressed readers informed me that Hershey’s Kissables have been reformulated and not in a good way."

Distressed?

DISTRESSED????

lilmookieesquire said @ 1:29pm GMT on 9th Aug
Stop it, you are totally distresseding me.

ComposerNate said @ 4:40am GMT on 9th Aug [Score:3 Underrated]

theolypse said @ 5:04am GMT on 9th Aug
They're only good if you dip them in -real- chocolate.

TheCooler said @ 7:01am GMT on 9th Aug
This may sound creepy, but sometimes I like to find the skins and then put them in odd places around town, where I work, etc.

damnit said @ 7:05am GMT on 9th Aug
skin art?

radioelectric said @ 8:57am GMT on 9th Aug
You're a bit mental really aren't you?

Jewbacchus said @ 5:38pm GMT on 9th Aug
I do that too. I didn't think it was that weird.

Class1Product said @ 11:54pm GMT on 9th Aug
I did this when I was a kid. I am sure as hell putting them in the Lab to freak somebody out.. Somebody goes to do some cell culture work and there is a cicada exoskeleton in the hood.

foobar said @ 12:24am GMT on 10th Aug
Damn gangsta crickets.

foobar said @ 7:30am GMT on 9th Aug
Actually, this makes perfect sense. It gives them the opportunity to imply that what their competition sells isn't really chocolate.

Barnabas_Truman said @ 3:21pm GMT on 9th Aug
The moral of the story: ignore all advertising; read ingredient labels.

mechanic said @ 6:06pm GMT on 9th Aug
Meh, Hershey's don't make anything I'd consider 'Chocolate', even their made-under-licence Cadburys rip-off....

sythe said @ 7:36pm GMT on 9th Aug
Although true, the bigger issue for me is the creation and marketing of the so-called "mockolate". People raised on crap tend to not know any better.

theolypse said @ 9:08pm GMT on 9th Aug
Which will end up hurting the market for real chocolate, and driving its prices up as it becomes more scarce. :(

snowfox said @ 9:32pm GMT on 9th Aug
Have you tried the Lindt 99% cocoa bars? No one else I know likes them but I do.

spite48 said @ 9:45pm GMT on 9th Aug
I enjoy them occasionally, but you need to be well hydrated to eat one of those puppies. I normally prefer their 70% cocoa bar.

snowfox said @ 9:54pm GMT on 9th Aug
Yeah, I like a nice cold glass of milk with the 99% and I only eat a couple of pieces any time I break it out. I quickly stopped missing all the sugar and other stuff that goes into most chocolate.

Ranma_Saotome said @ 4:38am GMT on 10th Aug
I'm partial to Michel Cluizel Noir Infini 99%, but Lindt's 85% bar is top notch.

rndmnmbr said @ 6:53pm GMT on 9th Aug
Hershey and a bunch of other low-end confectioners have been petitioning the FDA for permission to replace relatively expensive cocoa butter with cheaper vegetable oil in their chocolate. This has been going on for a couple of years. Apparently this is Hershey's first test of public acceptance of this new chocolate formulation.

pempek said @ 9:35pm GMT on 9th Aug
Mars Inc. ftw.

swiggy said @ 7:20am GMT on 10th Aug