You people have clearly not experienced Indian desserts, which can get absurdly sweet. For example, take gulab jamun: it's basically a donut hole soaked in sugar syrup.
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I rather be destroyed by a comment then to be obese and ruled by an orange deranged criminal convicted sex offender clown.
Jokes on you, some of have the unfortunate luck of getting to experience both
Dear America,
Sugar is not a flavour.
I agree with you, but I would also say, as a retort, that Marmite is not a food.
Marmite is a test of willpower.
Not with that attitude
Marmite is dingle berries in a brown anal paste.
That's being too kind.
Coming from Germany, I can confirm that the objectively correct level of sweetness is what they sell over there. America/UK are too sweet (obviously!). Japan is not sweet enough (duh!).
In other news, sweetness, just like spicyness, seems to be acquired taste and once you got brainsugared by one country's Big Sweets you never come back.
Age plays a part. I don't each much sweets as an adult in the US because they are usually cloying. I'd rather have some fruit. It was the opposite when I was a child.
I had some mild sweet Oreos from Korea recently, and I prefer them to normal ones, for instance.
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Thank goodness for the scribbles, otherwise I might have learned who wrote this thing I liked and we can't have that.
I'll give you this one, most "European" milk chocolate tastes better when there's no lipolysis involved, which is common in Hershey's.
Then again, there's Chocolonely which blows the competition out of the water.
I keep seeing this about chocolonely and I am starting to wonder if I had a bad bar of it. The bar I had was chalky, mealy, and honestly one of the grossest things I have ever had in my mouth.
Being honest, it's not worth calling home about it, but it's above par with everything else you may find on a candy store. It's mostly their free trade policies that's giving them so much hype.
That said, some people go nuts for certain candy bars that I'll rather lick dry cum out of a subway tile than eat one.
I heard of Hershey's just like other brands of American descent I was incredibly poised to try them (MTN dew, taco bell (this was the nineties, they weren't in Europe yet).
Travelled to America, tried Hershey's and spat it out, vile stuff.
Yeah it's not great. I grew up with it and even then I only like it on smores. And I'm sure that's more nostalgia than anything. By itself it's just gross.
I've heard American chocolate tastes different because they originally used spoiled milk to save money and eventually people got used to the taste and it became the norm.
I think I heard that on either How it's Made or Modern Marvels
Not true. What it can happen is that some producers utilize lipolysis, which may cause the formation of butyric acid (AFAIK): https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/finding-flavor-chocolate
I highly doubt anyone would use "spoiled" milk, as powder milk exists since 1802.
Hey man when you're right you're right.
That's my bad I remembered it wrong.
Well, I've heard something akin to that and I checked it very recently. I heard before (even read it) that because milkeries in the US are far from chocolate factories, butyric acid was used to preserve milk for a long journey, but as Europe is tiny and can fit on the back of a large pick up truck, they didn't have such problem.
That was a misunderstanding from the journalist that published that (AFAIK).
I can't find the original, but this also talks about it: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/hersheys-chocolate-tastes-like-vomit_l_60479e5fc5b6af8f98bec0cd
That's exactly correct. It gave the milk a slightly spoiled taste which resulted in the chocolate being more bitter in flavor. I simply misremembered all the details.
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I live in Japan and definitely some sweets that I've brought back from the US to share as well as recipes I've made (from my grandmother's cookbook) were too sweet for a number of folks (usually men, so there may be something else going on here with cultural images/norms and the like as men aren't generally "supposed to" be overly fond of sweet stuff). Still, the vast majority of people liked them and wanted more. I do find myself toning down sugar in recipes, though. Less in grandma's cookie recipes, less in the cornbread recipe I found online, etc.
Sweden here. If the candy isn't trying to destroy your mouth, it's no good.
Sweden: salt sweets, breakfast caviar, ...
Denmark: Liquorice that will make you want to rinse with Vegemite.
Had to look up vegemite, thought it was like thermite.
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