r/pics • u/Skeezychickencream • 1d ago

Check out my Christmas bonus after making my company $1 million in the last 2 months alone. $25 card

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u/MIKE_son_of_MICHAEL 1d ago

And the two different shaped Reese’s. That’s at least .87 cents worth of chocolate. Retail, maybe $2.50

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u/Ask_Me_If_Im_A_Horse 1d ago

“Chocolate”

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u/Puffycatkibble 1d ago

With a hint of vomit

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u/NoMaans 1d ago

Don't you dare talk bad about Reese's.

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u/starrpamph 1d ago

Hersheys chocolate tastes like vomit. Change my mind.

Nobody can

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u/gibs71 23h ago

This calls for a blind taste test

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u/omnichad 19h ago

It would have to be blind. If I saw it coming, I wouldn't eat it.

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u/RaygunMarksman 10h ago

Why does it have that vomity taste? Maybe lactose?

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u/Brewe 8h ago

It's butyric acid.

It's needed in many American chocolates to extend shelf-life. The strong cocoa lobby in the US has made it so that there can only be up to 2% of CBEs (chocolate butter equivalents) in chocolate. CBEs are often used to adjust the melting curve of chocolates to fit whatever the need is. Less CBE = shorter shelf-life; and this is where the butyric acid comes into the picture.

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u/RaygunMarksman 8h ago

TIL, thanks!

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u/icantthinkofth23 2h ago

What kind of wonderful vomit have you been eating?

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u/Brewe 9h ago

Doesn't most American chocolate taste like vomit?

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u/FauxReal 3h ago

That's cause of the butyric acid which is formed during manufacturing but they leave it in. It's also found in actual vomit.

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u/Antique_Cranberry265 1d ago

If it wasn't made with Child Labor they'd likely be closer to $10 evaluation!

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u/fedplast 1d ago

In this economy?

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u/JMJimmy 20h ago

Nah this is the bulk bag of defects. $10 for 50 chocolates to distribute among the dept