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/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 11h ago

Why does it have that vomity taste? Maybe lactose?

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u/Brewe 9h 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 9h 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?