Corporate America Is Conspiring to Keep Your Chocolate Shitty

Re:Corporate America Is Conspiring to Keep Your Chocolate Sh... by handbanana on Thursday April 26, 2018 @03:01PM (#16934573)

Everyone has their personal preferences. But you're comparing a milk chocolate with very dark chocoloate. Cadbury bournville is the dark variety, but I bet its not close to 90%. So if you like 90% chocolate, sure you will hate dairy milk. As far as milk chocolate goes though, cadbury is one of the best IMO. Usually people are split between dove/galaxy and dairy milk (as far as mass produced chocolate goes)

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Re:Corporate America Is Conspiring to Keep Your Chocolate Sh... by jstewartmobile on Thursday April 26, 2018 @03:08PM (#16934630)

She wasn't just talking chocolate. She was getting into economics.

Brought up the dark chocolate because it is the more costly product to manufacture. Cocoa solids and cocoa butter are expensive. Sugar and vegetable oil aren't. If this is a corporate ploy to acclimate people to trash chocolate for profits, she was already on trash chocolate. But even in the low-rent grocers, the premium product is available. Doesn't jive with her thesis.

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Re:Corporate America Is Conspiring to Keep Your Chocolate Sh... by handbanana on Thursday April 26, 2018 @03:24PM (#16934791)

I agree in part. But why did she say "is a chunk of sugared grease by comparison". Seems like that clearly shows she was comparing the two in taste as well...

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Re:Corporate America Is Conspiring to Keep Your Chocolate Sh... by jstewartmobile on Thursday April 26, 2018 @03:29PM (#16934848)

"sugared grease" was from me, not the author.

I wrote that because cadbury has gotten heat in the past for substituting vegetable fats for cocoa butter, and the #2 ingredient in her favorite is sugar. Cocoa products make their first appearance at #3: https://www.cadbury.co.uk/products/cadbury-dairy-milk-11294

Compare with the Lindt 90%: https://www.lindtusa.com/wcsstore/LindtCatalogAssetStore/Att...

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Re:Corporate America Is Conspiring to Keep Your Chocolate Sh... by handbanana on Thursday April 26, 2018 @03:42PM (#16934958)

I assumed the "she" was you as I hadn't read the article yet. So I was referring to you in my comment. As for the comparisons with Lindt 90%, just stop. Choose a lindt product that's a similar % to dairy milk. Here you go: https://www.lindtusa.com/wcsstore/LindtStorefrontAssetStore/...

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Re:Corporate America Is Conspiring to Keep Your Chocolate Sh... by jstewartmobile on Thursday April 26, 2018 @03:59PM (#16935122)

If you read the article, her thesis is that we are under an illusion of consumer choice. That we have several dark and milk varieties of differing qualities and compositions undermines that thesis. Pedantic reminders of apples-to-apples are unwarranted.

From the HN guidelines:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

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Re:Corporate America Is Conspiring to Keep Your Chocolate Sh... by handbanana on Thursday April 26, 2018 @04:45PM (#16935576)

I don't disagree with your comment here. Next time lead with a comment like this that gets to what you're trying to say. If you feel I was being pedantic, then you've missed my points

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Re:Corporate America Is Conspiring to Keep Your Chocolate Sh... by rusk on Thursday April 26, 2018 @03:05PM (#16934608)

Flake is the only decent chocolate any more and I suspect it’s cause mondelez/kraft couldn’t make the texture work with their new formula. Try it you’ll see what I mean!

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Re:Corporate America Is Conspiring to Keep Your Chocolate Sh... by handbanana on Thursday April 26, 2018 @03:26PM (#16934811)

Flake was always good though. I remember liking Spira and Twirl as well. I don't really eat chocolate much any more though, but if/when I do - will make sure to compare flake to non flake

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Re:Corporate America Is Conspiring to Keep Your Chocolate Sh... by rusk on Thursday April 26, 2018 @04:00PM (#16935126)

Yeah twirl has gone down the greasy route lately ...

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