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Re:It's an Age of Marvels by MisterTea on Monday May 13, 2024 @09:46AM (#40343326)
You're thinking of the cheap stuff like Hershey and other candy bar crap. It's all sugar.
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Re:It's an Age of Marvels by kybernetikos on Monday May 13, 2024 @10:02AM (#40343500)
I don't think it's just the sugar, Hershey uses butyric acid in its process and some other manufacturers copy them because that's the taste US consumers associate with chocolate. To people used to chocolate made without butyric acid, it tastes like vomit.
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Re:It's an Age of Marvels by pfdietz on Monday May 13, 2024 @05:17PM (#40348557)
More accurately, Hershey is thought to use milk that is partially lipolyzed, and this process generates butyric acid -- which, according to the wikipedia page, is also found in Parmesan cheese. Does that taste like vomit?

I find European chocolate tastes sickeningly sweet, so to each his own.

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Re:It's an Age of Marvels by kybernetikos on Monday May 13, 2024 @07:31PM (#40349820)
> is also found in Parmesan cheese. Does that taste like vomit?

I don't think it does taste like vomit, but it does smell like it.

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