I’ve only ever had it twice (Hershey’s Kisses) once when an American classmate gifted them to the rest of class, and once when a coworker returned from the USA with a whole bag of them. Absolutely inedible. I think I may have tried a peanut butter cup once too, it was gritty and oily, but not in the good peanut oily way, more in the ‘this is 50% hydrolysed canola oil that’s tortured into the form of biscuit and chocolate’ kinda way
Peanut butter cups were good when I was a kid, and the best brands are still okay, but a lot of cheap chocolates with peanut butter inside are just disgusting. The chocolate is fine, I actually like most cheaper chocolate, but the peanut butter tastes fake and oily in a bad way.
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Some of the “chalk” ones aren’t bad. The flavour is inconsequential as long as it’s not offensively gross and is somewhat sweet, I just really like the texture. Especially the pressed ones, that don’t make too much mess in your hands but do come apart into powder in your mouth.
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Also I definitely fuck with other ‘dry’ sweets like polvorones
But, I think I’ve already argued against myself cos neither of those two ‘chalky’ sweets are American. The American ones I’m thinking of are like the love heart hard candy, and shaped hard candies.
I probably am doing them a bit of an injustice in that I haven’t eaten enough of their sweets to pass a qualified judgement
I know exactly what American candies you’re talking about. My country is unfortunately physically close to America, so we have a lot of similar foodstuffs if not just the exact same things. Those were the sweets I was talking about. They don’t taste good, but I don’t eat them because the taste is anything spectacular or interesting, I just like the texture of most of them. Sensory processing disorder makes me do the strangest things, I’m telling ya. (You don’t want to know some of the places I’m driven to by the on and off since I was ten search for a hug vest in adult sizes, which seems to not be a thing that exists.)
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American ‘candy’ tastes like puke or syrup, there is no in between
Edit: I forgot the secret third thing: chalk
Yeah I’ve never had it but iirc American ‘chocolate’ like Hershey’s contains butyric acid which also give puke it ‘flavour’
I’ve only ever had it twice (Hershey’s Kisses) once when an American classmate gifted them to the rest of class, and once when a coworker returned from the USA with a whole bag of them. Absolutely inedible. I think I may have tried a peanut butter cup once too, it was gritty and oily, but not in the good peanut oily way, more in the ‘this is 50% hydrolysed canola oil that’s tortured into the form of biscuit and chocolate’ kinda way
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Peanut butter cups were good when I was a kid, and the best brands are still okay, but a lot of cheap chocolates with peanut butter inside are just disgusting. The chocolate is fine, I actually like most cheaper chocolate, but the peanut butter tastes fake and oily in a bad way.
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True science fact. Legally we can’t let Hershey’s call its candy “chocolate”. Moreso chocolate candy.
I tried Hershey’s once and thought it tasted like puke. I thought I was just imagining it. Glad I’m not crazy
Good thing syrup is delicious
The candy cigaratte thing I tried as a kid might as well have been chalk
You’re not supposed to light them up.
Some of the “chalk” ones aren’t bad. The flavour is inconsequential as long as it’s not offensively gross and is somewhat sweet, I just really like the texture. Especially the pressed ones, that don’t make too much mess in your hands but do come apart into powder in your mouth.
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Kinda agree, there are these ones where I live called musk sticks that are fragrant extruded fondant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musk_stick
(cw animal product because some contain gelatine)
Also I definitely fuck with other ‘dry’ sweets like polvorones
But, I think I’ve already argued against myself cos neither of those two ‘chalky’ sweets are American. The American ones I’m thinking of are like the love heart hard candy, and shaped hard candies.
I probably am doing them a bit of an injustice in that I haven’t eaten enough of their sweets to pass a qualified judgement
I know exactly what American candies you’re talking about. My country is unfortunately physically close to America, so we have a lot of similar foodstuffs if not just the exact same things. Those were the sweets I was talking about. They don’t taste good, but I don’t eat them because the taste is anything spectacular or interesting, I just like the texture of most of them. Sensory processing disorder makes me do the strangest things, I’m telling ya. (You don’t want to know some of the places I’m driven to by the on and off since I was ten search for a hug vest in adult sizes, which seems to not be a thing that exists.)
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