You mean "mockolate", don't you subby?

/Cocoa powder and vegetable oil do not a chocolate make.*

_{*Yes, they still sell some true chocolate; unfortunately, they're doing away with more and more of it in an effort to reduce costs. Read labels before you buy}!

horse-pheathers: You mean "mockolate", don't you subby?

Thank you.

Since when is Hershey's remotely good chocolate? If you have to get chocolate in the US at least go for Dove. Hershey's is just way too waxy.

I do like the cocoa powder, but the actual chocolate is not all that. Dove chocolate squares beat Hershey's kisses by a wide margin.

horse-pheathers: You mean "mockolate", don't you subby?

/Cocoa powder and vegetable oil do not a chocolate make.*

*Yes, they still sell some true chocolate; unfortunately, they're doing away with more and more of it in an effort to reduce costs. Read labels before you buy!

This, indeed. If you see PGPR in the ingredient list, you have "chocolate" in name only.

Occam's Chainsaw: I love how seeking redress for grievances through first amendment protected acts of assembly and speech are now anathema to the way America operates.

Our corporate masters are made uneasy by gatherings from which they're not getting money.

Hershey's now makes it chocolate in Mexico, now, thanks to their greedy, goddamn SHAREHOLDERS.

Each Hershey's chocolate. Get the shiats.

ShawnDoc: Excuse me. Is the Beer snob thread? Oh, it's the chocolate snob thread? My bad, carry on.

If they come for my beer, THE STREETS WILL RUN RED WITH HIPPIE BLOOD.

/Go ahead and go after the banks though, they're a bunch of bastards.

Hershey's chocolate is horrible anyway.

Obviously child labor can't produce creamy sweet chocolate like a working man's.

You mean that brown chalky-tasting stuff? fark 'em.

Hershey's smells like vomit and tastes like cardboard.

I remember my first trip to the US when I was about 12 and I came across a bar of Hershey's and thought, "wow, look at how fat and greedy Americans are; this is bound to be awesome."

Boy was I disappointed!

GAT_00: According to the "Raise The Bar" campaign, Hershey's has not made good on its ten-year-old promise to end child labor, forced labor and trafficking in their cocoa supply chain.

Damn. Why do these protesters hate the fee market?

Call me an ass, im sure someone will, but if these kids are working in the cocoa fields at a young age, the alternative to them doing that is what, dying of starvation? Im assuming they are working because they have to. If you take that away, sure they have time to be a kid and all, but... then they die.

why do you hate kids?

Why do I have a feeling that female protestors will be in the majority?

/Wish I could join them.
//All your Kitkats belong to me.

teto85 [TotalFark] Quote 2011-10-22 11:06:18 PM
Hershey's does not make chocolate any more. They substitute vegetable or nut seed oil for the chocolate liqeuer. Mockolate or chokolate but not chocolate.

They did buy Scharffenbarger's and Dagoba, moved all of Scharffenbarger's equipment to PA and laid off all the people. Dagoba had a poison pill clause in it's "merger" agreement and Hershey is basically keeping hands off. Hershey's is too waxy and too sweet and has too many artificial in-greedy-ments.


They did?! Oh fark. I loved Scharffenbarger when I lived in the Bay area (years ago). Used to go to their small store in Ferry bldg where they would have small batches of production for sale with the higher cocoa content - actually can only stand below 80% otherwise its just way too bitter and tastes like cooking choco to my taste.

I hope they didn't fark with the taste - but I guess that is probably against hope : (

Hershey's is not real chocolate. Also, this isn't sponsored by OWS.

I think nearly every tourist to America gives Hersheys a go, thinking that years and years of watching people eat it on TV and in movies that it must be one of the best chocolates in the world.
Sweet holy fark do you learn a valuable lesson about the power of marketing once you've taken the first bite.
And you learn an even more powerful lesson when you take your second one.

/Still remembers the Hersheys chocolate scene in Band of Brothers, it was a sweet moment, but it was still probably a horrible taste.

There was a panorama documentary of Fairtrade cocoa about a year ago..... It is way too open to abuse and corruption. In a sense the corruption exacerbates the child labour problems, by offering a bigger margin to those who exploit the system.

[google it, if you're interested Panorama - Chocolate: The Bitter Truth aired Wednesday 24 March 2010]


/and hersheys chocolate tastes like vomit

Actor_au: /Still remembers the Hersheys chocolate scene in Band of Brothers, it was a sweet moment, but it was still probably a horrible taste.

Interestingly, the Hershey bars that were issued to soldiers in WWII were meant to be emergency rations, the kind of thing you'd only eat if you were stuck somewhere and you either couldn't prepare or didn't have any C- or K-rations. Kind of like a primitive PowerBar, really. So to make sure that the soldiers wouldn't nosh on the things when they weren't supposed to, one of the requirements of the supply contract specified that the chocolate couldn't be any more appetizing than a boiled potato. They also had some additives to make sure they wouldn't melt in a soldier's pack in the height of summer, which couldn't have helped their taste much either.

Actor_au: I think nearly every tourist to America gives Hersheys a go, thinking that years and years of watching people eat it on TV and in movies that it must be one of the best chocolates in the world.
Sweet holy fark do you learn a valuable lesson about the power of marketing once you've taken the first bite.
And you learn an even more powerful lesson when you take your second one.

/Still remembers the Hersheys chocolate scene in Band of Brothers, it was a sweet moment, but it was still probably a horrible taste.

No, it would have been fine. Years ago Hershey made a good (or at least decent, but which traveled and lasted exceptionally well) chocolate bar. Back then it would have actually had chocolate in it. At some point though, they decided they had such a strong brand going that they could keep fractionally changing the recipe to make it cheaper, one teeny tiny bit at a time so people wouldn't notice that their chocolate was changing that much. But over the years it's gone from chocolate to 'mockolate'.

Hershey's is dreadful.

You think I'm alone in this? (new window)

its fkin milk chocolate people.
get off your high horse..
the shiat has a purpose and its good for what it is.

haters gonna hate

FormlessOne,
This, indeed. If you see PGPR in the ingredient list, you have "chocolate" in name only.
Link (new window)

Per wikipedia: PGPR is a yellowish, viscous liquid composed of polyglycerol esters of polycondensed fatty acids from castor oil. It may also be polyglycerol esters of dimerized fatty acids of soybean oil.

My understanding of chemistry is rough, but if a pet eats a castor bean, it will often die. Not to mention ricin is refined from castor beans.

Why the fark are they making food out of it?

/Then again you can't eat rubarb leaves either.

robo beat

Interestingly, the Hershey bars that were issued to soldiers in WWII were meant to be emergency rations, the kind of thing you'd only eat if you were stuck somewhere and you either couldn't prepare or didn't have any C- or K-rations. Kind of like a primitive PowerBar, really. So to make sure that the soldiers wouldn't nosh on the things when they weren't supposed to, one of the requirements of the supply contract specified that the chocolate couldn't be any more appetizing than a boiled potato. They also had some additives to make sure they wouldn't melt in a soldier's pack in the height of summer, which couldn't have helped their taste much either.

for such an "educated" person you are full of shiat.
you think soldiers can tell the difference between chocolate and "trade free organic 96% cocoa" chocolate? Gotta love scholars that dont know poor.

A protest about child labor - at a world-famous chocolate factory - which begs the question...

Won't someone please think about the Hershey Squirts?

That is all.

Since we all seem to be in agreement that Hershey makes a bad product, can we at least agree that the Park has some pretty good roller coasters?

Hershey's imports foreign workers and then exploits the living crap out of them.

furterfan Quote 2011-10-23 06:40:27 AM
/and hersheys chocolate tastes like vomit

skodabunny Quote 2011-10-23 06:03:00 AM
Hershey's smells like vomit and tastes like cardboard.

browntimmy Quote 2011-10-23 06:00:47 AM
You mean that brown chalky-tasting stuff? fark 'em.

Jeezus, get a grip on reality. I like high quality dark chocolate and Hersheys is low quality stuff for sure, but "vomit"? - give me a break.

I still buy a Hersheys once in a blue moon if I'm up for cheapo milk chocolate. BFD.

I don't like chocolate.

furterfan: There was a panorama documentary of Fairtrade cocoa about a year ago..... It is way too open to abuse and corruption. In a sense the corruption exacerbates the child labour problems, by offering a bigger margin to those who exploit the system.

[google it, if you're interested Panorama - Chocolate: The Bitter Truth aired Wednesday 24 March 2010]


/and hersheys chocolate tastes like vomit

Who's vomit have you been tasting and for the love of GAWD, WHY MAN?!?!? WHY?

And, is child labor really all that bad when kids wind up with the majority of the chocolate??

Okay, now that we put all these third world young 'uns out of work by insisting on fair trade cocoa and other products, now in the fark are they going to feed themselves? I'm all for a wonderful childhood surrounded by expensive Fisher-Price toys, Barbie dolls, stuffed animals and electronics for all the worlds children. But in reality, it doesn't work like that. In some parts of the world, the kids have to work to feed the family. If we want to stop that, then we had better be prepared to pony up the toys, food, and designed clothing for Achkmed and Sophia, and all the other foreign kids working at present. Oh, and don't forget Jugdish in Pakistan. He wants an X-box.

Child actors....child labor. Nothing wrong with it.

Child chocolate workers. Nothing wrong with it.

In other parts of the world where they're still really undeveloped, kids really don't have anything else to do. Whatever educational system they have would not even help them survive. They might as well help their families earn money for everyday life. It's not that they are forced to work by someone, they just happen to be born in a very poor and crappy country with the unfortunate event of not being born to a powerful family of position.

Child labor isn't evil. Only people who abuse the children are the "bad guys". If the kids are being paid the same amount that adults get for the same job and as long as they can perform as well as the adults, I don't see anything unfair about it. If you're a poor kid from a crappy country that's been left behind by civilization, you can't really expect any kind of higher education unless you somehow manage to go abroad and study, which is extremely rare, unless some actor or actress who has a "3rd world country child" fetish picks you as their next pet. Children who work to help their families are honorable children and deserves as much respect as any person working to keep the family living day after day.

Hershey's does (and has always done) the same thing that Starbuck's does: they intentionally burn the beans so that the taste will always be consistent (as both coffee and coca beans vary wildly in flavor).

What's ironic is that Hershey's is mostly owned by the Milton Hershey school, which is a charity school for orphans and one of the most richly-endowed schools in the country.

/If you want good chocolate try Wilbur's.

GreenSun Quote 2011-10-23 07:26:11 AM
Child actors....child labor. Nothing wrong with it.

Child chocolate workers. Nothing wrong with it.

In other parts of the world where they're still really undeveloped, kids really don't have anything else to do. Whatever educational system they have would not even help them survive. They might as well help their families earn money for everyday life. It's not that they are forced to work by someone, they just happen to be born in a very poor and crappy country with the unfortunate event of not being born to a powerful family of position.

Child labor isn't evil. Only people who abuse the children are the "bad guys". If the kids are being paid the same amount that adults get for the same job and as long as they can perform as well as the adults, I don't see anything unfair about it. If you're a poor kid from a crappy country that's been left behind by civilization, you can't really expect any kind of higher education unless you somehow manage to go abroad and study, which is extremely rare, unless some actor or actress who has a "3rd world country child" fetish picks you as their next pet. Children who work to help their families are honorable children and deserves as much respect as any person working to keep the family living day after day.

I nominate Green Sun as spokesman for the American Chamber of Commerce in Myanmar or Pakistan.

GreenSun: Child actors....child labor. Nothing wrong with it.

Child actors work under extremely strict labor laws; they're only allowed to be on-set for a couple hours each day, they must be tutored and their earnings are put into trusts.

Dwight_Yeast: Hershey's does (and has always done) the same thing that Starbuck's does: they intentionally burn the beans so that the taste will always be consistent (as both coffee and coca beans vary wildly in flavor).

What's ironic is that Hershey's is mostly owned by the Milton Hershey school, which is a charity school for orphans and one of the most richly-endowed schools in the country.

/If you want good chocolate try Wilbur's.

Doesn't Mr. Ed own Wilbur's?

GreenSun: Child actors....child labor. Nothing wrong with it.

Child chocolate workers. Nothing wrong with it.

Child labor isn't evil. Only people who abuse the children are the "bad guys". If the kids are being paid the same amount that adults get for the same job and as long as they can perform as well as the adults, I don't see anything unfair about it..

It's not just a couple of kids working on mom and pop's farm
It involves kidnapping, child trafficking, forced labour/slave labour
"kids getting paid"?.... dont be stupid, they barely get enough food and shelter.

'fairtrade' is just a label to make people feel good about what they are buying and means little if anything to the people at the sharp end

ShawnDoc: Excuse me. Is the Beer snob thread? Oh, it's the chocolate snob thread? My bad, carry on.

I've always hoped to see a how-to-hang-toilet-paper debate thread here.