I laugh my ass off when every few years someone combines peanuts and jelly on the Great British Bake-off and literally every single time all the other British people are like “wow, you have invented literally a brand new innovative and delicious cuisine”.
I’ve executed drone strikes in 3rd world countries for less than the absolute anger this post makes me feel
When I was a kid, my family went to go visit some extended family in rural southern France. It was going to be over Halloween, and since the French don’t celebrate it, we brought some American Halloween candy for them to try. To our surprise, they loved it, especially the Reese’s cups. We had expected them to find it gross, since they had much higher quality chocolate in Europe.
A bar of Hershey’s, you can really taste the butyric acid that forms during their unique process. In a Reece’s cup, the high sugar content of the filling (it’s not really even peanut butter) overpowers it. I actually like Reece’s but Hershey’s is a last resort chocolate.
Woah Woah Woah. I’m Canadian and peanut butter and chocolate is also a thing here. Peanut butter may be my favourite thing. Why am I catching strays?
Canada is part of America, just not the USA.
Peanuts and Cocoa are distinctly American, if you can distance applying the term American just to the USA.
No, I cant
Yeah because when I’m aboard ppl always assume I’m Canadian or from Honduras when I say I’m American
I’m not arguing the colloquial use of the term “American” here.
I don’t like this food.
Ok, there’s lots of stuff I don’t like. Why not grab a Snickers?
It’s an abomination!
Whoa there, it’s just a Reese’s cup…
phillistine depravity!!
Look, that’s excessive, isn’t it? And there’s only one L in phi-
AMERICA BAD!!!
Calm down, psycho! Holy shit touch grass!
I just ate some choco coated peanuts. Here, have a choco peanut cookie.
Peanut butter is an abomination and against the scriptures and an insult to God. Change my atheist mind.
Whoever wrote this is wrong and they know it.
You shut your dirty whore mouth
Well, that’s that. Close the thread
Agreed. Close thread.
Happy cake day!
Oh for real? I’ve always rolled my eyes at such a thing, but :-)
Exactly the kind of lively discussion I was hoping for!
The same idiots that say this are the ones who think Nutella is some transcendental ambrosia even though it’s more palm oil than either hazelnuts or cocoa.
Thank you. People love it or hate it but don’t seem to understand it’s just bland palm oil. I want to like it. I’m their core demographic in many ways but there’s not enough flavor to like or dislike, and why would I eat palm oil?
Nutella mixed with the cheapest American peanut butter is heaven. Thank you globalisation.
Hang on a minute, baby, someone is wrong on the internet.
Same types of people think pineapple don’t belong on pizza. Fucked in the head is what I call em.
A gazillion years ago I was in a shop that had an american aisle, so I bought some some american chocolate that had peanut butter in it. Reese’s, I think?
Anyways it tasted slightly like chalky chocolate vomit with peanut butter on it.
I thought I’d got a bad batch so the next time I saw some I got something from Hershey’s. Again, chocolate vomit.
Never had any of that shit since.Cadbury’s in the UK have been adding extra things to their chocolate bars for years now. My cynical brain tells me it’s to mask the fact that they’ve changed things and lowered the quality of their products.
When did this happen? A few years after it was sold to Kraft, an american ‘food’ company…Hersheys has always been horrible but we never had any choices when I was growing up. I’ve had a huge variety of tastes though, from bad to horrible: I can only assume one of the many problems is either lack of environmental controls or keeping it way too long. We have much better options now and I haven’t voluntarily had Hersheys in a couple decades.
However I object to Your criticism of Reese’s. It’s fair to say it’s not quality chocolate, fair to say the filling isn’t really peanut butter, fair to say it’s ungodly sweet, but chalky? Yes, I love it: why?
American regular grocery store brands of chocolate are horrible. Hershey’s and all the rest. Of course it’s the cheapest ingredients drowned in sugar to cover the otherwise poor taste. Cadbury’s now tastes waxy to me. Used to be pretty good. All in the name of profit.
Aldi in the US actually has really decent chocolate, their Choceur label for milk chocolate is quite good. Good luck finding it, I think the tariffs killed the availability, haven’t seen any for weeks.
The common explanation is that Hershey’s chocolate contains some amount of butyric acid which tastes/smells like vomit. Adam Ragusea on YT did a pretty solid video on it.
Why Hershey bars taste like vomit (and I love them)
Not all US chocolate tastes like Hershey.
I thik a lot of the US stuff are things you have to grow with. If you taste them once you’re an adult, you see them for what they are and they’ll never work for you. Hershey and Oreo being the obvious examples for me.
There are virtually infinite things to shit on us Americans for, and most of them deservedly so. But this one ain’t it.
Give me peanut butter and chocolate or give me death.
I’m pretty sure it is ragebait written by an American. Non-Americans don’t really care about this at all.
gives you peanut butter and chocolate
That being said, this regeme might still give you death if you happen to be too brown.
peanut butter brown
or
chocolate brown
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Peanut butter brown is an African American with jaundice. So yeah - still too brown for current administration
I was going to comment exactly this, except I’m not American
Isn’t that the same? If you’re eating peanut butter and chocolate together frequently, you’re probably not long for this world…
and banana!
I’ll make it even better! Chocolate, peanut butter, and a sprinkle of salt
Sub the salt for a thick piece of crispy bacon. Thank me later.
Peanut and choc you said?
