The "American chocolate sux" has been a thing since I was a kid in the 90s. It is definitely not some new phenomenon. American food has a reputation, deservedly so, of being mass produced cheap reproductions of authentic foods. This is true, in regards to our mass produced food products, like American cheese, Hotdogs, Hamburgers, Herseys chocolate, Cool Whip, Miracle Whip...etc. The reasoning though often relates back to times of strife, like the Great Depression. This is similar to how Americans often make note of how bad British cuisine is.
Hamburgers are American.
RetuenOfDevsman posted...
Canning and freezing really effed up American cuisine.
I remember deciding in college to make myself eat some broccoli because "it's supposed to be good for you" and, upon finding it not that bad, reasoning that my palette must have grown up. Then, after years of that, grabbing some frozen and hating it EVERY BIT as much as I did as a kid. Positively disgusting. Because, what I didn't realize was, as a kid I had frozen broccoli, and the fresh is just leagues better.
My boys don't mind their vegetables at all, because we buy fresh instead of that total shit they sell in cans and freezer bags. Actually, my five year old's aversion foods are potatoes and shrimp, lol.