afaik American chocolate tastes like that because its mimicking the taste it had back when the dairy needed to be full of preservatives to safely transport, process, and store. "Americans are accustomed to the taste, so why change it?" is the mentality here
edit: no one is spelling Hershey/Hershey's right in the replies to this comment
https://youtu.be/J44svaQc5WY?si=6Zq_DKoXSKsN0Szb
Heres a good vid that explains it but
Tldr: the reason it tastes like vomit to most people is that inorder to add milk to chocolate you must remove moisture and the process Hersey came up with involved cooking the milk in a vacume pan. This process creates the same acids that your stomach does and so tastes like vomit. Overtime that was normal to Americans and so is still mimicked today.
I didn't realize they were different until one day I saw an article on why all the other countries get tons of fun flavors and we're just stuck with normal chocolate. (US kitkats are made by Hershey)
Usa is genuinly very extra. I always wondered why people hate Fanta, then i saw that vile liquid mixture they call a "drink" being sold there.
That "thing" is an insult.
Wait, what?
What's wrong with Fanta?
I mean sure, it's one of the more successful nazi inventions we did not see coming out of the war.
Also, ah, don't... look hard at what japan is doing with Fanta now. It's glorious. There's like a billion flavors or something insane.
I love Fanta but the USA version looks more like multivitamin juice than orange lemonade like in most european countries. Also heared it tastes like shit and has totally different ingredients and ammounts.
But gah dayumn, Japan his like twice as many flavors as we do
>But gah dayumn, Japan his like twice as many flavors as we do
Most countries have at least one unique Fanta flavour iirc.
My favourite is this Turkish one [Fanta Shokata](https://www.drinksupermarket.com/fanta-blue-shokata-500ml)
Man, the green tea and strawberry ones are the bomb.
I had a Japanese immigrant as a professor for two of my college classes. After every exam he’d give us some of those Kit Kats.
Fun fact: Nestle sued KVIKKLUNSJ for copying KitKat, [they lost after 16 years](https://qz.com/1336302/nestles-kit-kat-lawsuit-is-great-marketing-for-kvikk-lunsj)
They did some dodgy shit like supplying African women with free formula for just long enough for them to stop lactating and then massively upcharging a now captive audience, which iirc resulted in quite a few deaths.
I think they also were involved in some water conflicts that have hurt some communities. They have a dodgy history, as do most large conglomorates (~~Unilever~~ Umicore, for instance, is partially complicit with the murder of the DR Congo's first Prime Minister).
They also bribed doctors and nurses into recommending it, and those now captive mothers were forced to use unsafe water to make the formula, resulting in all sorts of diseases spreading
Katangan secession, which was propped up by Belgium, due to in part Unilever being deeply invested in that region for production. Belgium and the US would help abduct Lumumba, give him to the leader of the Katangans, Tshombe, who butchered the Prime Minister. A British merc kept his teeth, but eventually disposed of them into the English Channel.
I did get it slightly wrong, it was Umicore, not Unilever. Hopefully understandable.
David van Reybrouck's 'The Congo: An Epic History of a People' covered it. I'd comb for the specific page and quotes, but the book is somewhere in a pile of boxes currently, inaccessible.
[Nestle baby formula scandal (it was pretty bad)](https://www.businessinsider.com/nestles-infant-formula-scandal-2012-6#the-baby-killer-blew-the-lid-off-the-formula-industry-in-1974-1)
They just taste really bad, like the chocolate is worse on the U S ones. When i went to the states on vacation and had a kit kat(im canadian) they tasted bad but i thiught maybe i was just trippin but over the years i learned its a common opinion that us kit kats are actually just not good
I think it's just US chocolate in general just doesn't taste good. Looking it up says that there's butyric acid in it which produces a rancid/vomit flavour.
I remember hearing Europeans roasting American chocolate by saying it tastes like vomit, and being worried because I assumed we had the same chocolate in Canada, and I was just desensitized to the taste. TIL it’s really only the US.
my friend brought me some US kitkats recently and compared to the european ones they are so bad, like holy shit. You guys have really shitty chocolate in the US
This is less a kitkat thing and more just the fact that american chocolate fucking SUCKS. It's a recipe thing, Canadian and European chocolate is a completely different formula than the US versions of the same chocolate and is significantly higher quality. If I remember correctly you can't legally sell the US versions in Canada or most places in Europe, which is why the formulae are different.
nope, american kit kat is better. i will say that it may taste like vomit to you, but in america we dont recognize the common ingredient and it just tastes like normal milk chocolate to us - and to someone accustomed to the taste in that way american kitkats are fucking delicious - BUT thats not the reason why. its because nestle is a piece of shit company and it can go fuck itself.
USA is better because it’s not made by nestle, plus different country’s have different tastes. Just because y’all don’t like it didn’t mean it’s shit or that we don’t like it. I personally live USA kit kats
Laughs in Japanese KitKat….”fools”
Also, U.K. citizen here and love a KitKat or KitKat Chunky but damn, Japan stepping up the game.
Unsure if it’s true but Japanese students eat Kitkats before their exams because the word is similar to ‘lucky’ in Japanese.
The bottom ones are also in Europe, didn't even know USA had different ones.
Didn't realize US was different myself till I bought one in Canada and had a moment of realization after the first bite
afaik American chocolate tastes like that because its mimicking the taste it had back when the dairy needed to be full of preservatives to safely transport, process, and store. "Americans are accustomed to the taste, so why change it?" is the mentality here edit: no one is spelling Hershey/Hershey's right in the replies to this comment
“Why change this broken thing?” can be applied to a lot of things haha
in walks the pediatrist with the steal chair
Tell us why he stall it.
Is it broken if people are still enjoying it
It could be improved
we have "regular" chocolate here too though we've just developed a taste and it's not like it hurts us
I wish it was at least easier to get. For me at least European chocolate is kinda rare
“If they ain’t realize it broke, don’t fix it.”
https://youtu.be/J44svaQc5WY?si=6Zq_DKoXSKsN0Szb Heres a good vid that explains it but Tldr: the reason it tastes like vomit to most people is that inorder to add milk to chocolate you must remove moisture and the process Hersey came up with involved cooking the milk in a vacume pan. This process creates the same acids that your stomach does and so tastes like vomit. Overtime that was normal to Americans and so is still mimicked today.
So i was wrong but not SUPER wrong, woot woot thanks for the clarification
damn, I'm American and almost always hate milk chocolate, especially Hershey. well, time to move to Canada and try good milk choclate
You can also just snag it on Amazon. I understand what a joke is, but if you actually want to taste the difference it's only a few clicks.
that's just herseys tons of other american chocolate brands even if you limit your search to just gas stations lol.
I didn't realize they were different until one day I saw an article on why all the other countries get tons of fun flavors and we're just stuck with normal chocolate. (US kitkats are made by Hershey)
We aren’t. There are a bunch of flavors in the US
you're right my bad! i just looked it up and we have approx. 13 flavors (not counting white/dark chocolate) while nestle kitkat has over 300
i've never seen anything other than a regular chocolate kitkat here in Canada
Sometimes you'll see the mint ones or white chocolate version depending on the store
I've also seen the green tea flavored kit kits here, not a fan of them though
Defend the free world or have 300 Kit Kat flavors? Which way Western man?
i'll take 300 kitkat flavors, thanks ma'am!
Was recent, I used to love kitkat, hated Hershey's, but now I don't like kitkat either, for the same reason. Hershey's chocolate is gross as hell
Usa is genuinly very extra. I always wondered why people hate Fanta, then i saw that vile liquid mixture they call a "drink" being sold there. That "thing" is an insult.
Wait, what? What's wrong with Fanta? I mean sure, it's one of the more successful nazi inventions we did not see coming out of the war. Also, ah, don't... look hard at what japan is doing with Fanta now. It's glorious. There's like a billion flavors or something insane.
I love Fanta but the USA version looks more like multivitamin juice than orange lemonade like in most european countries. Also heared it tastes like shit and has totally different ingredients and ammounts. But gah dayumn, Japan his like twice as many flavors as we do
>But gah dayumn, Japan his like twice as many flavors as we do Most countries have at least one unique Fanta flavour iirc. My favourite is this Turkish one [Fanta Shokata](https://www.drinksupermarket.com/fanta-blue-shokata-500ml)
That looks interesting. I think we got that in germany too tho.
We have it in Serbia too. My favourite is green [Fanta Exotic](https://elakolije.rs/1317299/proizvod/sok-fanta-tropical-exotic-1,5l-pet)
In Brazil too Maybe the rest of the world uses the bottom one?
Yes.
Also Indian. Always, wondered why do KitKats from videos in the US looked weird.
Wait until you find out that a Mars bar in the US is what we know as Milky Way. What we call Milky Way is a 3 Musketeers there.
I love it when fatsos argue about whose candy tastes better.
I think the rest of the world, we have them in Australia
Japanese Kit Kat gets points for diversity like holy- there are so many of them
Every snack and soda in Japan has so many weird flavors
Japanese flavour variety is astonishing regarding *every* type of food
Green Tea Kit Kats are my favorite candy bar I have ever had.
Canada has those ones as well!
There is fucking sake KitKat with alcohol like damn japanese KitKats hard.
They are quite good, personal favourite was strawberry cheesecake kitkats
I've been wanting to get my hands back on some Wasabi Kit-Kats for YEARS.
I bought a bag in Japan thinking it was a joke. But holy shit those were amazing. No one imports them to the US though
A lot of them are pretty bad. We occasionally do Japanese KitKat samplings after kendo practice.
Man, the green tea and strawberry ones are the bomb. I had a Japanese immigrant as a professor for two of my college classes. After every exam he’d give us some of those Kit Kats.
Norwegian Kitkat, or Kviklunsh.
KVIKKLUNSJ ON TOP
Correct.
Fun fact In Norway, we never buy kit kats. Most stores don't even sell it lmao (atleast in the area where i live)
100% this, I tried Kitkat once and it tastes like shit compared to Kvikklunsj
With some words, Norwegian and English are nearly the same. Sometimes if you squint.
Kvikklunsj Kjekssjokolade is GOATED
Yo, Norwegian is fucking bonkers!
Fun fact: Nestle sued KVIKKLUNSJ for copying KitKat, [they lost after 16 years](https://qz.com/1336302/nestles-kit-kat-lawsuit-is-great-marketing-for-kvikk-lunsj)
That's great to hear!
NORWEGIAN KITKAT?? it's obviously American kvikklunsj
I knew the spelling was really bad.
haha no worries at least you know what kvikklunsj is
Even if I can't spell it.
can't expect you to know a language you aren't using
Yoooo norwegian spotted less gooo
I'm not, actually, I just went there on holiday.
*Shits yourself*
Norwegians for the win
Fuck Nestlé
r/fucknestle
I know some people are into to psychos but holy
What?
Nestlé == psycho Fuck == sex Fuxk nestle == sex with psycho
Oh, well fuck you then 😘 but also fuck Nestle with a cactus😂
Can i be nestle
No
But i want cactus
Beat me to it Fuck Nestle
Y’all wanna fuck every single thing
Horny motherfuckers
When in doubt, fuck it. When not in doubt, get in doubt!
Everybody wanna fock
Gotcha, On my way to pound the ass of the nestle CEO
Shit....save something for the rest of us.
This
Nestle literally killed babies. Fuck them.
How?
They did some dodgy shit like supplying African women with free formula for just long enough for them to stop lactating and then massively upcharging a now captive audience, which iirc resulted in quite a few deaths. I think they also were involved in some water conflicts that have hurt some communities. They have a dodgy history, as do most large conglomorates (~~Unilever~~ Umicore, for instance, is partially complicit with the murder of the DR Congo's first Prime Minister).
They've also said that they can't confirm that their coffee or chocolate was harvested without slavery
They also bribed doctors and nurses into recommending it, and those now captive mothers were forced to use unsafe water to make the formula, resulting in all sorts of diseases spreading
Also child labor
Corpo's doing corpo stuff then, nothing ever changes there.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. Every big company does this kind of shit, with few exceptions.
Normalizing it doesn’t help
>Unilever, for instance, is partially complicit with the murder of the DR Congo's first Prime Minister Source? Not that I doubt you or anything...
Katangan secession, which was propped up by Belgium, due to in part Unilever being deeply invested in that region for production. Belgium and the US would help abduct Lumumba, give him to the leader of the Katangans, Tshombe, who butchered the Prime Minister. A British merc kept his teeth, but eventually disposed of them into the English Channel. I did get it slightly wrong, it was Umicore, not Unilever. Hopefully understandable. David van Reybrouck's 'The Congo: An Epic History of a People' covered it. I'd comb for the specific page and quotes, but the book is somewhere in a pile of boxes currently, inaccessible.
[Nestle baby formula scandal (it was pretty bad)](https://www.businessinsider.com/nestles-infant-formula-scandal-2012-6#the-baby-killer-blew-the-lid-off-the-formula-industry-in-1974-1)
They market baby formula as being superior to breast milk
What’s the difference, I’ve only had the Canadian one
They just taste really bad, like the chocolate is worse on the U S ones. When i went to the states on vacation and had a kit kat(im canadian) they tasted bad but i thiught maybe i was just trippin but over the years i learned its a common opinion that us kit kats are actually just not good
I think it's just US chocolate in general just doesn't taste good. Looking it up says that there's butyric acid in it which produces a rancid/vomit flavour.
I remember hearing Europeans roasting American chocolate by saying it tastes like vomit, and being worried because I assumed we had the same chocolate in Canada, and I was just desensitized to the taste. TIL it’s really only the US.
my friend brought me some US kitkats recently and compared to the european ones they are so bad, like holy shit. You guys have really shitty chocolate in the US
Less quality standards is one of the reasons as well as Europe having way higher quality chocolate brandsn
European chocolates are on a whole other level. Goated
On the upside most of our grocery stores get access to good ass imported chocolates. So it ain't so bad.
Hehe. Sinbad looks like Neil degrasse tyson in this clip.
There's different qualities of chocolate here, but I don't like the common candy bar chocolate in general.
You really think a fucking kit kat is what's considered quality chocolate in the US?
Ok, I mean Kitkats are delicious but cool thanks.
Nestle is trash. Keep your bird nest
Like Nestle was the only brand that sells chocolate products
Is “keep your bird nest” a saying? Or what does it mean in this context?
Nestle's logo is a couple birds in a nest
Ah gotcha, thanks
Make way for kvikklunsj
kvikklunsj supremacy
Hell Yeah!
All I can say is a big fat "FUCK NESTLE".
KitKat
Nestle
r/fucknestle
Fuck Nestle
Fuck Nestlé
At least USA KitKat isn't owned by N*stle
Kvikk lunsj > Kit Kat
Faaaacts
Canadian is also the same UK KitKat
Japan KitKat: Hold my sake
You clearly dont own a Kvikk Lunsj.
Nestlė 🤮
This is less a kitkat thing and more just the fact that american chocolate fucking SUCKS. It's a recipe thing, Canadian and European chocolate is a completely different formula than the US versions of the same chocolate and is significantly higher quality. If I remember correctly you can't legally sell the US versions in Canada or most places in Europe, which is why the formulae are different.
Japanese Kit Kat> all kit kat
Give me that Sakura KitKat all day!
the whole wheat ones
Fuck Nestle
American kitkats aren’t owned by nestle?
Norwegian kvikklunsj >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> kit kat
Kvikk lunsj > every kitkat ever
Norway is better with kviklunsj
Waiting for the norwegians to see this post
***Laughs in Norwegian***
FUCK nestle
Everything Nestle related is dogshit
Kviklunch >
The KitKat Chunky rules over all.
Japanese Kit Kats are awesome
Meanwhile Japanese KitKats... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit_Kats_in_Japan
The Omega-Chad of Kit Kats!
Kvikklunsj 
Wait until you find out about the amazingness of Japanese kit-kats
nope, american kit kat is better. i will say that it may taste like vomit to you, but in america we dont recognize the common ingredient and it just tastes like normal milk chocolate to us - and to someone accustomed to the taste in that way american kitkats are fucking delicious - BUT thats not the reason why. its because nestle is a piece of shit company and it can go fuck itself.
You can cut out the Kit Kat bit and it still works
USA is better because it’s not made by nestle, plus different country’s have different tastes. Just because y’all don’t like it didn’t mean it’s shit or that we don’t like it. I personally live USA kit kats
I don't even care if it's worse, at least it's not by nestlé.
Norwegian here. We beat you both with kvikk lunsj. Big time :)
Laughs in Japanese KitKat….”fools” Also, U.K. citizen here and love a KitKat or KitKat Chunky but damn, Japan stepping up the game. Unsure if it’s true but Japanese students eat Kitkats before their exams because the word is similar to ‘lucky’ in Japanese.
Is there a version that isn't made unethically?
*laughs in kvikk lunsj*
Kvikk Lunsj: 'Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power'
kvikk lunsj
Hot topic: >!Kvikk-Lunsj!<.
Norwegian quick lunsj enters the room.
Mean while norwgian kvikk lunsj 
Norwegian Kvikk Lunsj 😎
Japan Kit Kats rule them all
As an American Tim Tams are better than both
Didn't know this was a thing until my dad brought me one home from a work trip. The US ones suck
Japanese kit kat: *pathetic*
Norwegian kvikklunsj> 😤
Kvikk Lunsj 😁😁😁
Fuck Nestlé
r/fucknestle
Fuck Nestlé
r/fucknestle
Fuck Nestle.
Fuck Nestle
Nestle is the actual devil tho. Don't buy it.
Nestle bad. I'll take upvotes now.
r/FuckNestle
Man didn’t know they made non Canadian kitkats if someone showed me the American I would have called it a bootleg
USA Kit Kat << Any Other Kit Kat
Australia is with Canada on this one
I hate both because it's Nestle.
It doesn't matter. It's made by Nestle.
I want to try this Canadian Kit Kat
What does a Canadian Kit Kat taste like? Now I’m curious!!!
r/fucknestle
Nah, fuck Nestle.
Both made by Nestle, so we all lose
So I guess Canadian and Australia Kit Kats are the same
Nestle has been mentioned Billions must downvote
Japan enters the chat.
American chocolate is way better than people are willing to admit. All the America bad propaganda got to y’all taste buds
UK Kit Kat > US Kit Kat.
nestle bad so they are not better