• chaogomu
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    10 hours ago

    It’s a tasting note, because the original Hershey’s milk chocolate chemist accidentally spoiled the milk as part of his process.

    It took a decade or two to figure out what was wrong, but by then the American public was used to vomit tasting milk chocolate.

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        5 hours ago

        That may be what it is now, but the original cause was spoil d milk. Because Hershey refused to use powdered milk, he had just bought a massive dairy farm and insisted on using fresh milk.

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      10 hours ago

      Accidentally? I thought he had a large batch of spoiled milk powder and was looking for a way to use it up.

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        8 hours ago

        Hershey doesn’t use powdered milk. Hershey himself stubbornly insisted on the recipe using fresh milk because he had ignorantly bought up a bunch of cows before getting the recipe nailed down.

        And that’s why American chocolate is bad, or so the legend goes.

        Source: I’m from Pennsylvania and have taken the Hershey factory tour many times since childhood.