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So what brand? No need to hide that, shame them and do everyone a favor.

Protien poweder my brother let me try from months if not more ago tasted like chocolate milk, got the same kind a few weeks ago and it tastes like tree bark.

I too trashed the malt balls.

Both verbally and literally.

And even then, if it's in the US, their definition of chocolate if fairly lax to begin with.

Of course it doesn't help that they're all owned by like three giant candy corporations.

Last year I went to my local chocolatier, but they didn't have anything suitable for giving out for Halloween, like nothing individually wrapped. I'd love to support and advertise a local business, but alas.

It doesn’t matter if it’s KitKat, Twix, coffee crisp, aero or mars … they almost all taste the same amount of sugar sweetness and hardly any chocolate flavor.

All brand name bars seem to feel/taste kind of waxy, at least the ones I've tried again lately.

Also, it seems like there is more air? I don't know what the weight used to be, but things like Reese's Peanut butter cups seem to be less dense than I remember.

they added alot more sugar or syrup. its the same with cookies, it so much sugar you can taste the granules. like trader joes gingersnaps originally sold in a plastic bag, now its in those tubs, its way more sugary.i dont eat those brand name chocolate, i eat pure 90%cacoa bars mostly. WF sells the "naturally sweetened" "twizzler" and gummy bear equivalent(imported from albanea) you can tell these are far less sweeter than the brand names ones.

The point isn't profit making through competitive better products, but rather taking existing products and making them as terrible as possible while gaslighting the public that it's still a great product. That way we get worse of everything and the people making everything worse get richer via higher profit margins and the higher stock evaluations that buys them.

Basically, most people realize their product is no longer good, but participating in its consumption is more rewarding to our lizard brains than the product itself. So people buy crap products just to get the feeling of using them as they did in the past.

Unfortunately that's just the way we're wired. And every nepo baby with an MBA has driven a truck through that psychological loop hole, destroying anything of value that the US was capable of making best.

No joke. Everythings been in decline for over a decade, but we're too in love with the ritual of consumption to care what we're now consuming is no longer of any useful quality. Something our government now 100% reflects.

There will be a time when that ends. And it's coming soon. As no one born into this mess gets joy from consuming something of so obvious low quality. They never got to enjoy the good product our rituals came from, just the corpse of what our rituals now lament.

I can’t believe I’m the only one who gave up on cheap candy because it just wasn’t good.

I pumped the brakes on a lot of things, including candy. Every once in a while when I try brands I had as a kid, I keep thinking something seems "off", but I have little idea of what it is. This applies to cereal, too.

cheapflation, using crappier ingredients to lower production costs.

Next year:

“~~Milk~~ brown ~~cocoa~~ type product”

i believe the hersheys one adds a chemical into thier chocolate to make it taste bad, i think butyric acid.