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Question: what if Hershey went from using cocoa butters in their chocolate to using vegetable fats and artificial sweeteners?
That's what might happen. They're asking the Food and Drug Administration to change the standards in which chocolate is made and classified, to "modernize" the making of chocolate. Hershey isn't the only company asking the question, it's everyone.
This is sacrilege! We all know that chocolate, even when its high in fat and calories, has a lot of health benefits too. And if people want to have diet chocolate or a chocolate substitute, there are plenty of products already on the market. Changing the taste of Hershey chocolate would be like changing America, damn it!
Check out this site to record your protest.
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5-03-2007 @1:09AM Elizabeth said... Personally, I love Hershey's dark chocolate and I hope the recipe never changes. I do have questions though about something I saw on the internet recently about all chocolate having insects in it and I wonder if this is true. I would hate to believe that can happen to us chocolate lovers!
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5-03-2007 @1:13AM Deborah said... Go for it. I have diabetes and would love to eat Hershey chocolate again!!! I used to live near Hershey PA. I've always eaten Hershey bars. I love them. OK so it's not the best chocolate in the world, but so what.
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5-03-2007 @1:18AM Patty said... It is certainly setting a bad precidence and leads me to think about the slippery slope they are constructing. If you let Hershey pawn off a "chocolate-like" product as bona fide chocolate to a unsuspecting consumer, what is next? Milk that is "milk-like?" Beef that is beef like? i could go on, but i think we all need to get off the chocolate tangent and remember what the real issue is here: farm lobbiest for produce that is plentiful and cheap that wants to be used in chocolate. FDA will probably slam / dunk an approval on this and then - watch out. I can see many other products we are accostomed to being re-created and re-introduced into the market place. Wise up America!
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5-03-2007 @1:30AM Diane said... American? Hershey's is closing their factories here in the US and going overseas. I think they should be boycotted in any case, and plan to not buy anything marked Hershey's.
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5-03-2007 @1:59AM Margie said... It's a known fact that most most everything these days are so full of sugar that it ruins half the taste. most candies can afford to simply cut down on the sugar and let the real flavor take over.It's also a know fact that products made with artificial sweeteners such as mannitol and sorbitol keep most people in the bathroom. Gee, just think, Hersheys can put ex-lax out of business. margie
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5-03-2007 @2:13AM brian said... HEY MARILYN, CANT YOU READ RETARD??? HERSHEY ISNT AMERICAN...ITS "THE GREAT MEXICAN CHOCOLATE-LIKE HERSHEY BAR!!" NOW!!! ALSO IF YOUR BRAIN FUNCTIONED,YOU SAY AT THE END OF YOUR WASTED WORDS THAT THE COMPANIES NEED TO DO WHATS BEST FOR THE PUBLICS HEALTH.....HELLO ANYONE HOME UP THERE?? FATS, OILS AND FAKE CRAP IS NOT HEALTHY, CONTRARY TO WHAT YOUR FEBEL MIND MAY WANT TO BELIVE. WAKE-UP AND SMELL YOUR MC DONALDS COFFEE FLAKE!
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5-03-2007 @2:56AM cc said... Making chocolate any more fattening and bad for you is a bad idea. There are already too many obese americans. Cooperate America needs to stop worrying about profits, and start caring about people!
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5-03-2007 @12:55PM odlugo said... Give me Milka, Ritter Sport, Lindt, Godiva, or any other chocolatier that actually makes chocolate that tastes like chocolate, over the crumbly "mocklat" that Hershey makes. They can do whatever they want. I stopped buying their poor excuse for chockums years ago.
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5-03-2007 @3:00AM cc said... oops I meant corporate. lol
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5-03-2007 @3:17AM marystampr said... THE DEADLINE IS EXTENDED TO JUNE 25, 2007!
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5-03-2007 @3:40AM Jeff said... I love my country and I love my chocolate, but anyone who really enojoys proper chocolate knows that American chocolate is a lame joke. Who cares what Hershey does, they spend their money on advertising rather than product ingredients; it's like eating candles off of a birthday cake. Even Nestle is better and the US versions of their products still suck. European and even Canadian products are miles ahead, not to mention the specialty brands that support Rain Forest economies. Wake up - you'll be glad you did.
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5-03-2007 @4:48AM Zac the Hoople said... To all lamenting the fact that Hershey wants to adulterate the definition of "chocolate". Has anyone noticed that Guinness Stout which used to be a beautiful black beer is now a translucent "red" since Anheiser Busch began contract brewing here in the US??? Just hold a pint (or 14 ounce "pint" as commonly served in most cheap bars) up to the light and see the reddish color. What used to be the gold standard in dark beer has been dumbed down to American taste (ala Budweiser/Miller/Coors) PLEASE don't let this happen to chocolate!!! Hershey is still decent chocolate, albeit typical mass-merchandised/mass-produced in the American capitalist "build it cheaper and F#*K the publc trust/health/truth in advertising/artisanal/pride in work" standard. Quit paying the CEO's mega (hundred) millions of dollars for sheer shareholder profitability. I for one miss the basics of smaller portions of high quality and lament the fact that McDonalds/Wal-Mart/Home Depot owns our world. PLEASE stand up against this blasphemy!!! But as an American Corporation, they'll just try to sell the product to unwitting/onknowing 3rd world countries like the cigarette and pharmaceutical companies do with products not wanted here. All in the name of PROFIT. And hidden behind the CLOAK of PATRIOTISM!!!
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5-03-2007 @6:00AM jackie said... I live in Australia and I eat more chocolate here then I did in California. My mom works for Hershey's and always asks me if I want Hershey chocolate for her to send. I think they need to change the way it tastes. My husband say it tastes like "dirt". Thanks to them my mother will loose her job this year because they are moving to Mexico.
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5-03-2007 @6:02AM DARKMOONFIGHTER said... I had various chocolates from around the world. American is by far the worst.But in the worst, the best of it isn't Hershey. German is about the best.
Some things humans do best, as merchants and corporations and such. deception..false advertising...yellow journalism. It should NOT be labeled as chocolate...it be like it is ok for a wolf in sheep's clothing looking all cute giving a kid the new Hershey bar, just wrong.
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5-03-2007 @6:22AM camla said... True, Hershey's is not great, but we need to hold these companies to some standard. look what happened when we allowed corn syrup in our soda. We were in Italy last year and were amazed at how wonderful their Coke was. Real sugar!!! I only buy chocolate with real vanilla and pure ingredients anyway (Trader Joe's) but I still feel we should not allow this. Another way for big business to change our standards and cheapen our lives.
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5-04-2007 @7:25AM R said... Please read the full 35 page docket on the FDA web site concerning these proposed changes. This isn't just about chocolate. There could be many changes in food production and what are considered "standardized", or "traditional" foods.
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