American sweets and food stores
Discussion
DoodoolTala said:
My local Tesco has a American aise now, I wanted to buy A1 sauce and it was bloody £8!!!111 also avoid hershey's chocolates, I had to spit mine out!
Hersheys make chocolate which is fantastic. If you like a strong aftertaste of bile.Edited by DoodoolTala on Saturday 13th October 00:11
This is the reason the Whoppers (above) aren't as good as malteasers.
Silent1 said:
the reason hersheys is awful is they use a process that isn't affected by the freshness of the milk (it's sour) and 'recovers' it by lipolysis which produces butyric acid (the stuff you get in rancid butter) and a few other things, hence why it tastes like sick.
Yup, and they're very used to it - tons of other companies add butyric acid to their chocolate to emulate the flavour and make it more palatable. Baffled me for years that one, I presumed it was just the tears of the child labour workforce they use to get the cocoa. There's a couple of half decent ones though, ghirardelli isn't too bad.
Silent1 said:
the reason hersheys is awful is they use a process that isn't affected by the freshness of the milk (it's sour) and 'recovers' it by lipolysis which produces butyric acid (the stuff you get in rancid butter) and a few other things, hence why it tastes like sick.
Interesting, I had always wondered why Hershey's tasted a bit like sick. I would still eat it though. Mastodon2 said:
I'd take a bar of Hersheys over Cadbury Dairy Milk or Galaxy any day, regardless of which gypsies tears they make it with.
I personally agree with the others and can honestly say that to me, Hershey's tastes very strange indeed, almost like powdery milk that has gone off, but the Americans are just used to it.My cousin married an American guy and whenever I go over there to visit them he always begs me to bring as many large bars of Galaxy as possible because he just can't believe how rich, creamy and milky it is compared with the American chocolate bars
Can't get enough of the US Sunkist, its just an incredible drink, tastes amazing. I'm off to see my brother (lives in KS) in November, so will definitely be getting my fill.
On the other hand, for someone who loves Dandilion and Burdock, my brother balks at having to pay $1.50 a can, when I sit here with a 2 litre bottle from Asda costing 90 odd pence.
On the other hand, for someone who loves Dandilion and Burdock, my brother balks at having to pay $1.50 a can, when I sit here with a 2 litre bottle from Asda costing 90 odd pence.
In general I find american chocolate is pants but their sweets are gorgeous.
My girlfriend bought me back a load of Jolly Ranchers from Canada when she went home over summer, so I'm well stocked at present.
Am around Angel quite often and a lunchtime browse around Cyber Candy can easily see you come out with little change from a £20!
My girlfriend bought me back a load of Jolly Ranchers from Canada when she went home over summer, so I'm well stocked at present.
Am around Angel quite often and a lunchtime browse around Cyber Candy can easily see you come out with little change from a £20!
Captain Cadillac said:
HFCS is linked to pancreatic cancer which I am a survivor of. I won't touch the stuff.
Linked by an ill-informed media by the look of things:http://boingboing.net/2010/08/08/nope-high-fructos...
I asked Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society whether there had been any studies done that correlate diets high in high fructose corn syrup to prevalence of pancreatic cancer in humans. There are two, he said. But both show only a very weak statistical relationship. And there are several other studies, looking at the same thing, which found no connection at all. If there is a link, nobody has proved it.
So here's what we know:
1) Pancreatic cancer cells eat all kinds of sugar and use it to grow and multiply.
2) In a test tube, they can do that process more efficiently with fructose than with glucose.
3) We don't know whether that applies to pancreatic cancer cells in a human body. There's a reasonable chance that it doesn't.
4) These results are not something that can be extrapolated to apply to consumption of high fructose corn syrup in a human diet.
That's it. That's all the evidence tells us. Nothing else. There may well be health problems with high fructose corn syrup—I'm not familiar enough with the broader research to know—but this particular study really shouldn't be pointed to as evidence for that theory.
- I underline that because some people have apparently gotten the idea that the study shows fructose causes pancreatic cancer. The study absolutely did NOT show anything of the sort.
Baryonyx said:
Interesting, I had always wondered why Hershey's tasted a bit like sick. I would still eat it though.
Me too (I wouldn't eat it, but wondered why it tasted of sick!) I like coconut M&Ms (Yummmm) and Skippy peanut butter, but Hersheys are vile - I had a bar of it at a work function in Vegas a couple of years ago. It made me dry retch and I had to spit it out. Absolutely revolting. Just why oh why would you want to eat something tasting of sick !??? Everyone else thought I was mad, at least now I know I'm not!
WCZ said:
talk to me about the taste of welchs grape, mud pies and twinkies, in your opinion, sir
Well... I really like Welch's Grape, it doesn't taste like a natural grape drink but just tastes 'purple' if you know what I mean! A bit artificial but unusual blackcurrent taste that is quite nice. The Mountain Dew is spectacular, not like the stuff we get over here, much more of a fresh, crisp, slightly lemonade like taste.Wasn't impressed with the Mud Pies... They were basically a dry ice cream wafer cone filled with just plain marshmallow. The chocolate topping was a bit poor as well.
Twinkies are awesome
really soft, moist cake type substance filled with suprisingly nice vanilla cream! They are something I really wish existed over here a bit more readily.NinjaPower said:
Twinkies are awesome really soft, moist cake type substance filled with suprisingly nice vanilla cream! They are something I really wish existed over here a bit more readily.
+1 i did see them made on an episode of DD&D, so long as you have the right cake pan it's doable. really soft, moist cake type substance filled with suprisingly nice vanilla cream! They are something I really wish existed over here a bit more readily.http://www.chow.com/recipes/10467-twinks
Edited by CarTimeNow on Friday 19th October 16:15
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