Talk:Hershey bar

In context, this page seems to be being used as advertising. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 148.75.203.171 (talk) 16:24, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

Article is insulting, and the insults are based on speculation

In the main paragraph titled "Hershey's Milk Chocolate", this statement is made: "Outside of America, the taste is more often likened to the taste of vomit, in part due to the butyric acid likely present in the chocolate."

This is an insulting comment about a food and not worthy of an encyclopedia article.

First, it is not "more often likened" since the linked comments are hardly authoritative. For example, the first linked comment [Amanda Fama. "Hershey's Chocolate Contains Same Chemical Found In Vomit, So Happy Eating". Elite Daily. Retrieved May 28, 2020] is merely one woman's blog post on Hershey's chocolate, where she simply repeated an unsubstantiated claim from someone else's site.

If the only criteria for a quote is to quote one blogger's opinion based on another blogger's opinion, then any food is at risk of being summarily insulted.

Second, the claim that Hershey's chocolate "may contain" and that "some people say" is simply spurious and has nothing to do with the article itself. An article about a food should not have as its goal to highlight the things about what people do not like about it. This is particularly true of any mass-market food. ANY mass-market food product cannot be compared with the premium varieties of the same product sold by other companies (or in this case, other countries where "European Chocolates" seem to be more highly valued than "American Chocolates"). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrbobmac (talk • contribs) 18:29, September 18, 2020 (UTC)

It tastes like puke bro, get over it 199.212.64.135 (talk) 02:45, 9 June 2021 (UTC)

I completely agree with User:Mrbobmac's comments. If the IP wants to have a real discussion about this then he can come up with something more useful than "It tastes like puke bro, get over it". Meters (talk) 21:27, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

I'm not the IP but their less-than-eloquent comment is valid, is support can be easily found via Google. And that includes attested: so, according to those who have tasted it and also tasted non-US chocolate it does taste like vomit (puke). Whether you chose to 'get over it' though is your decision.

'ANY mass-market food product cannot be compared with the premium varieties of the same product sold by other companies' That is flawed, and suggests your limited limited experience. Chocolate that doesn't not taste like Hersey's, that is taste like vomit, is standard outside the US irrespective of it being mass-market or premium. Also, outside the US is noted as chocolate not tasting like vomit is not unique to the 50 countries in Europe. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ‎ 2003:d3:ff45:e132:7d47:da5:f57b:f038 (talk • contribs) 18:45, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

Hershey's tasting like vomit is a pretty well-established opinion across the internet. I cede that claiming that Hershey's tastes like vomit is a subjective opinion. However, it is an objective fact that butyric acid is a component of vomit (see: https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Butyric_acid). I therefore added vomit to the list of substances that contain butyric acid. In fact, I would argue that vomit is a more apt example to include here than Parmesan cheese, as vomit's taste is much more ubiquitously understood than Parmesan's. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.146.231.82 (talk) 18:18, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

This is so biased and clearly written by a British person, as everyone I’ve ever met from Britain is grossly and nastily anti Hershey. How has this not been removed? It’s obnoxious and insipid. Alexandermoir (talk) 03:56, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

'everyone I’ve ever met from Britain is grossly and nastily anti Hershey.' There is a good reasoj for that: the taste. That to many it's reminiscent of vomit is well attested: — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:d3:ff45:e132:7d47:da5:f57b:f038 (talk • contribs) 18:45, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

References

Hershey's GOLD

A couple notes about this:

1: On the packaging, the name was stylized as all uppercase, as in this section header ^ ^.

2: Not only was this for the 100th anniversary (which I was actually not aware of until reading the article), but the bar was also largely advertised during PyeongChang 2018.

3: The bars themselves were "perforated" (they weren't actually, but I'm not sure what other word to use, and I trust you know what I'm talking about) in a way unique to the other bars; they're in a more perpendicular layout (as shown here), as opposed to the parallel orientation of the other bars (here).

4: I have not seen this product in any stores for a good while; I have not done any research, but I think they have been discontinued.

- AAEexecutive (talk) 13:15, 19 October 2023 (UTC)

Manipulation to give the article a PR spin?

Hi all, I noticed over the years that, through edits from anonymous users such as 2601:646:8200:19D:2955:3937:3B59:2353, 2601:646:8200:19D:2955:3937:3B59:2353, and 2601:6:4f00:6b5a:7959:3611:5c7e:6adf, the article has picked up a PR spin.

"Uses fresh milk delivered directly from local farms" is not supported by the source. The comparison to Parmesan is odd, when the source also specifies baby spit-up. The source also states that Hershey's process partially sours the milk, and describes the chocolate as "chalky", "grainy", "more bitter", "not as rich", and "tangy", but the article only lists "tangy" from the source.

Given how positive facts are invented, and negative facts are ignored, it's hard to see this as anything other than a violation of WP:NPOV.

Specifically, Comcast IP 2601:646:8200:19D:2955:3937:3B59:2353 revises the article to add the corporate wording back in from 2601:646:8200:19D:2955:3937:3B59:2353, as it's only contribution.

And even earlier, we have 2601:6:4f00:6b5a:7959:3611:5c7e:6adf, also from Comcast (AS 7922) removes phrasing from the prior version that Hershey's tastes like vomit. Further, they they even remove two sources, [from The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2010/dec/08/hersheys-kisses-come-to-britain) and [the Telegraph](http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/andrewbakerchoc/100071490/dairy-milk-versus-the-hershey-bar-our-verdict/) (latter now defunct).

It's also not hard to find sources comparing the chocolate to vomit. It is surprising to see "butyric acid" noted for being a component in parmesan cheese before it's noted as being the component which gives vomit its distinctive flavor.

The entire "Hershey's milk chocolate" appears heavily editorialized.

As I am not a frequent contributor to Wikipedia, I am hesitant to make these changes without asking for discussion first. Do others agree with this perspective, or is there something that I am somehow missing?

Lynndotpy (talk) 01:09, 2 May 2024 (UTC)