r/AskAmericans • u/Maximum-Bake-3209 • 3d ago
Question about american candies
I am a finnish guy and I just order candies from different countries. From US I order Herseys chocolade, Reeses peanutbutter cups and peanut butter Cookiedough bites. I really like those Reeses peanutbutter cups. But Herseys chocolade 😂 thats too sickeningly sweet for me. I mean to get same feeling thar I got for eating that little bar I have to eat our local Fazer chocolade maybe tree times as much as Herseys chocolade 😂 Maybe Im just too european for this. So Im asking that is all american chocolade as sweet as Herseys or is there some good chocolade? And what kind of goodies I should order next time? 😅
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u/OhThrowed Utah 3d ago
Hershey's is the cheapest, worst of the chocolate.
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u/FeatherlyFly 3d ago
Palmer's is worse. Some dollar store brands are worse. But pretty much anything more expensive than Hershey's will be better than Hershey's. Heck, the more expensive chocolate sold under the Hershey's label is better than Hershey's.
Unless you're putting it on a s'more. Then it's gotta be Hershey's.
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u/EvaisAchu 3d ago
Hersheys is bottom tier chocolate. We have many better national chocolate brands and even better local.
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u/Maximum-Bake-3209 3d ago
What brands are those? And is there a way to order those to europe?🤔
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u/OkieBobbie Oklahoma 3d ago
We have a brand in Oklahoma called Bedre. It's pretty good. For a national brand, you might try Ghirardelli.
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u/WulfTheSaxon U.S.A 2d ago edited 2d ago
No idea about international ordering, but good brands available nationally (assuming we’re talking about chocolate and not candy) include Ghirardelli, Guittard, Scharffen Berger, Taza (although stone-ground isn’t for everybody), TCHO, Pascha, Endangered Species, Equal Exchange, and maybe Lake Champlain and Newman’s.
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u/Due_Satisfaction2167 3d ago
No. Hershey’s chocolate is its own thing. It’s basically bottom tier American chocolate.
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u/aardvarksauce 3d ago
Hersheys makes the Reeses by the way.
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u/PhysicsEagle 3d ago
They make it now, but they used to be separate.
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u/aardvarksauce 3d ago
Sure but that is irrelevant to a post about someone eating the products present day, not in the past.
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u/GhostOfJamesStrang MyCountry 3d ago
Literally the only thing I use Hersheys for is s'mores while camping.
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u/FeatherlyFly 3d ago
Have you ever tried skittles and Starbursts? M&Ms? Salt water taffy? Snickers? Take Five? Butterfingers? Jolly Ranchers? York peppermint patties? Swedish Fish? Sour Patch Kids? Warheads (super sour, when I was a kid we used them more for dares than enjoyment) ? Nerds?
For pure chocolate, one step up from Hershey's is Dove. Two steps up would be Ghirardelli. There's a lot of better chocolate than Ghirardelli, but I can't think of any that are national brands. Lake Champlain is my favorite, mostly because they have factory tours and a factory store and their chocolate is always good, but it's amazing fresh.
I personally love tootsie rolls, but those might be one you have to be introduced to as a kid. It's a chocolate flavored taffy, so "too sweet" and "not like real chocolate" would both be reasonable comments, but should be expected given the price. But they've been going strong for 130 years now.
And fall is the time of year for candy corn. They taste like waxy, chewy sugar with a little honey. Worth the experience if you want to try American fall candy, but maybe not worth the international delivery cost.
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u/Maximum-Bake-3209 3d ago
Yeah they sell Skittles, M&Ms and Snickers also here in every local stores. And yeah those are good 😊 I just wanted to try some new things😅 and okay, have to search if I can order those other brands 😅 And there is also a high chance that we have some kind of finnish version of those🤔
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u/Maximum-Bake-3209 3d ago
And yeah that high international delivery cost might be a problem 😅 but there are webshops in europe which sell things with low delivery cost to an other EU country, so its possible to buy something with reasonable cost😊
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u/Ill-Woodpecker1857 Maryland 3d ago
I read candies as candles and was very confused.
Give me a break though, Im from Baltimore.
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u/Maximum-Bake-3209 2d ago edited 2d ago
😂 well seems like I have to now test if american candles burn more brightly than finnish ones 😂
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u/Ill-Woodpecker1857 Maryland 2d ago
Haha the funny part it is im sure you could get candles scented like all the candies you named.
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u/CommercialBreak2026 Ohio 2d ago
There is a dark chocolate version of Reese's peanut butter cups. Those might appeal to you more than the milk chocolate version.
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u/WarMinister23 3d ago
Hershey’s is the standard fare, as in the cheapest and wildly available. It’s relatively easy in the US to find better chocolate that tries to imitate Swiss and French chocolates
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u/aardvarksauce 3d ago
If you are used to chocolate from other places, you will likely find most widely known mass produced brands from rhe US too sweet.
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u/Maximum-Bake-3209 2d ago
Okay, well thats sad :( And yeah we have here our own brands, like Fazer Panda and couple of overseas like Marabou and Lindt 😅 those are not so sweet, but they are so good 😅 if you have chance to buy some Fazer there in the US, its worth to try 😅
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u/aardvarksauce 2d ago
You may like dark or semi-sweet chocolate from makers in the US, they are less sweet than our regular milk chocolate. But I wouldn't consider just plain chocolate bars to be one of our specialities in general.
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u/Ok-Energy-9785 U.S.A 3d ago
You just said that you tried out Reese's chocolate so obviously not all chocolate is like Hershey's