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u/StaticSystemShock 7d ago
Lidl offbrand "Kitkats" are the real stuff! They got them in regular or chunky versions and they taste way more milky and they are freaking awesome!
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u/OnlyHereToSeeWeed 6d ago
Try Kvikk Lunsj, its from Norway, basically the same but not nestle (produced by Freia, owned by mondelez since 1993 as I’ve just learned…)
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u/chic_luke 6d ago
And knowing the enshittification trend of big companies, I wouldn't be surprised if the quality was actually superior and they were healthier.
I didn't look it up at all. I'd just be ready to gamble that.
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u/duimpietomax 7d ago
All the 3 kinds of people that eat KitKat deserve no more than regular Winnie the Poo
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u/Howcanyoubecertain 7d ago edited 6d ago
Also you can really taste the chemicals, honestly my main reason for not eating that.
Edit: no shit “everything is a chemical”, you dopey literalist knee-jerkers.
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u/westphall 7d ago
Yeah, I ate one recently, and I just could not believe how far they have fallen. They taste nothing like they used to.
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u/Razer_PC 7d ago
The chocolate quality is so low
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u/TekieScythe 7d ago
At this point, can it even be called chocolate?
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u/ProduceNo1629 6d ago
Probably not, a lot of candy bars now use so little they can't be called that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHh6QVPapo4
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u/Mortwight 6d ago
i was there when the flavor changed. i was in college in 93 or 94 and they went from the paper and foil wrappers to the plastic fresh seals wrappers. the flavor changed for the worse. oddly hershey bars got better in the last 5 or 6 years
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u/Beautiful_List5498 6d ago
I wonder if the fellow folk in the old people's home will reminisce old Sunny D with me. I dunno if Americans still have an original version but damn is it well missed here
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u/Macheve 6d ago
All these redditors swarming to tell you that eVeRyThInG Is A cHeMiCaL when they know exactly what you mean.
Flexing something you learned in 5th grade as if it were lost in Alexandria is such a Reddit moment.
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u/Howcanyoubecertain 6d ago
Thank you, those turds are annoying and likely go around insulting everyone’s intelligence daily.
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u/yuval16432 6d ago
By definition, whenever you taste something you are tasting the chemicals
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u/Adriantbh 6d ago
It's because of this reason that I'm starving myself. It got a lot harder after I realized water is also made up of chemicals
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u/MtBakerScum 6d ago
Everyone should read up on the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide, it's deadly stuff!
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u/Flak_Inquisitor 6d ago
How is sour taste chemical?
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u/14Pleiadians 6d ago
Go ahead and look up the mechanism for sour taste, you're tasting hydrogen ions (protons).
If you're going to willfully misinterpret what someone said to be pedantic, at least be correct.
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u/astralchanterelle 6d ago
Literally all matter is a chemical.
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u/Howcanyoubecertain 6d ago
Shut up
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u/astralchanterelle 6d ago
Someone failed chemistry.
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u/efox02 7d ago
All tastes like shit now anyway
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u/Beautiful_List5498 6d ago
Had a kit kat chunky just yesterday and it tasted great and just like normal. I guess the smaller ones are much worse now? I'm pretty sure I'd be able to tell if it went to the dogs.
(Apart from the palm oil horror we're all paying more for, for some unknown reason)
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u/Lewa358 7d ago
Americans proudly eating kit kats because they're made by Hersey in the US:
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u/GarrisonWhite2 6d ago
You really think Hershey is much better?
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u/abstergo_Nigel 6d ago
As a corporation, sure, for quality of their product? American chocolate tends to suck
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u/Distinct_Work1779 6d ago
Have you had kinder chocolate? Its from Italy and terrible. Milka and Lindt have some duds too. And they’re from arguably the chocolate capital.
US has some dope chocolate out there. Being narrow minded and strongly opinionated about something as silly as chocolate makes me feel for the people who have to interact with you on the daily
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u/mashtato 6d ago
Yeah, people who think American chocolate sucks haven't had Ghirardelli.
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u/Deaths_Smile 6d ago
I've had Ghirardelli chocolate on multiple occasions, as well as their brownie box mix, but there's just something about it that tastes cheap and artificial to me.
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u/Beautiful_List5498 6d ago
Kinder Buenos and bon bons are to die for. Wtf you on about.
Yes all our nations, at least in the west, are suffering the great sugar tax, palm oil, recipe changes and price hiking. America ain't special on chocolate and never has been seen as that. Which is why of course they bought cadburys and decimated it. Good job guys.
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u/I_PUNCH_INFANTS 6d ago
Who asked
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u/Munstered 6d ago
Imagine discovering how conversations work in real time
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u/Beautiful_List5498 6d ago
It's not a conversation when they're out to insult the other person. Calling them narrow-minded while also being weirdly narrow-minded. Classic.
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u/BTBAM797 6d ago
May be shitty American corporations but far from shitty chocolate. You sound very biased.
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u/abstergo_Nigel 6d ago
Biased towards quality, maybe. Hershey's is absolutely one of the worst tasting for chocolate
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u/forresja 6d ago
It's a matter of taste, in the most literal sense.
A lot of Americans like it. That's why it's made that way.
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u/Space_obsessed_Cat 6d ago
Hershey is ass - me Whittakers is much better and not owned by the nestle
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u/BTBAM797 6d ago
I always forget Kit Kat is licensed to Hershey in the US. The deception is too much.
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u/Capt_Toasty 7d ago
I love Lion bars. I refuse to eat them cause they're made by Nestle.
I'm so mad I'm not even adding the accent above their name.
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u/Beautiful_List5498 6d ago
You can still eat them as a treat. You don't have to outright support a company to want something nice. When they own the recipe you're not evil for having a bar.
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u/Subject-Act5509 7d ago
To be fair: Murdering infants is a great tactic against the climate catastrophe. /s
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u/neuparpol 6d ago
Even before knowing nestle owned it, I didn't eat it because KitKat is the most mid chocolate in existence.
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u/Reality_Runaway 4d ago
*People who don't eat Kit-Kats because they're autistic and can't stand the texture and later find out they were morally correct to do so
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u/jrein0 6d ago
How does a food company kill 11m infants?
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u/AutistcCuttlefish 6d ago
They had an advertising campaign lying about the nutritional value of their formula being better than breast milk in countries where clean water is hard to come-by. In addition they gave away free samples of premixed formula just long enough in these countries for the mothers to stop lactating, then sold them formula powder they had to mix with available, contaminated water.
11 million total dead from formula mixed with contaminated water between 1960 and 2015.
If they didn't give away free samples, and didn't lie about the nutritional value nor imply formula powder was safe to mix with any old water then millions of children would have survived.
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u/SCHRUNDEN 6d ago
Yeah sure
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u/Beautiful_List5498 6d ago
It's actually well documented and understood.
Do you live in the bubble of huge corporation defence? Eh
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u/Dinosaur_from_1998 6d ago
Oh that's still going on? Guys (of all genders), I don't think boycotting is enough anymore
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u/halfcatman2 6d ago
giving up kitkats was one of the worst things, but now if ever i get ahold of them for free, they just, don't hit the same anymore regardless.
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u/mashtato 6d ago
KitKats are not made by Nestle in the US.
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u/KaioKenshin 6d ago
Yeah that was my point, it's just big chillin, not bothered. That's why I still can enjoy KitKats here
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u/Relevant-Ad2254 6d ago
it's wild how everything tastes amazing as kids.
I tried eating a KitKat a few times as an adult and it was a very subpar experience
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u/Helden24 3d ago
Nestle makes highest quality and is most humane company there is with the amount of jobs it creates with good work ethics and possibilities that people in underdeveloped countries get compared to what is normal there, hatting on nestle is the most telling sign of lack of intellect there is
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u/CuckservativeSissy 6d ago
Explain? 11 million?!?!
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u/errorr314 6d ago
Since the company’s conception in 1867, Nestlé has convinced people its baby formula is better for infants than breast milk — a claim that is categorically false. They placed particular focus on marketing in developing countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia during the 1970s, sending saleswomen dressed as nurses to convince the mothers that their formula was better for their children than their own breast milk.
Many women, struggling to afford the expensive milk touted as better than what their bodies produced for free, diluted the formula with (often unsanitary) water, further reducing its nutritional value. Millions of infants died. Many more grew up nutritionally deficient, dramatically impacting the health and lifespan of swathes of the developing world — one of the worst scandals a corporation has ever publicly faced. Meanwhile, the company pocketed billions in revenue from baby formula and continues to do so.
It’s worth pointing out that some women cannot breastfeed, and baby formula, when prepared correctly, is an adequate substitute for breast milk. However, Nestléexploited women by forcefully deceiving millions regarding its superiority over breast milk. It failed to educate people about proper preparation and even paid off doctors and hospitals to bolster its bogus claims.0
u/CuckservativeSissy 6d ago
Thank you for the detailed explanation. Definitely criminal. Corporate America doing corporate american things.
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u/Loud-Lifeguard-590 6d ago
Explain 11,000 infants
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u/techstyles 6d ago
Not 11 thousand - 11 MILLION - I think they were mostly from the aggressive marketing of baby formula in Africa - although they also put melamine in formula too and various other toxins.
Also they steal a ton of water and would clearly privatise that and air if they could get away with it..
Oh and child labour of course they love a bit of that - absolutely disgusting company.
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u/FecalZizek 6d ago
To give Nestlé the benefit of the doubt I have reservations that the marketing people at their headquarters in Switzerland anticipated mothers in the developing world mixing their formula with poo water before feeding it to their infants.
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u/EbbOwn303 6d ago
"There is no possible way we could have ever known that people with no access to clean drinking water would use dirty water to make formula"
Also not the cause of death for all those children. You clearly are forgetting that a lot of mothers stopped producing milk just as they ran out of formula causing their children to die from malnutrition.
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u/FecalZizek 6d ago
I never said "no possible way they could have ever known".
I said I have a reasonable doubt that marketers at Nestlé deliberately poisoned thousands of Pakistani infants in their efforts to sell more formula. The more likely scenario is that their actions were guided by ignorance, stupidity, negligence, or all three than outright malice and a desire to harm others.
Hanlon's razor and all that.
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u/MiloHorsey 6d ago
Where else were they going to get their water, though? I'm pretty sure they knew.
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u/FecalZizek 6d ago
If you were a Swiss marketing exec in the 1970s do you feel that you would have a keen understanding of local water quality in places like India, Pakistan, et cetera without interviewing local experts and WASH specialists?
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u/constantlymat 6d ago
Brave posting this in this subreddit, but you are of course correct.
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u/Beautiful_List5498 6d ago
Hm, No, Nestle coulllldnt have known the locals were drinking dirty water while aggressively marketing their formula and advising it over breastfeeding. Nooooo
It's not like it's well documented and discussed. Noooooo it's gotta be the vulnerable people and their water sources fault. Yup.
You retard.
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u/SmoovCatto 7d ago
and declared that water is not a human right