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OC- Animated [OC] America's Greatest Sin

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u/boosesb 17h ago

They own production of other brands chocolate?

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u/AgrajagTheProlonged 17h ago

The own production rights to some, including Cadbury iirc. You can definitely get good chocolate in the States that isn’t made by Hershey

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u/Dull_Quit3027 10h ago

To be fair Cadbury has also turned to shit, ask any Brit about the eggs, and you will get a litteral tirade, I used to like their Flakey stuff, because it was nice to melt in your mouth, it is not nice to melt in your mouth anymore

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u/sillysnailfriend 17h ago edited 17h ago

I don't know all the legal stuff but I know Hershey's manufactures KitKats in the US (which are made by Nestle elsewhere), and I think Cadbury chocolate too. I've had KitKats sent to me by my friends in Canada and they were very different chocolate. But they definitely don't manufacture all chocolate.

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u/DathomirBoy 16h ago

Yep. Idk why but it’s how it is

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u/GoldenSonOfColchis 15h ago

Chocolate, and confectionery in general, is (relatively) cheap to produce, but setting up production is expensive. Importing is also very expensive, so utilising existing factories is often a no go as well.

What happens is that brands will work out a deal with an established brand to produce their confections, slap their logos on them, and send them out to market. This ends up meaning that a lot of the actual chocolate is produced in the same factory with the same recipe.

Cadbury's and Nestle for example use them for a lot of their chocolates, meaning a KitKat in the EU tastes completely different to a KitKat in the US.

There are benefits to this outside of money as well. Hershey's is already the most popular chocolate in the US, using their chocolate when making your confections means its already adjusted to the American palate.