Hersheys chocolate blows and always has. It’s always been waxy and low dollar.
Hershey chocolate hasn’t always been bad.
When they made it before, it took weeks of churning it until it was done.
Now it’s finished in hours, and it is crap.
I’ve lived here near Hershey, before and after they tore down the old factory on Cocoa Avenue.
You used to be able to smell the chocolate from miles away. Now it’s another tourist trap.
It used to very good, not too sweet and didn’t have that weird cloying silky texture. I had European chocolate to compare it to then and it was as good as most of it.
But then, they started making it much sweeter decades ago because sweetener was cheap filler, and now it melts very easily. Maybe they switched to corn syrup or just increased the sugar ratio but whatever it was ruined the milk chocolate.
That is when I quit buying candy bars and just bought semi sweet or dark chocolate chips instead.
I really liked Giardellis but chocolate is certainly pricey these days.