HERSHEY, Pa. (CBS) – A Florida woman is upset about the lack of designs on Reese’s holiday-themed peanut butter candy - and now she’s taking parent company Hershey to court over it.
Cynthia Kelly filed a federal class-action lawsuit Thursday in the U.S. District Court in the Middle District of Florida, alleging several Reese’s products don’t match their photos as depicted on the wrappers.
For example, Reese’s peanut butter pumpkins are merely pumpkin-shaped hunks of peanut-butter-stuffed chocolate, and the actual product has no Jack O’lantern-style carvings as the wrapper depicts, Kelly alleges.
That has something to do with the way that milk and chocolate is processed - in some markets they still have their delicious original taste. But its a agamble though, and nothing ruins my day as much as biting down on a much awaited hersheys kiss after a long day and almost-barfing
It’s the addition of butyric acid during production to lengthen shelf life.
I’m pretty sure it’s just that it’s mostly sugar (low cocoa %). At least the higher % stuff (like special dark) tastes much better to me. With holiday versions it might have more chocolate than the basic cups (or maybe even just lower cocoa % particularly for easter).
In other countries they have actual standards for cocoa %.
Butyric acid is a compound found in milk products and is also present in rancid butter and vomit, which is why it might evoke a “sick” taste association. Some American chocolate manufacturers add butyric acid during production to give the chocolate a longer shelf life.
It’s a self serving idea, because they know that chocolate with butyric acid added in is going to be sitting on the shelves a loooong time.
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So… they’ll just get diabetes?
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