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      It’s more expensive. It’s why I cut down on chocolate once I tasted real chocolate. I couldn’t go back to Hershey’s.

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        Just about any other brand milk chocolate is better than Hershey’s milk chocolate bars. My favorite is Lindt.

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          I generally prefer dark chocolate once I learned there was more than “Shitty Hershey Dark Chocolate” in existence, so I go with Ghirardelli. 72% cocoa, that’s the stuff.

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        Bullshit, there’s plenty of good chocolate in any major retailer. I can go to my local grocery store and find Godiva, Ghirardelli, Lindt, Ritter, along with a wide selection of miscellaneous European imports.

        The stuff you’ll find in stores is not “premium chocolatier in the Swiss Alps” quality, but it’s decent chocolate and it’s not hard to find.

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          Big agree. People won’t admit it, but they just buy what they’re familiar with and complain about it being bad.

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            I think a large detterent for many is the price difference. Hershey’s kind of matches that snack price for a little treat you’d find at the front counter. Going back to the good stuff and seeing it 3 or 4 times the price will lose a lot of people. There’s a reason people say you get what you pay for though…

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                I am buying $1 bars of dark chocolate at dollar general now. Luckily I haven’t really had good chocolate, so I don’t know what I am really missing, and I like it better than Hershey’s milk chocolate to me. Claims profits help literacy, so I doubt it is really that great of a chocolate when you get down to it. But I like it and that is enough for me.

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              Chocolate made it all the way down to snack price because of slavery and a lack of safety. So I no longer treat chocolate as a snack.

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          There’s a large range of smaller brands too. Pascha, Cultura, Raaka, Taza, Lily’s, Theo’s, Tony’s, Green and Black, Alter Eco… plus dozens of tiny regional brands. It’s about like craft beer.

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        You can find way more than that available at a chocolate shop, organic/natural grocery store or coffee shops and bookstores.