Because one is a Unilever product and the other is Mars Inc.
It’s like saying Crystal Lite and Crystal hot sauce are the same company because they share a product name.
Sure, Unilever only owns Dove, the soap products. They also have a confectionary and ice cream line (e.g., Ben and Jerry’s), which begs the same question.
Was hoping someone in the comments had the answer, thank you (I am trusting and not verifying)
Wait, hold up, Dove the soap company and Dove the chocolate company are actually two different companies??? One owned by Mars and one by Unilever??? When did this happen???
Dove is just the English (Simplified) name for Galaxy chocolate.
Treat yo self
Why does GE make washing machines and the 30mm GAU-8/A Avenger?
Because both are just things that spin.
Why does Michelin make tires but also is the main organization that gives out the most prestigious awards/ratings for restaurants?
Why does Hitachi make reliable industrial vehicles and also sex toys?
Why does Yamaha make motorcycles and jet skis but also pianos?
Why does Yamaha make motorcycles and jet skis but also pianos?
And a bunch of other instruments too. I’ve played a Yamaha piano, electric keyboard, clarinet, trombone, AND French horn. They’re all just okay.
They definitely make saxophones too. Probably most of the orchestra lol
I have a Yamaha guitar from the 70s. It’s good.
I figure this is a US chocolate (i.e. horrible shite) as I’ve never heard of it.
It’s even shit by U.S. chocolate standards, just to give you a sense of how bad it is.
I’m pretty sure the only bad chocolate is specifically Hershey’s? I’ve had imported chocolate from the EU and it tasted exactly the same.
EU chocolate sold in the US is not the same as the normal EU chocolate. The chocolate for the US market has higher sugar and less cocoa. They use inferior ingredients to reduce costs and make the faux-chocolate suitable for long transit.
Most US chocolates I’ve tried have that hideous vomit/bile undertone.
Hershey’s is the only widely produced American chocolate with the acid “flavor”, probably the only one at all because its widely disliked. Hershey’s also makes many of the other supermarket chocolate sold here that isn’t bile flavored but they are still pretty gross.
Any other slightly smaller manufacturer of chocolate in america is doing something dramatically different, and if all you’ve had is junk food candy, it’s no surprise you’d think that’s all there is.
Its the same in Europe, without the vomit of course. Most of my experience with EU and UK chocolate has been slimy milky mush, which I think is pretty awful. I know that’s not all European chocolate, but the mass market stuff is pretty rough no matter where you go.
Every time someone posts something like this about food and I don’t notice the badness, I wonder if it is because I’m an unsophisticated rube and have never had anything better so of course I wouldn’t know the difference while the poster is refined. Or if it’s just that different people have different taste buds and preferences. Or if it’s because the internet and human brains have negativity bias and are more likely to post “x food nasty” than “x food mediocre (actually mediocre, not the way people use it as a synonym for “bad” nowadays)” or “x food good”.
Especially with big brands, and nowadays big American brands giving the horrible things the United States of America is doing—similar to how people are very happy to call people’s looks ugly when their personality is ugly even if they don’t look all that bad—emotional sentiment either legitimately affecting their judgment of other qualities, or them knowing the thing isn’t actually that bad but they’ll exaggerate the badness because they have grievances with other qualities besides, say, the food’s taste or person’s looks.
All this to say I’ve eaten Hershey’s (gotten them as gifts, don’t purchase it myself) and do not think it is awful, is it actually this bad and I’m a rube blessed with no taste and thus the ability to enjoy more things? Is it the internet being the complain-y internet, especially with Hershey’s probably being a big brand and being American which are unpopular nowadays, regardless of the actual quality of the chocolate? Or a mix of the two?
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Thinking about the chemistry, it seems a lot more reasonable to use chocolate waste as a fat source for making soap.
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thank you for the reminder that i’ve yet to be fully assimilated into american culture, had no clue that was a thing over there
Dove supplies the complete cycle of life from cleansing yourself of evil/dirt to falling again for evil/sin/chocolate.
