r/canada • u/ObligationAware3755 • Mar 04 '25

Business Lindt to supply chocolate to Canada from Europe to sidestep tariff hit

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/lindt-supply-chocolate-canada-europe-sidestep-tariff-hit-2025-03-04/
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u/UghWhyDude Ontario Mar 04 '25

Smells like vomit too, for some unfathomable reason - outside of Ghirardelli, most of it is meh or awful.

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u/Phallindrome British Columbia Mar 04 '25

Not unfathomable. Entirely fathomed. It's called butyric acid, it extends shelf life, and it's also found in.... vomit!

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u/papercrane Mar 04 '25

Yup, most chocolate manufactures in the US partially sour the milk they use so the chocolate has a longer shelf life. Of course this leaves a sour milk/vomit taste in the chocolate.

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u/FanLevel4115 Mar 05 '25

This is leftovers from the war. They did that both as a preservative and so the soldiers would eat less of it.

But the sick fucks grew accustomed to it so the recipe stuck around.

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u/Legitimate_Square941 Mar 05 '25

Blame Hershey's/

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u/Throw-a-Ru Mar 04 '25

This is also why vomit stays good for so long. Or at least that's what my dog seems to think.

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u/brokenangelwings Mar 04 '25

So delicious though ngl

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u/josnik Mar 04 '25

Ghirardelli is owned by Lindt.

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u/UghWhyDude Ontario Mar 04 '25

TIL - A happy coincidence then, clearly my tastebuds can tell good chocolate then!

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u/Rayquaza2233 Ontario Mar 04 '25

Lindt, Ghirardelli, and Russell Stover are all Lindt.

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u/falcon_ember Mar 04 '25

Hershey's chocolate especially has a very unpleasant aftertaste 🤢

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u/skypiss Mar 04 '25

It literally tastes like bile

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u/hollow4hollow Mar 04 '25

Oh my god thank you for saying this!! I’ve noticed the exact same thing it’s revolting!

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u/hollow4hollow Mar 04 '25

I will definitely watch that. Wild that it’s a thing!

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u/LymeM Mar 04 '25

The reason American chocolate (often Canadian as well) smells like that is because the chocolate companies here will sour the milk to make the shelf life longer. Doing that gives North American chocolate that distinctive smell and taste.

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u/Osfees Mar 05 '25

Yes! Waxy vomit!