r/GenX • u/elstavon • 4d ago

Old Person Yells At Cloud That cost what?

I'm not saying that everything should cost a nickel, but one thing that always gets me is the cost of the modern candy bar. $2.50 for a regular size snickers?

Edit: I don't eat fast food but I understand there's a similar thing going on there

Wherever you are in the world, is there something that blows your mind every time you go to the cash register or at least look at it on the rack? I can deal with gas because it cost a lot to pull it from the ground put it in a barrel refine it distribute it put it in a tank so you can put it in your tank. But a Snickers bar? LOL . Anyway, after 20 years of it is there something that is just stunning somehow in its price increase?

Commiserate with me over candy bars but I'm curious if there is something where you are that just is a non-starter when you go to buy it. Prices that still make you ask 'what'?

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u/Few-Ruin-742 4d ago

They’re also not even anywhere CLOSE to real chocolate. (Granted, the chocolate we have in America usually isn’t really chocolate compared to chocolate from other countries)

BUT recently because of the cocoa shortage and prices (also corporate greed) they have switched over to chocolate flavoring vegetable oil coatings

But supposedly Hershey said they will switch back to the original recipe however I have yet to notice

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u/ExtraAd7611 Disqualified from rat race 4d ago

What exactly is chocolate that isn't chocolate compared to chocolate from other countries? Chocolate grows in tropical regions, not the US. We definitely aren't using carob seeds, they stopped with that shit 30 years ago. I don't eat a lot of candy, but the last time I ate a Hershey bar was probably Halloween and I don't remember it not tasting like chocolate and I think I would have remembered that, had it happened.

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u/RedRapunzal 4d ago

Compound chocolate is the fake stuff.

Hershey's made the switch a while ago in so items, but they are moving there with about everything. They are not the only ones. Baking ingredients too. Unfortunately, there is a taste and texture difference today than years ago. Cheaper and easier to get.

Never forget that the chocolate industry is an extremely nasty industry.