Nation Once Again Agrees That Easter Candy Made of Exact Same Ingredients as Regular Candy Tastes Better Due to Shape
Nation Once Again Agrees That Easter Candy Made of Exact Same Ingredients as Regular Candy Tastes Better Due to Shape
Consumers across the nation broadly agreed that easter candy tastes better than regular candy despite being made of the same ingredients, sources experiencing a sugar coma confirmed.
To be entirely fair, the ratio is different (and better imo) with things like reeses
Decades ago there were many unique candies that came out only at Easter time in the US. They were made by relatively small companies. For example there were chocolate eggs with maple or raspberry candy inside. You didn’t see candy like this at any other time of year. There were also Peeps, which weren’t great but at least they were special in that you only saw them for a few weeks a year.
Then slowly Hershey and Nestle started flooding the shelves with egg shaped versions of their boring ass candy you could get any day of the year. And they started selling peeps with different shaped at Halloween and Christmas.
It’s a shame.
If you have one, visit a local chocolatier and I bet you'll still find unique stuff like that for holidays.
You can still get peeps, at least by me.
In The Good Place there's a scene that takes place in Australia where Chidi, who is a professor there, has a mental breakdown and makes peep chili. The thing is, Australians don't know what peeps are, so this scene made no sense to us. Anyway, that's the only reason I know what peeps are.
Taco Bell profits tremendously from this phenomenon as well. Exact same ingredients; different shapes.
Nothing like not realizing they got your order wrong until you get home, eating it anyway because you can't be bothered to go back, and realizing you pretty much still got the same tastes out of it.
Bit of an existential crisis for a young me.
I like Taco Bell, get a craving for it about once every two months, but there's really only minor differences across the menu.
OK hehe but shape actually contributes a lot to the overall taste and experience of candy. My favorite reese's used to be the peanut butter bar because it had a much better ratio of chocolate and peanut butter. Exact same ingredients, different shape, better candy. (To me.)
Everything contributes to the experience of anything. Shape, color, texture etc. Pasta is a great example of this. A cool thing to try is to drink water from different kinds of glassware, cups, anything. Even the light in the area we're in and our current mood has an effect.
Pasta is a great example of this.
When I was at university one of my friends was studying engineering and one of his assignments was to design it a new type of pasta in CAD software to maximize surface area and minimize volume or something. The result came out looking like some kind of 2D fractal, with a bunch of holes in it.
Basically you don't want too much pasta in your pasta.
Agree. Plus the shape contributes too. I look forward to Snicker's nutcrackers, for example, because the sharp corners make the bar more enjoyable to bite through.
They taste better because they’re more fresh. You pick up a regular Reese’s PB Cup at the gas station, it could be months old. The seasonal ones are about as fresh as they get.
Meanwhile, it's finally proven that all RM Palmer Company chocolates (Easter bunnies, lambs, "gelt", etc.) are actually made from rejected Crayola brown crayons and have been since 1961!
- Washington Post: RM Palmer Easter Bunnies made from Crayola factory-seconds
That's because the brown ones are the only ones the Marines don't eat.
Maybe not orally, but Marines have a certain type of creativity when it comes to consuming crayons.
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Screw, tin man.
Why are you passing off a Stevie Wonder link as a crayon chocolate link
A Stevie Wonder link? What are you talking about? That link goes to the WaPo article.
I would argue the enjoyment of food products are constructed by more then just the ingredients. Packaging and other psychological effects matter. I for example really enjoy my local cola if it comes in a 330ml bottle but if I drink it from a 500ml bottle I enjoy it remarkably less.
I dunno I can't get those candy coated mini eggs any other time of year. Seems that one isn't replicated yearlong.
You can up here in Canada
"smarties"
Hersheys chocolate sucks, so the less of it the better. This is why eggs are superior.
Doesn't the holiday Reese's peanut butter filling have more sugar in it? It's definitely noticable compared to the regular filling.
I do not agree.
I mean it's the Onion but this can absolutely be true, shape affects stuff like surface area which can affect the taste experience.
The eggs are worse! They have a different ratio of peanut butter to chocolate and it is not good. The normal size cups (not the minis) are the perfect ratio. The minis have not enough peanut butter and the eggs have waayyy too much.
They're pumping out extra volume with the knowledge that some people will think it tastes better than it does due to the fun shapes. I have strong doubts they're using the same ingredients, or at least doubling filler ingredients.
Apparently my opinion is unpopular, but I hate the eggs. The chocolate is too soft, and I like the ridges on an OG peanut butter cup.