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- 18 de Jul, 2017
Hershey bars pioneered the use of Industrial scale chocolate production. So in that respect they get mad props. Discovering the link between Acid and Chocolate is what allowed them to really ramp things up, and coincidentally is also why people say their bars taste like "vomit", since vomit is also an acid. Hershey Chocolate uses Butyric Acid to stabilize their milk, which incidentally is also a component of human vomit, and is what you smell when you smell human vomit. Under normal circumstances, chocolate is stabilized with the natural Lactic Acid found in milk. This however does not provide as strong a preservation effect as Butyric Acid. A preservation technique people have, sadly, known about for millenia. Using vomit to preserve things like fish has been a traditional preservation we no longer speak about.
Since Lactic and Butyric are organic acids and closely related chemically, Hershey discovered the introduction of Butyric Acid into his chocolate mixture meant his chocolate would be shelf stable, even if shipped on a hot railway car for 3 months across north America from Pennsylvania to Arizona. And since it was so closely similar to Lactic Acid, the taste and smell was not effect "too much". To be sure it was effected. Its why Hershey bars have a reputation for smelling and tasting like vomit. But not so strongly that the bars were unsellable. Quite the opposite in fact.
I would say its ingenious. But I also fucking hate Hershey's atm.
Since Lactic and Butyric are organic acids and closely related chemically, Hershey discovered the introduction of Butyric Acid into his chocolate mixture meant his chocolate would be shelf stable, even if shipped on a hot railway car for 3 months across north America from Pennsylvania to Arizona. And since it was so closely similar to Lactic Acid, the taste and smell was not effect "too much". To be sure it was effected. Its why Hershey bars have a reputation for smelling and tasting like vomit. But not so strongly that the bars were unsellable. Quite the opposite in fact.
I would say its ingenious. But I also fucking hate Hershey's atm.