(August 19, 2015 at 11:01 pm)Alex K Wrote: I find it surprising that it sells considering how rich yallses freshly made fudge and brownies usually are. It's not like standards for tastyliciousness are that low, even if American pastry is usually a bit too in your face with its lardy sweetness for European tastes.
I hate quite a few common desserts in the U.S., at least as commonly made. Many are way too sweet, and have no other prominent flavor. I liked the deserts I ate when I was in Germany. They were sweet, but they were not like just eating sugar.
Trader Joe's, a grocery chain in the U.S., used to sell a frozen apple strudel imported from Germany. It was very good for a frozen desert that one bakes in one's oven. It was sweet, but one tasted the fruit in it, not just sweetness. It was also nice that it was fruit that was the dominant flavor, as opposed to some strange chemical taste that is all too often a part of American desserts. (If one goes to fancy restaurants, then the desserts tend to get better here, but ordinary deserts are often revolting.) Unfortunately, the last time I looked, they did not seem to be selling it anymore.
Many Americans seem to like having just sweetness. If I liked that, I would just eat sugar or straight honey, which would be better than many disgusting things that one typically finds.
Anyway, I think the interest in just something sweet explains why bad chocolate sells in the U.S. All that seems to matter to some people is that the thing in question is very sweet.
It is also worth mentioning that there are a variety of smaller, less famous chocolate and candy makers in the U.S., and not all of them exclusively make revolting things. Still, the chocolate that I presently have in my home is from Belgium.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
