what's brown and sicky oh the taste of vomit the toast it is something that has a chemical in it
that is also in vomit it's american chocolate it is american chocolate you're absolutely right
so if you buy american chocolate it tastes i don't know more tangy and bitter than european chocolate
do you know why yes milk they use uht don't they or dried milk or something the chocolate factories
in the united states are further from the dairy farms than in the uk obviously so you've got to
move the milk for a bit longer and so they have a chemical process which extends the shelf life
and it produces something called butyric acid and that is the same stuff that you get in parmesan
cheese yes and in vomit so even chocolate brands that don't use that process sometimes add that
acid anyway just to mimic the taste because the americans have got used to it so if you think
actually it tastes a bit sicky it's because it's the same acid as in sick
but the american chocolate has a lot more sugar in it and it has fewer cocoa so it's 20 percent
in the uk 10 in american that's the fact that i mean you know when you get um chocolate and
it goes white if you leave it too you find it in the back of a drawer yeah it's um
it's the fat comes out of it and rises out of it i was doing the play once in the in the west
end this is in 2003 i think and uh an elderly lady came to see it i think four times
and on the fourth time she gave me a kit-kat i said that's very kind and then the next day i
ate the kitkat and it it tasted exactly like an old lady's cupboard it's not a euphemism
and i looked on the cell by date and it was 1998 it was a five-year-old
kitkat i mean it may have been more i don't know how long they lost five years ago and thought i'm
saving them she found it in a cupboard of what i'll give that to that bloke who's boring me
[ __ ] this every night in that play she saw it and she caught her eyes she thought i know he'll
like that allen i have to build up his trust over a number of years and then i'll be able to give it
to him and he'll definitely eat it because he'll trust me but the odor of the old lady's cupboards
was unmistakable i think we're being very mean okay you'll be an old lady ish soon we'll always
i've never been less insulted in my life
um hershey's have a history of making chocolate with a bitter taste in the 1930s they developed
a special bar it was for the american military and they wanted it to be deliberately unappealing why
do you think they might do that wartime brides they made [ __ ] chocolate and stockings with
holes in them in order to lure the british brides nor to keep them away from american
soldiers okay why would they make deliberately unpleasant chocolate have bromide in it no it's
meant as an emergency ration so you don't want the soldiers going ooh lovely chocolate and eating it
i was in ccf at school and we had that combined cadet forces i was in that as well which were you
army all right but um did you say that like it was better that's what they were looking
at that was the raf one of yeah they had this thing called 24-hour ration kit which we had
to have we did do like an overnight you know maneuver yeah in like iraq or something we did
we didn't ask raf odion did you yeah you did it in the cinema no odium oh
oh sorry i thought it was an ocean i did too maneuvers in the odion a whole different thing
and we had those things and they were supposed to sort of have enough calories
in it to last you 24 hours and they packed into a tiny thing and they did exactly that
it meant you didn't want to eat the chocolate first no you didn't want to eat it it's called
a d rational it's also known as a logan bar it was named after the colonel who first
ordered their manufacturer and so it's but high energy content could withstand high temperatures
um but uh frankly barely any better than a boiled potato or potato a cold boiled potato
any temperature yeah no not one that would burn your mouth but there it is look at in the
in the uh soldiers hated it so much uh they used to call it hitler's secret weapon um
because it uh it made them ill there's definitely been nights i would just have eaten it it wrought
havoc with their teeth and intestines i know but even then there's been nights where i've
just been craving chocolate so badly i'd have just eaten it just gone for it anyway yep
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