When I visited Canada I was surprised at how much better the chocolate, even the inexpensive mass-produced chocolate, tasted compared to comparable brands in the US.
I could be because Canada has tighter regulations on % of chocolate in their recipes, but today I learned it was probably also the lack of lead and cadmium: https://metro.co.uk/2022/12/29/hershey-facing-lawsuit-over-heavy-metals-found-in-their-chocolates-18012980/
@kyle I doubt it's actually that you can taste (but I do hope they reduce that) - I'd be more expecting that the Canadians don't put Butyric acid in their chocolate? It's something that was added in America originally to stop the milk going off as it was transported over large distances, but everyone else thinks it just tastes of vomit.
@penguin42 The comments about tasting the heavy metals were just a joke. That said, my understanding is that there are tighter regulations on the percentage of actual chocolate (compared to chocolate-flavored syrups and the like) that must be in Canadian chocolate bars.
I did a side-by-side comparison with chocolate I bought at a Canadian gas station, and the same brands (KitKats, etc) when I crossed the border into the US to see if I was just imagining it, and I could taste the difference.
@penguin42 @kyle but the US’s Nestle is worse than Hershey
@kyle Yeh apparently the US ones are made by Hershey, the rest of the world by Nestle