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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Flightless Bird: Chocolate

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.668.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier investigates why American chocolate tastes so different to New Zealand chocolate and more specifically, why Hershey’s chocolate allegedly smells a little bit like vomit. Farrier talks to a former Hershey’s worker to try and get to the truth, learning about various theories, and stumbling on an old rivalry between Hershey’s and Mars. David finds himself talking to flavour expert Barb Stuckey, author of TASTE: Surprising Stories & Science About Why Food Tastes Good. Does he find the answer? Perhaps you need to let your tastebuds decide. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Just quickly before we get into today's episode, after this episode we're taking a break for about a month because I'm going to New Zealand for a little holiday.

0:08.0

The flightless bird returns.

0:10.0

I'm going to try and record some audio while I'm there.

0:12.0

I always like recording reverse flightless birds.

0:14.2

But yeah, so we will be back in August.

0:17.6

In the meantime, enjoy this episode.

0:21.4

I'm David Ferrier, and New Zealand to accidentally marooned in America and I want to figure out what makes this country tick.

0:28.0

Since I've been in America, I've had to come to terms with America's chocolate.

0:32.0

Wow, Hershey bars, Mr Goodbar, Kitcats, Rollos, Watchammerckeals,

0:39.6

Reese's, all my favorites,

0:42.1

let's go back some more. Let me be very clear.

0:45.0

American chocolate is a lot different to non-American chocolate and I'm finding it very hard to make the adjustment.

0:52.0

Putting it simply to my

0:53.7

taste buds New Zealand chocolate just tastes way better. Putting it bluntly

0:58.6

American chocolate tastes bad. I wondered if I was the only one thinking this considering the North American

1:05.4

chocolate market is valued at a whopping 40 billion dollars. Then I got a

1:10.1

message. It was in my DMs on Instagram. It said, American chocolate is shit.

1:16.2

The smell of puke when you open a bag of Hershey's kisses. Vommit emoji.

1:21.0

I looked at that vomit emoji and I felt seen. He was a random internet user that understood my dilemma.

1:28.6

Why does American chocolate taste like puke? So, get ready to open a Mars bar, a Snickers, a Hershey's Chocolate Kiss, because

1:36.7

this is the chocolate episode.

1:39.2

Flag this. Flightless bird, Flagless,

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