<story><title>Why is every consumer startup selling me what I already own for 10x the price?</title><url>https://mleverything.substack.com/p/why-is-every-consumer-startup-trying</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ch4s3</author><text>I’m surprised no one here has mentioned the chocolate. Hershey’s Kisses are terrible. They contain just at or abouve the amount of cocoa in a product that the US allows to be called chocolate, and a lot of butyric acid which gives it a cheesy taste and vomit like odor. Almost any chocolate is better and will cost more.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>atestu</author><text>I find Hersey chocolate inedible, but I think it&amp;#x27;s one of those products you have to have grown up eating, like how some people prefer canned green beans to fresh ones.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why is every consumer startup selling me what I already own for 10x the price?</title><url>https://mleverything.substack.com/p/why-is-every-consumer-startup-trying</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ch4s3</author><text>I’m surprised no one here has mentioned the chocolate. Hershey’s Kisses are terrible. They contain just at or abouve the amount of cocoa in a product that the US allows to be called chocolate, and a lot of butyric acid which gives it a cheesy taste and vomit like odor. Almost any chocolate is better and will cost more.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thunderbird120</author><text>The inclusion of butyric acid has been an intentional choice for the majority of Hershey&amp;#x27;s existence at this point. It&amp;#x27;s been shown repeatedly that American consumers prefer it that way.</text></comment>