OMG chocolate <3

[Shift]

I want to get to the bottom of this and I need your aid, since I have done a bit of comparison and found nothing, and am too lazy to dig further. The problem is this: (1) Milk Chocolate Bars that are wrapped in foil and the brown paper are amazing and delicious milk chocolate heaven. (2) Milk Chocolate Bars wrapped in the flimsy plastic wrapper for some reason taste like dry waxy shit. (3) Milk Chocolate Bars identical to the above shit-bar, but of the almond variety, taste delicious. Because the plastic-wrapped almond bar tastes exactly like the foil-wrapped milk chocolate bar, I want to find out why the plastic-wrapped plain milk chocolate tastes SO horrible! This is something I've been trying to find the answer to for about three years now. Feel free to taste test for yourself. The plastic-wrapped plain milk chocolate tastes dry and disgusting, waxy even. Gag. First person to find a good answer gets a huge chocolate bar as soon as I find out how to send them Willy-Wonka style.

[ChrissyMaria]

I'm no genius but I do know what shipping chocolate can do in a truck...the bars could possibly get warm, along with the plastic and the plastic leeches into the chocolate perhaps? Its just a guess, I do know that using plastic to ship foods is a crappy idea....same goes for beer in plastic bottles, yuck.

[mrdeano]

Do you think plastic wrapped can be stored longer? Well they might be older chocolate bars

[khh]

I'm guessing that the chocolate shipped in plain plastic wrappers is simply of lower quality than the one shipped in foil. The almonds might disguise the taste of the lower quality chocolate, or that chocolate might be of better quality.

[slash112]

I'm no genius but I do know what shipping chocolate can do in a truck...the bars could possibly get warm, along with the plastic and the plastic leeches into the chocolate perhaps? Its just a guess, I do know that using plastic to ship foods is a crappy idea....same goes for beer in plastic bottles, yuck. I would say it's more like, the chemicals in the plastic melts off and into the chocolate, and that includes the glue holding the plastic together keeping it sealed. This would most likely happen only because the plastic is (if I remember the term correctly) a thermoplastic (plastic that can melt). Whereas foil and paper cannot melt. Oh, and for the almonds in the plastic ones, I'm guessing the only reason that they taste fine is cause the almond's taste maybe over-powers the plastic taste. Yaaay I get the willy wonka TV chocolate!!!

[Shift]

The only reason that that most logical explanation doesn't seem to work is that I despise almonds and eat around them or suck the chocolate off and then spit them out. The chocolate itself, though, will taste just like the regular bar from the foil/paper, for example if I nibble off the corner of the almond bar. As far as I can tell the two bars in the plastic wrapping are of the same age/same shipping length, and since they are chocolate and never melted presumably shipped in a relatively cool container/truck. Because of the seriousness of nut allergies, I've felt it safe to assume that the pure foiled/paper bars are not contaminated with nuts.

[slash112]

Well, I think they make the chocolate different in the ones with nuts, I have noticed a difference in taste between non-nuts and nuts from the same brand. The reason for them making the chocolate differently is probably because of the way the chocolate needs to keep a hold of the nuts. Yaay, NOW I get the Willy Wonka TV chocolate

[khh]

The only reason that that most logical explanation doesn't seem to work is that (...). But... but that's not fair. You can't hold a competition and then provide the answer yourself...

[HyperNova]

Immigrants.. that's why.

[slash112]

But... but that's not fair. You can hold a competition and then provide the answer yourself... Shift never gave an answer, only saying that we were wrong. And I gave the answer to prove that wrong.

[slayer]

Taste buds maybe?

[Man of Steel]

I blame it on quantum. I'll settle for a phone call, Shiftums. Got plenty of my own chocolate.

[Rozzy]

It's cuz I go to the factories and step on the choclate...