This leads to more important question: what is made from the production waste of other product? Chocolate from soap, or soap from chocolate?

Treat yo self

Thinking about the chemistry, it seems a lot more reasonable to use chocolate waste as a fat source for making soap.

But from the capitalistic economics' point of view it is a lot more reasonable to make chocolate out of soap waste.

Same reason Yamaha makes both pianos and motorcycles

Tbf, they both sound really good.

Because one is a Unilever product and the other is Mars Inc.

It’s like saying Crystal Lite and Crystal hot sauce are the same company because they share a product name.

Wait, hold up, Dove the soap company and Dove the chocolate company are actually two different companies??? One owned by Mars and one by Unilever???? When did this happen?????

Dove supplies the complete cycle of life from cleansing yourself of evil/dirt to falling again for evil/sin/chocolate.

I figure this is a US chocolate (i.e. horrible shite) as I've never heard of it.

I'm pretty sure the only bad chocolate is specifically Hershey's? I've had imported chocolate from the EU and it tasted exactly the same.

EU chocolate sold in the US is not the same as the normal EU chocolate. The chocolate for the US market has higher sugar and less cocoa. They use inferior ingredients to reduce costs and make the faux-chocolate suitable for long transit.

Most US chocolates I've tried have that hideous vomit/bile undertone.

I mean, you can eat them both

As others mentioned, different companies. More importantly, for non-US folks, as far as taste goes Dove is a bit better quality than Hershey garbage and even other Mars brands (M&M, Snickers) as it's their "premium" chocolate, but it's still pretty waxy and low quality overall. Given the price, that shouldn't be surprising, though, you can get a bag of the stuff for just a few dollars.

American chocolates are generally sweeter, but not always low quality (nor vomitty, like Hershey's); it can be quite good, especially if eaten slowly and with coffee or something. We sometimes bring See's chocolates for Japanese relatives for a bit of a novelty, and funny enough a few of them actually like it more but I assume that might be an Okinawan thing.

Anyway, it's like comparing a fast food burger to a restaurant burger, they're completely different animals, figuratively speaking (and sometimes, literally, hehe).

The logo fonts are similar scripts, I think that's the primary source of confusion. That, and the comparable flavor profiles.

comparable flavor profiles.

I love you. Thanks for the laugh.

And both of Dove's products taste really good

Sure, Unilever only owns Dove, the soap products. They also have a confectionary and ice cream line (e.g., Ben and Jerry’s), which begs the same question.

It's even shit by U.S. chocolate standards, just to give you a sense of how bad it is.

thank you for the reminder that i've yet to be fully assimilated into american culture, had no clue that was a thing over there

Was hoping someone in the comments had the answer, thank you (I am trusting and not verifying)

Every time someone posts something like this about food and I don't notice the badness, I wonder if it is because I'm an unsophisticated rube and have never had anything better so of course I wouldn't know the difference while the poster is refined. Or if it's just that different people have different taste buds and preferences. Or if it's because the internet and human brains have negativity bias and are more likely to post "x food nasty" than "x food mediocre (actually mediocre, not the way people use it as a synonym for "bad" nowadays)" or "x food good".

Especially with big brands, and nowadays big American brands giving the horrible things the United States of America is doing—similar to how people are very happy to call people's looks ugly when their personality is ugly even if they don't look all that bad—emotional sentiment either legitimately affecting their judgment of other qualities, or them knowing the thing isn't actually that bad but they'll exaggerate the badness because they have grievances with other qualities besides, say, the food's taste or person's looks.

All this to say I've eaten Hershey's (gotten them as gifts, don't purchase it myself) and do not think it is awful, is it actually this bad and I'm a rube blessed with no taste and thus the ability to enjoy more things? Is it the internet being the complain-y internet, especially with Hershey's probably being a big brand and being American which are unpopular nowadays, regardless of the actual quality of the chocolate? Or a mix of the two?

It's available in several other countries under the brand Galaxy

It's a thing in germany too and I got very confused the first time I saw the chocolate. But idk if they're actually the same company

completely different animals, figuratively speaking (and sometimes, literally,

Wait.. so you mean Galaxy is called Dove in the US?

By jove, they're right! I looked it up and Galaxy has the exact same packaging. Description sounds the same but I wouldn't be surprised if the recipe is less sweet.

Why does Michelin make tires but also is the main organization that gives out the most prestigious awards/ratings for restaurants?

Why does Hitachi make reliable industrial vehicles and also sex toys?

Why does Yamaha make motorcycles and jet skis but also pianos?

Why does Michelin make tires but also is the main organization that gives out the most prestigious awards/ratings for restaurants?

Because getting you to drive to a restaurant makes you wear out your tyres, thus increasing sales indirectly. "Don't stay at your local town, drive 300km to this place we deem to be better!"

Why does Hitachi make reliable industrial vehicles and also sex toys?

Well reliable, durable machinery. Just explains itself.

Why does Yamaha make motorcycles and jet skis but also pianos?

No idea. Only commonality I see is sleek design and a bunch of wires.

And as for dove, both soap and chocolate are mostly fat. Different fats, sure, but still.

Why does GE make washing machines and the 30mm GAU-8/A Avenger?

Because both are just things that spin.

post WWII american influences promoting hyper capitalism and horizontal integration that led to a period of immense industrial deregulation?

that's always the answer for these unfortunately. it led to some really fucked up shit happening tho, see
Minamata disease
and
The 4 great pollution diseases of japan

They're both a unilever. I don't think the same company does both internally; i think you'll leave her wanted a premium chocolate brain and he tested well , that the dove customer base would also want the chocolate. Then both brands are supposed to be smooth and creamy so there's synergy

you'll leave her

chocolate brain

Speech-to-text moment?

Why does Yamaha make motorcycles and jet skis but also pianos?

And a bunch of other instruments too. I've played a Yamaha piano, electric keyboard, clarinet, trombone, AND French horn. They're all just okay.

Slightly off topic but I loved Demolition Man as a kid (I think I watched like a few hundred times at least, we had it on a vhs cassette recorded when it came on tv at one point) and this scene always gave me a huge craving for those cheap shitty microwave burgers they sell at the store and every time I had those I’d pretend it’s a rat burger. 😂

To this day I haven’t tasted an actual rat burger but I’d definitely be open to try one if the opportunity ever arises just to get that out of the way and verify if it would actually be any good or not. I’m very open minded when it comes to food.

They definitely make saxophones too. Probably most of the orchestra lol

IIRC, the reason American chocolate tastes like vomit to Europeans is that early Hershey products used a method of milk stabilization that created butyric acid in the product

They've since switched to other methods, but now they add butyric acid because the distinctive bitter-sour became something that Americans expected from chocolate to the point that chocolate without it didn't taste 'right' to them

Hershey's is the only widely produced American chocolate with the acid "flavor", probably the only one at all because its widely disliked. Hershey's also makes many of the other supermarket chocolate sold here that isn't bile flavored but they are still pretty gross.

Any other slightly smaller manufacturer of chocolate in america is doing something dramatically different, and if all you've had is junk food candy, it's no surprise you'd think that's all there is.

Its the same in Europe, without the vomit of course. Most of my experience with EU and UK chocolate has been slimy milky mush, which I think is pretty awful. I know that's not all European chocolate, but the mass market stuff is pretty rough no matter where you go.

I have a Yamaha guitar from the 70s. It's good.

Damn, that's news to me

Dove is just the English (Simplified) name for Galaxy chocolate.