Disappointment with Dubai chocolate! It has to be the most FORCED product social media has pushed

[RanmyakuIchi's icon RanmyakuIchi RanmyakuIchi]

Chocolate IS trash I will stand by that!

I know you lost your taste buds in the war, so I'll let this slide for now.

 

[Deebo]

I’ve never had a Dubai chocolate bar. I was confused when I started seeing it talked about like a bar—what comes to mind for me is a crepe with chocolate, pistachios and pista cream, and most importantly the CRUNCHY VERMICELLI

It’s a little too sweet for me though, I’ll usually just have a bite off someone else’s. What came first?

Also I think the people acting like it’s braindead herd mentality to try a chocolate you heard someone else talk about are like, really out of touch and antisocial lol. You think you’re making a point about influencer culture, but you’re really just expressing some sort of unfamiliarity with word of mouth and it’s kind of odd.

 

[medisinn]

I've never heard of this. If it's a simple type of food, it just sounds like the latest Tiktok trend of something mundane people treat as new and amazing. If it's offered from a company, it's probably a marketing stunt, similar to the Stanley cup thing last year. Between ignorance and living somewhat frugally, these trends tend to pass me by. I'd try it just to try it if it's not expensive.

 

[Deebo]

I've never heard of this. If it's a simple type of food, it just sounds like the latest Tiktok trend of something mundane people treat as new and amazing. If it's offered from a company, it's probably a marketing stunt, similar to the Stanley cup thing last year. Between ignorance and living somewhat frugally, these trends tend to pass me by. I'd try it just to try it if it's not expensive.

It may be foolish to feign ignorance about how ideas get promoted between people through word of mouth, but I can certainly understand and get behind feeling cynical about how companies capitalize off trends and ostentatiously try to separate people from their money. Sorry for that huge run on sentence— I can agree with what you’re saying here lol

 

[ObscureJigglypuff]

Jesus, but you've never been closer to being banned

BAN HIM, BAN HIM, BAN HIM.

 

[medisinn]

It may be foolish to feign ignorance about how ideas get promoted between people through word of mouth, but I can certainly understand and get behind feeling cynical about how companies capitalize off trends and ostentatiously try to separate people from their money. Sorry for that huge run on sentence— I can agree with what you’re saying here lol

I get what you're saying. I do feign ignorance sometimes, it can be helpful, and I am very cynical. In this case though, it's organic home-grown ignorance. I don't use Tiktok, Instagram, Twitter or Facebook, so I'm unaware of most trends. If it's viral enough I'll likely hear about it from a friend or see it memed upon somewhere.

 

[ATenderLad]

BAN HIM, BAN HIM, BAN HIM.

I'm gonna need to see some real paper, JigglyCoins™ aren't accepted at my liquor store.

 

[Deebo]

Chocolate IS trash I will stand by that!

I don't usually care for chocolate either

 

[Strategist's icon Strategist Strategist]

I don't usually care for chocolate either

American chocolate is generally trash. Stuff like Hershey's cannot be considered chocolate, more like chocolate flavored slop.

European and Japanese chocolate, however are on a different level. German chocolate in particular is very gud.

 

[Leo-Dash]

Non Food Related but similar phenomenon
Remember when Fidget Spinners EXPLODED in popularity also because of Social Media
and all the companies jumped on to capitalize on the trend!
and after a while nobody was buying them and they were filled with them

American chocolate is generally trash. Stuff like Hershey's cannot be considered chocolate, more like chocolate flavored slop.

European and Japanese chocolate, however are on a different level. German chocolate in particular is very gud.

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RITTER SPORT MENTIONED!
They had an Amazing Chocolate with Mint filling that I adored but they are no longer available in my Country via Lidl

Like WTF, BRING IT BACK! I LOVE THIS THING!
Mint Chocolate is KINO!

 

[Deebo]

American chocolate is generally trash. Stuff like Hershey's cannot be considered chocolate, more like chocolate flavored slop.

European and Japanese chocolate, however are on a different level. German chocolate in particular is very gud.

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Heh...you simply dont get it, I don't even want good chocolate

edit: im mostly kidding-i don't totally hate chocolate, I just usually only want it when im like, really high or something. I do like very dark chocolate, and white chocolate with cookie peices :-) also, the marzipan ritter sport smells so good..

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Non Food Related but similar phenomenon
Remember when Fidget Spinners EXPLODED in popularity also because of Social Media
and all the companies jumped on to capitalize on the trend!
and after a while nobody was buying them and they were filled with them

Yeah! My kid even got one on his bag at a birthday party.

As for chocolate... Someone mentioned Hershey and all I can think of whenever I hear the name is that time that the US Army tasked them to make a foul-tasting bar so soldiers wouldn't eat it unless completely necessary.

 

[ThatOneLum]

Ritter Sports are awesome.
I sometimes get the salted caramel kind on my trips to town.

Honestly, most of the time I'm only in the loop on these trends due to reading the news or watching a show like Scroll Deep that covers Internet trends.

I ditched almost all social media other than YouTube a while back, unless you count forums like this.