Nestle vs Hershey's vs Mars Inc

General Discussion
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I deleted that last post because I felt as if I was being lazy, so here’s a proper more in depth view on my choices between the three. I’ll first start with Nestle and post the two others at a later date. To note I’ll only review and evaluate the ones I have personal experience with.

Nestle

Nestle Crunch:
The standard poster bar of the brand. It is a basic milk chocolate bar, but with crisp rice mixed into it. The Crunch letters on the bar is a nice touch and makes it fun to eat. Taste wise it is sweet, crunchy, but doesn’t have too much of an addicting euphoria to insight you to buy more. 7/10

Nestle Crunch White:
Just like the standard bar, but made out of cocoa butter and not the standard cocoa beans that most chocolate bars are made out of. The taste is pleasant, but gives even a less desire for more than Nestle Crunch 6/10

Nestle Crunch Mocha :
Like the other two, but coffee is added in the chocolate. I’m not too fond of these types of bars at all so take it with a grain of salt. 3/10

100 Grand:
It is similar to the Nestle Crunch as it is milk chocolate with crisp rice, but is separated into two pieces and it also has caramel. I believe it is an acquired taste though as I don’t know that many that prefer it. I think highly of it though. Its flaws are that it could be slightly tough to bite into and sometimes pieces can stick to the roof of your mouth. I think the combination is delicious and appeases most of its flaws. 7.5/10

Kit Kat:
Kit Kat as I see it isn’t really a candy bar. Being a wafer I only see it as that, but just covered in chocolate. Kit Kats have a lot less sweeter taste compared to the others. I can see the appeal of it and I like them myself, but I hardly ever finding myself going back for more. 5/10.

Butterfinger:
Butterfingers are made out of some caramel/peanut butter compound covered with chocolate. This is an odd bar. The bar’s taste is somewhat pleasing, but hardness of the bar is unpleasant to me and not worth it for the taste. The Simpsons commercials for it were funny. 4/10

Butterfinger BBs:
Same as butterfingers but in miniaturized ball form. Due to size they are slightly softer than the standard bar, but it is not enough to get my attention. The Simpson commercials for it and the original were pretty funny back in the day. 4.5/10

Nestle Crunchers:
A miniaturized ball form of Nestle Crunch. The taste here is a definite decrease compared to the original. It has an odd semi-sweet taste compared to the original. It has nothing going for it besides its size. 3/10

Wonka bar:
The wonka bar I really like. It’s a graham cracker covered in milk chocolate. The combination is one I never expected and the result is fantastic! The bland, but slight honey taste of a graham cracker goes well with the sweetness of milk chocolate. The wrapper is also pleasant as well. The purple packaging with the gold foil compliments one another and stands out among others.
9/10

As for non chocolate bars Nestle also has cookies, cereal, and milk going for it. The cereal I have never tasted, but Their chocolate in the Toll House cookies I really like. It tastes richer and sweeter. It may be the dough helps it a lot more compared to Hershey’s chocolate in Pillsbury cookies, but I like it better overall. 8/10

Nesquick I wasn’t really a fan of. Something about it tastes too bland, sugary, and fake.
4/10.

Overall 5/10. Nestle doesn’t have much going for it. It has the excellent Wonka bar and a couple of okays, but too many bad products which leaves it in a poor position.

Next up is Hershey’s.

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^ lmao

We have a winner.

Yo Sensei, you aiming for that GD nomination again?

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It has to be said but Hershey’s are fucking disgusting man. Nestle all the way.

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This is too hard to decide because I like many different chocolates from each company. I think Mars might edge out because Snickers is a very filling candy bar compared to the rest.

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Hershey’s. Interestingly there was a segment on Food Network about chocolate yesterday and Hershey’s of course came up. Thought I would link the episode, but it’s not on Youtube. For my review

Hershey’s Milk Chocolate
Their most famous product and standard bar of the company. I find it to be the company’s second best bar just under Mr. Goodbar. The Hershey’s Milk Chocolate bar is hard when you break it, but it melts gently in your mouth. The taste of it when eaten while still hard is certainly good, but I prefer letting it melt a little bit to soften it up to immediately get that smooth and creamy texture. The taste is nicely sweet, but not too sweet. Sometimes when I have ice cream at the ice, but no chocolate syrup, I’ll melt but a Hershey bar in the microwave until it melts all the way into a liquid state and poor the hot gooey chocolate onto the ice cream. The brick forms of Hershey’s with the name imprinted on each little brick is also a nice touch and it makes it easy to share with someone. It also makes it easier to eat it in portions. I give it a 9/10

Hershey with Almonds
Like the Hershey bar, but it loses it’s multi brick pattern for a run of the mill plain rectangular bar. The reason for this I suppose is that the almonds would create a problem with that and they tend to be larger than peanuts, so it’s reasonable that Mr. Goodbar keeps it even with nuts. The bar is good. The hard and slightly sweet taste of almonds goes good with this, but the chocolate has seemed to lost some quality to me. It’s not as smooth as the standard bar. Still it’s a good bar and it entices you to eat more. 8.5/10

Hershey’s Cookies & Cream
Hershey’s cookies & cream is another unique product. It takes the shape of the Hershey bar, puts it on white chocolate and adds in small chunks of oreo-like cookies. It tastes great and makes me feel like I’m eating an Oreo in candy form. 9/10

Reese’s
Reese’s, Reese’s Reese’s. How I love Reese’s. The combination of peanut butter and chocolate is genius. The combination of the taste of the sweet, oily, weird, but great taste of peanut butter combined with chocolate is superb. the wrapping of Reese’s are pretty good too. The bright orange catches your attention immediately from others and the paper cup wrappers, versus the foil wrappers that most other have make for softer and less noisy unwrapping. The food itself is fun to eat. Like the old commercials they used to have, there’s no wrong way to eat a Reese’s.
I used try to eat them a different way every time I had one when I was a child. Now I mostly just straight eat it or eat the inside first then eat the ringed edge. Due to being two cups, it makes it easy to share. The only flaw with Reese’s is that they’re not that filling and only two of them come in a package. 9/10

White Reese’s
Basically like the standard Reese’s but with white chocolate. White Chocolate I feel doesn’t make as great as a combination as milk chocolate. It’s still somewhat good. 7/10

Reese’s Fast Break
Reese’s Fast Break is like the standard Reese’s made into a bar with a nougat center. This combination I feel is a lot better than White Reese’s. It somewhat makes me feel like I’m eating an energy bar and it brightens my mood. The soft nougat goes well with chocolate and the peanut butter. 8.5/10

Whatchamacallit
The name is clever BTW which makes it memorable. The bar is a peanut and caramel crisp coated in milk chocolate. The result is good, but not that memorable like the name is. There seems to be a little too much going on here and it doesn’t unify into a single unique taste. I still eat them though. 6.5/10

Hershey’s Kiss
Kisses are solid milk chocolates shaped like what I might say is a fat raindrop or Dejanay’s head. They’re a meant to be light on the go treats and serve the purpose well. They give you a quick sweet satisfying taste of the Hershey bar. 8.5/10

Hershey’s Hugs
Like the Kiss, but made with white chocolate with a swirl of milk chocolate on the outside and a milk chocolate filling. I actually like this one more than the hugs. The combination of the two chocolates, creates something delicious. 9/10

Mr. Goodbar
This is my absolute favorite out of all the bars. It combines the Hershey’s Milk Chocolate bar with peanuts. The chocolate seems to just have loss a tiny ounce of quality, but the peanuts really make it a win for me. The saltiness of the peanuts with the creaminess of the chocolate, makes something absolutely superb and I always want more of it. 10/10

Almond Joy
this I suppose is an acquired taste, but I hate dark chocolate and I hate coconuts. Dark chocolate is hardly sweet and mostly bitter. Coconut is flaky causing to constantly spit out the little shavings in my mouth. The two of them together is awful to me and the only redeeming quality of this bar is its name and the Almonds. 2/10

Mounds
Like Almond joy, but without the almonds. 1/10.

Hershey’s in other chocolate products.
Hershey’s chocolate syrup is okay and serves its purpose, but I feel it could be better. I prefer melting M&Ms, Hershey bars, and Kisses over this. 6/10.

Hershey’s Strawberry syrup is a little better than the chocolate in my opinion, but not that much. 7/10

Cocoa Puffs use Hershey chocolate and it’s been among my favorite cereals. It’s also fun to see the milk turn into chocolate milk. 8/10.

Reese’s Puffs
Basically this is a combination of Cocoa Puffs and Peanut Butter Captain Crunch. The two of them together is heaven in my mouth. Reese’s, but in cereal form. 9/10

Pillsbury Cookies also use Hershey’s chocolate. The cookies themselves are good, but the chocolate doesn’t stand out to me as much as the Nestle chocolate does in Toll House cookies. 7/10

Overall Hershey’s averages out to a 7.35

Last, but not least with be Mars.

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Lot of women posting in this thread, I didn’t know SRK had any left.

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Who makes Payday and Rolo? Those are pretty much the only 2 candies I eat.

^_-;

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Mars, now spell it backwards and drop the “s”

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This may be the least potentially combative vs. thread in SRK history.

Snickers ice cream bars are distressingly good. That said, Hershey is the closest any of them come to real chocolate.

As for people complaining that all these products are just “candy,” well, no shit. You don’t walk into McDonalds and complain that you’re not getting filet mignon.

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Thinking about it and looking at what each company has made I’m actually surprising myself that I eat more from the Mars group. HOWEVER…Reese’s is my kryptonite.