What is some of your Pet Peeve's

[Eagle1]

 

[Eagle1]

 

[Engineer42]

What... 36 ft. above sea level isn't high enough for you?

Just a small sampling of the iconic food companies based in or near Philadelphia:

• Herr's
• Hershey
• Martin's (hot dog rolls, potato chips)
• Musselman's (mayo)
• Tastykake
• Turkey Hill
• Utz
• Snyder's
• Starbucks coffee (yeah, they roast most of their coffee in York PA, not Seattle)
• Rita's Italian Ice
• Philadelphia Pretzel Co.
• Taylor (pork roll)
• Jack & Jill (ice cream trucks)
• Dietz & Watson
• Bassettes Ice Cream

I prefer Utz chips, less salt. You forgot to mention Seltzers.

 

[Sprinkler Fitter]

What... 36 ft. above sea level isn't high enough for you?

Just a small sampling of the iconic food companies based in or near Philadelphia:

• Herr's
• Hershey
• Martin's (hot dog rolls, potato chips)
• Musselman's (mayo)
• Tastykake
• Turkey Hill
• Utz
• Snyder's
• Starbucks coffee (yeah, they roast most of their coffee in York PA, not Seattle)
• Rita's Italian Ice
• Philadelphia Pretzel Co.
• Taylor (pork roll)
• Jack & Jill (ice cream trucks)
• Dietz & Watson
• Bassettes Ice Cream

A list that long and I have only had Hersheys.

 

[WinterDeere]

A list that long and I have only had Hersheys.

The funny thing is that, despite being the most famous of our many local chocolatiers, it's probably the worst among them. Hershey became big by finding a cheaper way to make chocolate, namely taking old spoiled milk back from dairies, and then adding so damn much sugar to it, to tip the sour/sweet scale. It has a unique sour aftertaste that many have come to love, no other chocolate is quite like it there, but give it to any Swiss or German and they almost immediately spit it out!

Another local company, Ashers Chocolates, makes world-class dark chocolate that I'd put up against even Lindt from Switzerland. But they've never gone national, as far as I know, they only sell regionally.

I grew up on Hershey, so I still appreciate it, especially breaking off half of their traditional 16-square bar to make S'mores.

 

[Eagle1]

The funny thing is that, despite being the most famous of our many local chocolatiers, it's probably the worst among them. Hershey became big by finding a cheaper way to make chocolate, namely taking old spoiled milk back from dairies, and then adding so damn much sugar to it, to tip the sour/sweet scale. It has a unique sour aftertaste that many have come to love, no other chocolate is quite like it there, but give it to any Swiss or German and they almost immediately spit it out!

Another local company, Ashers Chocolates, makes world-class dark chocolate that I'd put up against even Lindt from Switzerland. But they've never gone national, as far as I know, they only sell regionally.

I grew up on Hershey, so I still appreciate it, especially breaking off half of their traditional 16-square bar to make S'mores.

Hersey can't compare to German or Swiss or even Belgian....

 

[WinterDeere]

Hersey can't compare to German or Swiss or even Belgian....

I don't think they're even trying to. Hershey is to chocolate as rap is to music or golf is to sports. It's a thing, but it ain't the traditional "thing".

My favorite chocolatier is Lindt, although I'd put Asher's above Lindt in the dark category. Asher's biggest seller is chocolate-covered pretzels, probably obtained thru Utz, Martin's, or one of the other many big Pennsylvania pretzel co's. Dark chocolate-covered salted sourdough pretzels must be more addictive than crack-cocaine.

 

[Engineer42]

I don't think they're even trying to. Hershey is to chocolate as rap is to music or golf is to sports. It's a thing, but it ain't the traditional "thing".

My favorite chocolatier is Lindt, although I'd put Asher's above Lindt in the dark category. Asher's biggest seller is chocolate-covered pretzels, probably obtained thru Utz, Martin's, or one of the other many big Pennsylvania pretzel co's. Dark chocolate-covered salted sourdough pretzels must be more addictive than crack-cocaine.

Friend of mine from PA used to bring me seasoned pretzel bits (homemade) using the large sourdough pretzels. She has since passed and I never found any to compare. Regional thing up there I guess.

 

[scootr]

Friend of mine from PA used to bring me seasoned pretzel bits (homemade) using the large sourdough pretzels. She has since passed and I never found any to compare. Regional thing up there I guess.

When I was a boy I would jump at the chance to go to NYC or Philly just for the hot pretzels.

 

[JasperFrank]

My biggest peev now is how the media frames things. We have a huge homeless issue in Oregon. Most came here from out of state, because we had a failed experiment of compassion to look the other way regarding addictions. And the media and politicians frame this as a housing shortage. So the solution is "Obviously" to change land use laws to build more houses on Ag land, right? For Whom? Druggies don't have any money. So the normal tax payer is being asked to not only change the land use laws, but to some how fund this transition, from a fentanyl, or other opiate, user to a home owner? This is unicorn thinking. And developers are just salivating over the idea that there will be vast areas opened for them to make money off of. What we need are voluntary Roosevelt Era CCorp camps, where they can detox, if they want to, doing public enterprises for the benefit of the greater society. I'd pay for that. The homeless thing, is that they want to be homeless, and use drugs and make huge messes we pay to clean up. And as said before, most are from Out of State, not local people on hard luck. This, "where" are you from? The media never asks. So we think its a local failure of support. Which it is not. Oregon had this all solved in the late 90's.