{"id":1400,"date":"2026-04-23T10:04:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/?p=1400"},"modified":"2026-04-23T13:06:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T18:06:44","slug":"does-eating-hershey-chocolate-make-you-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/2026\/does-eating-hershey-chocolate-make-you-american\/","title":{"rendered":"Does eating Hershey chocolate make you American?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A lot of people know that Hershey chocolate <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/J44svaQc5WY?si=umdnKm87uFc4TLSG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">tastes of vomit<\/a> to non-Americans. In fact, it was so gross that I genuinely wondered how Americans could consider it a treat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But last Halloween, we were in South Carolina visiting my in-laws, and we received some chocolate and other sweets (US English: candy). They were all forgotten about until today, and I unthinkingly ate a Hershey&#8217;s Kiss&#8230; And it didn&#8217;t taste of vomit. I wonder, does that make me a US American, just as much as my citizenship?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also recently ate Gluten Free Cheez-Its, the first time I&#8217;d ever had a Cheez-It. I told colleagues at work, then, that I might have completed my US American culinary cultural experiences. They took that well, hearing that US American food is mostly cheese-based, or fried, or both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What do you think? Is this a sign of being US Americanized?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of people know that Hershey chocolate tastes of vomit to non-Americans. In fact, it was so gross that I genuinely wondered how Americans could consider it a treat. But last Halloween, we were in South Carolina visiting my in-laws, and we received some chocolate and other sweets (US English: candy). They were all forgotten about until today, and I unthinkingly ate a Hershey&#8217;s Kiss&#8230; And it didn&#8217;t taste of vomit. I wonder, does that make me a US&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/2026\/does-eating-hershey-chocolate-make-you-american\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[212,114],"tags":[480,479,477,481,483],"class_list":["post-1400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-food","tag-decisions","tag-halloween","tag-hershey","tag-tastes","tag-velveeta"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1402,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions\/1402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}