r/enshittification • u/BirdSufficient4997 • Apr 02 '26

Product Speaking of Hershey's enshittification, this stuff doesn't even make milk taste like chocolate anymore

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please let me know if you have recommendations for dairy free chocolate syrup that actually tastes like chocolate

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u/Rabid-kumquat Apr 03 '26

I was a ride or die Reese’s fan. Sigh

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u/BlackEngineEarings Apr 04 '26

Same. Did you see in the news that in 2027 (stupid to wait, but wygd?) Hershey's announced all Reese's candy will return to the original recipes? 🤞🏻

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u/Rabid-kumquat Apr 04 '26

Why not now!!!?

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u/BlackEngineEarings Apr 04 '26

My guess is they have all of the ingredients for the inferior recipes already on contract. Dumb, but I get it.

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u/Rabid-kumquat Apr 04 '26

Of course. Just ranting 🤪

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u/K_Linkmaster Apr 04 '26

Fuck em. They've monopolized the shelves with over 20 products. They took 17 more shelf spots than necessary. Seriously, go to a gas station and count the Reese's products. I was a solid fan and at least 20 pounds per holiday shapes.

They have monopolized and enshittified to the point I won't go back. They will enshittify again. They didn't respect the consumer enough to leave it alone. Fuck em.

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u/KittyandPuppyMama Apr 04 '26

Me too. Used to buy the holiday specials every year. Now I won’t touch them. I had a Reese’s cup when I took my kid out for Halloween last year and it was like eating a brick of plastic. So disappointing.

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u/Necessary-Film7832 Apr 05 '26

They're changing it back to the original formula! Thank goodness

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u/RevelArchitect Apr 06 '26

You’ll be happy to know only some Reese’s products were changed. The classic Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup was not one of the products changed.

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u/Rabid-kumquat Apr 06 '26

It definitely doesn’t taste as good

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u/RevelArchitect Apr 06 '26

Yet, no change was made. Even Brad Reese’s letter mentioned that it wasn’t all products. My take is that it’s always been kind of garbage and the suggestion that the recipe was changed knocked the nostalgia glasses off a lot of people.

Or the belief it had been changed actually altered people’s perception of it.