Gawker puts the Cadbury vs. Hershey chocolate argument to the taste test

Last month, we learned that the local chocolate hawkers at Hershey took legal action to block British Cadbury products from coming into the United States. Cocoa lovers quickly became enraged, claiming that they can so acutely taste the difference between the two that they may never have their sweet teeth satisfied again.

But can they? Judging from a taste-test video from Gawker, that doesn't necessarily seem to be true.

In order to test the claim that British Cadbury and American Hershey chocolates are vastly different, the website rounded up its "best-looking staff members" to go through some samples. The items in question: Cadbury and Hershey version of the beloved Creme Egg, as well as both versions of the famed Fruit & Nut Bar.

Perhaps not surprisingly, the results shook out to the "mishmash" of a 60-40 split decision. Which, of course, means that some preferred the British chocolate, and some preferred the American. Mostly because they grew up with those flavors in mind when they think "chocolate."

"It should have been no contest," the video's narrator says. "It's not the fault of some of our writers for growing up with bad taste."

[Gawker]