Have chocolate companies quietly changed their recipes?

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  This is In Conversation from Apple News.

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  I'm Shemitah Basu.

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  Today, it's not just you.

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  Chocolate tastes worse now.

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  A summer or two ago, I was introducing one of my nieces to the concept of the perfect s'more.

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  The graham cracker, the toasted marshmallow, and the all-important melty square of Hershey's chocolate.

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  Except there was one problem.

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  The chocolate wasn't melting.

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  And it sent me into a bit of a tailspin.

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  What is wrong with this chocolate?

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  Was I misremembering?

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  Is the chocolate different now?

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  Apparently, I'm not alone in noticing this.

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  I was eating snow caps at the movies, and I was like, these taste really weird,

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  but it's probably me, and it's probably my fault, and I'm misremembering them.

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  That's Rachel Handler, a features writer for New York Magazine, and her recent cover story, The Chocolate Conspiracy,

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  addresses what I and seemingly thousands of other people on social media are saying they're experiencing.

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  Her reporting took her on a journey to find out what is up with chocolate

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  these days and why our favorite bars taste different than what we remember from our childhood.

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  It's a fascinating article full of twists and turns, and I can't stop talking about it with everyone I know.

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