A Podcast with Receipts
Every slogan has an origin story and every jingle has a motive. Lies We Bought pulls apart the marketing myths and cultural conditioning behind what we eat, wear, buy, and believe, asking who actually benefited from all of it.
Hosted by marketer-turned-investigator Emily Rask, this is the show for everyone who grew up trusting the ads and is ready to finally read the fine print.
episode twenty-three:
FAKE CHOCOLATE Fair warning: I will never stop eating chocolate.
"Melts in your mouth, not in your hand" started as a WWII battlefield discovery and a secret deal that made M&M's and Hershey's family from day one, not competitors. In this episode, I trace that slogan back to its real origin, then follow the money into the current cocoa crisis, the Hershey's scandal, and the legal loophole ("chocolatey") that lets companies quietly sell you less chocolate than the label implies.
I was told as a kid I was allergic to chocolate. I wasn't. That's the story underneath this whole episode, and it's the one I come back to at the end.
Watch on YouTube to the very end for Patreon shoutouts and some extra behind-the-scenes chaos.
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