The chocolate the soldiers gave them were D-Rations, which were specifically designed to be calorie dense and not too tasty so that the soldiers would actually save it for emergencies.
So, no, not really.
My grandmother sometimes talked about how some Americans soldiers gave her chocolate when they passed through, sounded like a core memory. They really had close to nothing at the end of the war, so any kind of chocolate was welcome, all the more if it was rich in calories.
The Germans deliberately starved the Dutch at the end of the war. I don’t think these kids were too picky at the time.
There’s a great scene in Band of Brothers, where one of the first paratroopers behind the line come across a farmer and his son, and the soldier gives the kid a piece of chocolate. The kid LOVES it, of course, and the father says it’s his first time having chocolate.
It was also formulated to not melt too easily, so it was hard and dry. It was terrible chocolate to eat, and it was mostly supposed to be made into a hot chocolate drink.
For Americans wandering by: Hershey’s tastes like vomit to the rest of the world because of butyric acid:
https://www.mentalfloss.com/food/candy/why-american-chocolate-tastes-like-vomit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butyric_acidFun fact! Lots of people in the US don’t like it either. :3
