Hershey’s is definitely low quality chocolate and high in sugar as you mentioned, but it’s also gluten-free which is rare for chocolate (almost all other brands have wheat warnings / cross contamination due to the use of shared equipment) so sometimes my celiac girlfriend buys it. I prefer Marabou (Swedish) or Karl Fazer (Finnish) myself, but we’re in the US where those can be hard to find unless you know where to look.

Salmiak is not popular worldwide. I love salmiak, but almost no one I mention it to is familiar with it.

I worked at a food bank a couple years ago and we regularly received pallets of government cheese through The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP). They were massive blocks of orange cheddar with almost no text on the label. We also received pallets of government pistachios and dried cherries that were as good as any you’d buy in a store.