"It doesn’t make sense for chocolate bars to be divided into equal-sized chunks when there is so much inequality in the chocolate industry! The unequally-sized chunks of our 6.35 oz bars are a palatable way of reminding Choco Fans and Serious Friends that the profits in the chocolate industry are unequally divided.
And in case you haven’t noticed, the bottom of our bars depicts the West African coastline. The chunks just above it represent the Gulf of Guinea. From left to right, you have Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo and Benin (terribly politically incorrect, we know, but we had to combine them to create enough space for a hazelnut), Nigeria and part of Cameroon."
Absolutely disgusting chocolate in my opinion. Chalky and bland. It’s nice that they claim to be about equality, but the product itself just isn’t to my taste. And yes, the dumb way they make these bars also really puts me off.
I just want a normal, boring bar that tastes nice. And this is not the brand for me.
Are you American? I’ve heard that American chocolate taste a lot different from European chocolate
Tony’s doesn’t taste like european chocolate.
European here and it does to me. It’s my go to chocolate.
Which ones? The Tony’s i had was chalky, mealy, and bland and didn’t even really taste like chocolate, milk or dark. It’s not remotely like anything I’ve had from Europe. I’ve not had everything from every country there but I’ve had stuff from the UK, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Belgium. Not sure I’ve had other countries, maybe spain, but not sure, but I know I’ve had several brands from those ones i listed.
Yeah same, I like their ethics, don’t like the product very much.
That was my experience with it as well. I’m surprised to see it around still honestly. Worst chocolate I’ve ever had from feel/texture to taste.
HAIL CORPORATE
They are also 6€ so, not for me.
The problem is that other chocolates are too cheap and literally use slave labor.
Treat yourself one time. The quality of the chocolate is so much better than the garbage shoveled out by Hersheys.
My spouse and I discovered their chocolate by chance. It’s now our go-to because of their business practices and their quality.
It’s also why I no longer buy it. It’s a PITA to eat.
I see Saddam Hussein in the bottom left there. The meme know no bounds!
Damn that’s just an ad. There is no escape
whoa, meta
I do like these bars but breaking it into pieces without a mess is difficult. I’ve had to resort to putting the entire thing in my mouth and waiting for it to melt down my throat.
You break it while the packaging is intact
The geopolitical meta is strong here
The sarlaac method
It is a mess, which is why I thought it’s intentional to make it difficult to apportion your dose of chocolate, in effect making you eat more. And all this stuff about inequality sounds like the worst BS possible.
Giggity
I guess we’ll just have to deal with slavery then
If only there was some middle ground between hard to eat chocolate and modern day slavery.
But the slavery is where the flavour comes from!
That and the lead that is in it.
Especially the dark ones require a lot of force to break. I see it as a challenge.
I swear to god I need a rolling my eyes emoji for the shit I see on Lemmy sometimes.
Today’s post is…
*Shuffles cards.
Inequality… Chocolate… so you can feel depressed about the world while you are eating chocolate.(no offense to OP, maybe I’m just an old man who doesn’t get it)
The thing is you live in what is called the imperial core if you are a western nation citizen and especially if you are an American citizen. You get what you want for dirt cheap prices(even if you think it is expensive). Turns out many things you own or get is at the expense of other people who still live in dirt houses or just don’t know where their next meal will come from or just in general an exploited people who isn’t getting a sustainable compensation for their work. You get chocolate, an electric car, or diamonds at dirt cheap prices from the labor of people who don’t even know what chocolate tastes like. You get chocolate because you enjoy chocolate. Chocolate is cheap because you demand it to be so you can have a little treat. You winge at learning about something while eating chocolate. We are sitting comfortable eating chocolate while you cry about learning about inequalities. You are asked to think about inequality about your little treat. It isn’t about chocolate at all. Just take some time to consider your little treat is making someone millions while the person’s hands who made it is hungry and will die at 40 because of the conditions they live in.
No we don’t expect you to completely stop eating chocolate. No we don’t expect you to change the world. We ask you to just think about other people for a moment while you take a break. I know it is hard since most people are being exploited in a different way here in the west and we have our own lives but at least we have so much food here that we won’t go hungry with programs to help funded by how rich we are. While people who made our little treat dedicate some farm land for our tasty morsel when they are hungry themselves. Never to even know that there hands create a delicious thing we can buy for less than 20 minutes of our labor in America
Tell me you’re a foreign intelligence agent without saying you’re a foreign intelligence agent.
Tell me you don’t think about anything outside your 60 mile radius of your house. You really grasp complex thought and how things are interconnected
Hey. I understand that maybe you’re unaware of the nuance behind this. Almost all massive producers of chocolate rely of human exploitation and slavery to get their chocolate. Many “workers” are also young children. People need to know this.
I know that it seems like people might just be out to “spoil the fun”, but the more you know about a product and how it is produced, you can make decisions about your consumption.
I’ve made decisions like purchasing the majority of my clothing secondhand, avoiding N×stlè products, cutting much of my meat consumption, etc. because I’m faced with the reality that my choices affect the lives around me, even if I do not see the impact directly.
It’s upsetting to hear about the reality of things like this, but it’s very very important to be informed. I do not want to simply consume a product if I know that it is actively harming lives and/or contributing to human suffering. If that means avoiding certain chocolate bars, so be it. I hope that someone would do the same for me, too, if I were in such a position.
Like the coffee industry in many unfortunate ways.
Fair Trade Coffee hits different.
Zapatista coffee is tasty I hear.
Death Wish for me, but i will absolutely look at Zapatista.
They also don’t fuck over cocoa growers
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Maybe they should spend less money on a fancy mold for their chocolate and more on better sourced cocoa beans with less lead in them: https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/lead-and-cadmium-in-dark-chocolate-a8480295550/
Sure, gram for gram, Tony’s has 34% more lead than California would like, but their chocolate is still sold in the state.
To add to what @[email protected] pointed out, the Mast bar is 70g for $8, while Tony’s bar is 180g for $6.
Gram for gram, Mast is more than triple the price.
There is absolutely no difference in price between the two - i.e. a “fancy” one like this and a regular one. Both will most likely be made by machining a block of graphite and using EDM to make the actual mold. The difference in machining time wouldn’t cost more than $200 or so
Wow, techno music is so versatile.
Do you also find it hilarious to use the word techno whenever somebody mentions EDM?
One time this dude who is maybe a little autistic, possibly very autistic, made this super detailed post about all the different genres of electronic dance music. If you know anything about it, you know there’s some hyper-specific sub genres out there, and this dude took the time to not only list them all out, but verbally describe what made a piece of music fit into one genre versus all the others.
Obviously I replied with something like “Man, I love techno.”
What does techno music have to do with cutting metal with wire?
To be honest, this is the first time I’ve had the opportunity to do so.
The irregular pieces make it much easier to eat. You make a conscious decision how much you break off, instead of just getting another 4 squares.
Yes… haha… conscious eating… haha…
Thanks for the advertisement?
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That’s what this company is trying to change.
