"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."
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/
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
Thanks for the advertisement?
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.
Too bad about all the lead in them. They’re not as bad as some brands, though.
Holy shit that article has, like, every decent chocolate bar.
I know right. I’m sticking to cigarettes.
An ounce of their Dark Chocolate has 134% of the California max dose of 0.5 mg of lead, for those wondering about details.
An ounce is about 29 grams in non-freedom units, for those wondering
Am I blind or can I not find the claim about 134% on the linked page?
Searched for “Tony” there.It’s the first one in the high in lead section
if I die by eating dark chocolate, at least I’ll die happy
Except it’s the kind of poison that takes decades to kill you. And it’s bad for braincells too.
oh so it’s just like alcohol then, that hasn’t stopped many people before unfortunately
But alcohol is paychoactive and addictive. Lead is non of those things.
Well shit
I know, right? It really sucks. They’re honestly one of the tastier bars I’d had. I’ve taken a bit of a step back from chocolate in general, these days. I probably got enough lead exposure as a kid… no need to add any more than is absolutely unavoidable.
Otoh, it makes them sweeter
If it’s good enough to collapse the Roman Empire, it’s good enough to collapse the American Empire!
Lol, that’s per ounce too.
It’s a good thing I don’t like dark chocolate then
Funny that they made their brand the biggest piece of all in the representation.
I’m reading it like they colonize Africa directly
“It’s UNFAIR that all of these countries exist! All must bow before Tony’s West African Company.”
Tony’s West African Minimum-Security Chocolate Manufactorium - formerly several countries.
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
Yeah same, I like their ethics, don’t like the product very much.
I love it, but I feel obligated to say
"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!
No, it makes sense. I understand, but it makes a lot more sense
Ok but this is a good way to raise awareness about the issue. Many people will pick these bars in the store without knowing much about the brand. Then when they eat it, they will probably wonder why it’s divided like that and the explanation is right there on the inside of the wrapper.
And then never buy them again because they are difficult to break evenly. Great idea but poor execution imo.
lol imagine sharing your chocolate bars with other people, tssk (/hj)
fr tho if that bothers you, the inequality that comes with other chocolate brands should bother you too
not saying Tony’s is 100% fair, but at least they put in a lot of effort to make it as fair as possible
Do you buy chocolate based on convenience over taste?
Price usually
Fair, I do remember eating a lot of Tesco Value chocolate back in the day
It doesn’t make sense for cars to have 4 equal sized wheels when there is so much inequality in the auto industry.
Yeah this copy needed a couple more drafts/notes.
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.
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.
Giggity
You break it while the packaging is intact
The geopolitical meta is strong here
Especially the dark ones require a lot of force to break. I see it as a challenge.
The billionaire chocolate bar would leave only the wrapping paper to the consumer.
Quite succesful in the Netherlands.
In 2003, after discovering that the majority of chocolate produced at the time had links to human exploitation, Dutch television producer and journalist Teun van de Keuken began producing programs about the horrors of the commercial cocoa industry on his show Keuringsdienst van Waarde. Furthermore, he submitted a request to be prosecuted for knowingly purchasing an illegally manufactured product, which prosecutors declined to do.
After three years of unsuccessful attempts to change the industry through investigative efforts, Van de Keuken decided to start producing chocolate bars himself. The brand was called “Tony’s Chocolonely” with “Tony” (= Teun) and “Chocolonely” in reference to Teun van de Keuken feeling as if he was the only person in the industry who was interested in eradicating slavery. Van de Keuken sold 20,000 bars in two days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony's_Chocolonely https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teun_van_de_Keuken
It’s making its way into Belgium too!
Oh yeah they have been here in DelHaize and Albert Hein (both owned by the dutch company) for a while and are now popping up in Colruyt and spar I think.
Around $5 and good chocolate
Bought some for 2.5 Euros 2 werkstatt ago.
This is my favorite brand of chocolate rn
It was my favorite too up until recently. It has been dethroned by Choceur brand from Aldi.
Choceur is meh at best.
What’s your location?
It’s European baseline quality. Still I’m low-key addicted to their cream/coffee combo. Moser-Roth (also Aldi, produced by Storck just like Choceur) is approximately Lindt quality, that is, still meh but at least it’s not overpriced AF.
Actually good chocolate costs actual money. Stuff like Domori where you’re looking at 20 Euros for 100g, or stuff you don’t even get in retail, any retail, you have to drive to Belgium and visit a small chocolatier hidden in some back alley. People who buy top-grade beans at auctions, instead of whole harvests from trusted producers, much less random shit off the commodity market.
Decent Criollo cocoa powder (also nibs) can be had for the price of supermarket “brand-name” cocoa powder, though, definitely worth it. If you compare it to the likes of Nesquick you’re getting at a like 1000x price difference (Nesquick is mostly sugar and starch, not cocoa).
It’s pretty average I find? Like it’s just cheap shit they sell at the supermarket.
The plain milk chocolate ones are meh but the other ones with nuts or salted caramel are quite nice.
It’s better than Hershey’s. Hershey’s is what I consider average and that shit is hot garbage.
I don’t think we sell Hershey’s in my country, but yeah most American chocolate isn’t really thought of as real chocolate here. So I could see Tony’s being good in comparison.
Isnt it almost blasphemy to call Hershey actual chocolate?
Did Europe colonize that chocolate bar
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)
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.
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
whoa, meta
