Tony's Chocolonely bars are shaped unevenly to represent farmer inequality and the coastline of Africa

It doesn’t make sense for cars to have 4 equal sized wheels when there is so much inequality in the auto industry.

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.

Yeah this copy needed a couple more drafts/notes.

I guess we'll just have to deal with slavery then

You break it while the packaging is intact

Giggity

Especially the dark ones require a lot of force to break. I see it as a challenge.

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.

An ounce of their Dark Chocolate has 134% of the California MADL dose of 0.5 micrograms of lead, for those wondering about details.

if I die by eating dark chocolate, at least I'll die happy

Well shit

Otoh, it makes them sweeter

The lead and cadmium are in there on purpose, to enhance taste. Have you ever had chocolate without lead and cadmium? It tastes nasty

Lol, that's per ounce too.

I'm not sure if OP was intended as an ad or not, but I think we should have an informal rule that if a top post is about a product, we should all upvote the comment that has the worst fact about that product. It's the only way to be sure.

It's a good thing I don't like dark chocolate then

Wow I had no idea, thanks for sharing the source.

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

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.

It's making its way into Belgium too!

I'm reading it like they colonize Africa directly

Wait, failed how? I didn’t know about this part.

Bought some for 2.5 Euros 2 werkstatt ago.

They literally do, and their chocolate is a little more expensive because of it

But they're not Hershey or Cadbury (whoever owns them, forget the name rn), or even close to them in size, so they can't just fix the industry all on their own

I think that is exactly why this company was founded.

Fait point, but it's a statement about the industry as a whole, not their own production. Even if they were to distribute profits evenly over the entire production chain of their products (which I agree they probably don't), the industry as a whole would still have this problem.

And miss out on this marketing opportunity? Lol don't be ridiculous.

They cut out the white chocolate south and milk chocolate north.

It was my favorite too up until recently. It has been dethroned by Choceur brand from Aldi.

It’s pretty average I find? Like it’s just cheap shit they sell at the supermarket.

Yes... haha.... conscious eating... haha...

Cadbury in the USA is also literal shit next to tonys

Then... Don't?

you're right, you need at least 7 a day to keep diabetes at bay!

I think it’s delicious.

Are you American as I find your chocolate far too sweet so perhaps you just like sugar and not chocolate.

I realise that might sound offensive but I don’t mean it that way, just curious.

It literally tells you why inside the packaging.

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.

I don't know, man. Sounds like the guy at least TRIED to do something more than most people. Granted, it doesn't compare to a life spent delivering clever piss-take commentary to Lemmy, but not everyone can be so blessed.

Also, speaking of asinine, measurement purposes? If they were selling unsweetened cocao bars for baking, you would have had a point.

I'd say most people get frustrated and think WTF did they make this chocolate bar a pain in my ass? Then maybe they notice the story on the inside of the wrapper and read it?

I have never been in or adjacent to a situation where I had to measure chocolate packaged and sold to be eaten as-is in a recipe by squares broken off of a bar, at the demarcations pre-scored into the bar. If I needed that much control I'd grate it or use a chocolate that came pre-granulated, like baking kisses.

For chocolate bars meant to be eaten, the score lines are very much for sharability first. Any use of them for culinary measurement is at best a peripheral feature.

This probably doesn't hold true for baking chocolate. But Tony's isn't baking chocolate.

You don't have to visit a continent to learn about it in geography

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 isn't American, and it doesn't taste like shit.

The founder, Teun van der Keuken, is a Dutch guy. He started this journey with sueing himself before a Dutch judge, on account of participating in slave labour (by buying chocolate in a supermarket, knowing that it's likely produced by slave labour)

Same. I am obsessed with their peanut butter cups and the peanut and cornflake bars.

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.

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