"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."
First not sure why everyone is so sure this is an ad and not just OP likes this and the message.
I’ve contemplated posting about this chocolate, I guess we can’t call out companies we like and we just all shit on everything all the time.
Second, my friend called me out for paying £3.50 for a bar of this whenever we have a chocolate and film night when Cadbury is like £1.50. When I said it’s more ethically sourced he said I don’t care about that. 😞
Cadbury in the USA is also literal shit next to tonys
I think all US chocolate is just shit tasting. I was referring to the UK (£), where it’s less shit.
Yeah but there is a very distinct difference. Cadbury tastes like fake chocolate that’s 90% sugar, Tony’s still tastes like real chocolate even if you think it’s shitty. Eat them back to back there’s a noticeable difference in chocolate. I eat European chocolate all the time and Tony’s is about as good just has a different flavor profile to it.
I’m confused as I’m pro Tony’s but your comment reads like you think I’m against it.
I’m saying it’s better than Cadburys in the UK and the USA.
I like Cadburys and I like Tony’s but like a £1.50 Cadbury bar is about the same footprint as a Tony’s bar and about half as thick.
My price was a little off.
At Sainsbury’s and Tesco right now Cadburys and Tony’s are £2.50 and £3.50 respectively; both weighing 180g.
Damn that’s just an ad. There is no escape
I want to like this chocolate, but it’s just so bland.
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.
Swedish. I think Marabou and Fazer taste 100x better than Tony’s, but maybe I have to give it another chance. Not like I eat chocolate that much anymore so it couldn’t hurt.
And I do love dark chocolate as well.
Are those as ethically sourced?
Doubt it, which is why I rarely eat them anymore
I don’t like chocolate that much, but if I do have it, dark all the way. The less sweet the better. I’m sure I have some limit, like 90% probably too much, but I definitely like less sweet.
Me too :) I just thought that thread was funny
Unless something has changed that company is no longer on the slavery free list due to them having Callebaut making their chocolate.
Guittard is my favorite for snacking and using in baking.
It’s also why I no longer buy it. It’s a PITA to eat.
I’m gonna be real here when I saw one of these bars for the first time I just assumed they were assholes and didn’t look any further into why the bar wasn’t cut in a usable way.
It literally tells you why inside the packaging.
Why the fuck would I ever read inside the packaging for a chocolate bar
Kinda hard not to see though. It has a massive font size and unless you’re just devouring the thing I don’t see how you couldn’t see it.
That said I read anything I can get my hands on when bored so 🤷
They also don’t fuck over cocoa growers
I see Saddam Hussein in the bottom left there. The meme know no bounds!
The story behind this brand is kind of wild. The company was founded when a Dutch TV program found out the horrors of the chocolate industry, specifically the child slavery at the core of the cacao bean production.
Even today, there are practically no slavery free brands. Attempts to make them, like Tony’s, end up with chocolate farm owners messing with the system to pocket the higher price intended for them to hire people. There are a few attempts to make chocolate without slavery, but qhwn you buy a bar of chocolate in a store somewhere, you can be reasonably sure the company that made them profited off child slavery, even if they try their best not to.
It probably taste like shit american chocolate too. I tried Aldi’s chocolates and can’t go back.
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)
Sounds cool. I’ll give it a try. You know where I can get some? I like Aldi chocolate cause it tastes good, cheap, and doesn’t use slave labor
I know you can get it at Albert Heijn
Edit: I just learned that Aldi chocolate is sourced through Tony’s supply lines, so they should be the same level of slave-free
Hey that means it’s good chocolate. Sick
Same. I am obsessed with their peanut butter cups and the peanut and cornflake bars.
It doesn’t make any sense to do this as a metaphor. Chocolate is typically divided into evenly sized chunks for measurement purposes, regardless of the evil practices of the chocolate industry.
The metaphor is asinine the explanation is confusing and it’s lost on almost everybody who buys this.
I have had this brand of chocolate before and it is quite good however.
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.
I didn’t say it was for cooking. I said measurement. That can be applied to consumption as well as in a cooking capacity.
If you’re not measuring for cooking, why are you measuring? Being that accurate for casual consumption is strange.
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Profits are unevenly divided? Isnt chocolate produced largely using slave labor?
That’s what this company is trying to change.
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.