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Tony's Chocolonely bars are shaped unevenly to represent farmer inequality and the coastline of Africa (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Pencilnoob@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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"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."

From https://us.tonyschocolonely.com/pages/faqs

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[-] AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 weeks ago

I want to like this chocolate, but it's just so bland.

[-] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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.

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[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago

I see Saddam Hussein in the bottom left there. The meme know no bounds!

[-] mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

No, I did not notice part of my chocolate bar looks vaguely like part of the coast of part of a continent I’ve never been too. I’m sorry. I’m clearly the asshole here

Good choc though

[-] Teal@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Unless something has changed that company is no longer on the slavery free list due to them having Callebaut making their chocolate.

https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2021/02/16/Tony-s-Chocolonely-axed-from-Slave-Free-Chocolate-list-defends-ties-with-Barry-Callebaut)

Guittard is my favorite for snacking and using in baking.

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

Did Europe colonize that chocolate bar

[-] mechoman444@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] pixelscript@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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.

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