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

submitted 22 hours ago by Pencilnoob to c/mildlyinteresting

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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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 hours ago

Some info, that's interesting and helps balance this blatant advertisement. Tony's was started by Dutch television maker Teun van der Keuken. He worked on a program that exposes products for their production methods and false marketing and so on. They stumbled onto the slavery that's part of the cacao industry. He asked to be arrested for eating chocolate, and in doing so enabling slave labor, but he wasn't. He started out Tony's Chocolonely to attempt to change the chocolate industry. He's not part of the company anymore. He has concluded the mission has failed, and is very critical of his former company, saying they've lost sight of the aim: slave-free chocolate.

[–] DerArzt 19 points 5 hours ago

[–] sinceasdf 14 points 5 hours ago

Damn that's just an ad. There is no escape

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 hours ago

Neato advertisement!

Products looks like shit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 hours ago

It's also why I no longer buy it. It's a PITA to eat.

[–] Embarrassingskidmark 29 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

If they paid the farmers more they could just make regular shaped chocolate

[–] postmateDumbass 0 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 61 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Cadbury (whoever owns them, forget the name rn),

Kraft, now called Mondelez

Also Mars is the largest confectionery brand

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Ok, I was actually pretty sure Mondelez was the name but was too lazy to google it

And I almost said mars instead of Hershey, then mistakenly thought Hershey's owns Mars when I know Mondelez owns Hershey and so I basically listed them twice

Don't Lemmy right after you wake up, kids, you'll look silly

[–] Adulated_Aspersion 20 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Fuck Nestle

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

I'm a simple man. I see "Nestle" and my rage knows no bounds.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

Oh yeah they do chocolate too

Fuck Nestlé, I try to forget they exist and buy anyone else's shit

[–] bitchkat 25 points 11 hours ago

I think that is exactly why this company was founded.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 63 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

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/

[–] JoshuaFalken 10 points 10 hours ago

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.

[–] Maalus 50 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] toynbee 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Wow, techno music is so versatile.

[–] JustZ 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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."

[–] toynbee 1 points 1 hour ago

To be honest, this is the first time I've had the opportunity to do so.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Am I the only one that thinks its ridiculous to eat an ounce of chocolate a day?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Then... Don't?

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[–] GreenKnight23 7 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 51 points 16 hours ago

Thanks for the advertisement?

[–] LengAwaits 91 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (34 children)

Too bad about all the lead in them. They're not as bad as some brands, though.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Holy shit that article has, like, every decent chocolate bar.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 14 hours ago

I know right. I'm sticking to cigarettes.

[–] Emerald 6 points 11 hours ago

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

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