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Tony's Chocolonely bars are shaped unevenly to represent farmer inequality and the coastline of Africa
(lemmy.world)
"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."
This is my favorite brand of chocolate rn
It’s pretty average I find? Like it’s just cheap shit they sell at the supermarket.
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?
The plain milk chocolate ones are meh but the other ones with nuts or salted caramel are quite nice.
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).