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[โ€“] 10 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

I tried a Toney Chocoloney not too long ago and GOD DAMN that was some good fucking chocolate.

Wasn't a fan of the way it's cut(?). It makes it real damn hard not to just eat the entire bar in one sitting when I can't just break off 2 or 3 squares.

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  • [โ€“] 14 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Toney is also ethical chocolate as the aim is to make the chocolate trade more fair for chocolate farmers. That's also why it's a bit expensive and it's why it is divided the way it is. It's a symbolic representation of how unfairly the chocolate industry distributes the wealth. Next time you buy a Toney bar, try and read the text inside the wrapping paper. Their mission is stated there if I remember correctly.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 6 months ago*

    But you can break off fun, quirkly-sized chunks!! Didn't I see somewhere it was supposed to be a map of something?

    Also, I had no idea until this post that it wasn't made in the US. I love Chocolonely.

    Edit, from the Chocolonely site:

    Why are your bars unequally divided?

    It doesnโ€™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 180g 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 havenโ€™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 Cรดte dโ€™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.

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