Have yet to try it myself. Very expensive in the UK, around ยฃ4 for a bar compared with ยฃ1.50 for a Dairy Milk. Obviously it's more ethical and probably tastier, but still. Probably better if I eat less chocolate anyway.
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I don't find it that much better personally compared to other chocolates, but I think it's worth it if you buy a chocolate bar twice a year like I do
I'd say it's closer to ยฃ3 than ยฃ4, certainly where I am up north.
Its become our favorite brand, tastea great and slave free, win win.
Sold in the US too, if you're also stuck here! Looks like Target and Safeway cary them. Going to try it...
They are good chocolate too. I like the green one, it's dark chocolate and almond. They also got them at Harris Teeter and Walmart. I think Walmart has the smaller mixed bag of candy instead of the bars.
Not a big fan of chocolate, but this is good.... Very good ๐.
Pretty damn good bar of chocolate, actually
Thicker than I expected, some of the chunks they've cut (their bars are cut funny on purpose) were too big even for my giant mouth
If I remember right the way the chocolate is cut is to represent the unequal distribution of cocoa profits in the industry.
You're correct.
"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 profts 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 Cรดte 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."
I really enjoy this chocolate, my only complaints are:
- It says not to chill it - I prefer cold chocolate
- The chocolate is not divided up equally, which for some reason annoys me..
It says not to chill it - I prefer cold chocolate
I tried, and they don't actually come to take it away if you ignore that and chill it anyway. :)
Thank you for taking the risk. I'll be chilling it from now on.
I freeze them. Love me some frozen chocolate and haribo gummy bears.
The chocolate is not divided up equally, which for some reason annoys me.
This is intentional on their part, it's to show that the profits in the chocolate industry are unequally divided.
Even more, the chuncks depict countries in Africa:
It's a good concept but it does feel like a forced gimmick a. I would really prefer some regularity in the pieces possibly that's just a quirk of neurodivergence.
no idea you weren't suppose to chill them. this part of the world, that's practically impossible, it'll be a puddle if I leave it out anytime of year.
The circle one is my favorite piece!
Heck yeah, me too!
I don't see why you can't chill it. I would have to guess they say that so you don't ruin the temper. Maybe chilling it speeds up the white film and they had lots of people complaining?
And their chocolate is just so, so good.
Yeah, a d i c t i o n warning. The bar you buy is likely disappear sooner than you would have thought ;)
Interesting design, by the colours and font it actually looks American.
I'm now curious to try but it doesn't seem to exist in Spain, sadly.
I thought it was American as well. It's on our shelves. I love the background... the chocolate itself is pretty damned good, and I do not often have sweets and candies.
Maybe in your local bio/eco shop, since they're made from 'slaverly-free' cacao they might be too expensive for a regular supermarket to make a profit on them.
In Austria they started selling in all big shops maybe like two years ago. At least that's when I realized them. I love the chocolate and worth the price for me :-)
They have been doing really well here too. Their initial goal was to become ethical chocolate/cacao wholesalers but they knew they had no chance starting a purely b2b business. So aside from selling their own bars, but over time they grew and now sell to a lot of other brands including the no-brand stuff the supermarkets sell with their own logo (how do you call that? We call them house brands, but that makes no sense in English). They are getting a serious market share as sell, with an ever increasing bigger part from their b2b branch now. More here: https://www.tonysopenchain.com/
how do you call that? We call them house brands, but that makes no sense in English
In British English theyโre called โown-brandsโ, which makes less sense tbh.
For Americans it's either generic or "store brand" which usually has its own name i.e. "Great value" for Walmart
In American English we call the house brands or store brands.
It's definitely sold here in the US, and looks like something you'd find at a circus.
It's pretty damned good, though.
Red packaging (as shown here) is milk chocolate, blue packaging is dark chocolate. There are other variants too.
Aaah, thanks I didn't know that.
Dark chocolate is the best.
Careful with the dark chocolate. It failed the lead tests.
I discovered Tony's a few months ago and I've been loving their bars. A bit pricey, but it's worth it.
The others are cheap because of child labor and pesticides. It's what gives the extra kick when eating them ;)
You can really taste the exploitation!
How do you even buy non-european chocolate
- Lind Sprรผngli, Camille Bloch: Swiss
- Ritter, Trumpf, Stollwerck, Storck, Niedegger: German
- Ferrero: Italian
Ok Milka and Toblerone are american
In the US Cadbury's is made by Hershey. Which is why it tastes like vegetable oil and wax.
Toblerone is American?????
sold out to kraft in '90. really hasn't been the same since.
Always has been from Kraft/Mondelez. As of 2023, it's not even "Swiss made" anymore.
Most big brands (even in Europe) are terrible because they rely on child slavery. There's a documentary about it.
If you want to buy European chocolate, well it can't be fully European because Europe doesn't grow cocoa, at least look for fair trade chocolate. That or an equivalent should be the minimum claim a company makes. I say claim, because that's what they are claims. None us will know for sure until we step foot in the places where these companies source their chocolate.
If you want an easy list https://www.chocolatescorecard.com/ has some. Top of the list of small, european companies:
- Choba Choba - Swiss
- Original Beans - Dutch
- Chocolate Makers - Dutch
- Malmรถ - Swedish (website seems to be only in Swedish?)
Tony's is top of the "medium and large companies". Rittersport is also up there, but I don't trust that at all. They are closely followed by Nestlรฉ, lol. Fuck Nestlรฉ.
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Canadian here. Is there anywhere to get reasonably priced bulk chocolate chips or chunks for baking, in Europe, that ship to North America?
Callebaut is a common supplier for bakeries in Europe. That stuff is definitely not slavery free though.
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