One of the few brands actually taking concrete steps about child slavery on cocoa farms. They have had pieces on them done by pbs and I think 60 mins.
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Oh cool. I guess that partly explains the higher prices they sell for here.
Yeah it’s totally worth it though. They’re extremely diligent by industry standards when it comes to ethical sourcing of cocoa.
The blocks are a bit weird, the segments are an odd geometric tessellation where no two pieces are identical. Great chocolate though.
That's a purposeful choice to show that not everyone gets an equal piece. Some start out with a giant piece and others get just a tiny one.
I can only imagine how many fights this would have lead to between my siblings and me.
Yeah we ate a lot of blocks while with family over the holidays. I forgot about the weird segments. First time seeing the eggs though. It's a cool concept but seems like a waste of packaging. Beats some sort of plastic container I guess. Thanks for the heads up about their business practices.
Yeah, its funny how paid labor actually makes it taste better!
Yup. Heavily featured on last week tonight as an example of what good looks like.
I have heard this repeatedly. But when I looked into it I only found that they "pay more for the ressources" which doesn't mean there is no slave labor. I also found an ethics report or something which wasn't done by any third party but by Tony's themselves (and read more like PR).
Do you maybe have anything more substantial?
Look up the piece by pbs and by John Oliver. They also do a cocoa bean tracking system so they know where the beans are coming from. This is importa t to know that the beans are coming from the good farms and not from the bad ones. All that being said, they say they can't say slavery free due to how bad it is in that area. They can't guarantee that.
I think for me it's as simple as - do I go with the brand that seems to be doing something about it? Or go with the brand that misses it's own targets and is satisfied with the horrible status quo
I'm concerned about Tony.
I've eaten a lot of Tony's chocolate, and one day I was strolling around Amsterdam on Street View and noticed a whole shop devoted to it. Wow! And I thought, huh, in Holland they call it ChocoLONELY, not ChocoLONEY.
Fast forward and there I was, scouring UK grocery sites and discovering the horrible truth: it had always been lonely. Why? WHY, TONY? What are you trying to say?
My own little Berenstain Bears moment.
Why? Is it something to do with the Cadbury kerfuffle?
Kerfuffle?
It's a kind of ruckus.
I thought there might be some hot chocolate goss between Cadbury and Tony I don't know about.
More of a brouhaha if you ask me..
Here in Germany, the chocolate manufacturer Milka (now part of Mondelez) has been doing that for at least 2 decades:
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They contain some sort of mousse and have a tiny spoon in the carton.
Yea, I really liked these as a kid. Shame their chocolate is collected by slaves :|
Here in Finland Fazer fills real egg shells with chocolate for easter, with the 4-pack also sold in egg cartons.
Always knew Finland was neggst level.
😂
The only strange thing is that buying the single Mignon eggs is cheaper than the pack of four.
Last time I bought them they had fixed that, but I suppose it may vary by shop.
I love their chocolate bars. I’ll have to grab some of these. The chocolate is tasty and you can feel slighty okay eating it.
Tony's is fucking great chocolate