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.
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First not sure why everyone is so sure this is an ad and not just OP likes this and the message.
I’ve contemplated posting about this chocolate, I guess we can’t call out companies we like and we just all shit on everything all the time.
Second, my friend called me out for paying £3.50 for a bar of this whenever we have a chocolate and film night when Cadbury is like £1.50. When I said it’s more ethically sourced he said I don’t care about that. 😞
Cadbury in the USA is also literal shit next to tonys
I think all US chocolate is just shit tasting. I was referring to the UK (£), where it’s less shit.
Damn that's just an ad. There is no escape
If they paid the farmers more they could just make regular shaped chocolate
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
Cadbury (whoever owns them, forget the name rn),
Kraft, now called Mondelez
Also Mars is the largest confectionery brand
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.
And miss out on this marketing opportunity? Lol don't be ridiculous.
I want to like this chocolate, but it's just so bland.
I think it’s delicious.
Are you American as I find your chocolate far too sweet so perhaps you just like sugar and not chocolate.
I realise that might sound offensive but I don’t mean it that way, just curious.
Swedish. I think Marabou and Fazer taste 100x better than Tony’s, but maybe I have to give it another chance. Not like I eat chocolate that much anymore so it couldn’t hurt.
And I do love dark chocolate as well.
Neato advertisement!
Products looks like shit.
It's also why I no longer buy it. It's a PITA to eat.
Unless something has changed that company is no longer on the slavery free list due to them having Callebaut making their chocolate.
Guittard is my favorite for snacking and using in baking.
I'm gonna be real here when I saw one of these bars for the first time I just assumed they were assholes and didn't look any further into why the bar wasn't cut in a usable way.
I see Saddam Hussein in the bottom left there. The meme know no bounds!
Am I the only one that thinks its ridiculous to eat an ounce of chocolate a day?
you're right, you need at least 7 a day to keep diabetes at bay!