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"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."

From https://us.tonyschocolonely.com/pages/faqs

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Did Europe colonize that chocolate bar

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (4 children)

It doesn't make any sense to do this as a metaphor. Chocolate is typically divided into evenly sized chunks for measurement purposes, regardless of the evil practices of the chocolate industry.

The metaphor is asinine the explanation is confusing and it's lost on almost everybody who buys this.

I have had this brand of chocolate before and it is quite good however.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

No, I did not notice part of my chocolate bar looks vaguely like part of the coast of part of a continent I’ve never been too. I’m sorry. I’m clearly the asshole here

Good choc though

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Profits are unevenly divided? Isnt chocolate produced largely using slave labor?

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago

HAIL CORPORATE

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