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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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[–] Blackout@fedia.io 115 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I do like these bars but breaking it into pieces without a mess is difficult. I've had to resort to putting the entire thing in my mouth and waiting for it to melt down my throat.

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 70 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I guess we'll just have to deal with slavery then

[–] IHeartBadCode@fedia.io 53 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If only there was some middle ground between hard to eat chocolate and modern day slavery.

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

But the slavery is where the flavour comes from!

[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago

That and the lead that is in it.

[–] HerrBeter@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You break it while the packaging is intact

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

The geopolitical meta is strong here

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Especially the dark ones require a lot of force to break. I see it as a challenge.

[–] gcheliotis@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

It is a mess, which is why I thought it’s intentional to make it difficult to apportion your dose of chocolate, in effect making you eat more. And all this stuff about inequality sounds like the worst BS possible.