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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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[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 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.

[–] freddydunningkruger@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I don't know, man. Sounds like the guy at least TRIED to do something more than most people. Granted, it doesn't compare to a life spent delivering clever piss-take commentary to Lemmy, but not everyone can be so blessed.

Also, speaking of asinine, measurement purposes? If they were selling unsweetened cocao bars for baking, you would have had a point.

I'd say most people get frustrated and think WTF did they make this chocolate bar a pain in my ass? Then maybe they notice the story on the inside of the wrapper and read it?

[–] pixelscript@lemm.ee 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I have never been in or adjacent to a situation where I had to measure chocolate packaged and sold to be eaten as-is in a recipe by squares broken off of a bar, at the demarcations pre-scored into the bar. If I needed that much control I'd grate it or use a chocolate that came pre-granulated, like baking kisses.

For chocolate bars meant to be eaten, the score lines are very much for sharability first. Any use of them for culinary measurement is at best a peripheral feature.

This probably doesn't hold true for baking chocolate. But Tony's isn't baking chocolate.

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I didn't say it was for cooking. I said measurement. That can be applied to consumption as well as in a cooking capacity.

[–] pixelscript@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

If you're not measuring for cooking, why are you measuring? Being that accurate for casual consumption is strange.