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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.
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?
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.
I didn't say it was for cooking. I said measurement. That can be applied to consumption as well as in a cooking capacity.
If you're not measuring for cooking, why are you measuring? Being that accurate for casual consumption is strange.