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Cote d'Ivoire produces 40% of the world's cocoa, the raw material for chocolate. With the renewed violence, and possible sanctions looming, chocolate may get a whole lot more expensive.

What-what-WHAT!

Damn, I need to find a doctor who can prescribe dark chocolate as an anti-depressant - FAST!!

Doesn't matter. Most choclate bars made don't even have real chocolate in them.

The ones I eat do, 70% cocoa - or no thanks.

Doesn't matter. Most choclate bars made don't even have real chocolate in them.
But what about for the Christmas season? I love recieving real chocolates for Christmas, prefferably those ones from the sixth floor of Bloomingdale's in New York. Imagine how much moreo expensive they now will be.

They're making cheap chocolate instead of the good stuff - companies should
use cocoa butter but many replace it with vegetable fat. Read your labels; if
it says "vegetable fat" or any substitute of cocoa butter, then it's crap.

So much for my caffe mochas.

They're making cheap chocolate instead of the good stuff - companies should
use cocoa butter but many replace it with vegetable fat. Read your labels; if
it says "vegetable fat" or any substitute of cocoa butter, then it's crap.
But for some people, I suppose it'll do until cocoa prices come back down. At least it tastes like chocolate.

Don't they also have a high rate of drug production?

Don't they also have a high rate of drug production?
Yeah, but according to the CIA world factbook, most of the marijuana they grow is for local use. Occaisonally, some shipments go to Europe and the US, but it isn't as common as, say, in Colombia.

Cote d'Ivoire produces 40% of the world's cocoa, the raw material for chocolate. With the renewed violence, and possible sanctions looming, chocolate may get a whole lot more expensive.
I see. A country in political chaos and on the verge of civil war, a people on the brink of economic destruction, and you are concerned about the effect that this will have on the price of confectionary products. Would you be quite so callous if the natives were white? ;)

I see. A country in political chaos and on the verge of civil war, a people on the brink of economic destruction, and you are concerned about the effect that this will have on the price of confectionary products. Would you be quite so callous if the natives were white? ;)

I would.

If there was chaos in italy it would really restrict my consumption of luxury food items. That would make me sad. :(

And I agree with the chocolate people. Fortunately super luxury chocolate has such a high mark-up that the cocoa cost increas will probably not effect it that much.

Like when coffee prices spike, it doesn't tend to effect high end coffee that much.

oh well, we dont get real chocolate here in teh states, and if we do it already is expensive

So much for my caffe mochas.

Spoken like a true capitalist. Ignore the people who are dying -- where's my mocha!

So I guess I'll have to boycott the expensive cocoa industry and change my dietary habits to accomodate more nutritious foods. Oh dear. Woe is me.

~Smuj~

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Cote d'Ivoire produces 40% of the world's cocoa, the raw material for chocolate. With the renewed violence, and possible sanctions looming, chocolate may get a whole lot more expensive.

France will make sure the cocoa continues to flow.

"The spice must flow."