Chocolate causes war
Oil, diamonds and now... cocoa.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6732977.stm
Is nothing sacred? :(
Dundee-Fienn
21-06-2007, 14:22
I love the dark humour involved in the reports title "Hot Chocolate"
Imperial isa
21-06-2007, 14:37
what next ?
You have to admit, it does take the concept of declaring war on those darker than you to the logical extreme. Coffee's next.
Call to power
21-06-2007, 14:45
surely the chocolate factories would melt in the heat :confused:
Demented Hamsters
21-06-2007, 14:46
Personally I cannot think of a better thing to go to war over.
You have to admit, it does take the concept of declaring war on those darker than you to the logical extreme. Coffee's next.
White chocolate is supreme.
Well, it is.
White chocolate is supreme.
Well, it is.
Yeah, maybe we can make some ice cream cones out of white chocolate.
what next ?
Personally I cannot think of a better thing to go to war over.
I see a war over NSG looming on the horizon.
OuroborosCobra
21-06-2007, 15:09
My sister works for a coffee/chocolate shop that tries to say environmentally and ethically aware. For example, primarily organic products, not buying coffee beens grown by exploited workers, etc.
I'll pass this story along to them.
New Manvir
21-06-2007, 15:17
White chocolate is supreme.
Well, it is.
So that's how it is huh...keep the brown chocolate man down :p
Pan-Arab Barronia
21-06-2007, 15:43
So...Cadbury's plans finally come to fruition...
Did I spell that right? It is fruition, isn't it?
Siempreciego
21-06-2007, 15:43
great another way for other half to get me to stop eating chocolate.
blood chocolate...
This is just a dastardly plan from health officials to try to get us to stop eating the chocolate god. Next thing they will say that dairy farmers are funneling money to extremists so we can't eat cheese anymore.
*covers ears with hands and doesn't listen to this story anymore*
Arcticity
21-06-2007, 15:56
Do not start a war over chocolate, just give it all to me!:p
Umm... the war wasn't started over chocolate. Chocolate is financing the war.
So apparently now I have to look into where Nestle gets their chocolate from. Damnit.
Wilgrove
21-06-2007, 16:10
At least it wasn't started over shoes. (Gettysburg)
Imperial isa
21-06-2007, 16:47
At least it wasn't started over shoes. (Gettysburg)
never been to a shoe sell have you (Gettysburg was a battle)
Wilgrove
21-06-2007, 16:51
never been to a shoe sell have you (Gettysburg was a battle)
(I know, but comon, you start a major battle in a major war, over shoes? I mean couldn't they at least lie about it? Who the hell was leading the Confederacy, Al Bundy?)
Imperial isa
21-06-2007, 16:58
(I know, but comon, you start a major battle in a major war, over shoes? I mean couldn't they at least lie about it? Who the hell was leading the Confederacy, Al Bundy?)
indeed
Pwnageeeee
21-06-2007, 16:58
Oil, diamonds and now... cocoa.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6732977.stm
Is nothing sacred? :(
Well, let's face it there's alot of $$ in that industry. And where there's lots of money, there's greed.
I thought this was going to be a thread about the childresn novel.. the Great Chocolate War
Dang, can't the Ivory Coast export any goods without it leading to wholesale death?
Lunatic Goofballs
21-06-2007, 17:46
Oil, diamonds and now... cocoa.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6732977.stm
Is nothing sacred? :(
Finally; something worth fighting over!
Drug Magnates
21-06-2007, 18:12
Hmm, if I was to fight for anything... If it wasn't love, it would be cocoa. I mean, choccolate is the MOST important kind of sugar-containing beverage I have ever eaten. I'm addicted to it. Almost everybody is.
And well, poor people die for it... Once people died for an error in a letter or for sex... (Medieval times - quite often)... So why not for something that tastes sooo good? :)
-Karsun