The End of Chocolate?

[halik]

Peak chocolate is a myth. We will just invent a better technique for harvesting it like cocoa fracking.

I LOLd

 

[Kaido]

My local all-natural chocolate shop is currently $32 a pound. Prices raise multiple times a year. It's horrible. I'm worse than a woman when it comes to chocolate (no offense to women)

 

[Sonikku]

Yeah right and there will be Thai land floods that will increase hard drive prices and no matter how much time passes they will never ever ever come back down.

Because there's no recovering from a flood.

 

[IronWing]

Just because the chocolate easter bunny was hollow didn't mean you were supposed to fill it up with penis.

It was a naked chick straddling a horse.

 

[GoodRevrnd]

Therefore, there will be more imitation flavorings, argues Kennedy, and cocoa butter will be used less in favor of other sources of vegetable fat such as palm oil.

I could have sworn this has already happened to a very substantial degree. Real chocolate already costs like $6 for a couple oz.

 

[Howard]

Now I have to stop eating chocolate because of the free market? Ridiculous!

 

[Kaido]

Now I have to stop eating chocolate because of the free market? Ridiculous!

I only eat free-range chocolate

 

[zinfamous]

Word you will never find in the Bible: chocolate.

I'm guessing the same is true for:

tomato
chili
potato
corn/maize
coffee
etc

 

[natto fire]

Pretty sad when we have to rely on places half way across the world because companies are too cheap to do stuff here.

If this really happens time for people in the south to start growing their own and selling it. Until some corporation lobbys to make that illegal.

I dislike corporate imperialism as much as the next person, but I certainly don't take it to full retard for complaining that I can't get local cocoa beans in Canada. Is it sadder that we have to rely on these different climate zones, or that people don't realize they exist?

 

[BladeVenom]

Pretty sad when we have to rely on places half way across the world because companies are too cheap to do stuff here.

It's a tropical plant. You couldn't grow it at all in Canada. In the US, only Hawaii or the southernmost part of Florida might do.

 

[Ruptga]

Already pay premium for good chocolate, so no change here. Hershey is garbage by the way.

I pay about two bucks for 1/2 pound of 52% cacao Choceur from Aldi.

 

[Fritzo]

It's a tropical plant. You couldn't grow it at all in Canada. In the US, only Hawaii or the southernmost part of Florida might do.

I guess it takes up a lot of land as it's a low yield plant.

 

[techs]

Where's Norman Borlaug now that we really need him?

 

[Rakehellion]

Get ready for crappy chocolate substitutes

This happened about 20 years ago.

 

[Jaepheth]

It's a tropical plant. You couldn't grow it at all in Canada. In the US, only Hawaii or the southernmost part of Florida might do.

You can. It's just ridiculously expensive.

I wonder at what price point greenhouse cocoa trees become viable.