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We're running out of Chocolate

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It will be a really nasty world without chocolate. People having terrible withdrawals and families having interventions. Everyone going cold turkey and turning to cigarettes, booze and dope to calm the chocolate tremors. Chocolate hoarders will be the new reality show.
 
Chocopocalypse? (say that 5 times fast...)

Count me in on the chocolate farm! :wub:
 
Since I've switched my addiction to caramel, I'm just not that conerned about chocolate, anymore. It's just a convenient wrapper for The Real Stuff. :roll:
 
Caramel can't hold a candle to the silky, luscious goodness of heavenly yet decadent chocolate! ;)
 
Chocolate is three of the four major food groups, with red wine being the fourth. I'll just have to start growing my own. Believe me, the world DOES NOT want me to run out of chocolate!
 
The world's confectionary kingpins are going cuckoo over cocoa, the primary--and increasingly scarce--ingredient in chocolate. With Americans addicted to their daily mochas and people in China and India increasingly aping Americans' taste for sweet snacks, the world is consuming more chocolate than ever. But cocoa hasn't become any more lucrative for farmers in West Africa, who do backbreaking work for 80 cents a day in an attempt to harvest a frustratingly finicky crop (cocoa can be grown only within 10 degrees latitude of the equator). "Chocolate consumption is increasing faster than cocoa production--and it's not sustainable," a researcher told attendees at the annual conference of Britain's Academy of Chocolate. (In other news, Great Britian has an Academy of Chocolate.) Cocoa production is slowly picking up in some other areas, including South America and Asia, but experts say it won't be enough to prevent prices from skyrocketing over the next two decades. "In 20 years chocolate will be like caviar," a Ghana-based researcher said. "It will become so rare and so expensive that the average Joe just won't be able to afford it."
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...ocolate-worth-its-weight-in-gold-2127874.html
 
Alicia Leonard said:
The world's confectionary kingpins are going cuckoo over cocoa, the primary--and increasingly scarce--ingredient in chocolate. With Americans addicted to their daily mochas and people in China and India increasingly aping Americans' taste for sweet snacks, the world is consuming more chocolate than ever. But cocoa hasn't become any more lucrative for farmers in West Africa, who do backbreaking work for 80 cents a day in an attempt to harvest a frustratingly finicky crop (cocoa can be grown only within 10 degrees latitude of the equator). "Chocolate consumption is increasing faster than cocoa production--and it's not sustainable," a researcher told attendees at the annual conference of Britain's Academy of Chocolate. (In other news, Great Britian has an Academy of Chocolate.) Cocoa production is slowly picking up in some other areas, including South America and Asia, but experts say it won't be enough to prevent prices from skyrocketing over the next two decades. "In 20 years chocolate will be like caviar," a Ghana-based researcher said. "It will become so rare and so expensive that the average Joe just won't be able to afford it."
Chocolate: Worth its weight in gold? - Features, Food & Drink - The Independent
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I guess we're going to have to gear-up for a full scale invasion of South America to secure the cocoa reserves. Who needs oil when you got a large stash of chocolate.:cool:
 
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