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Tony's Chocolonelyย is a Dutchย chocolateย manufacturer and seller. Created in 2005, the company's market share in the Netherlands was 18 percent in 2018.

In 2022, theย Thomson Reuters Foundation awarded Tony's Chocolonely the Stop Slavery Award in the category "Goods and Services Companies".ย This award recognizes companies and organizations who have set a high standard for eradicating slavery, illegal child labor, and human trafficking from their supply chains.

Tony's Chocolonely was ranked second on the 2023 Chocolate Scorecard, which rates chocolate companies according to their human rights and environmental credentials: traceability and transparency, living income for cocoa farmers, child labour (absence of), deforestation & climate, agroforestry, and agrochemical management.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I was so sure it was American when I first saw it in stores, both the name and packaging design seemed very American. It took a few months before I stopped and read through the info on one of the bars to realize it's something good.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Ah nice. I had made the assumption that this was American based on the name and wrapping. Guess I will give this a try the next time I'm out for some chocolate ๐Ÿ™‚.

[โ€“] [email protected] 45 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Pretty damn good bar of chocolate, actually

Thicker than I expected, some of the chunks they've cut (their bars are cut funny on purpose) were too big even for my giant mouth

[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If I remember right the way the chocolate is cut is to represent the unequal distribution of cocoa profits in the industry.

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

You're correct.

"It doesn't make sense for chocolate bars to be divided into equal-sized chunks when there is so much inequality in the chocolate industry! The unequally-sized chunks of our 6.35 oz bars are a palatable way of reminding Choco Fans and Serious Friends that the profts in the chocolate industry are unequally divided.

And in case you haven't noticed, the bottom of our bars depicts the West African coastline. The chunks just above it represent the Gulf of Guinea. From left to right, you have Cรดte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo and Benin (terribly politically incorrect, we know, but we had to combine them to create enough space for a hazelnut), Nigeria and part of Cameroon."

https://us.tonyschocolonely.com/pages/faqs

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I mean, who doesn't love some ethically sourced lead in their chocolate?

[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Sold in the US too, if you're also stuck here! Looks like ~~Target~~ and Safeway cary them. Going to try it...

EDIT: Actually, I recommend you don't shop at Target in light of their anti-DEI "Bud Light u-turn"...

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

They are good chocolate too. I like the green one, it's dark chocolate and almond. They also got them at Harris Teeter and Walmart. I think Walmart has the smaller mixed bag of candy instead of the bars.

[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And their chocolate is just so, so good.

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

Yeah, a d i c t i o n warning. The bar you buy is likely disappear sooner than you would have thought ;)

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Have yet to try it myself. Very expensive in the UK, around ยฃ4 for a bar compared with ยฃ1.50 for a Dairy Milk. Obviously it's more ethical and probably tastier, but still. Probably better if I eat less chocolate anyway.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

I'd say it's closer to ยฃ3 than ยฃ4, certainly where I am up north.

Its become our favorite brand, tastea great and slave free, win win.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Check out the price per gram, usually tonys are heavier than the alternative.

I always thought it was more expensive as well until i recently saw that the default ive been buying had less weight, so if you looked at price per kg it was actually pretty much the same.

Also i buy less choclate now but i prefer quality.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I don't find it that much better personally compared to other chocolates, but I think it's worth it if you buy a chocolate bar twice a year like I do

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Now that's a weird coincidence, I only learned about Tony's chocolate a few days ago cause there was a big product recall poster in my local supermarket and it kinda stuck in my mind cause I was wondering how TF do stones end up in chocolate. :D

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Interesting design, by the colours and font it actually looks American.

I'm now curious to try but it doesn't seem to exist in Spain, sadly.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe in your local bio/eco shop, since they're made from 'slaverly-free' cacao they might be too expensive for a regular supermarket to make a profit on them.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In Austria they started selling in all big shops maybe like two years ago. At least that's when I realized them. I love the chocolate and worth the price for me :-)

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (3 children)

They have been doing really well here too. Their initial goal was to become ethical chocolate/cacao wholesalers but they knew they had no chance starting a purely b2b business. So aside from selling their own bars, but over time they grew and now sell to a lot of other brands including the no-brand stuff the supermarkets sell with their own logo (how do you call that? We call them house brands, but that makes no sense in English). They are getting a serious market share as sell, with an ever increasing bigger part from their b2b branch now. More here: https://www.tonysopenchain.com/

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

I thought it was American as well. It's on our shelves. I love the background... the chocolate itself is pretty damned good, and I do not often have sweets and candies.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (7 children)

I really enjoy this chocolate, my only complaints are:

  1. It says not to chill it - I prefer cold chocolate
  2. The chocolate is not divided up equally, which for some reason annoys me..

Picture of Tony's Chocolonely bar, with its unevenly divided pieces

[โ€“] [email protected] 43 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It says not to chill it - I prefer cold chocolate

I tried, and they don't actually come to take it away if you ignore that and chill it anyway. :)

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thank you for taking the risk. I'll be chilling it from now on.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I freeze them. Love me some frozen chocolate and haribo gummy bears.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Does it take long for the gummy bears to freeze?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Not really few hours and they're frozen solid.

[โ€“] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The chocolate is not divided up equally, which for some reason annoys me.

This is intentional on their part, it's to show that the profits in the chocolate industry are unequally divided.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Glad it's intentional, I've been labouring under the impression someone did it by accident!

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Even more, the chuncks depict countries in Africa:

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Wow, TIL! Been a fan of Chocolonely for many years now and never realized that!

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's a good concept but it does feel like a forced gimmick a. I would really prefer some regularity in the pieces possibly that's just a quirk of neurodivergence.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

no idea you weren't suppose to chill them. this part of the world, that's practically impossible, it'll be a puddle if I leave it out anytime of year.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The circle one is my favorite piece!

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Heck yeah, me too!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Not a big fan of chocolate, but this is good.... Very good ๐Ÿ˜Š.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"I'm so Tony's Chocolonely" should be my new catch phrase.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

It is a fun name to say. I like to announce the name when I see it in the store.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I discovered Tony's a few months ago and I've been loving their bars. A bit pricey, but it's worth it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The others are cheap because of child labor and pesticides. It's what gives the extra kick when eating them ;)

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

You can really taste the exploitation!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

How do you even buy non-european chocolate

  • Lind Sprรผngli, Camille Bloch: Swiss
  • Ritter, Trumpf, Stollwerck, Storck, Niedegger: German
  • Ferrero: Italian

Ok Milka and Toblerone are american

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Most big brands (even in Europe) are terrible because they rely on child slavery. There's a documentary about it.

If you want to buy European chocolate, well it can't be fully European because Europe doesn't grow cocoa, at least look for fair trade chocolate. That or an equivalent should be the minimum claim a company makes. I say claim, because that's what they are claims. None us will know for sure until we step foot in the places where these companies source their chocolate.

If you want an easy list https://www.chocolatescorecard.com/ has some. Top of the list of small, european companies:

Tony's is top of the "medium and large companies". Rittersport is also up there, but I don't trust that at all. They are closely followed by Nestlรฉ, lol. Fuck Nestlรฉ.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

do they have vegan versions?

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Red packaging (as shown here) is milk chocolate, blue packaging is dark chocolate. There are other variants too.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (8 children)

Canadian here. Is there anywhere to get reasonably priced bulk chocolate chips or chunks for baking, in Europe, that ship to North America?

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