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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€“] alucard 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And their chocolate is just so, so good.

[โ€“] Szewek@lemm.ee 15 points 1 week 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€“] Pirata@lemm.ee 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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€“] huppakee@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week 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€“] krawutzikaputzi@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week 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€“] huppakee@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week 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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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€“] TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

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[โ€“] Zwiebel 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 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€“] tyler@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Toblerone is American?????

[โ€“] adarza@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

sold out to kraft in '90. really hasn't been the same since.

[โ€“] Successful_Try543 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Always has been from Kraft/Mondelez. As of 2023, it's not even "Swiss made" anymore.

[โ€“] bettertecheu@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Lindt is best when made in Switzerland. They also have factories in other countries, but it's not the same.

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[โ€“] bettertecheu@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week 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€“] KMAMURI@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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

[โ€“] Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Callebaut is a common supplier for bakeries in Europe. That stuff is definitely not slavery free though.

[โ€“] KMAMURI@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Yea we have Callebaut in Canada as well. It's also ~$100/cad for 2.5 kg or ~$25/500g. That's a do without kinda price for us. I get we have to expect to pay more but we simply don't have the means for that.

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[โ€“] huppakee@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

Also really nice is the chocolate from Vivani https://vivani.de/en/vivani-en/

[โ€“] leds@feddit.dk 4 points 1 week ago
[โ€“] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago
[โ€“] Nay@feddit.nl 2 points 1 week ago

Bought one about a year ago just to try it... It was okay. Definitely not worth the price...

Aldi chocolate is the way to go, imo.

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