“As artisanal food surges in popularity...the Mast Brothers’ story highlights how a company can have great success selling a product of dubious quality as something ‘artisanal’ or ‘handcrafted’ with beautiful packaging and handsome, bearded founders.” Ten dollar chocolate is worse than Martin Shkreli.
Can You Taste the Difference Between Banned U.K. Cadbury and Hershey's?
As we've tirelessly covered this year, Hershey, Inc. decided to yank the fun from Easter by suing a company responsible for importing British Cadbury chocolate into the United States. Why buy real Cadbury—creamy, smooth, delicious—when you could have Cadbury made by Hershey—acrid, sour, gritty, and painfully…
British Import Ban Emboldens American Chocoholics to Boycott Hershey
This is fucking madness: after Hershey, Inc. declared that they would be imposing a ban on chocolate imports from England to the US, necessary steps had to be taken to fight for our right to eat high-fat-content chocolate that doesn't taste like melted tires. A #BoycottHershey movement has begun.
Four Bears Died From Eating Too Much Chocolate
The Concord Monitor has reported some very sad news: toxicology reports revealed that four bears who were found dead in September in New Hampshire had died from eating too much chocolate that had been left out as bait. Actual death by chocolate.
Creme Egg Controversy Continues: Lawsuit Cooked Up to Ban Imports
Gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet: in the latest volume of the Great Cadbury Creme Egg Controversy of 2015 that has affected every single person living in England and America, imports of the British springtime chocolate have reportedly been banned from entering the U.S. by Hershey Co. Sounds like someone's…
This Is Not a Drill: Industry Says the World Is Running Out of Chocolate
Two of the major manufacturers of chocolate revealed recently that, ahem, we might have a problem: the world is facing a chocolate shortage problem because we are eating way too much of the stuff. Everyone stay calm. I repeat. Stay calm.
Why Did the Boston Globe Tweet a Photo of a Chocolate Butt Plug?
The Boston Globe, among our country's most venerated journalistic institutions, republished a New York Times story about chocolate on its website today. For some reason, the photo it chose to accompany that story on Twitter shows a chocolate butt plug next to a chocolate Santa Claus holding a chocolate butt plug.
Cocoa is so hot right now.
In the UK, it is now legal—though it was not yesterday—to sell Nestle chocolate bars in purple wrappers.
How to React to the News That Chocolate Is a Health Food
"Did you see the news today? The scientists are saying that chocolate could be good for your blood circulation. Well I'll be. Who knew? Chocolate is a health food? No more going to the doctor for me! I have a bag of Hershey's Kisses, and that's a lot cheaper than health insurance! Oh, maybe I'll still go to my…
Chocolate Is Apparently Good for You Again
Take this with a grain of salt, but according to a recent study, people who eat chocolate regularly are thinner than those who don't. Now, if you follow nutrition news closely, you'll note that opinions on what's healthy and what's going to give you cancer tend to change from week to week. But hey, this study is…
What's So Great About Putting Air Inside a Chocolate Bar?
The other day at the store I saw this "Hershey's Air Delight" bar. What's the big idea? You added some air into a chocolate bar? Is air some great ingredient now?
Foreign Students Making a Big Deal Out of 'Chocolate Sweatshop' Experience
The U.S. Labor Department and the State Department are both investigating beloved chocolate maker Hershey's, due to the complaints of a few foreigners. The sweet company's crime? Helping foreigners learn about America.
Krazy Fish Only Ate Kit Kats!
You think the world is a boring and cruel place and then one day you wake up on an absolutely normal morning and you look on the internet and there is a story about a Gourami fish who was living on a diet of nothing but chocolate. A fish named Gary! Why isn't Gary eating his grapes at the aquarium like a normal…
