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"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 profits 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 Côte 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."

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

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[–] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 51 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

An ounce of their Dark Chocolate has 134% of the California MADL dose of 0.5 micrograms of lead, for those wondering about details.

[–] thisNotMyName@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

An ounce is about 29 grams in non-freedom units, for those wondering

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've bought drugs before, I know how many grams in an ounce

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I've bought enough drugs to know it's 28g.

[–] whocares314@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

micrograms, which is 1/1000 of a milligram. No amount of lead is considered safe, but you would need to eat allllottttttt of this chocolate before it would get to a level that, for example, a doctor would be concerned about. Ars Technica has a good write up about the CR report

Not that I’m trying to shill for Big Chocolate. When I saw the report, I definitely made a conscious effort to cut back to once a month or less.

[–] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Ah yes, sorry, I've corrected my comment to micrograms.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Am I blind or can I not find the claim about 134% on the linked page?
Searched for "Tony" there.

[–] wethan2@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's the first one in the high in lead section

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Duh. The page looked on my phone like the article already ended and didnt bother to scroll further down >_>
Forget everything I asked :P

[–] FatTony@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Well, I'm here now. What do you want?

[–] Jazsta@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I saw it on there among 20+ other chocolate bars.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

Nvmd me. Didnt scroll far enough on the phone to see. Looked like the article was done already

[–] a_postmodern_hat@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have half a block of this in the pantry. Thank you. Fuck me.

[–] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

You can eat it just fine, just don't eat it regularly for a long time.