The world’s biggest chocolate-maker says we’re running out of chocolate

The Washington Post ^ | November 15, 2014 | Roberto A. Ferdman

[mjp]

many farmers have shifted to more profitable crops, like corn, as a result.

When prices rise enough, growers will start to produce enough cocoa to satisfy the demand. That is the way the free market is supposed to work.

[rockinqsranch]

;)

[Bettyprob]

increase our chocolate rations from 30g per person per month to 20g

Increase from 30 to 20? Is that Common Core math?

[Zeppo]

Increase from 30 to 20? Is that Common Core math?

Well, it's inspired by Orwell, so maybe there is indeed a connection with Common Core math.

[Billthedrill]

Without chocolate, we are doomed.

That's good enough for me! And it explains why there aren't any alien civilizations knocking on our doors. They ran out...of chocolate...(shudders)

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

And they said I was mad when I began to hoard emergency chocolate.

:)

[Ditter]

This is not my fault! I have not eaten a bite of chocolate in over 40 years, not since I found out that chocolate was what was causing my terrible headaches.

My Cheve Tahoe IS responsible for glowbull warming and I sincerely apologize for that.

[Monkey Face]

*Like*

[Scoutmaster]

I’ve never had the pleasure. Thank you for the recommendation. Enjoy!

[a fool in paradise]

Not much of New Orleans left?

[HiTech RedNeck]

They will get fewer customers too.

But this is a good time to do imaginative things that stretch chocolate out. Like whipped nougats.

[HiTech RedNeck]

But don’t forget the chocolated Aztecs. The Spaniards did a combination of wiping them out and diluting them. After all, even chocolate is not worth killing men on top of pyramids.

[null and void]

Try carob sweets, they are a fair approximation to chocolate.

No they aren't.

Carob lacks theobromine.

All filler, no killer.

[null and void]

Yep, it’s about that time again: slow news day, so time to re-recycle one of the MSM’s favorite phony doomsday stories:

1. The world’s running out of chocolate.

2. The world’s running out of coffee.

3. Sunspots will cause the world to grind to a halt.

4. A killer computer virus is killing all the PCs.

5. The honey bees are all dying and the food crops will all fail from lack of pollination.

Have I missed anything important? (And global warming and “climate change” don’t count because those never leave the news in the first place.)

Ebola?

[null and void]

I see what you did there...

[null and void]

Didn’t Einstein say the “The world will end 18 months after we run out of Chocolate” ?

I believe the correct quote is:

“The world will end 28 days after we run out of Chocolate."

Einstein was married, wasn't he?

[central_va]

Next thing you will see is William Devane on foxnews hawking cocoa bars....

[HiTech RedNeck]

So you can make up for it by quaffing some tea.

[null and void]

Does tea have theobromides or merely traces of caffeine?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Theobromine, formerly known as xantheose,[1] is a bitter alkaloid of the cacao plant, with the chemical formula C7H8N4O2. It is found in chocolate, as well as in a number of other foods, including the leaves of the tea plant, and the kola (or cola) nut. It is classified as a xanthine alkaloid,[2] which also includes the similar compounds theophylline and caffeine.[1] The compounds differ in their degree of methylation.

(Wikipedia)