Why Your Favorite Chocolate Might Cost You a Lot More in the Coming Months

Food & Wine ^ | July 25, 2025 | Stacey Leasca

[Steely Tom]

Chocolate and coffee go up and down all the time. You can look at the history here, among other places:

https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/cocoa.

Looks like it took a wicked jump (by a factor of six) at the beginning of 2024; right now it's near a local minimum, but still more than four times its traditional baseline.

[mowowie]

I’m hoping that climate change makes me have to go to the bathroom less in the near future.
Knowing my luck climate change will make me have to go to the bathroom even MORE in the near future!

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Stopped reading when I saw the bull$hit words, “climate change.”

[No name given]

So did I.

[mass55th]

I don’t like Hershey’s chocolate. It’s milk chocolate for me, and I don’t eat chocolate that often anyway because I’m diabetic.

[No name given]

Climate changes all the time. It’s called weather.

[cowboyusa]

Hersey Bars are good with Almonds.

[Organic Panic]

Trump’s fault

[mass55th]

I dislike all chocolate with any kind of nuts. I’m weird. I like chocolate and I like nuts, but not together, and I like peanut butter, but not together with chocolate.

[Fungi]

Climate change nonsense. It’s those damn fungi!
Brazil (eastern
Amazon region) Thielaviopsis, Fusarium, Aspergillus, Colletotrichum, Penicillium, Nigrospora, Hyphopichia, Trichosporon, Cophinforma, Cladosporium, Trichoderma, Agaricus, Talaromyces, Porobeltraniella, Neopestalotiopsis, Paecilomyces, Clonostachys, Lasiodiplodia, Purpureocillium, Cylindrocladiella, Wallemia, Nectria, Arthrinium, Curvularia,
and Rhizomucor

Brazil
(Igrapiúna, Bahia) A. heteromorphus

Brazil (Bahia) A. carbonarius and A. niger aggregate

Brazil (Bahia) A. flavus and A. parasiticus

Cameroon A. versicolor, Mucor spp., A. niger, Geotrichum spp., A. fumigatus, Fusarium spp.,
Rhizopus nigricans, A. tamarii, Syncephalastrum racemosum, P. sclerotiorum, A. flavus, Trichoderma spp., A. versicolor, Scopulariopsis spp., and P. crustosum

Indonesia
(East Java) P. citrinum, A. versicolor, A. wentii, and P. purpurogenum

Nigeria Thermoascus aurantiacus (thermophilic), Mucor pusillus, and A. fumigatus
(thermotolerant)

[P8riot]

[BitWielder1]

Don't care. If it gets too expensive I'll buy less. Or none at all.
It's called adapting.

[Bobbyvotes]

Won’t affect me. I hate chocolate.

[Zathras]

I stopped reading when it said Hershey.
Yuck

[Dutch Boy]

I only buy chocolate a few times a year. The cheapest is to buy the chips in the baking section. You get 2oz more for almost half the price of a bag of candy chocolate.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Just as long as sweet tarts don’t go up. 😉

[Mermaid Girl]

Hershey is gross. I like the weird little Lindor balls... I eat a bag, fill with self loathing, then don’t eat another for about six months. Then the sad cycle repeats.

[Veto!]

I don’t eat any kind of chocolate because I truly hate it.
May be the only person in the world who hates chocolate.
And beer.
And pizza.

[dfwgator]

What are you, a Communist?