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Cocoa strike may hit chocolate supply
The Toronto Star ^
| Oct. 16, 2006
| PAULINE BAX
Posted on 10/16/2006 12:05:37 PM PDT by fanfan
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Cocoa farmers across Ivory Coast went on strike Monday, holding back their crops to protest low retail prices and high export taxes in a move that could affect the global chocolate industry.
The West African country is the world's top grower of cocoa beans, producing 40 per cent of global output each year, according to government statistics, despite being split following a civil war.
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To: fanfan
No problem.......I can quite anytime.
61
posted on
10/16/2006 12:29:02 PM PDT
by
jimfree
(Freep and ye shall find.)
To: Centurion2000
I'm just WAITING for the poster to come on and tell us how they don't LIKE CHOCOLATE! I never trust those people.
62
posted on
10/16/2006 12:29:25 PM PDT
by
bonfire
To: Bahbah
This is my pet peeve. You say you're a chocoholic. Apparently, this word, like similar made-up words indicating addiction to something, is derived from 'alcoholic'.
The alcoholic is a person who is physically addicted to alcohol. Alcohol-ic. The -ic is tacked onto the end of trhe name of the substance the person is addcted to.
Therefore, a person who is addicted to chololate should be called a chocolatic, not a chocoholic.
There, I feel better now.
63
posted on
10/16/2006 12:30:36 PM PDT
by
savedbygrace
(SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
To: fanfan
No problem.......I can quit anytime.
64
posted on
10/16/2006 12:31:37 PM PDT
by
jimfree
(Freep and ye shall find.)
To: CajunConservative
I was thinking the same thing.....
A battle cruiser full of PMS'ing/Menopausal wimmen sailing east.
Scarier than the Barbary Pirates and way more cranky.
65
posted on
10/16/2006 12:32:13 PM PDT
by
najida
(The internet is for kids grown up-- Where else could you have 10,000 imaginary friends?)
To: fanfan; Monkey Face; Millee; Tax-chick
Oh dear, and me just out of the shower!
66
posted on
10/16/2006 12:32:13 PM PDT
by
Lady Jag
(I dreamed I surfed all day in my monthly donor wonder bra [https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate])
To: savedbygrace
LOL. You feel better and I feel so...informed :)
67
posted on
10/16/2006 12:32:39 PM PDT
by
Bahbah
(Shalit, Goldwasser and Regev, we are praying for you)
To: bonfire
I'm just WAITING for the poster to come on and tell us how they don't LIKE CHOCOLATE! I never trust those people.
That's some mighty blatant prejudice you got going on there. It's not just chocolate, I don't care for most sweets.
68
posted on
10/16/2006 12:32:52 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
To: fanfan
That's white chocolate. The guys he's working on looks more of a milk chocolate ..... and this guy better run for his life :)
Are chocolate mayors edible?
69
posted on
10/16/2006 12:33:37 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
("Be polite and courteous, but have a plan to KILL everybody you meet.")
To: cripplecreek
ding ding ding!
I know one of "you" would show up! :)
70
posted on
10/16/2006 12:33:41 PM PDT
by
bonfire
To: Lady Jag
that has to be the most edible woman I've ever seen.
71
posted on
10/16/2006 12:34:14 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
("Be polite and courteous, but have a plan to KILL everybody you meet.")
To: dfwgator
72
posted on
10/16/2006 12:34:38 PM PDT
by
skr
(We cannot play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.-- Ronald Reagan)
To: bonfire
I can be bought off with green apple Jolly Ranchers.
73
posted on
10/16/2006 12:35:08 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
To: Lady Jag
74
posted on
10/16/2006 12:35:14 PM PDT
by
null and void
("It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret."--Jackie Joyner-Kersee)
To: savedbygrace
"chocolatic"Sounds way too much like those chocolate squares I mistakenly ate when younger. Didn't realize that a whole lot of people made the same mistake until I got older and mentioned it in passing...
To: cripplecreek
And there you have it! egads!!
76
posted on
10/16/2006 12:36:00 PM PDT
by
bonfire
To: fanfan
Well I'm climbing in my Abrhams Tank with my rifles and scopes and ammo....
You just don't know what a man will do without his 'cocoa' and I'm not about to find out....
77
posted on
10/16/2006 12:36:22 PM PDT
by
HarleyLady27
(My ? to libs: "Do they ever shut up on your planet?" "Grow your own DOPE: Plant a LIB!")
To: cripplecreek
Of course you can. They are just bourbon whiskey in little green nuggets.
78
posted on
10/16/2006 12:39:11 PM PDT
by
Rte66
To: Post-Neolithic
"Mentioned it in passing"? Egad.
79
posted on
10/16/2006 12:41:14 PM PDT
by
Rte66
To: savedbygrace
And yet, everyone knows exactly what we're talking about when we say "chocoholic" or "shopaholic."
On the other hand, some have interpreted an alcoholic as an "Alcoaholic" who wears a great deal of tin foil.
80
posted on
10/16/2006 12:44:49 PM PDT
by
Rte66
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