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Penguin and Club Bars can no longer be called Chocolate

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The BBC reports that Penguin and Club Bars can no longer be called chocolate because the coating doesn’t contain enough cocoa solids. The price of chocolate has rocketed so much that the bars will now have a chocolate flavoured coating. 

i would prefer to buy real chocolate coated biscuits less often than I do at present, rather than consume chocolate coated biscuits that taste of plastic.

It’s such a shame that chocolate has become so expensive. It feels like we are going  back in time to the16th century, when cocoa beans were so expensive they were used as currency and were kept under lock and key. 

www.bbc.co.uk/.../c86737yg3jlo

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  • There is a good harvest of cocoa this year and prices are down compared to a year ago.

    There were two years where harvests were affected by disease and rot.

    The wholesale costs may take time to feed through, or there may be commitments that take time to work though. But I would think the big food companies have efficient supply chains 

    This has more to do with a pile of other costs and taxes (energy, labour, distribution, packaging) in my opinion, plus preserving profits. The chocolate is probably not the biggest cost.

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  • There is a good harvest of cocoa this year and prices are down compared to a year ago.

    There were two years where harvests were affected by disease and rot.

    The wholesale costs may take time to feed through, or there may be commitments that take time to work though. But I would think the big food companies have efficient supply chains 

    This has more to do with a pile of other costs and taxes (energy, labour, distribution, packaging) in my opinion, plus preserving profits. The chocolate is probably not the biggest cost.

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