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[SystemShock2]

perfect

 

[Josh7289]

Oh well.

 

[FullMetaltech]

We need a hatch to start storing them. Just incase..

 

[perfectchaos007]

In America we have mockolate. We're already used to cocoa-less chocolate. If we every have a sugar shortage, we're already conditioned to enjoy HFCS. We're one step ahead of the world in consuming inferior substitutes!

 

[Daniel Jackson]

Just think, dark chocolate will one day mean 1% cacao.... this is not a future I want :-\

With just 1%, they can't even call it chocolate anymore. At least not here in Europe. The word chocolate is protected by law. A product must contain a certain minimum percentage of cacao.

 

[Silkworm]

With just 1%, they can't even call it chocolate anymore. At least not here in Europe. The word chocolate is protected by law. A product must contain a certain minimum percentage of cacao.

That's true right now but then I guess come up with a new labeling, like faux dark chocolate at 1% cacao which will only cost $5 per gram. Dark chocolate at 60% will be $50 per gram... ;-) (pricing is completely made up just exaggerating for a worse case scenario which I'm not even sure will come to pass)

 

[RealMeat]

We'll just have to get on that whole "another Earth" thing.

 

[gazele]

We'll just have to get on that whole "another Earth" thing.

Unubtainium is actually just chocolate

 

[Thunder Monkey]

Think about the rise in bitchiness that this will create. I'm talking like 35% increases, maybe more.

And that's just from me.

 

[Jarlaxle]

Time to start growing cocoa in my back yard so I can profit from this in 7 years.

 

[ymmv]

When/If chocolate starts to become scarce, the price will go up and those same farmers that jumped ship to the more expensive rubber will jump right on back to the more profitable cocoa plantations once again. There's no way production will completely stop unless there is some disease or climate event that completely devastates the entire cocoa plant population worldwide.

Chocolate is already becoming "scarce" and more expensive thanks to speculation.

See for instance:

Speculators' new craze for chocolate leaves a bitter taste

Massive Craving: U.K. Investor Buys $1 Billion in Chocolate

The good thing is that consumers don't notice those rising prices that much because chocolate bar producers are using ever more chocolate substitutes.... :-/

 

[Log4Girlz]

QUICK SOMEONE PLANT MORE TREES

 

[OldAsUrSock]

Someone think of the children!

You just can't predict so far in the future.

It is only 7 years away.

 

[evilromero]

"They live on the earth and they need food. Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals.”

 

[Heimbeck]

Don't worry, we're good.

Someone posted this on IGN a few months back, took me ages to figure it out.

But for chocolate matters, I think I could live without chocolate, it might be rough at the start for some but I think everyone would get over it in a few months or so.

Unless they make fake chocolate or something.

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

Time to get a second job to fund my future chocolate eating habits.

 

[Raistlin]

This won't happen. Things like this never do.

This view is the problem



Planet is FUCKED

 

[Thunder Monkey]

It is only 7 years away.

I'm pretty sure that's why it's a joke.

 

[Derwind]

If this isn't a joke, I'm going to have to start hoardibg chocolates right now. Chocolates don't go bad right?

I'll start labelling my chocolate by age. Maygexstart an aged chocolate culture. We'll be chocolate snobs.

Also, offtopic, damn it someone needs to invent the replicator.

 

[reptilescorpio]

Which itself is kind of misleading because if the price goes up, more farmers will want to grow it and it will compete for other uses of land if the price is high.

My thoughts exactly.

 

[BraXzy]

Don't worry, we're good.

My girlfriend: "Has he got all that chocolate from it?"

Is it time to upgrade? xD

 

[Eusis]

i thought sorcery was forbidden here on neogaf...wtf>?>??

Better hire the local magician to check this shit out.

 

[heidern]

When this happens the price of chocolate will go up. Chocolate will thus increase in profitability and people will look for ways to increase production.

 

[Borgnine]

At the very least the days high 90s percentage Heisenberg chocolate are over, we're going to be seeing a lot more stomped on shit from Nestle.

 

[Switch Back 9]

In this thread I learned that 2020 is only seven years away. Does this blow anyone else's mind?

 

[.GqueB.]

My girlfriend: "Has he got all that chocolate from it?"

Is it time to upgrade? xD

Yea he clearly did. Where else could he have gotten the bowl of chocolate from? Don't see why this gif is so confusing to people.

 

[Courage]

Vanilla is better anyway.

 

[peanutbutterlatte]

We need to find a new Galaxy.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

I'll just post this delicious GIF here:

 

[ElectricBlue187]

bacchman was right

I dont know what's worse, no chocolate or Michelle Bachmann being right about something

 

[Kalamari]

Time to start my cocoa farm, I'm gonna be rich!

 

[popeutlal]

So no point in living after 2020 ay.

 

[friskykillface]

no way, i don't believe that 0_o

:'( not my chocolate, i love it so much. fuck it, time to get fat and eat chocolate everyday

 

[Spades]

With just 1%, they can't even call it chocolate anymore. At least not here in Europe. The word chocolate is protected by law. A product must contain a certain minimum percentage of cacao.

 

[LaNaranja]

In this thread I learned that 2020 is only seven years away. Does this blow anyone else's mind?

This also blew my mind.

 

[Dereck]

In this thread I learned that 2020 is only seven years away. Does this blow anyone else's mind?

Not really

 

[Extra Sauce]

Chocolate finds a way.

In this thread I learned that 2020 is only seven years away. Does this blow anyone else's mind?

That's the awesome thing about our generation. Every time we look at a calendar, we're reminded that we're basically living in an 80's sci-fi movie. Sure it might be a dystopian movie, but it's still pretty cool right?

*not sure whether to laugh or cry*

 

[ElFly]

Ok fuck everything burn down the amazon and replant cocoa but this cannot come to happen.

 

[Slayer-33]

Don't worry, we're good.

What the fuck?!

 

[Weilthain]

Better tell Cadburys about this

 

[Foshy]

I don't even eat too much chocolate but this really scares me. I don't know if I want to live in a world without it.

 

[linko9]

But if there's a chocolate shortage, prices will rise, and if prices rise, growing cocoa will become more profitable, so more plantations will be converted to chocolate plantations. Am I missing something here?

Now bananas, that's what we actually have to worry about. They're being killed by diseases.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana#Pests.2C_diseases.2C_and_natural_disasters

 

[Diablos]

I just put some hershey's cocoa in my yogurt this morning, I WILL NOT ACCEPT THIS

$10 boxes of cocoa incoming?

 

[Plinko]

But if there's a chocolate shortage, prices will rise, and if prices rise, growing cocoa will become more profitable, so more plantations will be converted to chocolate plantations. Am I missing something here?

Now bananas, that's what we actually have to worry about. They're being killed by diseases.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana#Pests.2C_diseases.2C_and_natural_disasters

Bananas are actually what I came to post about. Haven't we been hearing for 20 years that bananas are going extinct?

 

[Philia]

Someone think of the children!

The most ironic post of them all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_in_cocoa_production

http://thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.c...d-slavery-and-chocolate-all-too-easy-to-find/

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/dark-side-chocolate/

Makes you wonder why no adult is working in cocao, its paid in pennies. Naturally, all the child labor laws are hammering away of the late and I bet it has an impact on the farmers themselves and their pockets. :\

 

[Deleted member 74300]

Fuck this.

 

[Despera]

What the fuck?!

Put the mouse cursor at the top of the chocolate bar before he starts swapping shit. That way you can clearly see the reduction in area.

 

[number47]

"Experts have warned"
I want his job.

 

[Taco_Human]

Tome to start a hoard.

 

[Puppet Shadow]

My girlfriend: "Has he got all that chocolate from it?"

Is it time to upgrade? xD

OMG, that's hilarious!

I say keep her around for when you show up with a new 2016 vehicle and convince her it was cheap because it's a pre-release from 2012.