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[XANDER CAGE]

I seriously don't understand this.

When the graph is shown, they swapped the pieces for ones that would actually fit the new shape. Try it yourself, you can't actually create a break that would come back together so cleanly.

 

[Dereck]

Posting this again in case people missed it.

 

[Acorn]

That's coming too, soon enough.

Fuck that, I need my morning coffee and evening kahlua.

 

[sturmdogg]

That's coming too, soon enough.

Let me guess...2020?

 

[Perkel]

I am ok with this.

More people will be slimer

 

[Crimson-Death]

Well fuck it. Time to gorge myself before the end.

 

[Loomba]

I'm sure they will find a new way to make it.

 

[Chuckie]

Camera Angle trick.

Isn't it another version of this old riddle?

 

[Edwards_Omatic]

I'm calling bullshit, largely because I don't want it to be true, but also because... Just imagine a life without chocolate, it's in everything I love dearly - we'll find a way.

Spoiler

Life finds a way

 

[Horse Detective]

I don't even care. I will miss Reeses and maybe Snickers but I will carry on.

 

[antonz]

Well we know what we must do for the sake of global cocoa supplies.

Arm the missiles and target china

 

[Satchel]

Need to stock up

 

[Natetan]

So this means we need to stop making white and milk chocolate also known as "fake chocolate" and focus production on dark chocolate

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[Sidewinder]

NOPE, never gonna happen, I'll just have to skip a meal everyday so I'll still be able to buy my daily dose of jokklet!

 

[Christina Mackenzie]

So this means we need to stop making white and milk chocolate also known as "fake chocolate" and focus production on dark chocolate

Problem?.gif

Approved!

 

[Kater]

So, the price of cocoa products will rise even more? Damn, I already buy (quality) chocolate at 3€/70g minimum!

 

[Derwind]

So whats making the cocoa beans scarce? How did this shortage come about? Why is this not a sustainable product? If we can see it coming, why can't we fix the problem?

Is this a manufactured shortage to increase commodity prices?

I'm sure its not the cocoa beans are all dying out, they're a diverse enough species that they should be alright. Right?

Reading the OP, the species is all right but theres not enough plantations to keep demand going. So companies should just horde the beans and sell them like diamonds. Manufacture scarcity, increase revenue.

Brilliant.

Btw China can take its rubber and shove it.

I think I'll plant cocoa beans in my beach home resort when I'm rich(which will obviously happen) and laugh at all you lowly creatures agonizing in your poohr chocolateless world. Meanwhile I'll be eating my new york style chocolate cheese cake and dying in a corner. Going out like a king.

 

[Android18a]

*retreats into hidey hole*

No... no cholocate? choco co co lo co ...

*goes crazy*

 

[Lee Chaolan]

There is only one person to blame

Everywhere I looked, there were piles of chocolate. And then the explosion struck.

 

[scytheavatar]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GNtXN3YfdY

If it makes you guys feel better, what a chocolate which has expired for 16 years tastes like. So it's not such a bad idea to stock up.

 

[DimmuBurgerKing]

I am ok with this.

More people will be slimer

 

[watershed]

Sounds like bullshit. At least, nothing in the OP sounds very convincing. I predict I will still be buying and eating relatively cheap chocolate bars in the year 2020.

 

[Randy Monk]

Sounds like bullshit. At least, nothing in the OP sounds very convincing. I predict I will still be buying and eating relatively cheap chocolate bars in the year 2020.

Lets hope you're right!

 

[Winterfang]

I refuse to tell my children about the time when we had Chocolates and Tigers. I don't care if I have to have a Cacao plant in my house and make it myself, my grand children will have Chocolate.

 

[Rory]

I remember reading this same article about 20 years ago, we haven't run out yet.

 

[MarkMclovin]

Hershey's isn't chocolate. It's basically a bar of dogshit.

 

[Kifimbo]

Won't happen. At worst, prices will go up, making chocolate more profitable, and then cocoa plantations will replace other less profitable plantations.

 

[zma1013]

Click more cookies guys.

 

[Mission]

Solved!

 

[Fallout-NL]

Hershey's isn't chocolate. It's basically a bar of dogshit.

Tastes like the ass end of a barn. Couldn't believe it when I first had it.

 

[dragonelite]

Posting this again in case people missed it.

So chocolate can grow itself?

 

[zma1013]

So chocolate can grow itself?

That's the solution to the enigma.

 

[Morzak]

No it's running out and there's a reason for it.

Updated the opening post : Many cocoa farmers are changing into rubber, because the demand for cars and what not is increasing constantly in Asia (China) so it's more profitable to let chocolate die.

And for the same reason farmers will start to grow cocoa again, because if less and less do it while the demand grows, prices will go up, which means going into cocoa will be economically viable again.

That those resources are running out is just hyperbole, shortages and price hikes are certainly realistic. This will not only happening with cocoa but other "luxury" goods, since there is growing demand in the emerging markets, while the demands in the "old" markets isn't really dropping.

 

[K.Sabot]

Prices will rise when supply gets low and demand will sustain itself.

Hopefully.

 

[tlstls]

If you guys like cocoa so much find a cure for the cocoa disease in Brazil and you can have your chocolate back.

 

[jediyoshi]

No it's running out and there's a reason for it.

Updated the opening post : Many cocoa farmers are changing into rubber, because the demand for cars and what not is increasing constantly in Asia (China) so it's more profitable to let chocolate die.

Demand, how does it work

 

[Can Crusher]

Is this taylor swift?

 

[AtomicSymphonic]

Now this is a tragedy in the making! We must save our chocolate!

...

I'm a bit surprised that there are no (some?) efforts to conserve the plants that produce cocoa beans. I figured that they were not being abused in any way... Perhaps I was wrong. :-/

 

[Dennis]

I don't know, man. American chocolate probably doesn't include real chocolate so enough actual chocolate so be available to real connoisseurs like Dennis while the rest of the world is supplied by Hersey's.

 

[BlackGoku03]

I thought there was an update or something. Strange bump.

 

[Dega]

Start eating as much as you can now fellas.

 

[hydragonwarrior]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...but-we-could-be-running-out-of-chocolate.html

So it's not running out per say, but expect chocolate to taste different in 20 years since i'm sure cocoa will be pretty overpriced by then.

But in that 20 years, the world will be more concerned about freshwater more than anything...

 

[Nyoro SF]

I Can't Believe It's Not Chocolate incoming.

 

[McNei1y]

Update: we still have chocolate!

 

[Floridian]

5 years till the end of the world.

 

[Doctoglethorpe]

We're going to start making everything in labs around then anyways. Have some lab meat for dinner and lab chocolate for desert.

 

[DarkFlow]

If you guys like cocoa so much find a cure for the cocoa disease in Brazil and you can have your chocolate back.

Why the hell did you bump this lol.

 

[God Dayumm]

Can't believe I still make posts as stupid as 2 years ago

 

[MMaRsu]

Don't worry, we're good.

Hahahahahahahaha OH MY GOD

This gif is beyond amazing, some MC Escher type shit

 

[Soph]

If you guys like cocoa so much find a cure for the cocoa disease in Brazil and you can have your chocolate back.

Why necro?