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[IdreamofHIME]

This was on QI years ago, they also said Helium was running low.

 

[adj_noun]

This was on QI years ago, they also said Helium was running low.

I had to shutter my chocolate balloon factory last year.

 

[injurai]

This was on QI years ago, they also said Helium was running low.

Helium is a different story. It literally can't be held by Earth's gravity. It flies off into space. We also can't manufacture it, at least in any practical manner. All our helium is extracted from rock. When it's gone it's gone.

 

[DJKhaled]

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

nice bump, bro

 

[DarkFlow]

Helium is a different story. It literally can't be held by Earth's gravity. It flies off into space. We also can't manufacture it, at least in any practical manner. All our helium is extracted from rock. When it's gone it's gone.

That's when we make a space station to orbit Jupiter and mine it!

 

[DrSlek]

now I really want a Mars bar

Hmmm.....we need another planet to continue Cocoa production.
And we're looking towards Mars....

 

[gutshot]

This was on QI years ago, they also said Helium was running low.

You mean like when this thread was posted?

 

[Timedog]

Basically, eat less chocolate you fat fucks.

Chocolate is one of the healthiest foods you can eat.

 

[TheExecutive]

No it won't. It will get more expensive and thus reclaim some of the land it lost when it is more profitable

ie when the supply gets low enough and demand gets high enough.

Maybe I am misreading something but the market should and will correct itself.

 

[Order]

Fuck it just blow up the planet and restart. We've already failed.

 

[You Are Viewtiful]

Oh my god that's like the only healthy food I eat

 

[Conrad Link]

A chocolate shortage could very well be the thing that finally unites all nations and races to work together in the common goal of eating num nums.

 

[BrokenEchelon]

Yeah. They're just going to let all that money go. Total bullshit

 

[Dryk]

A chocolate shortage could very well be the thing that finally unites all nations and races to work together in the common goal of eating num nums.

And the lack of helium balloons will be what finally gets public support behind research into fusion

 

[A Human Becoming]

Dark chocolate is a healthy food.

FTFY

 

[Priz]

Uh, this problem is already on the way to being solved.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2015/02/04/383830776/episode-601-the-chocolate-curse

SMITH: But, of course, CCN-51 is solving the problem we talked about at the very beginning - this chocolate shortage. It's on its way to being solved. It's now 50 percent of the crop in Ecuador. It's being grown in Peru, in Brazil, Colombia, Indonesia.

CCN-51, baby! Homero Castro solved it.

 

[PeskyToaster]

Supply drops prices rise farmers grow more price comes down rinse and repeat.

 

[Priz]

Supply drops prices rise farmers grow more price comes down rinse and repeat.

Nice try on the "farmers grow more" part -

STACEY VANEK SMITH, HOST:
Cocoa, the main ingredient in chocolate, is in very short supply. Demand for chocolate has gone way up. China and India have taken a liking to it.

SMITH: Uh-oh.

VANEK SMITH: And here in the U.S., we're eating a lot more dark chocolate, which uses a lot more cocoa.

SMITH: Now, normally when something like this happens, you just grow more (laughter). You just grow more cocoa. That is the way these things work. But that's really hard to do with cocoa because it is this really fragile, delicate plant. The tree cannot grow in very many places. You find it in very particular climates like West Africa and Ecuador. And once you even get the tree up and going, it doesn't produce very many cocoa pods, and it succumbs to all of these diseases that have these dire names like black pod and another one, a fungus, called witches' broom.

VANEK SMITH: The names are really funny, but the diseases - they're so terrible. I actually saw witches' broom firsthand. I went to Ecuador, and I had a cocoa farmer show me a plantation that had been really hard hit.

SERGIO CENDENO: I almost cry when I see this - these trees - the whole farm.

VANEK SMITH: Sergio Cendeno is walking me through this plantation, and the trees are towering over us. They're really tall. It looks like we're in a forest instead of a cocoa plantation. And he points way up in the trees to where the cocoa pods are, and they look terrible. Normally, cocoa pods are bright yellow and the size of a football, but these pods are tiny and black and shriveled. And this - this is witches' broom.

They're just falling off the trees almost.

CENDENO: All are sick, all are sick. This - witches' broom, witches' broom.

VANEK SMITH: Yeah, it's a lot of dead plants.

CENDENO: It's a disaster.

SMITH: It is a sad fact in this world that one of the things that human beings love and crave the most - cocoa - is also one of the hardest things to grow.

 

[Kuro Madoushi]

Chocolate is one of the healthiest foods you can eat.

Yup. All that sugar and milk and other crap added to it that makes it bad.

Though it seems most of GAF hates dark chocolate.

 

[RC]

Yup. All that sugar and milk and other crap added to it that makes it bad.

Though it seems most of GAF hates dark chocolate.

For once I agree with most of GAF.

 

[Dennis]

Though it seems most of GAF hates dark chocolate.

Let those fools eat their mocolate, more dark chocolate for Dennis!

 

[Tallshortman]

Posting this again in case people missed it.

For people still confused, the bar has slightly less height now, just compare the right edge of the purple and red pieces, the red one is slightly shorter. If the chocolate bar didn't change in area, the two edges would both be the same length.

 

[acrid]

Let those fools eat their mocolate, more dark chocolate for Dennis!

and when Dennis has his back turned, Acrid runs up and steals his dark chocolate.

 

[Kurt Angle]

time to stock up

 

[daveo42]

Uh, this problem is already on the way to being solved.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2015/02/04/383830776/episode-601-the-chocolate-curse

CCN-51, baby! Homero Castro solved it.

Came here to post this. Most current chocolate people eat already has this stuff in it, which doesn't taste quite as good as cocoa, but it does the job and most people have no clue about CCN-51. Though that bit where the trees are practically raping the land can't be all good.

 

[Protag]

Chocolates going no where brehs.

 

[fluffydelusions]

We had a good run boys

 

[enigmatic_alex44]

Dark Chocolate >>>>>> Milk Chocolate

Not here for a post 2020 world without chocolate though

 

[perfectchaos007]

The necro-bump was 5 years too soon. I knew this was a fluff piece. If the market demands chocolate, there will be chocolate. you can grow it. Its renewable.

 

[a secret-boss]

time to stockpile bitches

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Should have waited until 2020 to bump it like that one guy who bumped some random thread about Nintendo 7 years later to say he was right about something

 

[Fuzzery]

How does supply and demand work?

 

[Chromax]

A world without Royce chocolate... ;_;

 

[Cuburt]

Oh no!

I'm in love with the Coco.

I got it for the low low.

In 2020 there won't be no mo.

 

[hobblygobbly]

The trick is in the diagonal cut of the chocolate that enables your mind to be blown, that's about it.

dat necro doe.

 

[I Stalk Alone]

Peak coco is a lie.

 

[Midas]

time to stockpile bitches

I actually ordered 10 kilos yesterday.

 

[Wiktor]

We won't run out. The prices of real chocolatte will just increase like hell. Those who can afford it will still eat the real thing, everybody else will switch to synthetic flavor.

 

[dejay]

We'll put a few million people into economic slavery before the West runs out of chocolate.