2d ago

Tony's Chocolonely

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Tony's Chocolonely - Wikipedia

Tony's Chocolonely is a Dutch chocolate manufacturer and seller. Created in 2005, the company's market share in the Netherlands was 18 percent in 2018.

In 2022, the Thomson Reuters Foundation awarded Tony's Chocolonely the Stop Slavery Award in the category "Goods and Services Companies". This award recognizes companies and organizations who have set a high standard for eradicating slavery, illegal child labor, and human trafficking from their supply chains.

Tony's Chocolonely was ranked second on the 2023 Chocolate Scorecard, which rates chocolate companies according to their human rights and environmental credentials: traceability and transparency, living income for cocoa farmers, child labour (absence of), deforestation & climate, agroforestry, and agrochemical management.

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2d ago

Tony's Chocolonely

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I was so sure it was American when I first saw it in stores, both the name and packaging design seemed very American. It took a few months before I stopped and read through the info on one of the bars to realize it's something good.

Ah nice. I had made the assumption that this was American based on the name and wrapping. Guess I will give this a try the next time I'm out for some chocolate 🙂.

Pretty damn good bar of chocolate, actually
Thicker than I expected, some of the chunks they've cut (their bars are cut funny on purpose) were too big even for my giant mouth
- If I remember right the way the chocolate is cut is to represent the unequal distribution of cocoa profits in the industry.
  
  You're correct.
  "It doesn't make sense for chocolate bars to be divided into equal-sized chunks when there is so much inequality in the chocolate industry! The unequally-sized chunks of our 6.35 oz bars are a palatable way of reminding Choco Fans and Serious Friends that the profts in the chocolate industry are unequally divided.
  And in case you haven't noticed, the bottom of our bars depicts the West African coastline. The chunks just above it represent the Gulf of Guinea. From left to right, you have Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo and Benin (terribly politically incorrect, we know, but we had to combine them to create enough space for a hazelnut), Nigeria and part of Cameroon."
  https://us.tonyschocolonely.com/pages/faqs

It's a great chocolate except for the large amounts of lead in their dark chocolate: https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/lead-and-cadmium-in-dark-chocolate-a8480295550/
- I mean, who doesn't love some ethically sourced lead in their chocolate?

Sold in the US too, if you're also stuck here! Looks like ~~Target~~ and Safeway cary them. Going to try it...
EDIT: Actually, I recommend you don't shop at Target in light of their anti-DEI "Bud Light u-turn"...
- They are good chocolate too. I like the green one, it's dark chocolate and almond. They also got them at Harris Teeter and Walmart. I think Walmart has the smaller mixed bag of candy instead of the bars.

And their chocolate is just so, so good.
- Yeah, a d i c t i o n warning. The bar you buy is likely disappear sooner than you would have thought ;)

Have yet to try it myself. Very expensive in the UK, around £4 for a bar compared with £1.50 for a Dairy Milk. Obviously it's more ethical and probably tastier, but still. Probably better if I eat less chocolate anyway.
- I'd say it's closer to £3 than £4, certainly where I am up north.
  Its become our favorite brand, tastea great and slave free, win win.
- Check out the price per gram, usually tonys are heavier than the alternative.
  I always thought it was more expensive as well until i recently saw that the default ive been buying had less weight, so if you looked at price per kg it was actually pretty much the same.
  Also i buy less choclate now but i prefer quality.
- I don't find it that much better personally compared to other chocolates, but I think it's worth it if you buy a chocolate bar twice a year like I do

Now that's a weird coincidence, I only learned about Tony's chocolate a few days ago cause there was a big product recall poster in my local supermarket and it kinda stuck in my mind cause I was wondering how TF do stones end up in chocolate. :D

Interesting design, by the colours and font it actually looks American.
I'm now curious to try but it doesn't seem to exist in Spain, sadly.
- Maybe in your local bio/eco shop, since they're made from 'slaverly-free' cacao they might be too expensive for a regular supermarket to make a profit on them.
  
  In Austria they started selling in all big shops maybe like two years ago. At least that's when I realized them. I love the chocolate and worth the price for me :-)
- I thought it was American as well. It's on our shelves. I love the background... the chocolate itself is pretty damned good, and I do not often have sweets and candies.
- Red, white, and blue are the colours of the Dutch flag.
  
  Those are also the colours of the US flag, the obnoxious font is very reminiscent of Texas hold'em salons, and let's be honest Tony is not a Dutch name at all.
  Look, I totally get it man, I'm just as propagandized as anybody else to just associate certain patterns to US products.
- It's definitely sold here in the US, and looks like something you'd find at a circus.
  It's pretty damned good, though.

I really enjoy this chocolate, my only complaints are:
It says not to chill it - I prefer cold chocolate
The chocolate is not divided up equally, which for some reason annoys me..
- It says not to chill it - I prefer cold chocolate
  I tried, and they don't actually come to take it away if you ignore that and chill it anyway. :)
  
  Thank you for taking the risk. I'll be chilling it from now on.
- The chocolate is not divided up equally, which for some reason annoys me.
  This is intentional on their part, it's to show that the profits in the chocolate industry are unequally divided.
  
  Glad it's intentional, I've been labouring under the impression someone did it by accident!
  
  Even more, the chuncks depict countries in Africa:
  
  It's a good concept but it does feel like a forced gimmick a. I would really prefer some regularity in the pieces possibly that's just a quirk of neurodivergence.
- no idea you weren't suppose to chill them. this part of the world, that's practically impossible, it'll be a puddle if I leave it out anytime of year.
- The circle one is my favorite piece!
  
  Heck yeah, me too!
- Chill chocolate? Are u in an asylum? What in the name is wrong with ya.
- I don't see why you can't chill it. I would have to guess they say that so you don't ruin the temper. Maybe chilling it speeds up the white film and they had lots of people complaining?

"I'm so Tony's Chocolonely" should be my new catch phrase.
- It is a fun name to say. I like to announce the name when I see it in the store.

Not a big fan of chocolate, but this is good.... Very good 😊.

I discovered Tony's a few months ago and I've been loving their bars. A bit pricey, but it's worth it.
- The others are cheap because of child labor and pesticides. It's what gives the extra kick when eating them ;)
  
  You can really taste the exploitation!
- They arent as expensive as you may think, they usually weigh more than the "normal" bars you get, so if you calc the price per weight its actually competetive

do they have vegan versions?
- Yes

How do you even buy non-european chocolate
Lind Sprüngli, Camille Bloch: Swiss
Ritter, Trumpf, Stollwerck, Storck, Niedegger: German
Ferrero: Italian
Ok Milka and Toblerone are american
- Most big brands (even in Europe) are terrible because they rely on child slavery. There's a documentary about it.
  If you want to buy European chocolate, well it can't be fully European because Europe doesn't grow cocoa, at least look for fair trade chocolate. That or an equivalent should be the minimum claim a company makes. I say claim, because that's what they are claims. None us will know for sure until we step foot in the places where these companies source their chocolate.
  If you want an easy list https://www.chocolatescorecard.com/ has some. Top of the list of small, european companies:
  Choba Choba - Swiss
  Original Beans - Dutch
  Chocolate Makers - Dutch
  Malmö - Swedish (website seems to be only in Swedish?)
  Tony's is top of the "medium and large companies". Rittersport is also up there, but I don't trust that at all. They are closely followed by Nestlé, lol. Fuck Nestlé.
- In the US Cadbury's is made by Hershey. Which is why it tastes like vegetable oil and wax.
- Toblerone is American?????
  
  sold out to kraft in '90. really hasn't been the same since.
  
  Always has been from Kraft/Mondelez. As of 2023, it's not even "Swiss made" anymore.
- Lindt is best when made in Switzerland. They also have factories in other countries, but it's not the same.

Red packaging (as shown here) is milk chocolate, blue packaging is dark chocolate. There are other variants too.
- Aaah, thanks I didn't know that.
  Dark chocolate is the best.
  
  Careful with the dark chocolate. It failed the lead tests.

Canadian here. Is there anywhere to get reasonably priced bulk chocolate chips or chunks for baking, in Europe, that ship to North America?
- Callebaut is a common supplier for bakeries in Europe. That stuff is definitely not slavery free though.
  
  Yea we have Callebaut in Canada as well. It's also ~$100/cad for 2.5 kg or ~$25/500g. That's a do without kinda price for us. I get we have to expect to pay more but we simply don't have the means for that.
- Financially speaking, AmazonCA would probably be the cheapest you'll find. (?) https://www.amazon.ca/s?k=tony%27s+chocolonely
  
  Fuck Amazon. I won't pay an oligarch or a fascist dictator a penny so they can invade my country and turn us into a puppet state. We have not used chocolate for months for not finding a good option yet.
  No thanks on Amazon or any American company or product.
  This is the whole reason for the question.

French fair trade brand with a lot of choice: Éthiquable
Not sure if they export much. The prices in France are reasonable considering cocoa prices make even junk chocolate quite expensive.