• Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    Instead of corporate, mass produced chocolates, please consider locally made, small batch chocolates if you truly want to support your chocolate industry. Also, its so much better.

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      Several years ago my daughter’s school had a trip to a (small, local) chocolate factory.

      For part of the trip the children queued up to dip a marshmallow into a vat of chocolate to taste it.

      My daughter was one of the first in the queue, ate hers and went to the back of the queue for a second one… I was so proud 😁

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          Ah, it was full health & safety… large stainless steel vat containing hot molten chocolate, rotating stirring paddle, steps (unsecured) up to an open inspection hatch… but they wore hair nets…

          And, I think they had that policy where all the staff could take as much chocolate as they wanted… so of course, all got sick & tired of that and never took any more.

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            Did you sign an NDA and this is the only version of the story you are legally allowed to repeat?

            (I’m glad for stories like that - I lived visiting factories/companies and farms throughout all school days. Kids need to understand what the production factors are & how logistics connects us all.)

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      3 days ago

      fuck. my chocolatier is probably going to be booked solid during valentimes. i should go on a date this saturday and get some sipping cocoa