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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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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
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 ;)
Sold in the US too, if you’re also stuck here! Looks like
Targetand 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.
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 :-)
They have been doing really well here too. Their initial goal was to become ethical chocolate/cacao wholesalers but they knew they had no chance starting a purely b2b business. So aside from selling their own bars, but over time they grew and now sell to a lot of other brands including the no-brand stuff the supermarkets sell with their own logo (how do you call that? We call them house brands, but that makes no sense in English). They are getting a serious market share as sell, with an ever increasing bigger part from their b2b branch now. More here: https://www.tonysopenchain.com/
how do you call that? We call them house brands, but that makes no sense in English
In British English they’re called “own-brands”, which makes less sense tbh.
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.
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
Not a big fan of chocolate, but this is good… Very good 😊.
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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
It’s more expensive for a reason. They are fighting for fair wages and no child labor in the cocoa industry. That work costs extra. Big corps constantly cut corners and exploit their labour. This chocolate is not too expensive, it’s the rest that is unfairly cheap.
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
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.
Ritter Sport is my favourite taste wise aside from Lindt so I’ll take that
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.
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.
Also really nice is the chocolate from Vivani https://vivani.de/en/vivani-en/
Bought one about a year ago just to try it… It was okay. Definitely not worth the price…
Aldi chocolate is the way to go, imo.
Better alternative: https://friisholmchokolade.dk/
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 🙂.
