Finally! Carob will take its rightful throne!

The final world war wasn't fought over land or oil but sweet sweet chocolate.

40yoVirgin: Finally! Carob will take its rightful throne!

*spits*

Get the pitchforks, boys.

Are these the same type of people who said by now the world would have no rainforests, we'd be out of landfill space, and the oceans would be dead?

Oh well, there's always Hershey's. They've already figured out how to make toxic waste marketable as chocolate.

Or it's growing regions will just change and cocoa will be harvested in other god forsaken countries like Florida.

In other news, Fat Lonely TotalFarkers are killing themselves by the hundreds.

Carob is a vile depravity of chocolate. Begone, foul blsphemer!

Good. Then maybe those of us who are allergic to it can find candy without it.

Lots of words, nothing supporting em.

Love that scary news stuff, wake me when the important stuff comes on, this is crackpot bs.

I can see it now, everyone running to Walgreen's tomorrow morning for the 50% off the nasty Palmer's chocolates left over from Valentine's day.

doesnt chocolate come from the same plant as cocaine?

Ah, it's a ploy so that everyone buys chocolate today and tommorow to boost sales!

Though in seriousness, I really hope nothing becomes like truffles. They sell them at my Wegmans now (why in Wegmans in a college town?!), and they go for $700 a pound... for what looks like oversized raisins.

I don't like chocolate, it reminds of me of them darkies.

i'm driving my life away: doesnt chocolate come from the same plant as cocaine?


No, then it would be illegal.

Do try to keep up. This is important.

WildMonkey I don't like chocolate, it reminds of me of them darkies.

What about white chocolate? Or do you consider that the mulatto of confectionaries?

RadiantAerynSun: Good. Then maybe those of us who are allergic to it can find candy without it.

your life is just a living hell isnt it?

40yoVirgin: Finally! Carob will take its rightful throne!



Does not approve

New movie titles..."Blood Cocoa" or "Like Blood for Chocolate"

Love the warrrgarrrble in that story.

Thinly-veiled global-warming propaganda.

Ridiculous.

We will run out of chocolate about the same time we run out of cocaine.

Which is never. Even when the earth is gone, they will be growing both all over the galaxy.

So IF lots of bad things happen AND we do nothing about them THEN something else bad might happen. Stop the presses and call Rick Romero.

hah, Just talk to the folks At Nestle They have an apparent source of synthetic chocolate looking stuff.

ABC NEWS is the slowest friggin website in the world.

Every ABC NEWS site story takes forever to load.

Saw a tv show about the African cocoa pickers a few years ago, made me sad to learn that a lot of them had never tasted chocolate.

Begun, the cocoa wars have.

What a bunch of alarmist nonsense.

"If nothing was done, and the temperature was to rise, and the rainfalls were to change and drought became more prevalent ... without looking into new farming practices, then there should be a problem, and there might likely be a problem," he said.

The Moron factor in this story is rated: HIGH

XxDavidZullenxX: Though in seriousness, I really hope nothing becomes like truffles. They sell them at my Wegmans now (why in Wegmans in a college town?!), and they go for $700 a pound... for what looks like oversized raisins.

Uh, those are mushroom truffles, not chocolate ones...

eddyatwork: The final world war wasn't fought over land or oil but sweet sweet chocolate.

Finally, a cause I can get behind

It would just be nice if luxuries, like chocolate, didn't involve conflict, slavery, or death.

Deathfrogg: i'm driving my life away: doesnt chocolate come from the same plant as cocaine?


No, then it would be illegal.

Do try to keep up. This is important.

amazing how people can't figure out the difference between cacao and coca

RadiantAerynSun: Good. Then maybe those of us who are allergic to it can find candy without it.

wow...a chick that's alergic to chocolate...

do other women wince and look away when you come in the room like when a burns victim with massive scarring has just walked by?

I'm calling bullshiat. I remember reading a Time for Kids article in 4th grade (c. 1995) that claimed within ten years there would be chocolate shortages.

This is Media Fearmongering meets Seasonal Article. This story comes out every year, probably to entice people to buy up more chocolate now since, OMG, no more in the future!!!

Alarmist or not, I just showed the article to my wife. For the first time in a long time, I think she's going to support a cause.

Ed Willy: I'm calling bullshiat. I remember reading a Time for Kids article in 4th grade (c. 1995) that claimed within ten years there would be chocolate shortages.!

Yep.. When I was in grade school, I was told that by the time I was driving age, we would be out of oil.

That was in the 80s.

Alarmist people are alarmist.

Betacamman: Begun, the cocoa wars have.

I think that was what FailSubby was going for...

Oh my god! Robert Cormier was right! EVERYBODY PANIC!!

/nothing is obscure on Fark
//Especially with Google.

emnar: Are these the same type of people who said by now the world would have no rainforests, we'd be out of landfill space, and the oceans would be dead?

Oh well, there's always Hershey's. They've already figured out how to make toxic waste marketable as chocolate.

Drama Queen much?

... "from my cold dead HANDS!"...

He who controls the Cocoa controls the universe.

But we're still good on the beer right? No possible beer shortage??

Good...

Oh. My. God.

As an avid shipwreck diver, I invented chocolate.

So we might be able to get laid offering a woman a Hershey's bar in the near future eh? Cool!

Betacamman: Begun, the cocoa wars have.

Came to say this. Wasn't hopeful. Still satisfied.

Here an opportunity, Subby missed. See how easy it is?!?

/ now i want a snickers.
// cue the chocosnobs!

Well, just like the bananas, right?

I hate these types of reports. The same could be said about ANY crop, it just makes me wonder if it is just hype to justify a coming increase in price.

Without this in mind I had already begun stockpiling several pounds of raw cocoa powder. Really it is great stuff for baking goodies.