What’s With the Chocolate?
Submitted by Pivotfarm on 02/17/2014 15:51 -0500

So it’s been Christmas and the holiday season and Santa had his sacks stuffed with chocolate. Then it was Cupid and Valentine’s Day and the chocolate got bought up in the shops and the loved one’s will be complaining that they put on too much on their hips or the boyfriend felt sick after gorging himself on the stuff and you still reply they look chocolate-boxy and fine.

Whatever you have been doing, get ready for the world price rise in chocolate…it’s running out. Yes, another thing to add to the endless list that we are told is going to disappear with the water we drink, the gas that we heat the home with and probably just about anything and everything has been added to that list of things that will go the way of the Dodo. So, if you have a few chocolates on that second layer that are still left over, then you need to whip them off to the bank and get them locked away.

• The retail price of chocolate in the US rose last year by 2.8% above inflation.
• The world is now consuming 4 million tons of the stuff.
• That means it’s 32% more than a decade ago.
• The price of Cacao has already increased by 9% this year.
• Demand will outstrip supply for the next five years at least.
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Does that mean we are going to see chocolate being sold illicitly on the street corner? Will we have chocolate runners and chockie barons? ‘I should cocoa’ as the Brits might say!

Life without chocolate would be a beach…without water. In the meantime, the price of cacao futures is set to rise over the next few months and even years. Either that, or you can run into the nearest chocolate store and shout ‘put the chocolate in the bag, lady…and nobody gets hurt!’; it’s always an alternative.

More:
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/201...0%99s-chocolate

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Yes, another thing to add to the endless list that we are told is going to disappear with the water we drink, the gas that we heat the home with and probably just about anything and everything has been added to that list of things that will go the way of the Dodo.

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Quote: Rev wrote in post #2

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Yes, another thing to add to the endless list that we are told is going to disappear with the water we drink, the gas that we heat the home with and probably just about anything and everything has been added to that list of things that will go the way of the Dodo.

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Chocolate, like alcohol, has many functions. It is an anti-oxidant, anti-depressant, anti-asthma (improves breathing), aphrodisiac ............

Quote: ThirstyMan wrote in post #3

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time for a chocolate break, excuse me.

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Quote: Frank Cannon wrote in post #6

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If it doesn't have an alcohol content, who cares.

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