Fairtrade chocolate
Discussion
Now I have to admit I'm a Bourneville dark chocolate chap. Always have been. But, always willing to be adventurous and do my bit, bought a bar of Fairtrade dark chocolate, sourced from Ghanaian farmers.
What a piece of old crock - tastes revolting, more milk chocolate taste than dark, and absolutely nil dark chocolate buzz.
What's the deal there? Is it that difficult to make chocolate or are Bourneville chocolate beans from a different crop or part of the world.
I'd quite happily swap to Fairtrade if it tasted ok, but on this evidence, no way!
Sorry Ghanaian farmers!
What a piece of old crock - tastes revolting, more milk chocolate taste than dark, and absolutely nil dark chocolate buzz.
What's the deal there? Is it that difficult to make chocolate or are Bourneville chocolate beans from a different crop or part of the world.
I'd quite happily swap to Fairtrade if it tasted ok, but on this evidence, no way!
Sorry Ghanaian farmers!
I dont trust any of this fairtrade s!it.
But then again I dont trust horses, men with beards, my uncle Fred, bar sexuals (women who pretend to be lezzos to get free drinks), Skodas, bee's and wasps (they will sting the f
k out of you even if you leave them alone), ice covered water, wet paint, BOGOF, media, trains, and other stuff....
But then again I dont trust horses, men with beards, my uncle Fred, bar sexuals (women who pretend to be lezzos to get free drinks), Skodas, bee's and wasps (they will sting the f
k out of you even if you leave them alone), ice covered water, wet paint, BOGOF, media, trains, and other stuff.... Edited by GTIR on Monday 7th July 21:41
Maybe they package their worst chocolate as fairtrade because they know the people who buy it will buy it anyway for the feel good factor of believing they're helping people so the quality is largely irrelevant. Give me Cadbury's any day, tastes better when I know the cocoa has been shelled by someone on 5c an hour.
Mr Beaumont said:
Virtually all the fairtrade food i've tried is revolting, even the fairtrade bananas don't seem to be very good.
Well that's what happens when you pay people more whether they do a substandard job or not. If they had to earn it properly they would put more effort into getting it right. Otherwise it's just like work for the dole, they dont care as they get paid whether the job is good or bad. If it were free market and they tried to hand in crap then they wouldn't get paid.If Mr Thirdworldframer can't make a decent living out of flogging chocolate or coffee or whatever other nonsense those charity bints tell them is ok to make then it he should switch to something else, like cocaine, eBay scams or biofuels. Supply and demand, you can't just force people to buy what you make, you have to make what they want, that's why the commies failed so miserably.
CivicMan said:
What a piece of old crock - tastes revolting, more milk chocolate taste than dark, and absolutely nil dark chocolate buzz.
What's the deal there? Is it that difficult to make chocolate or are Bourneville chocolate beans from a different crop or part of the world.
It's a marketing scam. The poor farmers might get a tad more, but you can be sure most of the difference goes into the pockets of the retailers and makers, cashing in on Western stupidity.What's the deal there? Is it that difficult to make chocolate or are Bourneville chocolate beans from a different crop or part of the world.
Stamp said:
Swilly said:
Green and Blacks.... schluuuuurp
The marketing worked on you then
Must say the the whole "organic fair-trade etc etc" does my head in and is more likely to put me off trying something - i hate that moralistic-elitist nonsense and G&B packaging and the high-horsedness grates...
...but, its good chocolate, the 70%, and it stirs my loins !!
Bournville/Cabury - yeah no "do gooders" in that lot, no siree 
Anyway, that irony aside, apart from Bananas I think the Fairtrade coffee, cocoa and the others are nasty. However, perhaps as Cadbury showed, "do gooding" might take a long time to achieve some results ?
Don't like Bournville much either. Hotel Choc stuff or Valrhona for me.
Anyway, that irony aside, apart from Bananas I think the Fairtrade coffee, cocoa and the others are nasty. However, perhaps as Cadbury showed, "do gooding" might take a long time to achieve some results ?
Don't like Bournville much either. Hotel Choc stuff or Valrhona for me.
I find this fair trade pish highly ironic. I'm willing to bet that the majority of people who pay over the odds for fair trade stuff in the supermarket moan about their overpriced local shops.
All very well making sure some farmer in the 3rd world gets paid 2p more for his goods, but the guy down the road that's struggling to make a living, well he can just bloody swing, can't he?
All very well making sure some farmer in the 3rd world gets paid 2p more for his goods, but the guy down the road that's struggling to make a living, well he can just bloody swing, can't he?
The Ben & Jerry's fairtrade Vanilla is very good. Having worked in the food industry all my life, I know that the price difference paid to farmers for fair trade can make a significant difference (it doen't take much more to send a child to school in the third world), but that as indeed has been posted, the mark ups on shelf still follow the familiar routine of the farmer getting the smallest cut BY FAR.
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