If you’ve looked around and checked some menus, you’d see that “Dubai chocolate” is all the rage. I saw Lindt selling it while leaving the grocery store, the bougie donut shop has a seasonal Dubai chocolate donut, and a cart opened up selling it locally too.

How has pistachio + chocolate been able to inspire such a marketing blitz? Why do 3 real estate conglomerates in a trench coat pretending to be a country need to invent a new dessert? Lastly, since Dubai is close to Iran, where I assume they source their pistachios, shouldn’t all this pistachio stuff be red?

  • git [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    4 months ago

    “Dubai Chocolate” is a euphemism for when sex workers take a shit on some Dubai millionaire’s/billionaire’s chest. This product category was astro turfed to overload the SEO/mindshare to refer to actual chocolate instead.

    I wish I was joking.

  • ClassIsOver [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    4 months ago

    It sounds like chocolate that’s from the opposite end of the spectrum from direct-trade, sustainable chocolate, but also on purpose. Does slavery taste better?

    • trabpukcip [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      racism-finished Special shout out to Tony’s Chocolate

      In 2003, after discovering that the majority of chocolate produced at the time had links to human exploitation, Teun van de Keuken began producing programs about the horrors of the commercial cocoa industry on his show Keuringsdienst van Waarde. Furthermore, he submitted a request to be prosecuted for knowingly purchasing an illegally manufactured product, which prosecutors declined to do.

            • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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              3 months ago

              I used to live so far into the rural area that the houses would only get three or four trick-or-treaters. I’d come back home with a dozen full-size chocolate bars. Given, I probably walked five miles to get those.

              • ClassIsOver [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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                3 months ago

                Where I live, it’s relatively rural, but there’s such a tendency for parents to drive their kids to neighborhoods that are deemed “better for trick-or-treating” that even if you live in a neighborhood with lots of kids and houses that are close together, if it isn’t one of the “good neighborhoods”, you might not get anyone. I live in what’s essentially a housing development where a school bus fills up completely every morning, and I can count the number of trick-or-treaters who have been to my house in the last three years on one hand.