Bad new for chocolate lovers

[freeradical]

Bad weather is increasing the cost of cocoa.

"Cocoa prices hit a 30-year high yesterday as poor weather threatens to drive the price of chocolate up again for Western consumers.

Cocoa hit $3,412 a tonne in New York yesterday as concerns deepened about demand outstripping supply for the first time since 1968. This was the highest price for cocoa futures since June 1979, although prices eased back slightly later"

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/bu...888158.ece



http://futures.tradingcharts.com/chart/CC/M

[Filliam H. Muffman]

So it wasn't my imagination that chocolate prices have gone up. Looks like I better hit the after Halloween sales and stock up for the next 3 years.

[Bernie]

Did I forget to post that I changed jobs in August. I left Reynolds and went to work for Hershey. They say in hard times Hershey does well. So I jumped ship. We make everything that is Reese (cups,shapes, pieces, Snack bars, Fast Break)and Mounds and Almond Joy and all kinds of Kisses and I have actually lost a little weight.
I am a coffee-holic and now I am surrounded by Hershey. Close to a 1000 people are employed at this plant in Stuarts Draft, Virginia.

[mikebw]

Yeah, people are not really going to let this stop them from buying chocolate.

[AAA]

being a chocolate lover does not mean one eats it.
I love it but cannot eat much of it.

[lafinfil]

My neighbor was in Madagascar on a work assignment and when he came home last week
he gave me some chocolate he brought back with him (dog watching fee)

It was labeled as 87% cocoa and only listed four ingredients - cocoa paste, cocoa butter, cane sugar,
and the last I forget (an emulsifier of some type ?)

It was dark, and just slightly sweet and a tad bitter - melted on your tongue and was delicious.

Sadly - I have none to share with you.

[Paul F.]

Bernie;

Cool! You work for me!
OK... only in the broadest possible sense... I own a few shares of Hershey.

More than 280 consecutive profitable quarters for Hershey. Right through the worst of the depression, through every single recession... they've made money.
Doesn't necessarily mean they've kept 100% of their jobs, but they HAVE made money every single quarter for like, ever....

[space-time]

Bernie wrote:
Did I forget to post that I changed jobs in August. I left Reynolds and went to work for Hershey. They say in hard times Hershey does well. So I jumped ship. We make everything that is Reese (cups,shapes, pieces, Snack bars, Fast Break)and Mounds and Almond Joy and all kinds of Kisses and I have actually lost a little weight.
I am a coffee-holic and now I am surrounded by Hershey. Close to a 1000 people are employed at this plant in Stuarts Draft, Virginia.

people get fired for posting info about their employer on blogs all the time. be careful

[rgG]

lafinfil wrote:
My neighbor was in Madagascar on a work assignment and when he came home last week
he gave me some chocolate he brought back with him (dog watching fee)

It was labeled as 87% cocoa and only listed four ingredients - cocoa paste, cocoa butter, cane sugar,
and the last I forget (an emulsifier of some type ?)

It was dark, and just slightly sweet and a tad bitter - melted on your tongue and was delicious.

Sadly - I have none to share with you.

I do not think you are sad about that at all. No, not one little tiny bit.

[lafinfil]

Well I'm sad that I don't have any left for me - does that count ?