Tony’s Chocolonely is a Dutch chocolate manufacturer and seller. Created in 2005, the company’s market share in the Netherlands was 18 percent in 2018.
In 2022, the Thomson Reuters Foundation awarded Tony’s Chocolonely the Stop Slavery Award in the category “Goods and Services Companies”. This award recognizes companies and organizations who have set a high standard for eradicating slavery, illegal child labor, and human trafficking from their supply chains.
Tony’s Chocolonely was ranked second on the 2023 Chocolate Scorecard, which rates chocolate companies according to their human rights and environmental credentials: traceability and transparency, living income for cocoa farmers, child labour (absence of), deforestation & climate, agroforestry, and agrochemical management.
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Pretty damn good bar of chocolate, actually
Thicker than I expected, some of the chunks they’ve cut (their bars are cut funny on purpose) were too big even for my giant mouth
If I remember right the way the chocolate is cut is to represent the unequal distribution of cocoa profits in the industry.
You’re correct.
"It doesn’t make sense for chocolate bars to be divided into equal-sized chunks when there is so much inequality in the chocolate industry! The unequally-sized chunks of our 6.35 oz bars are a palatable way of reminding Choco Fans and Serious Friends that the profts in the chocolate industry are unequally divided.
And in case you haven’t noticed, the bottom of our bars depicts the West African coastline. The chunks just above it represent the Gulf of Guinea. From left to right, you have Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo and Benin (terribly politically incorrect, we know, but we had to combine them to create enough space for a hazelnut), Nigeria and part of Cameroon."
I was so sure it was American when I first saw it in stores, both the name and packaging design seemed very American. It took a few months before I stopped and read through the info on one of the bars to realize it’s something good.
Ah nice. I had made the assumption that this was American based on the name and wrapping. Guess I will give this a try the next time I’m out for some chocolate 🙂.
And their chocolate is just so, so good.
Yeah, a d i c t i o n warning. The bar you buy is likely disappear sooner than you would have thought ;)
How do you even buy non-european chocolate
- Lind Sprüngli, Camille Bloch: Swiss
- Ritter, Trumpf, Stollwerck, Storck, Niedegger: German
- Ferrero: Italian
Ok Milka and Toblerone are american
Most big brands (even in Europe) are terrible because they rely on child slavery. There’s a documentary about it.
If you want to buy European chocolate, well it can’t be fully European because Europe doesn’t grow cocoa, at least look for fair trade chocolate. That or an equivalent should be the minimum claim a company makes. I say claim, because that’s what they are claims. None us will know for sure until we step foot in the places where these companies source their chocolate.
If you want an easy list https://www.chocolatescorecard.com/ has some. Top of the list of small, european companies:
- Choba Choba - Swiss
- Original Beans - Dutch
- Chocolate Makers - Dutch
- Malmö - Swedish (website seems to be only in Swedish?)
Tony’s is top of the “medium and large companies”. Rittersport is also up there, but I don’t trust that at all. They are closely followed by Nestlé, lol. Fuck Nestlé.
Ritter Sport is my favourite taste wise aside from Lindt so I’ll take that
Lindt is best when made in Switzerland. They also have factories in other countries, but it’s not the same.
In the US Cadbury’s is made by Hershey. Which is why it tastes like vegetable oil and wax.
Toblerone is American???
sold out to kraft in '90. really hasn’t been the same since.
It’s a great chocolate except for the large amounts of lead in their dark chocolate: https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/lead-and-cadmium-in-dark-chocolate-a8480295550/
I mean, who doesn’t love some ethically sourced lead in their chocolate?
Sold in the US too, if you’re also stuck here! Looks like
Targetand Safeway cary them. Going to try it…EDIT: Actually, I recommend you don’t shop at Target in light of their anti-DEI “Bud Light u-turn”…
They are good chocolate too. I like the green one, it’s dark chocolate and almond. They also got them at Harris Teeter and Walmart. I think Walmart has the smaller mixed bag of candy instead of the bars.
Red packaging (as shown here) is milk chocolate, blue packaging is dark chocolate. There are other variants too.
Now that’s a weird coincidence, I only learned about Tony’s chocolate a few days ago cause there was a big product recall poster in my local supermarket and it kinda stuck in my mind cause I was wondering how TF do stones end up in chocolate. :D
I really enjoy this chocolate, my only complaints are:
- It says not to chill it - I prefer cold chocolate
- The chocolate is not divided up equally, which for some reason annoys me…
It says not to chill it - I prefer cold chocolate
I tried, and they don’t actually come to take it away if you ignore that and chill it anyway. :)
Thank you for taking the risk. I’ll be chilling it from now on.
I freeze them. Love me some frozen chocolate and haribo gummy bears.
Does it take long for the gummy bears to freeze?
Not really few hours and they’re frozen solid.
The chocolate is not divided up equally, which for some reason annoys me.
This is intentional on their part, it’s to show that the profits in the chocolate industry are unequally divided.
It’s a good concept but it does feel like a forced gimmick a. I would really prefer some regularity in the pieces possibly that’s just a quirk of neurodivergence.
Oh no my neurodivergence makes me buy chocolate made from literal child labour
Glad it’s intentional, I’ve been labouring under the impression someone did it by accident!
Even more, the chuncks depict countries in Africa:
Chill chocolate? Are u in an asylum? What in the name is wrong with ya.
Interesting design, by the colours and font it actually looks American.
I’m now curious to try but it doesn’t seem to exist in Spain, sadly.
I thought it was American as well. It’s on our shelves. I love the background… the chocolate itself is pretty damned good, and I do not often have sweets and candies.
Red, white, and blue are the colours of the Dutch flag.
Those are also the colours of the US flag, the obnoxious font is very reminiscent of Texas hold’em salons, and let’s be honest Tony is not a Dutch name at all.
Look, I totally get it man, I’m just as propagandized as anybody else to just associate certain patterns to US products.
Maybe in your local bio/eco shop, since they’re made from ‘slaverly-free’ cacao they might be too expensive for a regular supermarket to make a profit on them.
In Austria they started selling in all big shops maybe like two years ago. At least that’s when I realized them. I love the chocolate and worth the price for me :-)
do they have vegan versions?
French fair trade brand with a lot of choice: Éthiquable
Not sure if they export much. The prices in France are reasonable considering cocoa prices make even junk chocolate quite expensive.
Not a big fan of chocolate, but this is good… Very good 😊.
Bought one about a year ago just to try it… It was okay. Definitely not worth the price…
Aldi chocolate is the way to go, imo.
