Foodflation hits home: Cocoa prices surge to a 12-year high just after orange juice smashed records

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Cocoa prices hit a 12-year high thanks to extreme weather and a black pod disease.

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MrBeast plans to take on Hershey's with his Feastables brand - and says shorting a stock 'seems lame'

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YouTuber MrBeast posing with his Feastables chocolate range.
MrBeast and his Feastables chocolate bars.

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Americans are buying weed more than chocolate, data shows

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The $30 billion figure is a little more than half of what US consumers spent on tobacco products, but cigarette sales are declining while weed sales are ramping up.

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A Canadian woman who revived a candy bar as a side hustle had to give 133,000 away for free

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Last June, Crystal Regehr Westergard received about 5,500 boxes containing 133,000 Rum & Butter chocolate bars.
Last June, Crystal Regehr Westergard received about 5,500 boxes containing 133,000 Rum & Butter chocolate bars.

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Most popular Easter candy by state: Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs reign supreme, while Peeps fall by the wayside

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Lindt's milk chocolate bunny was the third most popular Easter treat in 2022, according to Instacart data.

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Help Convince Me to Buy This $1,500 3D Printer For Chocolate

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It’s unfortunately arriving a little too late to woo whoever was your Valentine this year, but next month, you’ll be able to pre-order a 3D printer that swaps melted plastic for melted chocolate, allowing you to

Toblerone chocolate could lose its iconic Swiss mountain logo because it won't be able to meet the country's standard of 'Swissness'

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Toblerone chocolate on display.
The Matterhorn's jagged outline on Toblerone packaging will be replaced with a more modern and streamlined design.

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How NYC's oldest chocolate house survived a century

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  • Li-Lac Chocolates has been an NYC institution for 100 years. 
  • The company still makes chocolate following the founder's original recipes and techniques. 

Mars Wrigley fined after two workers fell into a vat of chocolate in workplace safety incident

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I followed Nancy Pelosi's diet of breakfast ice cream and hot dogs for a week, and I ping-ponged between euphoria and the depths of despair

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A side by side photograph of Nancy Pelosi eating beef jerky and the author Sophie Kleeman eating beef jerky
The speaker of the House eating beef jerky during the January 6, 2021, insurrection, and me eating beef jerky under similarly distressing conditions.

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