what is worring you the most :

Oil peak	2 votes - 18 %
Gas peak	0 votes - 0 %
Chocolate peak	2 votes - 18 %
coffe peak	3 votes - 27 %
your girlfriend moodswing	4 votes - 36 %

11 Total Votes

Chocolate peak | 20 comments (20 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Whimper (4.00 / 2)

this is getting to be absurd.

I'm more worried about Peak Coffee due to our 1 pound (.5 kilo) a week habit. Buying green beans and doing our own roasting would lower the price.

But I can't do that with chocolate.

A doo run-run-run, a doo run-run

by ATinNM on Sat Jun 10th, 2006 at 10:27:50 PM EST

Re: Chocolate peak (none / 0)

We will grit our teeth and pay the prices for coffee and chocolate...hopefully some of the money gets to the farmers...

Half the population is under the age of 18. Tanzania's future is NOW...join the 50% campaign!

by whataboutbob on Sun Jun 11th, 2006 at 04:49:01 AM EST

Re: Chocolate peak (none / 1)

There are several "Fairtrade" chocolate bars. Probably the easiest available is Green and Black's Maya Gold which is flavored with spices and orange.

Demand for the raw product is also increasing as people move away from what is euphamistically called "family chocolate" AKA brown or white fat with chocolate flavour, towards proper chocolate. The big supermarket chain Tesco here even does an own brand "Value" version with over 50% cocoa content!

by Londonbear on Sun Jun 11th, 2006 at 12:10:26 PM EST
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Re: Chocolate peak (none / 1)

Green and Black produces a straight Dark Chocolate with 70% coccoa content. The Maya Gold bar is fun, every once in a while, but give me the undiluted chocolate for preference.

"Family chocolate" seems to be the same as the popular 'milk chocolate' here in the States. I don't know what the heck they use as an emulsifier - industrial by-products? wax? paraffin? pig snot?

A doo run-run-run, a doo run-run

by ATinNM on Sun Jun 11th, 2006 at 01:42:38 PM EST
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Re: Chocolate peak (none / 0)

The problem there is Green and Black tastes like **!

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sapere aude

by Number 6 on Tue Jun 13th, 2006 at 12:19:02 PM EST
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Re: Chocolate peak (none / 0)

OK, what happened to my colourful euphemism?
Some sort of HTML trickery?

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sapere aude

by Number 6 on Tue Jun 13th, 2006 at 12:20:50 PM EST
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Re: Chocolate peak (none / 1)

Luckily, I hate chocolate and sweets, in general. As someone with a severe addiction to coffee -- an addiction that has become even worse, now that I've quit smoking and have replaced cigarettes with a lot more coffee (and a bit more beer) -- I'll have to live with rising prices. As far as peak production in oil and chocolate are concerned...well, as Bush once said, "My answer's 'Bring'em On!'"

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

by Drew J Jones (blahblahblah@blahblahblah.com) on Sun Jun 11th, 2006 at 12:04:46 PM EST

Re: Chocolate peak (none / 0)

Coffee is not an addiction.

It is the Fuel-of-Life without which the entire world would stagger into the future denied all hope.

A doo run-run-run, a doo run-run

by ATinNM on Sun Jun 11th, 2006 at 01:46:52 PM EST
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Re: Chocolate peak (none / 0)

I can't wait for peak coffee ... I'll suddenly look intelligent around anyone.

by Alex in Toulouse on Sun Jun 11th, 2006 at 01:48:20 PM EST
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Re: Chocolate peak (none / 0)

(I don't drink coffee)

by Alex in Toulouse on Sun Jun 11th, 2006 at 01:48:39 PM EST
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Re: Chocolate peak (none / 0)

Alright. I agree. Disregard my original comment.

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

by Drew J Jones (blahblahblah@blahblahblah.com) on Sun Jun 11th, 2006 at 02:06:21 PM EST
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Re: Chocolate peak (none / 0)

Most people already consider coffee and chocolate to be luxury items. (Though the thought of living without either makes my blood run cold...) Even if you don't consider them luxuries, there are very immediate points of diminishing returns with these goods. They only achieve their function and cache in finite, even small amounts. They do not easily lend themselves to gluttony. Whereas oil not only continues to be seen not only as a non-luxury item, but a right, and the more you use the better your life.

BTW, I highly recommend Green & Black's for guilt-free (fair trade, organic, sustainable development, unbelievably delicious) chocolate.

http://www.greenandblacks.com/

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -Voltaire

by p------- on Sun Jun 11th, 2006 at 12:07:40 PM EST

Re: Chocolate peak (none / 0)

Fortunately I'm not choco-holic, but it makes me fear Peak Cheese or beer.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sun Jun 11th, 2006 at 01:00:07 PM EST

Re: Chocolate peak (none / 0)

I agree, peak cheese would be my worst nightmare as far as peaks go.

by Alex in Toulouse on Sun Jun 11th, 2006 at 01:05:06 PM EST
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Re: Chocolate peak (none / 0)

With the EU Agricultural Policy I don't think that's really something we need to worry about.

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sapere aude

by Number 6 on Tue Jun 13th, 2006 at 12:21:44 PM EST
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Re: Chocolate peak (none / 0)

As the age of the earth grows eventually the geologic processes that lead to mountain buidling must slow down and halt.

Or .... wait for it .......

Peak Peaks!

A doo run-run-run, a doo run-run

by ATinNM on Sun Jun 11th, 2006 at 01:49:06 PM EST

Re: Chocolate peak (none / 0)

I see you got yourself a twin peaks scenario there.

by Alex in Toulouse on Sun Jun 11th, 2006 at 01:51:25 PM EST
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Actually... (none / 0)

A few years ago an intersting hypothesis made the rounds when a geophycist calculated the earth would ultimately be without oceans because more water is being dragged into subduction zones than is released back into the atmosphere... And when there is no water, it's hypothecially feasible that subduction as we know it stops altogether.

So... Peak Peaks and Peak Water (which is kinda real anyway)

by Nomad on Sun Jun 11th, 2006 at 05:32:12 PM EST
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Foie gras? (none / 0)

Am I the only one to make "chopped liver" jokes?

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sapere aude

by Number 6 on Wed Jun 14th, 2006 at 06:06:20 AM EST

Re: Chocolate peak (none / 0)

i'm more of a valley guy, meself...

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. Chinese Proverb.

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Wed Jun 14th, 2006 at 06:00:23 PM EST

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