Cocoa farmers have never eaten Chocolate

Interesting video of cocoa farmers in Ivory Coast trying chocolate for the first time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEN4hcZutO0

Saw this on Wimp.

I thought the "white people are addicted to it" comment was hilarious.

Didn't they make this same video in Columbia. The poor farmers growing coca leaves had never snorted coke or smoked rock.

I work for a Chocolate company and if you saw how these were made you would not eat them, oh and they carry a big price tag too. It makes they way the coco beans are harvested look like they were done in a clean room

Should have been at the table when we had 1/2 doz mc buyers from japan, over for dinner.
MASH POTATO'S WTF. These guys spent 20 min, moving the mashers around with their forks, staring, smelling, rubbing it between their fingers, all the time it's sounding like the tokyo stock exchange, yammer, yammer, jibber jabber.
Watermelon was the topper. That whole respectful of ones house you visit. They are sitting there with a mouthful of seeds like someone just timothy leary'd them. Not knowing what to do or act.

KONICHI WA !

I found it interesting that the voice over was in Dutch but the folks were speaking french.

I can't imagine never having tasted chocolate.

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Originally Posted by Great-Kazoo

Should have been at the table when we had 1/2 doz mc buyers from japan, over for dinner.
MASH POTATO'S WTF. These guys spent 20 min, moving the mashers around with their forks, staring, smelling, rubbing it between their fingers, all the time it's sounding like the tokyo stock exchange, yammer, yammer, jibber jabber.
Watermelon was the topper. That whole respectful of ones house you visit. They are sitting there with a mouthful of seeds like someone just timothy leary'd them. Not knowing what to do or act.

KONICHI WA !

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We have watermelon in Asia after a meal all the time. In Asia, you just spit them on your plate, like anything else you don't want in your mouth. Fish bones, duck bones, etc. Just spit it out. I guess they had been warned about that custom's acceptability in the US.

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Originally Posted by Daniel_187

I work for a Chocolate company and if you saw how these were made you would not eat them

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Never heard that before. I always assumed there were standards since it's a food product.

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Originally Posted by Daniel_187

I work for a Chocolate company and if you saw how these were made you would not eat them, oh and they carry a big price tag too. It makes they way the coco beans are harvested look like they were done in a clean room

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Yeah sorry to derail slightly, but what do you mean?

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Originally Posted by Great-Kazoo

Should have been at the table when we had 1/2 doz mc buyers from japan, over for dinner.
MASH POTATO'S WTF. These guys spent 20 min, moving the mashers around with their forks, staring, smelling, rubbing it between their fingers, all the time it's sounding like the tokyo stock exchange, yammer, yammer, jibber jabber.
Watermelon was the topper. That whole respectful of ones house you visit. They are sitting there with a mouthful of seeds like someone just timothy leary'd them. Not knowing what to do or act.

KONICHI WA !

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I was stationed in Misawa for 3 years. It was awesome visiting the homes of Japanese and trying their things and also having them over for an American meal. I remember the first time we had a chili cookout in the neighborhood we lived in. The locals went nuts over that but most had a hard time with the spicier stuff.

I'd show them pictures of the endless expanses of open land in WY. They couldn't believe it.

It's kinda funny what we take for granted. I figured everyone in the world had at least tried chocolate before. Kinda sad to think some folks have lived an enter life and never tasted something as simple as chocolate.