Enough excuses. When my husband joined me in Nigeria in August he carried along a chocolate bar to show me another example (this one from Japan) of the fame of Ghana's "black gold." I kept meaning to write about it, but ended up with the package back in Pennsylvania. . . until last week when I had a chocolate attack. But before eating, I dutifully took a couple of pictures.
Then a few days ago I read something about child trafficking in the cocoa industry in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana. That made me sad. However, after a quick online search of child labor in Ghana, and the results were not so scary. It seems it's more a question in Ghana of smallholder farms where family members are all involved in production.
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Ha, very interesting how the chocolate is labeled 'Lotte', a Korean/Japanese brand. So these chocolates are manufactured for export, I assume?
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ReplyDeleteThat is actually a Korean company similar to the American version of Sara Lee or Mars brand. The particular chocolate bar has been around since my mom can recall I remember her telling me and is our version of the hersey's bar.
ReplyDeleteThe Korean one is in a red package, but does not have anything about the farmers. You can buy them in Philly as well...
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