Tony's Chocolonely is a fair trade brand, and the bars are divided so unevenly in order to reflect the unfair distribution of profits by chocolate companies that underpay cocoa farmers.
+Doom III of House Zappo Shame a useful comment like yours doesn't get more thumbs up, and instead all the top comments are stupid bullshit like "That moment you realize you're still awake at midnight watching a grown man eat chocolate. What am I doing with my life?" Thanks for the explanation though.
It's called "Chocolonely" because it's the first brand ever to produce chocolate bars that are made 100% slave-free. Tony first tried contacting major chocolate producers to do this, but they all turned his idea down, so he made a chocolate company himself, all alone in the chocolate industry. You can read the full story on their website, in English too. Very interesting. And the bar has unequal pieces "to make a statement about the inequality in the cocoa trade", because "why should our chocolate bars be divided into equal parts when the chocolate industry isn’t?" It's all explained on the inside of the wrapper too, but of course that doesn't help you much, as it's in Dutch.
Sanctimonious gum flapping and empty platitudes. 'Fair trade' doesn't do a damn thing to help 'muh poor impoverished serfs'; it's just a logo that's put there to make you spend more money and to make the consumer feel good without actually having to do anything. Furthermore, it all relies on a poor understanding of the third world economies and the many underlying factors at play. Long story short, buy whatever chocolate you like, and don't act like you're a hero for buying expensive trendy crap just because it 'makes a statement'. (and it's a pretty lousy and loose statement anyway. 'let's make our chocolate come in randomly sized pieces because muh slaves'? Weak.)
Tony's chocolate is all about fairtrade and anti-slavery. I was told that is also the reason the bars are so oddly shaped, to make the distrubution also unfair, because that is how life is.
I dont think he was trying to make you feel guilty i think he was just giving some insight into the name. He never even mentioned it was necessarily against "white males" either. So a bit of an overreaction no offense.
+Sharrel Wright You do realise that slavery is still a thing that exists in the world? Teun van der Keuken (the guy behind Tony) is an investagative journalist who did a lot of research into chocolate production and found out that most of it is produced with child labour and slave labour. So he set out to change that with his own brand. Nothing to do with you or your ancestors unless you are now as we speak owning slaves who produce chocolate.
+Snorlax Man It used to annoy me that anyone would have such an ugly couch. I always screamed internally at him to get a new couch. Then i realized, he probably doesn't use this as his actual couch. He probably has it stored in some back-room in his house and just uses it for filming for continuity/branding purposes. I bet he has a nice couch elsewhere in his house.
I was imagining Tony was Fat Tony from the Simpsons, and it was his voice reading out the Chocolate flavours. 'Well it seems our Mr Ashens is going to be trying some of my world famous Pecan and Almond Choc-co-lat'
@@fruitylerlups530 I sat there for longer than I'd like to admit trying to see the connection. I don't know how I have so much faith in people left after a decade on the Internet, smdh
Tony's is great, little weird but great. I'm eating the caramel/ sea salt one at the moment. You should have really read Tony's ' history'. This chocolat company fights for slave free chocolat production (not just being fairtrade). That's why it has a broken chain on it. Cause apparently chocolat slavery is still going on. So good for you, Tony!
Tony's Chocolonely bars have been available in the UK from Sainsbury's and Waitrose stores since early 2019. They started with flavours that people might actually like: - Milk chocolate - Milk chocolate w/caramel & sea salt - Milk chocolate w/almonds, honey & nougat - Milk chocolate w/hazelnuts - White chocolate w/raspberries & popping candy - Dark chocolate w/almonds & sea salt (as seen in this video) - Extra dark chocolate (71% cocoa) - Dark milk chocolate w/pretzels & toffee
next time i go outside, i'm zooming to sainsbury's for that white chocolate one. no shits given about what people think of white chocolate, i bet that's the best chocolonely of all
@@nyanbinarydisaster Also now available in Asda. And these bars have been added to the range... - Milk chocolate w/chocolate chip cookie - Milk chocolate, pecan & caramel crunch As well as these Sweet Sensation varieties, based on real brands... - Milk chocolate, creamy hazelnut crunch (Ferrero Rocher) - Milk chocolate w/crispy wafer (Kit Kat) - Milk chocolate w/caramel & biscuit (Twix) And these two Chocolate Love-a-Fair flavours in collaboration with Fairtrade ice cream makers Ben & Jerry's... - Dark milk chocolate w/brownie pieces - White chocolate w/strawberries & biscuit pieces, referred to as Strawberry Cheesecake
You know, despite these weird chocolate flavours that Tony's produces, their regular milk chocolate is among the best chocolate I've ever tasted. I definitely recommend trying it sometime.
An interesting story about the chocolate; That timeline on each bar wrapper is available in English on the manufacturer's website. The short of it is; An investigative journalist, Teun van de Keuken (Tony) discovered in 2003 that some of the world's raw cocoa, used by every chocolate manufacturer is contributed by slave labour. In protest of this, he eats a bunch of chocolate then tries to turn _himself_ to authorities as a criminal, going so far as to source former child slaves to testify against him. Two years later, impatient for justice, he decided to instead make his own chocolate, under the _Tony's Chocolonely_ brand, heralding itself as the world's first "Slave-free" chocolate. Three years after, Bellissimo filed a lawsuit against Tony's brand, with the audacity to suggest that cocoa cannot be claimed entirely without slave labour, and that it is slanderous to other chocolate makers to imply there is slave labour involved. The Dutch court rules in Tony's favour, and later, the case Tony made against himself is dropped. Three years after that, Tony discovers his source for hazelnuts was using slave labour, and had to switch to a different slave-free source. Two years after, the chocolate bars take on a strange, new design (the one Ashens has) as a statement against the inequality of the cocoa trade's stance against slavery; The industry isn't equal about fair rights and slave-free sourcing, so why should their bar? So on and so forth, in between all that a foundation was made, as well a convention to share information about slave labour for commodities such as cocoa, etc. So the entire premise of Tony's Chocolonely is a very tasty statement against raw goods obtained from exploited people, used to work in labour camps for the production of what we consume. Interestingly, despite its history listed on the website and in labels, Tony's Chocolonely remains in the Food Empowerment Project's list of "Approved chocolates" category _Cannot recommend but are working on the issues in various ways_
I was skeptical at first as to whether Tony's was really a slave-free choco company and not just a gimmick, so I did a bit of digging and discovered that it was launched by an investigative journalist who has done a lot against major chocolate companies who lied about not using child labor, and he set up his own company that packages and sells chocolate produced by freelance farmers and farmer co-ops, which is really awesome. Totally worth the price. The flavors that his chocolates come in sound pretty awesome too. Unfortunately I have never seen this company in Germany. All we have here is Nestle, Milka and Lindt, and whatever generic crap that Aldi or Lidl sells (which is probably old Milka chocolate that they re-melt into new molds and re-package with their own labels lol). Even our organic stores are pretty poorly stocked. Sigh. On a side-note: the uneven chocolate bar bit is actually pretty clever. It's not everday that chocolate provides you with food for thought
in my case its actually cheaper. i went out and bought some dark chocolate today. lindt was $3.20 for 3.5oz, ritter sport same price but has a cookie inside, so probably only a fraction of the weight is actually chocolate. tony's was 6oz for $3.50. for real chocolate without a bunch of shit fillers (i'm looking at you, hershey) you can't beat that.
lily-liver Tony’s “flagship” store in Westerpark Amsterdam has so many flavors, plus you can try all of them as they just put out bar chunks for people to try. It’s a great company with terrifically good chocolate. My particular favorite is either the straight milk or white chocolate with raspberry and popping candy
The regular flavours (Pure and milk) of Tony's are really delicious. I didn't know these weird tastes existed, I usually just buy the normal chocolate flavours. They're really good.
I never did understand why so many people hate coconut. It's such a mild flavor to me, that I find it hard to have a strong opinion either way. It's like hating water.
While I agree with that, I think most people hate coconut because of the texture it has when it's cut into flakes and dried; it seems very likely considering most edible concoctions that use coconut uses the dried flake variety.
I lived in Holland most of my life, but have seen these in stores, but never bought any of these. Actually didn't even knew its from a Dutch company, as looks and sounded too much like some import product as Tony isn't really a Dutch name.
The oompa-loompas were actually grateful to work for Wonka, as the jungles they lived in were fraught with constant threats to them and they wanted OUT of there
@Lucifer that's literally the entire point of the brand. sorry that Tony's Chocolonely's isn't a braindead consumerist brand that you pick up and don't give any thought of where it came from.
@@AnymMusic It's just a different brand to consume. It may be fair-trade, who even cares, my dude? You shouldn't be supporting the industry that is responsible for sugar addiction and diabetes in the first place. You're essentially an economical hipster that wants to pay Juan and Pablo a few dollars more so you can feel like a better _hooman_ .
Data Not only is it fair trade but they also fight slavery and child labour. They have foundations and build schools for the children of plantation owners, so their future doesn’t HAVE to be cocoa farmer.
Hey...psst..Ashens! Don't forget to check de binnenkant van seze wikkel! I forgot to check MY binnenkant van seze wikkel before and HOO BOY, let me tell you, the ensuing chaos was nobody's fault but my own.
Hoo boy, I'm happy I checked mine! (It's actually just some boring shite about how Tony is against unfair trade and stuff, which of course is a good cause, but do you really want to read it?)
The apostrophe doesn't necessarily mean that the chocolonely belongs to tony. It could just as easily be "tony is" chocolonely, where it's shortened to Tony's
I don't think you get enough credit for just how good you are at improvising jokes. You've been doing this for so long and you're still able to be funny so frequently. It's honestly astounding.
I have finally trained my brain to translate all the subtle differences between Britain english and American english, now I can hear "Chips, crisps, and sweets." without having to pause the video and think for a moment
ashens, you are the only english speaker who i ever heard actually speaking in a real dutch accent, whenever i hear english speakers trying to speak with a dutch accent they are just speaking with a german accent(they even use German words). so.........good job
+Nukleon it's the same fucking language! the only difference is that Afrikaans uses like 60-70 words that are old dutch words no longer used in the netherlands. it's kinda crazy that they are classified as 2 separate languages... yet German and Swiss German are not despite being even more different to eachother than Dutch and Afrikaans are... makes no bloody sense!
The Tony's chocolate's goal is to stop people from underpaying cocoa farmers or even using slavery (the circle on the front of the wrapping thingy says that their chocolate is 100% slavery free in Dutch by the way) and the uneven parts in the bar is because they find it weird that most chocolate bars are divided evenly while the chocolate industry isn't anywhere close to even.
Charles Henry I pay about $10-15 a shirt. I refused to pay $30 for a shirt at a Hocico concert. The most I've ever paid was $25, and I felt like I was getting raped.
Here's where English gets confusing. Abbreviation: Tony is chocolonely > Tony's chocolonely Ownership: the chocolonely is owned by tony > Tony's chocolonely
Tony's Chocolonely Milk and Tony's Chocolonely Caramel and Sea Salt are my favorites. Some of the flavours are a bit weird, but some of them really work quite well. You should really try the milk one though, it's absolutely delicious!
As someone who has eaten this chocolate on multiple occasions I have to say I hate how they did the little grooves along which you're supposed to break pieces off. It's impossible to break off a single piece without crushing the entire bar. You have to break off an entire line of pieces which becomes significantly harder to manage as you progress further into the bar. You end up with an unorganised mess of crushed chocolate.
These chocolate bars are quite expensive, it's a good brand though. Absolutely love their normal chocolate bars. You should give those a try sometime, you won't be disappointed. =)
So I just randomly decided to rewatch this video, love a bit of Ashens. Then I realised I'm watching it on the exact day the chocolate is due to expire. Help.
They sell these in Sweden and I think I have seen them when I visited home in the UK. Surprised that Mr Ashens did not like any of them, they look good quality. I must try these nonetheless! :D
+LinkMarioKirby Gaming It's a name brand. It's also fair trade, meaning it's made by people who were paid the right amount for their work, and it wasn't made by kids who are too young to work.
Tony's Chocolonely is a fair trade brand, and the bars are divided so unevenly in order to reflect the unfair distribution of profits by chocolate companies that underpay cocoa farmers.
i appreciate you
+Doom III of House Zappo Shame a useful comment like yours doesn't get more thumbs up, and instead all the top comments are stupid bullshit like "That moment you realize you're still awake at midnight watching a grown man eat chocolate. What am I doing with my life?"
Thanks for the explanation though.
+mjc0961 Boo hoo. You really expected more from the RUclips comments?
+Sir Lergen Nice meme.
Doom III of House Zappo tony chocolony prays on the guilty feelings of progressive leftists
I have actually met the Tony from Tony's chocolonely, my school arranged something. And he said that the pieces aren't even because life is unfair
- Mom why does he get a bigger piece of chocolate than me? - Because life is unfair.
That's really interesting.
Tony sounds like a twat
@@annother3350 And probably a better person than you.
"Life is unfair"
Like anyone really needed a chocolate bar company to point that one out XD.
It's called "Chocolonely" because it's the first brand ever to produce chocolate bars that are made 100% slave-free. Tony first tried contacting major chocolate producers to do this, but they all turned his idea down, so he made a chocolate company himself, all alone in the chocolate industry. You can read the full story on their website, in English too. Very interesting.
And the bar has unequal pieces "to make a statement about the inequality in the cocoa trade", because "why should our chocolate bars be divided into equal parts when the chocolate industry isn’t?"
It's all explained on the inside of the wrapper too, but of course that doesn't help you much, as it's in Dutch.
This is the 'Fine I'll do it myself' meme before it was a thing
@@xavierjohnson2321 *bruh*
Their isn't a Tony tho. The founder of Tony Chocolonely is Teun van der Keuken, a famous Dutch TV star.
Sanctimonious gum flapping and empty platitudes. 'Fair trade' doesn't do a damn thing to help 'muh poor impoverished serfs'; it's just a logo that's put there to make you spend more money and to make the consumer feel good without actually having to do anything.
Furthermore, it all relies on a poor understanding of the third world economies and the many underlying factors at play.
Long story short, buy whatever chocolate you like, and don't act like you're a hero for buying expensive trendy crap just because it 'makes a statement'. (and it's a pretty lousy and loose statement anyway. 'let's make our chocolate come in randomly sized pieces because muh slaves'? Weak.)
@@TB-if7px Teun is Dutch voor Tony or Anthony.
Tony's chocolate is all about fairtrade and anti-slavery. I was told that is also the reason the bars are so oddly shaped, to make the distrubution also unfair, because that is how life is.
I dont think he was trying to make you feel guilty i think he was just giving some insight into the name. He never even mentioned it was necessarily against "white males" either. So a bit of an overreaction no offense.
+Sharrel Wright Triggered much?
Sharrel Wright They are Dutch. Why the hell would they care about American slavery.
+Sharrel Wright You do realise that slavery is still a thing that exists in the world? Teun van der Keuken (the guy behind Tony) is an investagative journalist who did a lot of research into chocolate production and found out that most of it is produced with child labour and slave labour. So he set out to change that with his own brand. Nothing to do with you or your ancestors unless you are now as we speak owning slaves who produce chocolate.
1FireyPhoenix Because we think slavery is shit.
"everything is salted now, i bought some salted salt yesterday"
*dead*
Salt and nuts aren't exactly a new combination. Neither are salt and chocolate. I really don't get what he was confused by.
@@LordMooshroom salted caramel
Tony's going to be pissed you ate his chocolate.
he's sending mobsters right now
+Dank Combee "Leave the gun.Take the Chocoloneley"
i'm just waiting for memestar to report this
Sad Sad Tony........
+FedorovAvtomat fu#k tony! 8D
It's distributed into pieces like that because life isn't fair.
Deep
+Johan “Wolter” Hoekstra - Or because Tony's main line of business is making soles for hiking boots.
+RFC3514 I took that seriously as a snarky comment from a fan of Tony. Then I caught the joke trying to fly over me.
+Some bananas have you ever took time to finis ha rhyme but the right words just weren't there? meat cleaver
+Johan “Wolter” Hoekstra I blame feminists.
Someone needs to make a timelapse of the degradation of the couch.
+Snorlax Man YESSS!
+Snorlax Man It used to annoy me that anyone would have such an ugly couch. I always screamed internally at him to get a new couch. Then i realized, he probably doesn't use this as his actual couch. He probably has it stored in some back-room in his house and just uses it for filming for continuity/branding purposes. I bet he has a nice couch elsewhere in his house.
+Plum Bit I half expect he uses the nice couch as his dining room table after viewing this for so long.
the couch is long gone its just a greenscreen now
+mrmendabest really
your Dutch accent sounded very.... South African.
hijsebakkie
TheGolDan95 Blerrie fool
Because a South African English accent sounds Dutch. Colonial remnants and all.
Bic two sith eff-ricca.
TheGolDan95 jy tel net stompies op.
Tony's Chocolonely is literally the best chocolate ever. I've got a bar here right now lol. But he should've tried Tony's milk chocolate.
treu
+Stefan Teunissen melk is inderdaad veel beter >w
+Stefan Teunissen hou je muil dicht joh! gewoon milka oreo eten xD
+Applejack Productions dat vind ik nou echt lekker! :D
***** yuh boi!
I think someone stepped on your chocolate bar.
+Brandon Yancar _priceless_
That's what I thought
+Brandon Yancar The factory probably re-purposes the stamps they use for sneaker soles. Yeah, they make sneakers and chocolate, a very niche company.
+ShortFingeredShreder "Tony's Snocolate Inc."
+Brandon Yancar
Tony always works naked besides some military boots. It is part of his artistic process so dont judge.
Tony's: Wonderful taste, strange shape
😂
Tony Chocolonley (Tow Ni Cho Cologne Lee)
Brilliant 😀
Tony (tony)
Dian Azhari Syam
More like Tony (Toe-Knee)
I hope ashens doesn't eat that loudly off camera. he always goes AHANOMNAM on camera to give us sound effects.
Microphones enhance it m8
AHAHNOMNAMNOMAMNAOM
I know it's mostly the microphone but my god he really does eat loudly in these videos
The chewing it's the part I love the most lol
+AWildZapdos +Slaughterrific, LAWLawlawlawl...
Ah what a time we live in, one million people watching a man eating chocolate in front of an old couch
+FirstaidGames :B1:
+FirstaidGames there is nothing wrong with this
+FirstaidGames This is what the Mastodons were trying to warn us about.
Life is Good.
+FirstaidGames not just a man, THE man
Y'know, if Tony's chocolonely, he should go out and meet some chocopeople. He could go to a chocogaming night or join a chocobook discussion group.
I daren't guess how chocosex is done.
Puns
Beats hanging out in...
Bars
I love how you found more efficient ways to open up the chocolate bars as the video went on
+mum pert Yap
how is such a thing as a "brother" acheivable by a angel of such high power, who fell?
I need a soundbite of Ashens saying: "Superior nut".
I’ll send you one
I completely forgot.
Uriel Ceniceros Dud you forget again?
Looks like someone stepped on a chocolate bar and tried to put it back together
yea
By their lonesome of course
What do you say that
+legendofman12 Because it looks like someone stepped on a chocolate bar and tried to put it back together
+gum ball the best and only response
Man, those bars look like they got some weight to them.
I thought the exact same thing, they look like solid plastic.
As someone familiar with them, they do weigh more than your average chocolate bar.
But do they taste good
+XxPaddy 4444xX They taste absolutely heavenly
very good
I was imagining Tony was Fat Tony from the Simpsons, and it was his voice reading out the Chocolate flavours.
'Well it seems our Mr Ashens is going to be trying some of my world famous Pecan and Almond Choc-co-lat'
+CrashBangAdam im a very lonely man.
Chocolonely.
+CrashBangAdam best thing 2016
Lol. The Simpsons still holds up great even today!
Hey I thought you said Troy was dead!
No, what I said was he sleeps with the fishes.
We'll have to dispose of these lawn trimmings.. in a car compacter
May I just say that the person who wrote the translations has lovely handwriting?
Yes. Yes you may.
First time I've seen a chocolate bar that looks like a shoe sole.
+DarkdustDragon I bet it would get good traction on anything but hot concrete!
Yes I'm A Brony - I Hope You're Triggered
Sorry, not a brony, but not triggered. You may continue as you wish.
Yes I'm A Brony - I Hope You're Triggered The ones he reviewed prior to these were far worse.
Stuart the way you haphazardly open chocolate bars makes me incredibly uncomfortable
I assume that you are a Democrat.
@@Solocat1 ???? wut
@@genderlesswhale2868 welcome to youtube comments sections, theyre always kinda.. like this for some reason
You should see him make a fucking hotdog
@@fruitylerlups530 I sat there for longer than I'd like to admit trying to see the connection. I don't know how I have so much faith in people left after a decade on the Internet, smdh
meanwhile...i'm just sitting here, imagining myself eating those chocolate bars while he is describing them...
k27ism I really wish I had money for chocolate now
i'm eating one of them rn..b0i
I'm hungry
@@JustNatax3 their like 2,50&
@@Dsquaredloser I guess you've never been poor. Congratulations.
Tony's is great, little weird but great. I'm eating the caramel/ sea salt one at the moment. You should have really read Tony's ' history'. This chocolat company fights for slave free chocolat production (not just being fairtrade). That's why it has a broken chain on it. Cause apparently chocolat slavery is still going on. So good for you, Tony!
That sofa could be rotting, have rats living in it and be on fire BUT PLEASE DON'T EVER REPLACE IT!
If he ever dose he needs to do a couch giveaway!
+N64 Joey couch auction*
+Colton Turner EVEN BETTER
'Bloody hell that's getting bad...'
He said, while fingering the Sofa
in the bum.
"Looks like i've been handling poos" - Stuart Ashen, 2016
Tony's Chocolonely bars have been available in the UK from Sainsbury's and Waitrose stores since early 2019. They started with flavours that people might actually like:
- Milk chocolate
- Milk chocolate w/caramel & sea salt
- Milk chocolate w/almonds, honey & nougat
- Milk chocolate w/hazelnuts
- White chocolate w/raspberries & popping candy
- Dark chocolate w/almonds & sea salt (as seen in this video)
- Extra dark chocolate (71% cocoa)
- Dark milk chocolate w/pretzels & toffee
next time i go outside, i'm zooming to sainsbury's for that white chocolate one. no shits given about what people think of white chocolate, i bet that's the best chocolonely of all
@@nyanbinarydisaster Also now available in Asda. And these bars have been added to the range...
- Milk chocolate w/chocolate chip cookie
- Milk chocolate, pecan & caramel crunch
As well as these Sweet Sensation varieties, based on real brands...
- Milk chocolate, creamy hazelnut crunch (Ferrero Rocher)
- Milk chocolate w/crispy wafer (Kit Kat)
- Milk chocolate w/caramel & biscuit (Twix)
And these two Chocolate Love-a-Fair flavours in collaboration with Fairtrade ice cream makers Ben & Jerry's...
- Dark milk chocolate w/brownie pieces
- White chocolate w/strawberries & biscuit pieces, referred to as Strawberry Cheesecake
''the orange is manifesting'' Stuart Ashen 2016
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh orange R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
Personally I prefer Azathoth
You know, despite these weird chocolate flavours that Tony's produces, their regular milk chocolate is among the best chocolate I've ever tasted. I definitely recommend trying it sometime.
This should have just been called "Eating Tony's chocolate"
;)
is that Michael Rosen as your icon,
+Creeperkid48 yep someone finally recognised him
+Ruari123able FIDDLE RUDDLE DIDDLE
A BAG OF PLUMS!!!!!
I love how the product being in date is a pleasant surprise here LMAO
An interesting story about the chocolate; That timeline on each bar wrapper is available in English on the manufacturer's website. The short of it is;
An investigative journalist, Teun van de Keuken (Tony) discovered in 2003 that some of the world's raw cocoa, used by every chocolate manufacturer is contributed by slave labour. In protest of this, he eats a bunch of chocolate then tries to turn _himself_ to authorities as a criminal, going so far as to source former child slaves to testify against him.
Two years later, impatient for justice, he decided to instead make his own chocolate, under the _Tony's Chocolonely_ brand, heralding itself as the world's first "Slave-free" chocolate.
Three years after, Bellissimo filed a lawsuit against Tony's brand, with the audacity to suggest that cocoa cannot be claimed entirely without slave labour, and that it is slanderous to other chocolate makers to imply there is slave labour involved. The Dutch court rules in Tony's favour, and later, the case Tony made against himself is dropped.
Three years after that, Tony discovers his source for hazelnuts was using slave labour, and had to switch to a different slave-free source.
Two years after, the chocolate bars take on a strange, new design (the one Ashens has) as a statement against the inequality of the cocoa trade's stance against slavery; The industry isn't equal about fair rights and slave-free sourcing, so why should their bar?
So on and so forth, in between all that a foundation was made, as well a convention to share information about slave labour for commodities such as cocoa, etc. So the entire premise of Tony's Chocolonely is a very tasty statement against raw goods obtained from exploited people, used to work in labour camps for the production of what we consume.
Interestingly, despite its history listed on the website and in labels, Tony's Chocolonely remains in the Food Empowerment Project's list of "Approved chocolates" category _Cannot recommend but are working on the issues in various ways_
Absolutely Amazing. o-o
+bluephreakr
I sometimes feel like it's going 3000 years for us to get our collective shit together instead of the 300 that it takes in Star Trek.
+manictiger don't worry, it is human to struggle.
+bluephreakr 'strange new design'? it looks like the undertread of a fraggin' boot bruh!
+kromwell smith Life isn't fair
"strange Dutch chocolate"
*pops down to local sainsbury's to buy myself a bar*
Yeah, they are now stocked in the UK properly, with English language wrapping.
I was skeptical at first as to whether Tony's was really a slave-free
choco company and not just a gimmick, so I did a bit of digging and
discovered that it was launched by an investigative journalist who has
done a lot against major chocolate companies who lied about not using
child labor, and he set up his own company that packages and sells
chocolate produced by freelance farmers and farmer co-ops, which is
really awesome. Totally worth the price.
The flavors that his chocolates come in sound pretty awesome too.
Unfortunately I have never seen this company in Germany. All we have here is Nestle, Milka and Lindt, and whatever generic crap that Aldi or Lidl sells (which is probably old Milka chocolate that they re-melt into new molds and re-package with their own labels lol).
Even our organic stores are pretty poorly stocked. Sigh.
On a side-note:
the uneven chocolate bar bit is actually pretty clever. It's not everday that chocolate provides you with food for thought
+Simon Peggle You can always purchase chocolate online. That's what I do.
+Matthew Mitchell yeah, that's the only option left
in my case its actually cheaper. i went out and bought some dark chocolate today. lindt was $3.20 for 3.5oz, ritter sport same price but has a cookie inside, so probably only a fraction of the weight is actually chocolate. tony's was 6oz for $3.50. for real chocolate without a bunch of shit fillers (i'm looking at you, hershey) you can't beat that.
lily-liver Tony’s “flagship” store in Westerpark Amsterdam has so many flavors, plus you can try all of them as they just put out bar chunks for people to try. It’s a great company with terrifically good chocolate. My particular favorite is either the straight milk or white chocolate with raspberry and popping candy
The regular flavours (Pure and milk) of Tony's are really delicious. I didn't know these weird tastes existed, I usually just buy the normal chocolate flavours. They're really good.
The Orange (coloured) one is delicious. It's with salt.
I never did understand why so many people hate coconut. It's such a mild flavor to me, that I find it hard to have a strong opinion either way. It's like hating water.
While I agree with that, I think most people hate coconut because of the texture it has when it's cut into flakes and dried; it seems very likely considering most edible concoctions that use coconut uses the dried flake variety.
DurradonXylles Maybe. I think I heard my roommate or someone say that before, so maybe that is the overarching reason.
loads of people i know hate water and im like wha da fuu
I dislike it for the texture personally.
Sometimes coconut flavour can be overpowering. But it's not bad, I always liked coconut flavoured stuff.
They should have send you milk caramel seasalt. That one is amazing!
Amazingly disgusting
so... salted caramel?
That one is the worst.
Too ordinary for Stuart.
I lived in Holland most of my life, but have seen these in stores, but never bought any of these. Actually didn't even knew its from a Dutch company, as looks and sounded too much like some import product as Tony isn't really a Dutch name.
"An Excellent Array Of Strange Chocolate Bars"
Tony Chocolony is fair trade choclate. Tony wants slave free Choclate
*Chocolate
+Bardogeeftjordigelijk.nl *Edit
who wants slaves touching your chocolate. gross.
+Reducks3000 Most cocoa is farmed by children who basically live in slave conditions. Enjoy your mars bar.
+Zigi Samblak thank you cheeki breeki now I am enlightened like the buddha.
why am I staring at a couch while I listen to a British man chew chocolate.
what is life
+ThatGuyBradley all questions we ask ourselves
Life is life
It turns out the point to Tony's Chocolonely was that it was slave free.
So in the end
Tony wanted to be the opposite of Willy Wonka
The oompa-loompas were actually grateful to work for Wonka, as the jungles they lived in were fraught with constant threats to them and they wanted OUT of there
@@DirectorOfChaos9292 Yeah, but who told us that story?
I kinda dislike it when people don't do research.
Lucifer shut up
Lucifer fr tho stfu
@Lucifer that's literally the entire point of the brand. sorry that Tony's Chocolonely's isn't a braindead consumerist brand that you pick up and don't give any thought of where it came from.
@@AnymMusic It's just a different brand to consume. It may be fair-trade, who even cares, my dude? You shouldn't be supporting the industry that is responsible for sugar addiction and diabetes in the first place.
You're essentially an economical hipster that wants to pay Juan and Pablo a few dollars more so you can feel like a better _hooman_ .
Data
Not only is it fair trade but they also fight slavery and child labour.
They have foundations and build schools for the children of plantation owners, so their future doesn’t HAVE to be cocoa farmer.
The normal milk flavoured version of Tony's Chocolonely is absolutely fantastic though.
the sound of you crunching the chocolate is the best thing ever.
No, it's so horrible ;(
Hey...psst..Ashens! Don't forget to check de binnenkant van seze wikkel!
I forgot to check MY binnenkant van seze wikkel before and HOO BOY, let me tell you, the ensuing chaos was nobody's fault but my own.
s-s-stijl, gek.
Jongen toch, nu is het hek helemaal van de dam
Your dutch is on point😂
+Thunderchrist Ministries International XD me too
Hoo boy, I'm happy I checked mine!
(It's actually just some boring shite about how Tony is against unfair trade and stuff, which of course is a good cause, but do you really want to read it?)
Tony's chocolate is nice. It's quite a honorable thing what they did. Doing charity etcetera.
Everybody thinking us Dutchies eat this all the time: we don't. It's too expensive to eat on a regular basis lol
The apostrophe doesn't necessarily mean that the chocolonely belongs to tony. It could just as easily be "tony is" chocolonely, where it's shortened to Tony's
Aww thats just depressing... But sweet and delicious at the same time. Kind of like the local news...
Thank God I'm not the only one that despises coconut (at least in chocolate).
coconut is general is the worst tropical fruit period.
+Jabarichonicles Durian.
Not a fan of them, but I love coconut in cookies.
loving coconut is the best because its so widely hated you get given all of the bounty celebrations- B)
+Anthony Demaen Durian is fantastic.
Nice to see he's recovering well from the orb incident
+Papa Meme What incident?
+DarthRushy go watch tomska's most recent video, ashens is in it! it's called the orb
+Papa Meme should really cover up that bloody hole
+Mr Meh they would but all of the rugs just fall down the hole
tomska better release a book called "me and the hole"
Coconut always does that... it lulls you into a false sense of security and then hits you after everything else has gone.
There is no such thing as a 'hint' of rosemary. It's either not in the food, or blasting your mouth into another dimension.
I don't think you get enough credit for just how good you are at improvising jokes. You've been doing this for so long and you're still able to be funny so frequently. It's honestly astounding.
I have finally trained my brain to translate all the subtle differences between Britain english and American english, now I can hear "Chips, crisps, and sweets." without having to pause the video and think for a moment
+The Easily Bored Gamer
Any non-American anglophone has to do that for 90% of media.
yeah, cultural difference can bite someone in the ass if not aware
i just really like the packaging, it just pleases me
Tony’s chocolate looks like they peeled the tread off an all terrain 4WD tyre
ashens, you are the only english speaker who i ever heard actually speaking in a real dutch accent, whenever i hear english speakers trying to speak with a dutch accent they are just speaking with a german accent(they even use German words). so.........good job
Yep nailed it. Mike Myers did a fairly good one as Goldmember .
Like how 99% of 'Australian' accents are some south-english travesty
Most of the time I hear someone doing the Dutch accent it just sounds like Sean Connery to me.
His accent sounded more south african to me. I’m Dutch myself
Yeah funny how you Brits think we speak in a "South African" accent when we speak English. -_- LMAO!
Love you Ashens.
Hahahaha inderdaad
+Jügren van der Kaas Would that be a bit like a dutch person doing an american accent while imitating an english person?
+Jügren van der Kaas I think it's because English speaking Dutch people tended to be South Africans
Well Afrikaans is very similar to Dutch...
+Nukleon it's the same fucking language! the only difference is that Afrikaans uses like 60-70 words that are old dutch words no longer used in the netherlands.
it's kinda crazy that they are classified as 2 separate languages... yet German and Swiss German are not despite being even more different to eachother than Dutch and Afrikaans are... makes no bloody sense!
"Bloody hell that's getting bad" Is that a HINT towards thee one and only future BURNING of the glorious COUCH of destiny?? IT MUST BE!!
lekker vreten jonguh, worde gij kei dik van.
Lekker die vetjes kweken
nein
+Ryan Stoffelen daar word je dik van he
Like als je Nederlanders chill vind
+Richard Waterson Perfect Dutch
"You are not riding a horse! You are just bashi'n two coconut together"
I think very few people would get the Cranberry joke lol
Drawing with Wolf. Seriously? Shut it. Please.
At least now you have enough videos for a new playlist: Chocolate Taste Testing
this video bothered me in every way i didnt think it possibly could
The Tony's chocolate's goal is to stop people from underpaying cocoa farmers or even using slavery (the circle on the front of the wrapping thingy says that their chocolate is 100% slavery free in Dutch by the way) and the uneven parts in the bar is because they find it weird that most chocolate bars are divided evenly while the chocolate industry isn't anywhere close to even.
As opposed to rock salt.
We have those in my city. I've never had one, since I can't bring myself to drop $6 on a chocolate bar.
$6 dollars isn`t that much.
Andy, tell that to the guy who doesn't have six dollars.
Andy_MineP It's all relative. That'd be cheap for a shirt. But for a chocolate bar?
prying eyes it's fair trade, so it's more expensive
Charles Henry I pay about $10-15 a shirt. I refused to pay $30 for a shirt at a Hocico concert. The most I've ever paid was $25, and I felt like I was getting raped.
I honestly like how he just throws the bar he just tasted and then takes another one to do the same. Making a mess out of his couch.
You probably ain't seen his other videos. There's been a lot worse things on that sofa than a few chocolate crumbs...
It just comes across disrespectful tbh
The cranberry flavor might just be... in your head.
Brianna Kubiwood eyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
_"I wonder if the taste will LINGER."_
UNSUBBED
hey #niceshirt
Do you have to?
+noisyturtle I don't get it.
+Sierra Madre You know I'm such a fool for you!
+Sierra Madre You got me chocolate-wrap around my finger.
You're holding the chocolate with your bare hands and you CHEW on it?! I'm gonna cry
Tony's Chocolonely: Wonderful sound, strange shape.
Here's where English gets confusing.
Abbreviation: Tony is chocolonely > Tony's chocolonely
Ownership: the chocolonely is owned by tony > Tony's chocolonely
This is not my chocolate.
+Tony Andre Karlsen its the other tony right?
Idk
liiar
Lol
I'M THE REAL TONY!
salts do not neutralize alkalines, acids do (forming salts in the process).
As a dutchman myself I have to say your Dutch accent was quite spot on
Tony's Chocolonely Milk and Tony's Chocolonely Caramel and Sea Salt are my favorites. Some of the flavours are a bit weird, but some of them really work quite well. You should really try the milk one though, it's absolutely delicious!
Tony's milk chocolate is pretty fucking good in my experience
Sea salt flavored table salt.
Ice cream flavoured sea salt
"Because I fucking hate coconut"
-Stewart Ashens 2016
As someone who has eaten this chocolate on multiple occasions I have to say I hate how they did the little grooves along which you're supposed to break pieces off. It's impossible to break off a single piece without crushing the entire bar. You have to break off an entire line of pieces which becomes significantly harder to manage as you progress further into the bar. You end up with an unorganised mess of crushed chocolate.
Chocolate?
Good.
Orange?
Good.
Rosemary?
GOOooood.
The bloody haribo adverts back!!!! >.
Got one too.
hearing people say pe-can makes me really self conscious about how i say it pa-con
Pee caaaaaan!
Girish Manjunath this honestly sounds like some Neanderthal trying to tell others he can pee
...
Wtf?
Eternia pecan. Also, neanderthal had larger brain sizes and power then sapiens, we came out on top because we were more warlike...
Girish Manjunath oh the violence
These chocolate bars are quite expensive, it's a good brand though. Absolutely love their normal chocolate bars. You should give those a try sometime, you won't be disappointed. =)
Tony's bar reminds me of a shoe sole for some reason XD
So I just randomly decided to rewatch this video, love a bit of Ashens. Then I realised I'm watching it on the exact day the chocolate is due to expire. Help.
Tony's Chocolonely? What a name! lol
Hoh! Cranberries joke. I like that.
+burningfajitasalt When I got it I shouted "Oh wow!" XD
>The Cranberries
>Pop Music
4:30 you can hear the rancid chocolate shoot straight into his lower intestines, listen carefully and you can hear it
They sell these in Sweden and I think I have seen them when I visited home in the UK. Surprised that Mr Ashens did not like any of them, they look good quality. I must try these nonetheless! :D
Thanks! Funnily saw the small ones at the Blueberry stand in NK this weekend but i've certainly seen them in various other places too!
send ur unfinished bars this way m8....
k babe
Tony's, when you have good chocolate, and want to fuck it up by adding one other odd ingredient
Vanilla and Tungsten
Toffee and carbon dioxide
+Flynn Gumshoe mint and the blood of your enemies
+Mrs Brisby Iron an strawberry
This chocolate looks bootlegged.
"Ey, I'm Tony. Want some bootlegged chocolate?"
+LinkMarioKirby Gaming It's a name brand. It's also fair trade, meaning it's made by people who were paid the right amount for their work, and it wasn't made by kids who are too young to work.
LinkMarioKirby Looks, more like boot-heeled chocolate, to me ;) .
That cranberry joke
made me feel “smart”
dude litteraly bought the weirdest flavors we have in the netherlands