3. TIL Ghana and Ivory Coast produce at least 70 percent of the world's cocoa beans...

TIL Ghana and Ivory Coast produce at least 70 percent of the world's cocoa beans. And the world is running out of cocoa farmers as the next generation refuses to take up this job because of the difficulty of the process and wages as low as 84 cents a day.

Mady, in two years, when you're 16, you'd pitch in to get roasted cacao beans. Besides, a lot of people have never actually tasted real chocolate and dislike the actual taste of chocolate-- most people like the taste of sugar. This, to me, is one of the minimum requirements to be called 'real' dark chocolate, it has to be a 70% or more blend. Most people have never and will never have white chocolate, since white chocolate isn't made with cocoa solids, rather with cocoa butter, sugar and milk but what most people buy is cheap and dutched chocolate. Etc...

I don't think a lot of people on Reddit would have tasted actual chocolate before.

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