{"id":64647,"date":"2024-08-31T11:39:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T11:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=64647"},"modified":"2024-08-31T11:41:42","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T11:41:42","slug":"chocolate-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/08\/chocolate-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate [West AFRICA]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where does it all come from<br \/>\nA lot from Africa<br \/>\nMillions of people grow it<br \/>\nPoor slaves many they<br \/>\nDo not get a look in<br \/>\nOf the profits<br \/>\nI can say<\/p>\n<p>Most  can never afford<br \/>\nIt<br \/>\nAnd as for taste<br \/>\nSo few<br \/>\nHave ever tasted chocolate<br \/>\nAs we know it here<br \/>\nToo poor they are<br \/>\nIt\u2019s true<\/p>\n<p>Europe just loves eating<br \/>\nChocolate and then the USA<br \/>\nMuch earlier it came from South America<br \/>\nA way a way<br \/>\nA drink that was very bitter<br \/>\nBrazil and Ecuador<br \/>\nIt then was sent to Africa<br \/>\nWho produce more and more<br \/>\nBut the price we pay<br \/>\nIs cheap as chips<br \/>\nThe poor souls suffer so<br \/>\nThey do all the grafting<br \/>\nAnd the profit there is low<br \/>\nThey cannot cover production<br \/>\nThe profits are all here<br \/>\nAnd child slaves being regularly abused<br \/>\nMost of them live in fear<\/p>\n<p>The finest chocolate<br \/>\nI can say is Pacari<br \/>\nIt\u2019s from Ecuador<br \/>\nThe worst alas is Cadbury<br \/>\nEthical consumers<br \/>\nHonest score<br \/>\nMondelez International<br \/>\nHolds the bottom place<br \/>\nWhich is truly awful<br \/>\nAnd I think a disgrace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where does it all come from A lot from Africa Millions of people grow it Poor slaves many they Do not get a look in Of the profits I can say Most can never afford It And as for taste &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/08\/chocolate-4\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[645],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chocolate-powder-and-bars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64647"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64650,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64647\/revisions\/64650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}