Lindt, Mondelēz, and Nestlé together raked in nearly $4 billion in profits from chocolate sales in 2023. Hershey’s confectionary profits totaled $2 billion last year. The four corporations paid out on average 97 percent of their total net profits to shareholders in 2023. The collective fortunes of the Ferrero and Mars families, who own the two biggest private chocolate corporations, surged to $160.9 billion during the same period. This is more than the combined GDPs of Ghana and Ivory Coast, which supply most cocoa beans. Decades of low prices have made farmers poorer and hampered their ability to hire workers or invest in their farms, limiting bean yield. Old cocoa trees are particularly vulnerable to disease and extreme weather. Many farmers are abandoning cocoa for other crops, or selling their land to illegal miners.

Black forest trifle

Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups (Nutella Filled!)

🐱 Cornish Rex

📸 Rex Flower’s

🎨 Black Mackerel Tabby, Blue Mackerel Tortoiseshell Tabby, Chocolate Spotted Tabby, Cinnamon Tabby Mink, Chocolate Point, Seal Tortoiseshell Tabby Point

I want to show you my dog Phineas :-) he's missing most of his lower jaw which makes him look a little funny. his favorite food is cheese and he never stops drooling lol. I hope u enjoy him!

oh very wonderful! your miniature sunbear is outstandingly charming, however did you manage to dress him in such refined couture?

Chocolate

Chocolate Strawberries | Alura’s Diplicious Treats

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Avocado Mint & Chocolate Ice Cream (Vegan)

I had a new wolfstar fic idea.

Completely bombarded with angst, again.

Why can't I have cute fluffy ideas?

And where is my motivation to write again?!

To Remus, madam Pomfrey was like a mother.The two of them just instantly clicked perfectly together like two pieces of the same puzzle, at least that’s what McGonagall says. She would sometimes come to the infirmary and lean on the doorstep, just watching Remus and Pomfrey talking with a fond smile. Remus loved her, but something about Poppy made him feel different. She truly felt like home. Just like his friends did.

He felt guilty about it at first :loving Poppy more than he did Minerva. But he’d realized quickly McGonagall was already someone else’s Poppy. Sirius’s. He’d witnessed the two of them exchanging on several occasions and he’d understood then, why McGonagall’s gaze always seemed so full of love when watching Pomfrey interact with him. His heart completely melted when Sirius gave him one of his most blinding smile after talking to the old lady. His boy deserved all that happiness.

Minerva loved the Marauders. She really did. Remus knew that. But she had a deeper connection to Sirius. Anyone who took the time of day to look at the two of them together could see it. It was blinding.

It didn’t really bother him. Not even when Sirius started calling McGonagall ‘’Minnie’’ while no one else could. Because he understood. He understood his professor loved Sirius and he knew Sirius shared her love. He understood what it was like to attach yourself to someone and never want to let go. He felt like that about madam Pomfrey.

One thing about Poppy is that she made chocolate as a hobby. She would always make Remus taste test every single one she made. She even gave him the rest for later so he could test them when he didn’t have enough time at the infirmary to taste all of them. Hence the fact he’s always carrying some with him now. The taste of chocolate reminded him of home, of Poppy.

That’s why, when he saw James with Lily’s eyes in the train, when he saw Harry, he immediately thought of home: his friend, the marauders. And when thinking of home, he’d always end up thinking of madam Pomfrey. So he got a chocolate bar out of his pocket and gave it to the boy hoping he’d understand just how important this was for him. Hoping maybe he could become the home this child never had the chance to have. He reckons James and Lily would like that, or at least he hopes so.

Oh how he misses home.

(This is my first time posting something I wrote so if you have any constructive advice, feel free to let me know)

Chocolate cinnamon rolls

Gluten Free S’mores Donuts

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📸 Tatiana Makukhina [Mockingbird Cattery]

🎨 Chocolate Spotted Tabby

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