CHOCOLATE COMPANY MAKES CHILDREN CRY WITH ADVENT CALENDAR

Dutch chocolate brand Tony’s Chocolonely is apologizing after angry parents complained about this season’s chocolate-filled Advent calendar. Like a regular advent calendar, you open a door each day and find a little piece of Tony’s chocolate. But when you opened the door on Day 8, the compartment was empty. People complained, and the company issued a message: “At Tony’s we use our products to communicate our mission – to make 100 percent slave free the norm in chocolate. In Ghana and the Ivory Coast, at least 1.56 million children work under illegal conditions because the price being paid for cocoa is too low. We don’t think that’s okay. We hope this creates a great conversation starter for change.” To make up for the empty compartment, the company put two chocolates behind the December 9 door. Some parents complained that the missing chocolate made their kid cry.
* And those kids will all grow up to be Karens.
* Slave labor is horrible, but have you ever dealt with a three-year-old who didn’t get her piece of chocolate?
* This is like Santa Claus at the mall going, “Merry Christmas, and don’t forget the Holocaust happened!”
* How about one day a month, your iPhone doesn’t operate, to remind everyone about the Chinese forced labor camps to assemble phones?
* Are they talking about the Ooompa-Loompas? Because I don’t think those guys ever got paid by Willy Wonka.