# Chocolate Prices Going Up!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-prices-going-up/410445>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 4, 2007, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-prices-going-up/410445 "2007-07-04T00:41:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2007, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-prices-going-up/410445/1 "2007-07-04T00:41:28Z")

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[Better stock up now and batten down the hatches, boys!](http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2007/07/03/afx3880404.html)

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> Cocoa was higher this morning as the market took advantage of lower prices to buy into the bean.
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> Prices are also continuing to take support from fears over production in the Ivory Coast after an attempt to shoot down the Ivorian prime minister’s plane on Friday, analysts said.

:eek:

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**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2007, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-prices-going-up/410445/2 "2007-07-04T03:51:41Z")

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Nooooooooooo!

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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2007, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-prices-going-up/410445/3 "2007-07-04T04:30:10Z")

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At least there’s still chocolate. A couple of years ago, I read a report about some disease affecting cacao trees, the source of chocolate. Experts were speculating that all of the plants could die off, and that would be the end of chocolate. Fortunately, that did not happen.