Coco+spicy is far, far older than coco+sugar and there are a lot of things that now try to combine all three. Their success varries.

I love Dallasfood chocolate exposes. Here is another good one:

This is something that really grinds my gears (or conches my chocolate), so to speak...

If a hipster fakes their artisanal product and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

Is a hipster’s word worth nothing these days?

Reading all that is making my eyes involuntarily roll back into my head.

I have a hard time believing that an artisanal, locally-sourced, hand-crafted, gluten-free, organic, bean-to-bar chocolate maker would misrepresent their product in this way.

Making chocolate is extremely hard. That’s why so few companies do it but instead get already made chocolate from elsewhere. Here’s a little knowledge, if the place you are buying your chocolate from calls themselves “chocolatiers” they didn’t make their own chocolate. Only bean to bar companies can legally call…

“We love making chocolate, and we have the audacity to think that we are pretty good at it too.”

I agree. And especially given that the person who penned the insult not only identifies as queer but also as a feminist activist.... just weird.

Dude, I want to love Otherwild, but I just can’t. I live on the other side of the hill from the shop, and I’ve wandered in a few times — but I seriously can’t justify spending $65 on some artisinal soap just because a lady made it. Not to mention, there’s a lot going on with owning a shop in the middle of the EXP that…

same thing happened to my friend. she bought the future is female shirt (and paid 10$ for shipping!) only to receive a shirt made in bangladesh. she emailed berks, who was a hugely defensive jerk. among other ridiculous things, she said “i don’t want to sell an $80 tshirt.” Okay, but pretty sure you can do that with…

Unless the law has changed drastically in the last couple of years the 20% rule is an urban myth anyway. There’s no quantifiable amount you have to change something to make it legit, it’s very case by case.

It’s a gender studies buzzword salad signalling to a sales demographic. Don’t read into it too much.

It’s politically legit. It’s avoiding any direct links between birth gender and self accepted gender; it’s tossing out ‘inclusive’ and ‘liberation’ and ‘patriarchal ideology’. There’s nothing really fundamentally bad about the statement other than that... it’s bullshit platitudes. They aren’t an especially inclusive…

Using the exact same font does cause some problems here for our girl Cara but as far as I’m concerned the shitty Otherwild product (which yeah they are NOTORIOUS for) and the queer-bashing slur just circles me right back to ‘whatever’.

I’m an emergency social worker in a county next-door to San Bernardino, from what I understand our policies are similar. I would guess that the child was detained by law enforcement and brought into protective custody. When it says “CPS custody” it just means the state has taken responsibility for the child. She may…

As far as I know orphaned children always stay with CPS until the family has proven that they are capable of caring for them.

At six months old she wont be all ‘where’s mom and dad and why am I here?’ - she’ll just be hungry and tired and want to play and want someone to hold her. Babies recognise their parents but I know with mine, at six months they just saw everyone who held them as a potential breastfeeder.

Ah, the doxxing part makes sense. I figured that they might be investigating the family but that just seems so unfair to everyone involved that I didn’t want it to be the case.