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Chocolate: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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our main story tonight concerns
chocolate the star attraction in
Neapolitan ice cream nothing against
vanilla and strawberries just that one
is a euphemism for boring sex and the
other is fruit and fruit is simply not
dessert chocolate is the greatest just
watch as this baby get a first taste of
it okay one more one more really big one
ready are you ready
yeah baby same and and I hope it Savers
that chocolate High cuz I think we all
know the rest of Human Experience is
pretty much downhill from there
everybody loves chocolate that is why we
use it for everything from beauty
products to sculptures to breakfast
cereal although some arguably love it a
little too much like the host of this
cooking show there's a component a
substance and chocolate called fenel
ethylamine and what that fancy word does
is it slightly elevates your blood
pressure and your heart rate and they
tell me that it's a sensation that's not
unlike having an
orgasm I don't know maybe that's why
people love chocolate so much but anyway
let me get back to our step here
okay first what a long weird way to tell
people that you've never had an orgasm
second I can't believe that there is a
chem chemical that makes your brain
horny and they named it pheny ethyl aine
that is not a sexy name Erol seducti
lust dat aceline all of those are free
and available and just to be very clear
eating chocolate is nothing like having
an orgasm unless you count the fact that
when boys do it it is Messier but
chocolate isn't just making people horny
it's also making a lot of money globally
it's a $140 billion a year industry and
at this point you might be sitting at
home thinking hold on I've seen this
show before this feels like it's going
to be one of those fun stories but is it
about to take a turn I got a jumbo bag
of fun-sized Snickers that I'm going to
be handing out to Tiny Iron Men elers
and Luigi's in around 48 hours are you
going to make that weird for me well yes
yes I am and also don't me half
of that bag is going to be gone by
Halloween and you know it but the reason
this is about to take a turn is for all
the money and happiness surround in
chocolate there is one group that
doesn't get to share in it and that is
the farmers who grow cocoa in the first
place the vast majority have never even
tasted chocolate and that is something
that reporters and documentarians love
to try and remedy on camera and perhaps
not as patronizingly as this these
Farmers have been growing beans for
decades they're about to get their first
taste of chocolate you have never tried
chocolate
no
that is your
Coco well well to those who thought that
I'm the most annoying version of a loud
man on TV with a British accent looks
like you owe me an apology because that
is pretty condescending right there
attention forward subjects we noticed
that you've not once tasted the fruit of
your interminable toil so allow me to
present you with a generous gift of a
single kid cat that is your C
go and the reason most Farmers haven't
tried chocolate before is they can't
afford it more than 60% of Coco comes
from just two West African countries
Ivory Coast and Ghana and researchers
have found that in those places between
73 and 90% of Coco farmers do not earn a
living income with 30 to 58% earning
below the world bank's extreme poverty
life and there's something a bit weird
about a product so synonymous for
spreading joy and giv giving babies
what's basically a cocaine Rush
abandoning those who grow its key
ingredient to grinding poverty because
even if you had a sense the Coco
production had issues the truth is from
the land it's grown on to the working
conditions of those Who harvest it it is
worse than you may realize so given that
as we prepare for our annual tradition
of stuffing as much of it in our faces
as humanly possible tonight let's talk
about chocolate and let's start with the
fact that Coco is mostly grown on very
small family run plots they're about
half a million of them in Ivory Coast
and another 800,000 in Ghana harvesting
cocoa pods is labor intensive and done
entirely by hand and by the way what's
inside them may not be what you are
picturing in your mind Evan's kenoi
cracks open the pods to extract the
sweet slimy Bean which at this stage has
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