http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8397870.stm



I wonder is that around the time that the bar got smaller and costlier

Nooooooo!

That counts as more incentive to buy them from the newly relocated-to-next-to-my-desk RAF charity tuck shop. And I will get even fatterer. Damn.

Probably.

With Kit Kats it's bad enough that they insist on telling you the amount of calories contained, like I give a fcuk

Fairtrade:- the system that allows the middle classes to feel good about the explotation of others.

I don't honestly mind of the chocolate is fair trade or not but could they perhaps make it a bit less like plasticene and more like actual chocolate?

Jon

Nope it's the system that allows anyone to buy products which reward the people who make and grow them better. Of course many of us would prefer the immediate overthrow of the Capitalist Hegemony, but in the meantime forging links of friendship and support with Poor people can't be that bad.

Did making that comment help assuage your guilt at all the "Made in China" stuff cluttering up your pied a terre? Near slavery, but naked and open is better than "Fairtrade" then?

Ethelredalready : A Man who lives up to his Avatar.

Nope. I have no guilt over the "stuff" I have bought.
I would prefer the people actually making the "stuff" I buy to be paid a decent livable wage but Im not going to be using a logo to make me think all is well with the world.

Though I would love a pied a terre, maybe once I buy a primary residence I will look to get another.. once I have won the lottery

Apparently, Our Lord Jesus Christ was so happy with this announcement, he spontaneously appeared in the Kit Kat of Mrs Ena Sharples, Tunbridge Wells:

The attempts by (of all people) Nestles to get on what they see as a bandwagon must be a token of the success of the "FairTrade" movement.
Wheras you can see those awful Middle Clases assuaging their guilt by buying Faitrade hand-knitted muesli sweaters; they're not big fans of cheap 'n nasty confectionary products!

However, if Nestles are acheiving the Fairtrade certification, then they really will be helping to improve the lives of real people in underdeveloped countries, so I'll hide my antipathy.

Where else?

Mrs Trellis, North Wales???