Ebola threatens chocolate

[SassyLady]

Anyone else thinking this is worse than we first expected!!!

Ebola is threatening much of the world’s chocolate supply.
Ivory Coast, the world’s largest producer of cacao, the raw ingredient in M&M’s, Butterfingers and Snickers Bars, has shut down its borders with Liberia and Guinea, putting a major crimp on the workforce needed to pick the beans that end up in chocolate bars and other treats just as the harvest season begins. The West African nation of about 20 million — also known as Côte D’Ivoire — has yet to experience a single case of Ebola, but the outbreak already could raise prices.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/1...#ixzz3G5Q7OqlR

[OAK]

Anyone else thinking this is worse than we first expected!!!

No wonder BO sent in the military. Imagine what will happen if all the women that worship him are deprived of chocolate. They will be a pissed off horde marching on the White House.

[fj1200]

Anyone else thinking this is worse than we first expected!!!

As soon as it threatens coffee I demand we deploy 300,000 troops... Anything less and I'll insist we impeach the treasonous bastage.

[SassyLady]

If ISIS interrupts the flow of chocolate ... we won't be marching on DC ... the women of the world will take out ISIS ourselves. Screw the "troops on the ground" and the "air strikes".