If you were planning to stock up on chocolate you may want to get the jump on it now, before the price goes up. It seems a fungus is killing a lot of coacoa trees.

MSNBC: Chocolate shortage expected in 2000

http://www.msnbc.com/news/256321.asp

-- Rick (doc_u_ment@hotmail.com), June 04, 1999

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Will trade pilot bread for chocolate.

-- Gia (Laureltree7@hotmail.com), June 04, 1999.

Rick - Gilda and I have figured out it is not humanly possible to stock chocolate, except by internal consumption!

-- Brooks (brooksbie@hotmail.com), June 04, 1999.

Oh no, not the chocolate! How can one store it besides buying the powder type in the can? Don't do much baking/cooking but sure love those snickers bars.

-- Barb (awaltrip@telepath.com), June 04, 1999.

Why the heck can't you keep it in the freezer?

Hello?

Anyone?

Anyone at all?

Faris?

-- Unc D (unkeed@yahoo.com), June 04, 1999.

This is the most depressing news I have ever seen on this Forum. Only a shortage of Duct Tape could be worse.

Unc: Got Juice?

-- Rob Michaels (sonofdust@com.net), June 04, 1999.

Fungus? Hmmmm...it seems that most of South America is in deep Y2K doo-doo, but that's a new one! I think it's safe to say that there will be a lot more people killing each other over gasoline and coffee, but what the hell, think I will stock some more chocolate. Thanks.

-- @ (@@@.@), June 04, 1999.

Suddenly my 30 pounds of chocolate chips seems very very small. I guess I will buy more cocoa. I can live with brownies instead of chocolate chip cookies. :-)

-- Dian (bdp@accessunited.com), June 04, 1999.

(1) I've been wanting to get a cocoa tree planted on the mini-plantation so I can grow my own. Any idea of a source? Cocoa has been grown (in small quantities) on other Hawaiian islands.

(2) This could truly be TEOTWAWKI. Maybe worse. Call it AT LEAST a 10!

(3) Could it be an anti-drug plot...eliminating the source of cocaine?

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), June 04, 1999.

Or could it be a new and sinister method of population control? Withhold chocolate until we become and weak and, and....uh,wait a minute. That won't work. What about those of us who become cranky and uncooperative without our Chocolate? Hmmm, could this be an even more sinister, as-yet-not-thought-of plot?

-- Dian (bdp@accessunited.com), June 05, 1999.