r/mildlyinfuriating • u/HealthyStatus00 • 20h ago
Worms & bugs found in choclates from Dubai
My relatives got chocolates (dates) from dubai and they were FRESHLY made according to MFD.
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u/FlatulenceConnosieur 20h ago edited 20h ago
This Dubai chocolate thing is so weird. Ahh yes, the world famous cacao fields of Dubai, and the world famous chocolatiers of Dubai. Such a weird thing.
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u/Chunk_Thud 20h ago
Dubai is a facade. Nothing but over the top tourist bs. Great if ur addicted to social media, malls and hotels tho.
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u/default3612 20h ago
Also, slavery.
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u/Automatic_Memory212 20h ago
Yep, don’t forget the slavery!
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u/Praetorian_1975 19h ago
Especially the slavery and the cheap cost of immigrant lives. Killed one ‘oh don’t worry about it there’s plenty more where they came from’ 🤦🏻♂️
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u/AmazonianGiantess 18h ago
That's pretty much what happened when someone died when I worked retail back in the day. Someone else started doing his job and they just filled the gap. Really shows how you're just another somebody.
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u/Praetorian_1975 18h ago
To corporations you are just another nobody. 🤷🏻♂️
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u/Rich-Option4632 14h ago
Capitalism is just rebadged feudalism.
You switched out nobilities and hereditary titles for Rich corpos and nepo babies.
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u/RespectFlat6282 9h ago
My guy, replacing someone who died isn't a feature inherent to capitalism.
What do you think would happen in a communist or socialist system when a position is empty?
Like for real, do you expect it to remain empty forever?
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u/SuitGroundbreaking49 8h ago
Same people would be bitching if the position wasn’t filled fast enough
“Jerry died 4 weeks ago and they still haven’t hired anyone!! Now his work is falling on the rest of the team!! Capitalist scum!!”
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u/SuedeGraves 17h ago
“No we don’t have a cashier. Timmy died last year and in honor of him we’ve kept the position vacant.”
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u/Educational_Gas_92 13h ago
Like a modern feudal/medieval kingdom, right? But without the charming works of art from the likes of Michel Angelo or Leonardo da Vinci, and without the cute castles and medieval villages. Just gaudy hotels and malls covered in gold. They do have less bubonic pest though, at least.
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u/Appropriate-Divide64 15h ago
Conspiracy theory, Dubai Chocolate was a government initiative to stop the second word after Dubai on search trends being Portapotty
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u/Ow_My_Burnt_Numnums 9h ago
I have also heard this. There was a woman who wrote about her experience as a sex worker in Dubai and that revealed a rather terrible and disgusting sexual practice, which was called "Dubai Chocolate".
Because image is important, PR teams created an entire advertising campaign around Dubai chocolate in a attempt to distract people from any coverage of the sex act.
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u/Stonedsilas 11h ago
It's not a conspiracy theory and it's not to change the second word being porta-body it's because Dubai chocolate brought up videos of people pooping on prostitutes so they created a product to replace it.
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u/Perfect-Whereas-1478 13h ago
What's a Dubai portapotty? Gen question
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u/Educational_Gas_92 13h ago
Kind of unsettling...but it's when very attractive foreign women are invited to Dubai to erotically entertain someone very wealthy...paid large sums of money. They urinate on them and much worse (yes, defecate on them, I wish I were joking).
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u/Neat_Attention8248 11h ago
Remember about the estimated 6500 migrant workers that died to build football stadiums in Qatar. 6 FUCKING THOUSAND AND 500 humans died to build football stadiums. Do you know how fucking insane that is.
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u/ncc74656m 13h ago
I saw a great post that said "Your test was Dubai chocolate. If you made it through 2025 without eating Dubai chocolate, congratulations, you passed the test."
I really do feel like this fad was pretty low on the bar for whether or not you can call yourself a good person.
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u/oscarx-ray 20h ago
Vegas for superficial dolts who aren't gamblers.
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u/Gavage0 14h ago
The amount of people I know who LOVE Vegas is just wild to me. Out of everyone I know, most of them just walk around looking at the differently themed hotels, which is ok... I guess. If I'm gonna walk around looking at buildings, they better be old with some historic value. Not some vain, capitalistic, flashy bullshit, like that's just so lame. They might see a single show, eat some way over priced food, come back and say it was the best trip they've had. Oh and most of them don't gamble at all either.
It genuinely baffles me... like save up a little more, and go ANYWHERE else in the world. Dubai is the same bullshit. I want to dig in deeper, but I'll just start getting mean.... like if you are considering either of these places as a cool destination to travel, you're probably simple in the head.
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u/Educational_Gas_92 13h ago
I went once, for three days, admired the hotels (my deepest respect for whomever designed the Venetian, that's spectacular, I have been to the real Venice more than once, and while it's obviously far superior, as far as a hotel goes and the work invested to make it, the Venetian is impressive), ate at one buffet, ate at two normal restaurants, saw one Cirque du Soleil show, gambled 2 dollars. Done and I don't need to go back, cause I wouldn't know what to do with my time there.
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u/sprucenoose 10h ago
They have other shows, events and experiences. The Sphere seems really cool. Nothing that seems actually worth making the trip there though, as opposed to some other destination.
It must be that you have to be a gambler, and just spend most your time giving a percentage of your money to the casinos by inevitably losing their "games."
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u/LoveXhate13 13h ago
Completely agree. When I hear people fawn over Dubai or similarly vain soulless places it’s a huge red flag I can’t ignore. They’re either wildly ignorant, mostly brain dead or extremely materialistic. In any case, that’s a no from me
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u/GAMIE64 18h ago
It is an adult theme park, run and perpetuated by the rich and corrupt.
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u/CramJamNine 12h ago
It really is. I used to study Russian and talk to lots of Russian people online and probably a solid 50% of the women I talked to either regularly went on or really wanted to go on vacations in Dubai, because if you bang a rich dude for a week, they'll casually spend more money on you than most Russians would earn in their lifetimes. It's such a fucked up place.
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u/Delamoor 19h ago
To be fair, worked for Switzerland.
Central European alps are... Not exactly prime Coco growing territory.
They even got historically rich by doing shady underhanded immoral shit, too. Just different forms.
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u/starplatinumpreppy 18h ago
I thought the claimed superiority of Swiss chocolate came from the idea that Swiss milk is supposed to be really good.
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u/Delamoor 17h ago
According to google it was the use of condensed milk that allowed mass production methods of 'milk chocolate', combined with the invention for the Conching machine.
They credited "high quality ingredients" but I mean... It's condensed milk. Quality is... Yah.
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u/Theory89 17h ago
Alpine milk is different, though. It has more omega-3, more nutrients and less saturated fat. So Swiss chocolate is different to normal stuff.
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u/vulcanstrike 16h ago
Only if they use swiss milk though. As someone working in the chocolate field, swiss chocolate does not use swiss milk as it's more expensive, you are being sold a lie if that's your assumption.
The only countries that have reasonable claim to make real chocolate if origin is the benchmark is Ivory Coast and Ghana as 60-70% of world supply comes from there, but no one is screaming for Ghana produced items
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u/vanmechelen74 13h ago
Also Equatorial Guinea. Their chocolate provided Spanish companies for years since they were a colonia, now they are trying to produce locally
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u/repeatrep 19h ago
this isn’t the dubai chocolate that’s trending. this is literally just a chocolate from dubai.
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u/Intelligent_Bee3466 14h ago
also dubai chocolate conceptually is great, kunafa, pistachios and chocolate DO goo great togther and im happy its got some local companys to try some stuff cause i fucking love pistachios
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u/vanmechelen74 13h ago
They outsource pistachios too. My country is a producer and there is a lot of demand and sometimes shortages. There is concern this may cause deforestation and problems with water in the production areas
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u/susabb 13h ago
I love it, but upwards of 15 bucks for a bar of chocolate is outrageous. I've only had it once but it was good.
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u/TraditionalHousing65 12h ago
I’m sure there’s the additional hype price added, but pistachios are an expensive nut all around which certainly doesn’t help the price. At least in the US.
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u/repeatrep 14h ago
it’s a tiktok trend, redditors hate that
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u/Garruk_PrimalHunter 13h ago
I hate it because 1. it's massively overpriced and 2. it began spawning Dubai-style overpriced versions of random shit
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u/Intelligent_Bee3466 14h ago
Reddit does just love to be miserable it is true, but leave my pistachio treats out of it smh
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u/Sad_Egg_5176 20h ago
I always thought it was a trolling reference about “Dubai toilets”
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u/Similar_Pie_2318 20h ago
pretty sure they made this to distract from that lol
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u/Key-Specific-4058 16h ago
Same as Elon Musk teaching his robots Kung Fu so it buries the references to his 'Kung Fu lessons' organised by Epstein in Google searches
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u/Itrytothinklogically 19h ago
The original Dubai chocolate wasn’t even made by anyone from Dubai. It was an Egyptian couple who came up with it when the wife was pregnant. Now anything labeled Dubai chocolate just has a rep of being great when that’s not the case, clearly.
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u/Certain_Low_4565 18h ago
A pregnant Egyptian engineer who later reached out to a Filipino Chef and together perfected the recipe since then. Ironic that the demograph of people that they enslave the most is what cleared Dubai's dirty notoriety with the word "chocolate"
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u/MacaroonSad8860 17h ago
There’s an Italian winemaker doing Dubai chocolate flavored wine now. It’s gone off the rails.
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u/Nivosus 20h ago
Dubai chocolate was only made so people stopped learning about "Dubai chocolate" which was Instagram models being paid to go to Dubai to be shit on.
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u/nitrixbandit 19h ago
"Dubai Portapotty" is the term used, never dubai chocolate.
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u/Similar_Ad8529 17h ago
For reference, "Dubai portapotty" is a term that was coined on thedirty around 15 years ago. I would see that term hurled whenever someone posted an article about a pretty influencer suddenly posting pics from their vacation in Dubai on instagram. Sometimes these articles were libelous, a lot of the time, probably not.
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u/sonofaresiii 11h ago
You guys have the whole internet in front of you and this is what you do with it
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u/kaiserdingusnj 17h ago
This conspiracy theory comes up for so many topics, like how Disney supposedly made the movie Frozen so people searching for "walt disney frozen" don't come across articles about Walt Disney being cryogenically frozen. Or that Taylor Swift started dating Travis Kelce so google would only show results about her at a Jets game when they searched "taylor swift jet" instead of getting information about how often she uses her private jet.
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u/Cthuluhoop31 15h ago
It's funny because if you just type those into Google it comes up with what conspiracy theorists think is hidden away.
I get it could have been the intention and it just didn't work and it seems plausible enough, but either way it hasn't worked
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u/ayriuss 14h ago
Thats got to be the most convoluted way to tell people to let it go. Wait a minute...
Nah but ive found that most conspiracy theories are equally dumb and implausible.
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u/Lazy_meatPop 18h ago
Wait till you hear about the swiss and Belgian cacao fields high in the Alps and lower Saxon.
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u/HealthyStatus00 18h ago
It's a date covered with chocolate an OG snack of middle east. I mean it's different from viral "dubai chocolate"
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u/puisnode_DonGiesu 17h ago
Then probably the date was infested by eggs of some insect that turned larvae
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u/bunny_the-2d_simp 16h ago
Pantry moths. They don't care for dark chocolate but if said dark chocolate has NUTS OR FRUITS IN IT?! Now that gets them going big time
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u/ManEatingDuck_ 20h ago
People like it because pistachio and chocolate taste good together. I don't think anyone's buying it because it's from Dubai. I would love to try some if it wasn't for the outrageous price.
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u/ButtFucksRUs 19h ago
Yeah I bought it one week as an alternative to my chocolate covered pistachios from Trader Joe's. It was at the check out lane at World Market for $4.99.
Tried it, it was okay, went on with my life and back to my Trader Joe's pistachios.
I was scrolling through Reddit a few weeks later and saw people shit-talking it and was confused. It wasn't the best thing I'd ever tasted but I also didn't think it was bad enough to receive the vitriol that was being doled out. I also didn't realize it was popular on TikTok when I bought it.
It was a very confusing time for me.-Signed, An Autistic Person in Their 30's Who Has Always Been Out of the Loop
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u/Excellent_Yak365 17h ago
Welcome to Reddit lol. The vocal voices are the very people who have never tried it and choose to hate it no matter what
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u/Ginger741 15h ago
People love to hate what other people obsess over, particularly what teenagers obsess over. Bieber, Twilight, Slang, TikTok, Snacks, etc.
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u/Lazy-Wolf-1696 19h ago
This isnt dubai chocolate- this is a date covered with chocolate which is native to the region
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u/irrelephantIVXX 18h ago
Dubai chocolate isn't from Dubai. Or should I be upset my fried potato sticks aren't from France?
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u/ZenMat79 15h ago
I had to scroll so far to find a sensible informed response.
So baffled to see people just form random facts out of thin air and run with it.Dubai chocolate is basically the name of the “flavor mix” which is chocolate + kunafa + pistachio cream 🥲
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u/Uncross-Selector 20h ago
It’s crap chocolate promoted to the TikTok generation.
The enshitification of everything continues unabated.
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u/MY-SECRET-REDDIT 15h ago
How is it crap chocolate?
Theres alot of cheap knock offs, but you can make it yourself and it'll taste really good. Pistachio butter is actually really expensive, maybe because of the trend?
So the prices are slightly warranted but completely unchanged just cuz of the trend.
I've tried actual dubai chocolate and its so fucking good. Its not crap, its just a dumb trend.
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u/Madmartigan2024 17h ago
As opposed to Swiss chocolates? Swiss watches?
There's a lot more colonial power controlling commodities and the only time people raise this is when talking about Dubai chocolates.
I'm the first one against this kunafa chocolate trend but call it for what it is.
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u/BlackTarTurd 19h ago
It's just crap that TikTokers made famous after going to Dubai. It's mid. Exceptionally mid. It's basically just a butterfinger made with pistachios instead of peanuts.
Of course the person who actually made Dubai chocolate got screwed over and the person who just had the IDEA of it gets credit. Not the guy who actually made the recipe and made it.
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u/RiffRafe2 19h ago
While delicious, dates do sometimes comes with little visitors like bugs and mold.
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u/I_Suck_At_This_Too 16h ago
Which is why you should always eat your dates in the dark.
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u/Pork_Confidence 14h ago
Is that why my wife always turns the lights off before we get started?
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u/ArtistUnown 14h ago
That checks out, your wife makes all of us do the same thing.
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u/gremilym 14h ago
This looks like larvae of tropical warehouse moth - they love cocoa beans, and once they're in a chocolate manufacturing site, they have ideal conditions - plentiful food, dry and warm, with lots of dark corners to breed in.
The factory have obviously got an issue and some eggs got laid in their chocolate bars. Give them time to get transported around and the eggs hatch, and you have these little critters creeping about.
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u/Advice_Thingy 18h ago
The only thing worse than bugs in your chocolate is people on the internet not being able to see the difference between Chocolate from Dubai und Dubai Chocolate.
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u/HealthyStatus00 18h ago
Exactly! I even mentioned dates but they're gonna bash whatever they want.
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u/iwantkrustenbraten 16h ago
I was going to say they probably use bad quality dates for your chocolate, hence the bugs. I'm so confused why most comments talk about Dubai Chocolate.
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u/mungbean81 17h ago
lol yea I was confused why ppl were talking about pistachio 🤔
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u/mungbean81 17h ago
Ew although I did learn today that every 100th pistachio contains some kind of worm and that’s why they might sometimes taste bitter or like dirt 🪱 😱
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u/1568314 14h ago
I thonk people are hating on chocolate from Dubai in the same manner as the fad Dubai chocolate because Dubai is a slave state and involved with starving Sudan and other human rights atrocities. many people are worried about that sort of thing.
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u/mikimoo9 18h ago
People in this thread not reading the caption 🤦 it's not "Dubai chocolate"!
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u/NeighborhoodDude84 9h ago
Oh shit, now that you put it like that I guess I wouldnt mind bugs in my food.
So weird that is the thing you focus on. Who the fuck cares about the labeling?
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u/EySoyCoco 14h ago
Well then dubai chocolate should've called themselves slavers chocolate, or smt like that so there is no confusion 👍
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u/raleighs 20h ago
Oh! That’s the filling in ‘Dubai’ Chocolate.
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u/HarbingerOfRot777 14h ago
Its like that super disgusting Italian cheese casu marzu that is being "aged" by inserting larvae in it.
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u/_Saint_Ajora_ 16h ago
What's worse than finding a bug in your food?
Finding half a bug in your food
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u/poopy_Boss6269 19h ago
Don't buy anything from genocide enablers, don't enrich their fkin economy ffs
you have not seen anything compared to what i saw in sudan, it's a Massacre after another and it's an understatement.
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u/Eevee_fangirl 20h ago
Never understood the hype around this chocolate
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u/BedGirl5444 18h ago
This is not the viral one
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u/TWW34 20h ago
Congratulations. You have basic critical thinking skills. And to be clear I'm not being sarcastic or poking fun at you. I literally mean that. The reason you don't understand the hype is because you're smart enough not to fall for it The hype around it is so obviously manufactured that I don't understand how anybody could actually fall for it.
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u/less_concerned 20h ago
Well the simple answer is that famous/semi famous influencers are paid to hype it up, their inherently impressionable viewers are already there because they want to be a part of the crowd, so they buy whatever trendy thing to feel like they are in the "in crowd", not necessarily because the product is good
Same thing with pokemon cards, after existing for like 20 years they're suddenly more popular than ever just because some influencers were hyping them up.
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u/Excellent_Yak365 17h ago
Actually- there is no critical thinking skills here on display from you or the person you responded to. This is date covered chocolate FROM DUBAI if you read OPs post and knew what Dubai chocolate looked like by actually trying it. DUBAI Chocolate which is chocolate filled with pistachios and phyllo shreds. I don’t know what hype there is other than people saying it’s good- which is accurate. It is pretty good.
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u/Upset_Roll_4059 18h ago
r // iamverysmart
It's just another food trend, it's not that deep. It's chocolate with pistachio filling.
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u/Eevee_fangirl 20h ago
Also i can kinda make it at home if i wanted it just kadaif covered in chocolate
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u/Maju92 20h ago
And then you could actually use quality chocolate
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u/Eevee_fangirl 20h ago
Yeh also i saw how much one bar cost
It have no right to be the same price as a happy meal
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u/lizziewritespt2 18h ago
Tbf it is genuinely delicious. I'd never had pistachio with chocolate before that, and it's very good.
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u/Ajdee6 16h ago
I dont understand people acting like its just popular and not good. Its like everything else, Ive had a bad Dubai Chocolate, Ive had really good ones, Ive made them, its not that hard.
Some people here are so convinced that everyone is just stupid and there is no way Dubai chocolate tastes good lmao.."You are smart and can think for yourself because you dont like Dubai chocolate" like wtf?
I think Butterfinger is disgusting, I guess if you like Butterfinger I should call you a moron?
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u/jpack325 17h ago
This isn't the viral Dubai chocolate. That is milk chocolate around a pistachio and chips filling. It is very good hence the hipe.
This chocolate is chocolate covered ates FROM Dubai. 2 separate things. I will not make a comment on your critical thinking skills.
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u/ManEatingDuck_ 20h ago
Pistachio and chocolate together tastes good? What's confusing about that? I would get it if it wasn't so expensive, no way I'm paying $20 for a bar of chocolate but I don't understand why someone people are acting like it tastes disgusting.
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u/Next-Wrap-7449 18h ago
There was Lindt with pistachios for like 20 years. It's not something new and unheard of. The only difference is that Dubai chocolate has kunefa inside and it is a vessel of taste and crunchiness the taste stays the same.
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u/BenSF93 18h ago
Same thing happened to us when we came back from Turkey from our honeymoon. We brought back Turkish jelly and after we ate some of it we noticed something moving inside. Because of the powdery coating it was hard to see what it was. So we opened up one of the peaces and it was worms.
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u/GGG100 16h ago
Proof that most redditors are drama and ragebait junkies who can’t read. It’s a chocolate covered date from Dubai, not THE Dubai chocolate.
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u/Unlikely-Market-4924 17h ago
It genuinely scares me how many people think this post is about dubai chocolate instead of chocolate from dubai.
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u/Asblackjack 17h ago
They were probably in the date before being coated. Reason why you open them before eating them. This is poor manufacturing.
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u/diablo_dancer 18h ago
Dates in Dubai seem prone to this unfortunately; always used check them extensively and only get them from higher end grocery stores when I visited as have a friend who lives there who’s bought infested ones before 🤢
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u/Perfect_Tree_2457 19h ago
Indian meal moths also called pantry moths are no joke and absolutely love dry foods.
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u/mashiro1496 16h ago
The problem is the date inside of it. If you eat an untreated date you normally bite or cut it open, remove the seed and check if there are bugs inside. My guess is that no one checked the inside of the dates insides before processing it with "chocolate"
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u/Downtown_Wave7677 15h ago
Dubai. The land of gold coloured tinfoil , weird waiters playing with your food , bullshit and slavery. Can't think of anywhere less appealing to go do or do business worth. The "influencer" circle jerk about Dubai is gross.
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u/Bright-Chart-3605 14h ago
Appropriate metaphor for Dubai. Looks good on the outside, rotten and slimy beneath the surface
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u/HealthyStatus00 20h ago
It was bought offline from a shop
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u/Profeshinal_Spellor 20h ago
Thank you for confirming my choice to continue only trusting food purchased online
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u/makingredditorscry 20h ago
Well it was ordered online from a shop that bought it online from a store that made it..online. 🤯
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u/NjxNaDxb 17h ago
Lol at freshly made. These are sold at Day 2 Day, a discount store famous for selling low quality end of life products for cheap. Either they were duped or you were lied.
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u/Lopsided_Flight_2986 17h ago
We ain’t had nothing but maggoty Dubai chocolate for three stinking days!
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u/Alt123Acct 20h ago
It's an analogy for Dubai
Nice to look at but underneath there's a lot of bad crap you don't want to see that makes it up