To justify raising prices, the chocolate industry regularly inveigles the media to predict a global chocolate shortage.
http://www.delish.com/food-news/a45573/cocoa-shortage-could-…
http://www.smh.com.au/business/retail/bitter-battle-chocolat…
http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2015/04/01/4208965.htm
Such nonsense is confuted by chocolate bargains in the real world, or alternatively Kurri Kurri, where I discovered my recent $1 bars
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/276501 are even cheaper! Not bad for a town where Chesty Bond is considered haute couture.
Your Discount Chemist also have branches at Coonabarabran (like that's a real place), Greenacre, Griffith, Lake Cathie, Lakewood, Lightwood Plaza,
Laurieton, Port Macquarie and Taree, but none yet in Narnia.
This chocolate offers excellent aroma and a pleasing medium strength coffee flavour. Although the packaging thrice emphasises "lingering cocoa character" one is spared the syrupy, ubiquitous aftertaste strong dark chocolate normally delivers. Made in Belgium, rated 70% cocoa, the quality more than justifies the even lower 69c.
I bought only 7 to replenish my already topped-up bowl. https://files.ozbargain.com.au/upload/46870/43501/img_201610…
The Best Before date is 05-01-2017 and I may return for more as, including reserves, I'm down to 7kg of chocolate. Naturally, Montana was enthralled with the onion on my belt …
… which was the style at the time … but not yet in Kurri Kurri.