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maxfurman
Certainly intriguing, although if it will be 6-18 months until I can try it I'm not sure why I should care.
[dead] goldenkey
Certainly intriguing, although if it will by 18-36 months until I can try it, I'm not sure why I should care.
gaius
Ruby chocolate “satisfies a new consumer need found among millennials — hedonistic indulgence,”

You mean like... avocado toast?

sp332
Wow, glad we finally invented hedonistic indulgence. And just in time to make less money than previous generations, too!
gaius
Nothing in that article makes any sense, but that was the most egregious.
qubex
Premium Mediocrity?
njharman
I'll wait for Python Chocolate.
petepete
Meh, unless it's strongly and statically-typed I'm not going to use it in production.

/typical HN response

cool_username
What I find puzzling is that this pink chocolate 'invented in 2017 by a Swiss company marketing to millenials' appears to have been available in British sweet shops for over 20 years.

https://www.sweetsncandy.co.uk/a-jar-of-pink-and-white-choco...

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/66/0b/87/660b8713654b075c0a81...

My conclusion: while the Swiss are masters of chocolate, the Brits are masters of time travel.

anfractuosity
Hehe. I could be wrong but I think the pink chocolate mice are made with food colouring rather than coloured by the bean.

They do seem rather cagey on how they process the bean though.

A cacao pod sometimes looks slightly reddish, I wonder if the colour could come from that?

zimpenfish
You know, I've never even considered that they were chocolate. I always thought they were just a smooth soft candy kind of thing. For, like, 4 decades.