EASTER Sunday is fast approaching and many of us have already started tucking into our sweet treats.
But now, foodies are “crying” after only just realising they’ve been saying the name of a famous chocolate brand all wrong – so are you pronouncing it correctly?
If you’re lucky enough to have received a Tony’s Chocolonely Easter egg, you’ll need to listen up.
Posting on social media, a DIY fan who is on a mission to add character to her new build home and regularly shares home renovation clips online, disrupted her feed with some “major chocolate news”.
Viewers were left gobsmacked at the woman’s confession, as she begged others to tell her she was “not the only one who’s been getting this wrong.”
Sharing her clip under the username “Crafternoons”, the young woman posted her blunder with the caption “Questioning who I really am at this point, feels like my chocoholic status is a lie.”
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The chocolate lover then said: “Oh my God, I’ve just realised – it’s not Tony’s Chocoloney, it’s Tony’s Chocolonely.”
Clearly stunned, she added: “I’ve been saying Tony’s Chocoloney this whole time.”
After reading the packaging and noticing that it is actually Tony’s Chocolonely rather than Tony’s Chocoloney, the woman repeated the brand name twice in confusion.
Following this, the baffled woman simply questioned: “What?!”
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And it appears that this woman isn’t the only one to have made this error – as many of us have been making the same mistake when pronouncing this company’s name.
The TikTok clip, which was posted under the username @crafternoons, has clearly left many open-mouthed, as it has quickly racked up 136,400 views in just one day.
Not only this, but it’s also amassed 2,508 likes, 124 comments and 805 shares.
Foodies raced to the comments and shared their shock at the blunder – whilst admitting that they too have been pronouncing the brand ‘Tony’s Chocoloney’.
One person said: “I have honestly never looked at it very closely, I just thought it was Tony’s Chocolate.”
WHAT. No, this is the most recent Mandela effect I’ve ever seen. What do you meeeeean it’s lonely
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Another added: “I SWEAR the name changed to lonely. It was defo Chocoloney. No one can convince me otherwise.”
A third commented: “I just had to Google the name to make sure you weren’t messing! I’ve called it Choco-loney too.”
To this, the woman responded and wrote: “I wouldn’t dare lie about something so serious, this is major chocolate news.”
Not only this, but someone else chimed in and claimed: “My mum cried when she found this out.”
Whilst another chocolate user gasped: “WHAT. No, this is the most recent Mandela effect I’ve ever seen. What do you meeeeean it’s lonely.”
The history of Tony’s Chocolonely
Tony’s Chocolonely first came about after Dutch journalist Teun (Tony) van de Keuken started investigating the use of slavery in the cocoa industry for the consumer watchdog show Keuringsdienst van Waarde.
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Go own brand – if you’re not too fussed about flavour and just want to supplant your chocolate cravings, you’ll save by going for the supermarket’s own brand bars.
Shop around – if you’ve spotted your favourite variety at the supermarket, make sure you check if it’s cheaper elsewhere.
Websites like Trolley.co.uk let you compare prices on products across all the major chains to see if you’re getting the best deal.
Look out for yellow stickers – supermarket staff put yellow, and sometimes orange and red, stickers on to products to show they’ve been reduced.
They usually do this if the product is coming to the end of its best-before date or the packaging is slightly damaged.
Buy bigger bars – most of the time, but not always, chocolate is cheaper per 100g the larger the bar.
So if you’ve got the appetite, and you were going to buy a hefty amount of chocolate anyway, you might as well go bigger.
During his research, he discovered that the majority of chocolate on supermarket shelves was made from cocoa harvested by slaves.
As a result, he then decided to take action and create his own line of Fairtrade chocolate.
The very first Tony’s Chocolonely bars hit shelves in 2005 and in 2006, the company registered with the Chamber of Commerce.
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While the bars have increased in popularity since then, their mission, as displayed on their website, has remained the same – “we want to eradicate slavery from the global chocolate industry.”
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