Workers in the Ivory Coast, producer of about 40% of world cocoa, are on strike! As chocolate is the Fifth Food Group, this may lead to global malnutrition of cataclismic proportions (how big are your hidden stashes?)
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The fifth food group? There's chocolate, coffee, cheese, and coffee, and what else?
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