Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
16 Dec 2024 Acquired Mars Inc. (the chocolate story)
“Chocolate is remarkably hard to make. I think that is a huge takeaway. The fact that I’m looking down here at all these bags of M&M’s and the Snickers bar, we just assume, oh, this is an industrial thing that just comes off the line.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 16 Dec 2024
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Mars Inc. (the chocolate story)
Transcript context
…At least in terms of like stages of production. Let’s take coffee. Coffee looks pretty similar until you get the beans there roasted, but then you grind the beans, and you just put the beans in liquid. You’re not getting any of these steps here. Chocolate is remarkably hard to make. I think that is a huge takeaway. The fact that I’m looking down here at all these bags of M&M’s and the Snickers bar, we just assume, oh, this is an industrial thing that just comes off the line. It’s an agricultural product that then has to go through a variety of different processes, developed on different continents many decades apart in order to create something very uniform, predictable, and desirable out of that pure agricultural product. Yup.…
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