This is Dubai Chocolate.

You've probably seen it before.

If you've been shopping recently or even if you've just been scrolling your Instagram feed,

this stuff absolutely everywhere.

They're selling Dubai chocolate at Walmart now,

along with Target, Costco, Trader Joe's.

Big European chocolate companies like Lint and Godiva are producing

their own branded versions.

This stuff has become a viral craze online.

There are videos of people trying the various chocolates and getting millions of views.

So what is Dubai chocolate?

Well, basically, it's a chocolate bar with ground-up pistachios and cadethe, which is shredded phylo pastry in the middle.

It's brown and green.

Now, it's not bad.

It's a nice mix of sweet and savory, nice crunch in the middle, a bit like a

Kit Kat or a Twix. But there's a major problem with all this because the Dubai chocolate

trend helps to cover up dictatorship, genocide, and some of the worst human rights abuses on earth.

Now, it wouldn't quite be accurate to say the government of the United Arab Emirates and of

Dubai in particular has been involved in pushing Dubai chocolate on the world market since day one.

But they certainly jumped on board at day two.

Product was created in 2021 by a confectioner named Sarah Hamuda, who took her inspiration from a

pregnancy craving for chocolate combined with pistachio. And Hamuda's company did business in Dubai

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