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...and the chocolate is pretty dope, too. Or at least, the stuff they send over here is.
It is. Chocolate is one of their big exports, with mahogany and gold. One of the computer labs I worked in had big, solid mahogany chairs, with built-in desks. Another had cheap plastic patio chairs. They explained to us how the plastic chairs were more expensive, and considered more "refined."
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Napoleon III had aluminum silverware. Supply and demand - when "mahogany" is "that tree that grows everywhere" and "patio chairs" are "those crazy-expensive thing we have to get via container ship, which doesn't come very often" you start to see the valuation of patio chairs.