From KCRW, I'm Evan Klyman and you're listening to good food.

What do politics and chocolate have in common?

And how can we better understand the former with a little help from the latter?

You're about to find out.

I want to introduce you to Ben Blunt and Brian Kett, who came up with the idea for the

unfair share, Chocolate Bar bar which they describe as a delicious

tactile representation of political inequity. We'll let them explain.

Hi Ben and Brian.

Hey, I have been.

Since our audience is only listening to us,

talk about this chocolate bar,

I'm not looking at it,

why don't one of you explain what the unfair shared chocolate bar looks like and how it breaks apart?

So it's packaged like a regular chocolate bar comes in a nice fancy box and lovely silver foil but when you

open it you see faint lines that show rectangles so you can see how traditional bars

are typically broken.

But ours are broken up like real gerrymander congressional districts.

So there are these squiggly, strange odd shapes from gerrymander districts in Texas, Georgia, there's the famous duck

from Ohio, there's one from Alabama, Louisiana, and then a little funky one from North Carolina.

So immediately when you open the bar it smells and looks like chocolate, but there's something

different.

How did you come up with the idea? Do either of you have a background in politics or making chocolate?

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