Posted on 09/30/2015 11:09:50 AM PDT by pabianice
Dastardly Nazi plans to hide bombs in chocolate bars, mess tins and even bangers and mash have today been revealed in a series of secret wartime sketches unearthed after 70 years.
Explosives were also hidden in Thermos flasks, cans of motor oil and even lumps of coal as the German war machine plotted murder on the streets of Britain.
The chocolate bar, which would have exploded when a chunk was broken off, was designed specifically for Winston Churchill in the hope his sweet tooth would lead to his death.
The lethal slabs of chocolate were packed with enough explosives to kill anyone within several metres.
But Hitler’s plot was foiled by British spies who discovered they were being made and tipped off one of MI5’s most senior intelligence chiefs, Lord Victor Rothschild.
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So did he have a chocolate taster?
I would think a poisoned bottle of brandy would have been more likely as a “gift” for Churchill.
That would be a good way to dispose of a lot of us, me included, quickly....
I lost my Limey-American dictionary.
What the heck are “bangers”?
[ I would think a poisoned bottle of brandy would have been more likely as a “gift” for Churchill. ]
Any toxin would have been neutralized by Winston’s well conditioned exercised working supersized liver.
I can relate to this threat. I an susceptible to death by chocolate.
Sausages.
Sausage. The British are a weird lot! Me mum is one. :)
The old exploding chocolate bar trick.
If they had put it in a cigar, or a bottle of Scotch they would have had a better shot.....
Bangers are sausages.
in all seriousness, I don’t recall Churchill being a big chocolate guy.
cigars and alcohol, yes. savory foods yes. but i don’t remember him being big on sweets or chocolate.
Churchill had a split of champagne for lunch each day.
And “Flies Graveyard” (and variations) is another culinary delight.
bangers are sausages
Will have to look that one up!
Interesting. Learn something new everyday. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flies_graveyard
“even lumps of coal.....”
O.S.S. actually did this to disable steam engines. The also made mines that looked like horse turds to blow tires off.
Kind of like the Mossad exploding phone trick to send paliterrorists to their 72 goats.
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