[Larry Lucido]

So did he have a chocolate taster?

[GreyFriar]

I would think a poisoned bottle of brandy would have been more likely as a “gift” for Churchill.

[jsanders2001]

That would be a good way to dispose of a lot of us, me included, quickly....

[Fido969]

I lost my Limey-American dictionary.

What the heck are “bangers”?

[The_Media_never_lie]

I can relate to this threat. I an susceptible to death by chocolate.

[circlecity]

The old exploding chocolate bar trick.

[ConservativeDude]

If they had put it in a cigar, or a bottle of Scotch they would have had a better shot.....

[ConservativeDude]

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.

[CrazyIvan]

“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.

[Moltke]

Kind of like the Mossad exploding phone trick to send paliterrorists to their 72 goats.

[4yearlurker]

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure,the creed of ignorance,and the gospel of envy."- Winston Churchill. "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something,sometimes in your life."- Winston Churchill.

[driftless2]

After the fall of France in 1940, Churchill, while publicly defiant, told his closest aides not to expect to live longer than three months. He thought a German invasion was incipient. Churchill had a private bodyguard who followed him virtually everywhere. And he carried a pistol on him and said he would not be taken alive. And he meant it.

Fortunately for Britain, Germany had no plans to invade Britain right after the 1940 fall of France. In fact, Hitler thought he had won the war and had no invasion plans for Britain. He expected the English to offer surrender terms like the French. He severely misunderstood Churchill.

When Hitler finally got around to planning the invasion, it was probably too late. One year after the declaration of war, Britain had several million men under arms and a pretty adequate defense plan in case of invasion. The Germans really did not have a decent invasion plan nor the resources to implement one. Hitler hoped the Luftwaffe would destroy the RAF in The Battle of Britain. That didn't happen.

If Hitler had tried to invade Britain without the RAF being defeated and the Royal Navy vastly outnumbering the German fleet, the results of an attempted invasion would most likely have been disastrous for Germany.