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World's Biggest Chocolate Melts Italy
TLC news (seriesly!) ^ | Oct. 28, 2003

Posted on 10/28/2003 5:17:29 PM PST by 4mycountry

Oct. 28, 2003 — Sweet-toothed Italians had a lip-smacking treat tucking into the world's biggest chocolate — weighing in at six tons.

Sculpted in the shape of a giant kiss and coated with a love message, the gargantuan chocolate took more than 1,000 hours to make, stood more than 6.5 feet high and has already found a place in the Guinness Book of Records.

Italy's most famous chocolate-maker, la Perugina, prepared the record breaking sweet along the lines of the popular "baci perugini" nut-centered chocolates for Perugia's annual Eurochocolate fair.

The central Italian town has been holding its chocolate fair for the last 10 years. The latest has set out to promote 'true' chocolate, without additives other than cocoa butter.

The theme was chosen to take aim at European Union regulations adopted in August, allowing the merchandising, under the name of chocolate, of products with up to five percent of vegetable fat such as palm oil.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: chocolate
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Mmmmm, chocolate.

1 posted on 10/28/2003 5:17:30 PM PST by 4mycountry
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To: 4mycountry
Where'd they get the 2-ton nut?

It must have been hugh!
2 posted on 10/28/2003 5:33:31 PM PST by Atlas Sneezed
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To: Beelzebubba
Where'd they get the 2-ton nut?
Michael Moore dipped in Chocolate.
3 posted on 10/28/2003 5:41:24 PM PST by Zathras
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To: Beelzebubba

4 posted on 10/28/2003 5:43:35 PM PST by 4mycountry (Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before.)
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To: 4mycountry
Yum...could I have that dark one way over on the right? No, no, not the caramel, that soft one about half way down on the right. Ummmm...THANK you!
5 posted on 10/28/2003 6:05:55 PM PST by kitkat (SLLLURP!)
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To: carlo3b; christie; jellybean
ping.
Whaddya think? Could we consume that much chocolate?
6 posted on 10/28/2003 6:13:41 PM PST by stanz (Those who don't believe in evolution should go jump off the flat edge of the Earth.)
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To: 4mycountry
Money talks. Chocolate sings !!!

If you've got melted chocolate all over your hands, you're eating it too slowly !!!

Chocolate covered raisins, cherries, orange slices & strawberries all count as fruit, so eat as many as you want !!!

Problem: How to get 2 pounds of chocolate home from the store in hot car ??? . Solution: Eat it in the parking lot !!!

Diet tip: Eat a chocolate bar before each meal. It'll take the edge off your appetite and you'll eat less !!!

A nice box of chocolates can provide your total daily intake of calories in one place. Isn't that handy ???

If you can't eat all your chocolate, it will keep in the freezer !!!

But if you can't eat all your chocolate, what's wrong with you ???

If calories are an issue, store your chocolate on top of the fridge. Calories are afraid of heights, and they will jump out of the chocolate to protect themselves !!!

If I eat equal amounts of dark chocolate and white chocolate, is that a balanced diet? Don't they actually counteract each other ???

Chocolate has many preservatives. Preservatives make you look younger !!!

Q. Why is there no such organization as Chocoholics Anonymous ???
A. Because no one wants to quit !!!

If not for chocolate, there would be no need for control top pantyhose. An entire garment industry would be devastated !!!

Put "eat chocolate" at the top of your list of things to do today. That way, at least you'll get ONE thing done !!!

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7 posted on 10/28/2003 6:20:02 PM PST by GeekDejure (<H3> Searching For The Meaning Of "Huge" Fonts !!!</H3>)
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To: stanz
Geesh...chocolate heaven!
8 posted on 10/28/2003 6:41:29 PM PST by jellybean ( :))
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To: stanz; jellybean; carlo3b
When's the next train to Italy? I'm ready! I'll stay until the last morsel, and then work on the pasta.
9 posted on 10/28/2003 9:33:39 PM PST by christie
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To: christie; stanz; carlo3b
Looks like christies's got the chocolate and pasta taken care of. I call dibs on those HOT Italian men!!! WHOOOOO HOOOOO...
10 posted on 10/28/2003 11:54:42 PM PST by jellybean ( :))
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To: stanz; jellybean; christie
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/world/story/0,4386,216954,00.html . Those frisky Italians sure know what real Kiss'n is all about!! :)
11 posted on 10/29/2003 6:23:03 AM PST by carlo3b (http://www.CookingWithCarlo.com)
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To: 4mycountry
In 1996 I went from Rome to Florence (Roma a Firenze) on the high speed Pendolino train in 1st class and they gave you Baci chocolates for the journey. Very nice.
12 posted on 10/29/2003 6:47:33 AM PST by xp38
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To: jellybean; christie; carlo3b
If Christie's got the chocolate and the pasta, and you've got the men, what's left for me? Just remember, I saw that big bacio first.
13 posted on 10/29/2003 9:08:59 AM PST by stanz (Those who don't believe in evolution should go jump off the flat edge of the Earth.)
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To: carlo3b
Those frisky Italians sure know what real Kiss'n is all about!! :)

~~Sigh~~ Yes, they do... Dammi tanti baci...

14 posted on 10/29/2003 11:25:32 AM PST by jellybean ( :))
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what's left for me?

I'll share the men if Christie will share the chocolate and pasta. Just remember, I get first dibs!

15 posted on 10/29/2003 11:29:21 AM PST by jellybean ( :))
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To: Zathras
And on the love note they wrapped it in..."Godzilla...welcome to Italy. We love you."
16 posted on 10/29/2003 11:32:18 AM PST by RichInOC (...somebody had to say it...why not me?)
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To: stanz; jellybean; carlo3b
what's left for me?

With 6 tons of chocolate and a country full of pasta, I'm sure there is enough for the three of us.

Jelly can keep the men, though!

17 posted on 10/29/2003 11:38:29 AM PST by christie
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To: 4mycountry
I love chocolate....Swiss is my favorite.
18 posted on 10/29/2003 11:39:22 AM PST by FeliciaCat
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To: christie; jellybean; carlo3b
I dunno...6 tons of chocolate may seem like a lot, but that's 2 tons apiece ( or 1 and half if we share with Carlo.)1.5 (3000 lbs.)divided by 365 days in a year = 8.2 lbs per day. Well, I guess that would be adequate.
Now the men are another story.
19 posted on 10/29/2003 11:49:15 AM PST by stanz (Those who don't believe in evolution should go jump off the flat edge of the Earth.)
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Jelly can keep the men, though!

WHOOO HOOO!!!! I LOVE Italian men!!!!

Stanz, you and I get to split 'em!!

20 posted on 10/29/2003 11:57:35 AM PST by jellybean ( :))
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