Posted on 12/24/2008 5:36:16 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
PARIS - Ten tons of chocolate bonbons could stuff a lot of stockings this holiday season — but instead they will be under the lock and key of French customs agents.
The French customs service announced Tuesday that officers at the giant Rungis international market outside Paris seized nearly 33,000 boxes of gold-foil-wrapped morsels, on suspicion that they were counterfeit Ferrero Rochers, a popular Italian chocolate brand.
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Question is, what was used instead of chocolate?
Meat ("Who put the 'roo in the stew) and seafood substitions are fairly rampant.
Costco and target recalled chocolate drink powder laced with melamine last week.
Bad job by the counterfeiters.
The picture shows the gold Ferrero Rochers, which are milk chocolate hazelnut. The coconuts are wrapped in silver, and don't even come in dark chocolate.......
not that I would know about such things!
Crunchy frog: We use only the finest baby frogs, dew picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and then sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope and lovingly frosted with glucose.
Ram’s baldder cup: We use choicest juicy chunks of fresh Cornish ram’s bladder, emptied, steamed, flavoured with sesame seeds whipped into a fondue and garnished with lark’s vomit.
Spring surprise: Covered with darkest creamy chocolate. When you pop it in your mouth steel bolts spring out and plunge straight through-both cheeks.
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