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Jan 31 2004 5 Comments

A sugary smile

Valentines Day is just around the corner, and in Japan it’s customary for women to give men chocolate on the 14th. But there’s chocolate, and then there is chocolate. Check out the tasty Mona Lisa below that’s on display at Tokyo’s Salon du chocolat. 13kg of chocolate went into painting this.

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Go ahead and call me unromantic, and perhaps a little bit cynical, but isn’t this somewhat excessive? There again, look at this chocolate copy of Brussels’s Grand Platz.

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Now that’s excessive!

Categorized: Food and Drink, General

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  1. Kev says

    1/31/2004 at 7:57 pm

    Excessive, I’m sure… but also tasty 😛

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  2. Lee says

    1/31/2004 at 11:50 pm

    I’m waiting on my request for a chocolate Reebok Stadium.

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  3. billy says

    2/1/2004 at 5:45 am

    …mmmmmmm, a chocolate sam araldyce :^)…good job he got rid of the moustache :^)…

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  4. Kev says

    2/1/2004 at 8:41 am

    I could probably cope with a chocolate Dell, but a chocolate St. Marys? That’d be greedy!

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  5. Lee says

    2/1/2004 at 1:33 pm

    A chocolate Big Sam is one thing, but just imagine the problems they’d have recreating Campo’s hair!

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