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Offline Steve F

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Real weird: exploding chocolate
« on: July 21, 2012, 07:37:07 AM »
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9405919/Death-by-chocolate-plot-to-kill-Sir-Winston-Churchill.html

I love the letter that begins, "Dear Fish, I wonder if you could do a drawing for me of an explosive slab of chocolate..."

This never got anywhere in real life, but perhaps a WWW2 game could include the risk of exploding rations in pre-game prep?

Offline Hauptgefreiter

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Re: Real weird: exploding chocolate
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2012, 11:40:21 AM »
 lol
Right, that's really weird!
Another possible scenario could be the deployment of the "Special Chocolate" by special agents...


But now I'm wondering if assassination attempts against H. would've been successful if they'd used one of those prepared chocloate bars...  :?
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Offline Calimero

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Re: Real weird: exploding chocolate
« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2012, 12:08:40 PM »
But now I'm wondering if assassination attempts against H. would've been successful if they'd used one of those prepared chocloate bars...  :?

IIRC, he was vegetarian so maybe explosive broccoli? ;)
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Offline FramFramson

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Re: Real weird: exploding chocolate
« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2012, 04:39:27 AM »
Chocolate is perfectly vegetarian.

God knows my wife lives by that fact...  lol


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