Be My Macabre Valentine: "How much chocolate would you have to eat for it to kill you?"
From Popular Science:
Death by chocolate is only 7,084 Hershey kisses away.
If you were a kid in the ’90s, or had a kid in the ’90s, you probably remember the Matilda scene—the scene—where the loathsome Miss Trunchbull made Bruce Bogtrotter eat an 18-inch chocolate cake in one sitting, in front of his classmates.
The punishment is torturous to watch, and the act is probably illegal. But if this were real life, would Bruce have died? No, he would not have suffered any sort of chocolate toxicity from it. A conservative estimate would have him eating probably only about a pound of pure chocolate. That's not enough to kill somebody.
In the fact that it is almost impossible for the average human to die from eating too much chocolate....
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Well there you go.
Be My Macabre Valentine, II
From Vintage Everyday:
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