Tuesday, September 06, 2005
Little Chocolate Bar of Horrors!
"Mad I tell you, that's what they'll say! Mad! That I was Mad for inventing the Exploding Cocoa Bar! Mad! Mad! Bwa-ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haaaa!"
German saboteurs came up with several cunning plans to cause mayhem during the Second World War - including bars of exploding chocolate.
The "slab of chocolate" hand grenade is illustrated in the documents released to the National Archives in Kew, west London, together with an explanation of how it would blow up seconds after the unwitting Brit snapped off a piece.
"The bomb is made of steel with a thin covering of real chocolate," the note says.
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