Comments on: Radioactive Chocolate. Yum!

By: JC

JC — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:51:45 +0000

It reminded me to the old Absintheur´s advertising.

By: Tempscire

Tempscire — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:01:38 +0000

Technically everything is a little bit radioactive, in the technical sense of the term.

By: Shelby

Shelby — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:53:13 +0000

Get all the radium you can handle here in Batavia, Illinois, practically the radium and radon capital of the midwest! Come test our soil, if it doesn't burn the flesh off your hands!

By: Neatoramawontsendmeapassword

Neatoramawontsendmeapassword — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:45:13 +0000

"Shortly after the discovery of radium in 1898 ... everyone wanted to put it in their products."

Kind of like soy.

By: fluff

fluff — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:33:38 +0000

I am with Aaron here; but the thought of there really being radium in it is really a bit scary ain't it?

By: K!P

K!P — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:15:18 +0000

You mean a gold card is NOT made of gold?! there goes a life long dream.

By: Aaron Muderick

Aaron Muderick — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:45:31 +0000

I doubt this bar has any radium in it. At the time, the word 'radium' was used in the same way marketers today will sling around 'platinum card' or 'gold club' or 'nanotechnology' . Radium cost a pretty penny back then and that chocolate bar would have cost a fortune even at a minute dosage.

By: bean

bean — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:59:00 +0000

Fun fact: if you've ever eaten chocolate made from beans that were grown in Western Africa, it probably has traces of radioactive particles in it.

Enjoy.

By: Christophe

Christophe — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:48:44 +0000

Wow! Amazing text! Pierre Curie selftesting radiation poisonning, doctors prescribing radium with "no side effects", or people buying the Tho-Radia beauty cream that heals sun burns (LOL)... Marie Curie, the year of her death to radiation poisonning, recommended radium water drinking and bathing...

Well, time to visit Montana http://www.merrywidowmine.com/about.html