# Bakers Dozen **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 4, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173 "2010-08-04T17:56:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1762
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35224 "2015-06-13T01:07:50Z")
Chocolate Companies 1. Ghiradelli 2. Nestle 3. Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35225 "2015-06-13T02:11:46Z")
Chocolate Companies 1. Ghiradelli 2. Nestle 3. Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory 4. Hershey’s The Great American Chocolate Bar ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35226 "2015-06-13T03:14:15Z")
Chocolate Companies 1. Ghiradelli 2. Nestle 3. Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory 4. Hershey’s 5. Cadbury ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35227 "2015-06-13T04:26:22Z")
Chocolate Companies 1. Ghiradelli 2. Nestle 3. Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory 4. Hershey’s 5. Cadbury 6. See’s Candies ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35228 "2015-06-13T07:44:09Z")
Chocolate Companies 1. Ghiradelli 2. Nestle 3. Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory 4. Hershey’s 5. Cadbury 6. See’s Candies 7. Godiva ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35229 "2015-06-13T07:52:07Z")
Chocolate Companies 1. Ghiradelli 2. Nestle 3. Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory 4. Hershey’s 5. Cadbury 6. See’s Candies 7. Godiva 8. Lindt ---
**Author:** ![Thin\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Thin\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thin_Ice)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35230 "2015-06-13T13:11:47Z")
Chocolate Companies 1. Ghiradelli 2. Nestle 3. Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory 4. Hershey’s 5. Cadbury 6. See’s Candies 7. Godiva 8. Lindt 9. Original Hawaiian Chocolate Factory ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35231 "2015-06-13T13:17:38Z")
Chocolate Companies 1. Ghiradelli 2. Nestle 3. Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory 4. Hershey’s 5. Cadbury 6. See’s Candies 7. Godiva 8. Lindt 9. Original Hawaiian Chocolate Factory 10. Mars, Inc. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35232 "2015-06-13T14:07:24Z")
Chocolate Companies 1. Ghiradelli 2. Nestle 3. Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory 4. Hershey’s 5. Cadbury 6. See’s Candies 7. Godiva 8. Lindt 9. Original Hawaiian Chocolate Factory 10. Mars, Inc. 11. Harry Burnett Reese Candy Company, in Hershey PA ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35233 "2015-06-13T14:16:36Z")
Chocolate Companies 1. Ghiradelli 2. Nestle 3. Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory 4. Hershey’s 5. Cadbury 6. See’s Candies 7. Godiva 8. Lindt 9. Original Hawaiian Chocolate Factory 10. Mars, Inc. 11. Harry Burnett Reese Candy Company, in Hershey PA 12. Confectionately Yours (NJ) ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35234 "2015-06-13T14:20:04Z")
Chocolate Companies 1. Ghiradelli 2. Nestle 3. Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory 4. Hershey’s 5. Cadbury 6. See’s Candies 7. Godiva 8. Lindt 9. Original Hawaiian Chocolate Factory 10. Mars, Inc. 11. Harry Burnett Reese Candy Company, in Hershey PA 12. Confectionately Yours (NJ) 13. Rebecca Ruth Chocolates Pass. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35235 "2015-06-13T14:33:42Z")
New: Fictional characters who spoke more than one language 1. Miss Lamb, in Jane Flory’s novel The Liberation of Clementine Tipton, English and French ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35236 "2015-06-13T15:03:29Z")
New: Fictional characters who spoke more than one language 1. Miss Lamb, in Jane Flory’s novel The Liberation of Clementine Tipton, English and French 2. Albus Dumbledore, from the Harry Potter series, over 200 languages including Mermish, Gobblydegook and Bulgarian ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35237 "2015-06-13T16:03:47Z")
Fictional characters who spoke more than one language 1. Miss Lamb, in Jane Flory’s novel The Liberation of Clementine Tipton, English and French 2. Albus Dumbledore, from the Harry Potter series, over 200 languages including Mermish, Gobblydegook and Bulgarian 3. Ziva David, NCIS, English, Hebrew, Spanish, Turkish, Arabic, Russian, French, Italian, etc etc etc ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35238 "2015-06-13T16:38:45Z")
Fictional characters who spoke more than one language 1. Miss Lamb, in Jane Flory’s novel The Liberation of Clementine Tipton, English and French 2. Albus Dumbledore, from the Harry Potter series, over 200 languages including Mermish, Gobblydegook and Bulgarian 3. Ziva David, NCIS, English, Hebrew, Spanish, Turkish, Arabic, Russian, French, Italian, etc etc etc 4. Howard Wolowitz, The Big Bang Theory, English, French, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Persian, Japanese, Yiddish, Klingon and Sindarin. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35239 "2015-06-13T17:01:30Z")
Fictional characters who spoke more than one language 1. Miss Lamb, in Jane Flory’s novel The Liberation of Clementine Tipton, English and French 2. Albus Dumbledore, from the Harry Potter series, over 200 languages including Mermish, Gobblydegook and Bulgarian 3. Ziva David, NCIS, English, Hebrew, Spanish, Turkish, Arabic, Russian, French, Italian, etc etc etc 4. Howard Wolowitz, The Big Bang Theory, English, French, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Persian, Japanese, Yiddish, Klingon and Sindarin. 5. C-3PO, Star Wars, fluent in over 6 million forms of communication ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35240 "2015-06-13T17:16:40Z")
Fictional characters who spoke more than one language 1. Miss Lamb, in Jane Flory’s novel The Liberation of Clementine Tipton, English and French 2. Albus Dumbledore, from the Harry Potter series, over 200 languages including Mermish, Gobblydegook and Bulgarian 3. Ziva David, NCIS, English, Hebrew, Spanish, Turkish, Arabic, Russian, French, Italian, etc etc etc 4. Howard Wolowitz, The Big Bang Theory, English, French, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Persian, Japanese, Yiddish, Klingon and Sindarin. 5. C-3PO, Star Wars, fluent in over 6 million forms of communication 6. Jason Bourne, English, Russian, German and probably a few others ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35241 "2015-06-13T21:39:58Z")
Dammit! Too late to mention the Whizzo Chocolate Co.: [Monty Python - Crunchy Frog - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy6uLfermPU) Fictional characters who spoke more than one language 1. Miss Lamb, in Jane Flory’s novel The Liberation of Clementine Tipton, English and French 2. Albus Dumbledore, from the Harry Potter series, over 200 languages including Mermish, Gobblydegook and Bulgarian 3. Ziva David, NCIS, English, Hebrew, Spanish, Turkish, Arabic, Russian, French, Italian, etc etc etc 4. Howard Wolowitz, The Big Bang Theory, English, French, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Persian, Japanese, Yiddish, Klingon and Sindarin. 5. C-3PO, Star Wars, fluent in over 6 million forms of communication 6. Jason Bourne, English, Russian, German and probably a few others 7. Cmdr. Spock, “Star Trek” - Vulcan and English (Federation Standard), and probably many others ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35242 "2015-06-13T22:25:04Z")
Fictional characters who spoke more than one language 1. Miss Lamb, in Jane Flory’s novel The Liberation of Clementine Tipton, English and French 2. Albus Dumbledore, from the Harry Potter series, over 200 languages including Mermish, Gobblydegook and Bulgarian 3. Ziva David, NCIS, English, Hebrew, Spanish, Turkish, Arabic, Russian, French, Italian, etc etc etc 4. Howard Wolowitz, The Big Bang Theory, English, French, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Persian, Japanese, Yiddish, Klingon and Sindarin. 5. C-3PO, Star Wars, fluent in over 6 million forms of communication 6. Jason Bourne, English, Russian, German and probably a few others 7. Cmdr. Spock, “Star Trek” - Vulcan and English (Federation Standard), and probably many others 8. John Blackthorn, “Shogun”- English, Portugese, Latin, (some) Japanese ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35243 "2015-06-13T23:03:48Z")
Fictional characters who spoke more than one language 1. Miss Lamb, in Jane Flory’s novel The Liberation of Clementine Tipton, English and French 2. Albus Dumbledore, from the Harry Potter series, over 200 languages including Mermish, Gobblydegook and Bulgarian 3. Ziva David, NCIS, English, Hebrew, Spanish, Turkish, Arabic, Russian, French, Italian, etc etc etc 4. Howard Wolowitz, The Big Bang Theory, English, French, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Persian, Japanese, Yiddish, Klingon and Sindarin. 5. C-3PO, Star Wars, fluent in over 6 million forms of communication 6. Jason Bourne, English, Russian, German and probably a few others 7. Cmdr. Spock, “Star Trek” - Vulcan and English (Federation Standard), and probably many others 8. John Blackthorn, “Shogun”- English, Portugese, Latin, (some) Japanese 9. James Bond: speaks fluently without accent in Italian, French and German, and speaks, reads and writes a passable Greek, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese and Japanese. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=1761) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=1763)