Many years ago, I swear I saw a British movie on a cable TV channel which featured a sleazy chocolate company which discovered that adding human flesh to their chocolates made them taste really, really good. It was a comedy, and it reminded me a teensy tinsy bit of Brazil. I cannot for the life of me remember the title of this film and none of my searches on http://www.imdb.com have borne any fruit, chocolate-covered or otherwise.
Does anybody else remember this movie? It started with a fake ad for chocolate “Passionelles”, and ended with a guy wearing a chocolate-covered tuxedo.
I’d like to draw your attention to sanguinaccio, Italian blood sausage. There are apparently many variations, one of which includes chocolate! (see http://www.chefwalter.com/gstronomy.htm)
But I first found out about it in a column by Mike Royko in the recent book, “The Best of Mike Royko: One More Time.” On 11/14/68, Royko wrote a column praising czernina (Polish duck’s blood soup) and dissing haggis (“just a disgusting version of hash”).
Naturally, he got a lot of letters, and in a column on 11/22/68, he printed some of them. Mr. Arnold Hartley of New York wrote that they’re both for wimps, and only sanguinaccio is the measure of a man. He then continued with this recipe:
Royko’s comment: “Sounds like it might taste good if you didn’t add all that sweet stuff to it.”
