# Blood in chocolate -- movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [June 15, 2000, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blood-in-chocolate-movie/22439 "2000-06-15T04:10:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blood-in-chocolate-movie/22439/1 "2000-06-15T04:10:38Z")
Today’s Mailbag item, [http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mmchocblood.html](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mmchocblood.html), deals with the possibility of blood being deliberately added to British chocolate. 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](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. ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Too](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ce7236/32.png) [@Karen\_Too](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Too)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blood-in-chocolate-movie/22439/2 "2000-06-15T18:40:45Z")
Was there any chocolate in Soylent Green? ---
**Author:** ![milesprunier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@milesprunier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/milesprunier)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blood-in-chocolate-movie/22439/3 "2000-06-15T19:36:24Z")
The movie your thinking of is Consuming Passions (1988). You can read a synopsis of it at [http://us.imdb.com/Plot?0094907](http://us.imdb.com/Plot?0094907) ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blood-in-chocolate-movie/22439/4 "2000-06-15T20:40:41Z")
Man…I’ve been looking for that movie for more’n a year! Like tracer, I had no luck with IMDB. Thanks Miles, that’s exactly the movie. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blood-in-chocolate-movie/22439/5 "2000-06-15T23:19:46Z")
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](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: > [@](#): > > Slaughter a pig and save the blood drained from its throat. Bring to a boil. Add baking chocolate, sugar, candied fruit, triple-sec, vanilla extract. Let it solidify. > > The result is sanguinaccio - candy for a gourmet. A great Neapolitan invention, like Sophia Loren. It takes a MAN to appreciate one or the other. Royko’s comment: “Sounds like it might taste good if you didn’t add all that sweet stuff to it.” \Mmmmm…pig’s blood candy…\