# Death By Chocolate.  Literally.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-by-chocolate-literally/120856>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 26, 2002, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-by-chocolate-literally/120856 "2002-07-26T01:06:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-by-chocolate-literally/120856/1 "2002-07-26T01:06:27Z")

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[Factory worker dies after being submerged in chocolate vat](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020724/ap_wo_en_po/us_chocolate_death_1)

HATFIELD, Pennsylvania - A candy factory worker died after being submerged in a 1,200-gallon vat of liquefied chocolate, police said.

(Just imagine the poor soul’s conversation with St. Peter…)

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**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-by-chocolate-literally/120856/2 "2002-07-26T01:46:54Z")

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Crap! This is on par with “Death By Orgasm”. Either way is fine by me.

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-by-chocolate-literally/120856/3 "2002-07-26T02:34:45Z")

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[Smothers Bros.]  
I yelled ‘FIRE’ when I fell into the chocolate,  
I yelled ‘FIRE’ when I fell into the chocolate,  
Why’d you yell ‘FIRE’ when you fell into the chocolate,  
—cause no one’d saved me if I yelled ‘CHOCOLATE!’  
[/Smothers Bros]

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**Author:** ![Daniel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Daniel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daniel)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-by-chocolate-literally/120856/4 "2002-07-26T02:59:00Z")

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I can’t wait to see this as an episode of Six Feet Under

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**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-by-chocolate-literally/120856/5 "2002-07-26T05:38:16Z")

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I wonder if they kept the chocolate anyhow and still made candy bars out of it…?

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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-by-chocolate-literally/120856/6 "2002-07-26T06:48:15Z")

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I knew that M&M was crunchier than usual.

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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-by-chocolate-literally/120856/7 "2002-07-26T06:50:42Z")

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(after reading the article) It is sad though. The poor guy was only 19, and his family will have to live with all the bad jokes made by TV talk show hosts, message board administrators, etc.

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**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-by-chocolate-literally/120856/8 "2002-07-26T08:24:23Z")

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I’m wondering how _Law & Order_ will make an episode out of this.

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**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-by-chocolate-literally/120856/9 "2002-07-26T09:23:54Z")

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I guess he had to one up the Crunchy Frog.