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This wonderful new BorgCo product consists of a 13 wide by 29 high array of shelves fabricated from heavy grade pre-cut cardboard.
The front of the shelves is covered by a garishly-printed cardboard sheet with 364 pre-cut flaps. Behind each "door" is a 500g bar of chocolate, double wrapped in foil.
Each door has a month and day on it. A special version is available for leap years. Some special dates are "double", i.e 25 June, half-way to Christmas.
The purchaser can choose from a range of contents, from "all milk" or "alternate milk and plain" to a random selection including fruit and nut, white, crispy rice, mint, or anything else.
The first door is labelled "26 December". The user gets to open one door a day up to 24 December. On the 25th, lift the now-empty pack to reveal the extra chocolate behind the panel in the base.
Ask your doctor if tooth decay, obesity and Type II diabetes are right for you.
Advent Calendar²
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Prior Art acknowledged [8th of 7, Nov 06 2017]
Full year advent calendar
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[hippo, Nov 06 2017]
I was hoping for something more like this
https://metrouk2.fi...8-80462_636x300.jpg
[MaxwellBuchanan, Nov 06 2017]
[link]
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Why is each bar only 500g? |
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Because even at 500g per bar, the assembly is 200 kg and has to
be moved on a pallet truck. |
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Larger daily portions are available if you are prepared to
assemble the modules yourself; the "500g" size is the largest*
available as a self-contained pre-packed unit. |
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Please note that the calendars are year-specific, having the day
of the week as well as the date; there is no "Best Before" date as
the intention is that the entire contents will be consumed within
the shelf-life of the chocolate, or (much more like
y) the owner will die in the
attempt (but probably with a smile on their face) |
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*note that no smaller sizes are available. |
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Re: <link> ... Yes, [hip], it's certainly prior art, but crippled by the fundamental absence of chocolate. |
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//even at 500g per bar, the assembly is 200 kg and has to be moved on a pallet truck.// |
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I still don't understand this at all. Why is each bar only 500g? |
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Because we haven’t invented neutron-star chocolate yet,
although black-hole dark sounds good... |
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// Why is each bar only 500g? // |
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That's the smallest size ... much, much larger bars are available.
Our "Kardassian" model contains 364 bars each of 10 kg, and
has proved modestly popular, whereas the "Hello Magazine "
version, loaded with 25 kg bars of a special sickly -sweet cloying
treacly formulation has been a remarkable and unexpected
success. |
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It would be good to have every door contain twice the
quantity of chocolate of the previous door. So, if
the 364th door has a 500g bar of chocolate, the 1st
door would have just a morsel - 1.3*10^-107g - of
chocolate. |
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