Video: Big chocolate boats: the sweetest regatta
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Large chocolates can be not only a masterpiece of culinary art or sculpture, but also … a means of transportation. French pastry chefs showed the world a way to sail away into the sweet life on a huge bar, having arranged a unique chocolate regatta.
One day, 56-year-old Georges Larnicole, a French pastry chef, came up with the idea of taking a ride down the river in a chocolate boat. Perhaps to create big floating chocolate bar he was inspired by the presence of unsold stocks in a not weak amount of about 1,200 kilograms. Unlike the rhyme about the three wise men who set out on the sea in one basin, the story of Larnicole's voyage has a good ending: he managed to dock in the port of Concarneau. But the desperate chocolatier did not stop there.
He made 7 more chocolate boats (or simply chokolodok) - and this is already enough for a real river regatta! It started in the French city of Cimpe and attracted the attention of thousands of people. We have already written about such unusual races as dry sailing regatta, racing in amphibious cars and even inflatable women; but, of course, the chocolate regatta is the tastiest competition possible. Each large chocolate bar weighed about 450 kilograms, and was cast from chocolate not demanded by customers. Sweet ships sailed under brown sails with the logo of Georges Larnicol.
Let's be honest: not all of the 7 floating chocolates managed to reach the finish line. Three boats still sank. When our descendants decide to remember the old days and clean the Ode river bed, they will be able to enjoy themselves wonderfully!
Of course, the audience immediately suspected that the whole action was undertaken for the purpose of PR for the already well-known confectionery house Larnicole. But is PR really that bad? However, the old pastry chef says that he started the action solely for fun. Anyway, next swim on big chocolates is preparing for June 2012, and should take place in Brest.
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