CHOCOLATROPE

by The Chocolate Dictionary

The revelation of chocolagrams (see separate dictionary entry) is that every brand, characteristic, and variety of chocolate contains an anagram of its underlying seductive intentions. But when the name of a chocolate already reveals its seductive intentions, and needs no anagramming or further probing, it is known as a chocolatrope. Thorntons, who once promoted their Continental Selection with the tagline, ‘Women finally get what they want’, revealed exactly what it was that women wanted when ‘Thorntons Continental’ was shown to contain the chocolagram: Lo! instant horn content. Yet this wasn’t enough for the once-ubiquitous Continental Selection. Sensing a gap in the market, Thorntons went a step further and launched the Eden Collection which, in their own words, was ‘the ultimate box of mouth-watering chocolates, devised especially for the art of seduction’. Dispensing with any pretence to innuendo or hidden messages in anagrams, Eden gave women, and men buying for women, chocolates called Lust, Passion, Temptation, Seduction, Desire, and Original Sin. ‘Mouth-watering’ chocolates like these are all chocolatropes.

Not that Thorntons were alone in this more overt approach. In New York State, truffles from Lagusta’s Luscious were made to represent strong women everywhere – ‘beautiful, complex, sophisticated, and slightly hilarious’. One of their best sellers was the Harlot Box, so-called because the four pomegranate and four melon truffles it contained were ‘all tart’. At the time of writing, Lagusta’s Luscious have a line of ‘softly peppery and sweetly salty’ dark chocolates called Furious Vulvas. And, until recently, one of Rococo’s most popular chocolates was their Venus Nipple, a naughty-but-nice coffee truffle enrobed in white chocolate. 

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Sadly for the dedicated seducers of the world, Thornton’s Eden Collection was discontinued in 2010, though not before leaving a choice selection of thong-themed chocolagrams for those who needed them:

Thornton’s Eden Range = 

thong ensnared tenor

ends not near thong!

on / near ten red thongs.

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