Apparently towards the end of the Victorian era it was common practice for husbands to assume they must have infected their wives with Syphilis. They didn't tell them but gave them chocolates containing the medication of the time.
Is that the origin of giving your girl friend/partner/wife a box of chocolates when you are feeling guilty?
Mart
Box of chocolates
Re: Box of chocolates
Funny, you never see this in the Cadbury's ads, 'buy our choccies, and stave off syph', do you?
I think in future I'll just say it with flowers........
I think in future I'll just say it with flowers........
"a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the
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Deuce Bigolo
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Re: Box of chocolates
I never give chocolates as gifts so I'm safe
I wouldn't be so sure about Flowers...they are edible after all
Plastic flowers maybe...you can use them again and again and again
Theres a message in there somewhere
cheers
B...OZ
I wouldn't be so sure about Flowers...they are edible after all
Plastic flowers maybe...you can use them again and again and again
Theres a message in there somewhere
cheers
B...OZ
Re: Box of chocolates
"I never give chocolates as gifts so I'm safe".
Well, no, they'd melt in Oz, wouldn't they?
Mind you, if Dibsy has his beef smoked much more, the resultant by-product heat will send Britain's temperature soaring, too. That, and the steam coming out of my ears.........
Well, no, they'd melt in Oz, wouldn't they?
Mind you, if Dibsy has his beef smoked much more, the resultant by-product heat will send Britain's temperature soaring, too. That, and the steam coming out of my ears.........
"a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the
signification...."
signification...."