Chocolate Cigarettes

Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, is selling his own brand of luxury chocolate Easter eggs, the Mirror reported on Saturday.

The prince's organic chocolate confections have gone on sale at London's swanky Fortnum & Mason's grocery store for $43 each.

The 14 oz. eggs, made from dark Belgian chocolate, are being sold by the prince's natural food company, Duchy Originals, with all proceeds going to charity. Each egg will be embossed with the prince's crest and will also be sold over the Internet.

"This is a luxury egg for serious chocoholics," Duchy Originals spokeswoman Fiona Gately told the Mirror. "It's made with 70 percent rich dark chocolate and has a distinctive flavor," she said.

In a surprisingly similar endeavor, former U.S. presidential candidate Ron is selling packs of chocolate cigarettes. Ron intends to target the unique candies to children and the infirmed.

Ron's business plan has been widely criticized, but he insists that his product will be successful. "I know what the people want," said Ron in a statement. "They want the oral fix of a cigarette with the sugar high afforded by chocolate." He likened the chocolate stains consumers would get on their fingers to the nicotine stains real smokers get from prolonged smoking. "You get the whole package with my product."

He plans on marketing one brand of chocolate cigarettes--the fictional Ron's Creamy Lung Sticks--in many "flavors". He intends on using dark chocolate for unfiltered, milk chocolate for menthol, and white chocolate for cloved cigarettes.

Ron intends to use most of the proceeds to fund his 2004 presidential campaign and the rest to cover gambling debts.

Posted by Ron at March 25, 2002 11:54 PM

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