Chocolate and diamond valentine

by Nick Vagnoni (Subscribe to Nick Vagnoni's posts)
Posted Jan 26th 2006 10:07AM
Filed under: Chocolate, Asia, Trends

Ok, so far we've posted about a $950 cocktail, a $10,000 cake and even a $1.7 million cake. Well, the one-upmanship continues in Japan, where a jeweler has created a $5 million valentine made of chocolate and diamonds. The item, shaped like the African continent in tribute to its creator's connection to South Africa, is made of dark chocolate peppered with 2,000 diamonds.

I guess we can file this one under "just because they can."

Several other images of the diamond-encrusted choco-continent are available here.

Tags: africa, chocolate, diamonds, jeweler, valentine

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1-26-2006 @ 10:01PM

Robyn said...

That is fucked up! Isn't there stuff about how the diamond industry abuses African workers and stuff like that? I thought that meant people would try to avoid the connection between diamonds and Africa--unless they were trying to make a political statement. that's an anti-diamond political statement.

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