Four Italians, all instructors at a survival school, were used to dealing with harsh conditions. Among the other survival skills they had, they even had a lot of practice at building igloos, just in case they were ever stranded in the mountains and needed to stay warm to stay alive. Despite all their varied experiences, however, they weren't quite prepared to embark on their most recent challenge: building an igloo out of chocolate.
The dark chocolate structure was built for the Eurochocolate Fair in Perugia, weighs nearly 8,000-lbs and stands about 54-ft high. A regular igloo takes about 3 hours to complete, but the chocolate one took 23 hours due to the challenges posed by the material, which could both melt and crumble during construction. One of the builders said that it was "much more difficult than building a normal snow igloo," although the working environment in an air-conditioned room was probably a little more plesant than a snowy mountaintop.
10-17-2006 @11:45AM Runner said... I usually go to Eurochocolate every year, but had to miss this year's because I'm running the NYC marathon. I would have loved to see this under construction!!
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10-17-2006 @9:49PM James said... What a waste!
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10-18-2006 @12:05AM Camille Bauman said... I hope it melts and surrounds them with a choclate lava flow for wasting all that good chocolate. Think about all the starving people in the worl, for Heaven's sake!
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10-17-2006 @11:00PM JoAnne said... Oh my GOD! Now THIS is my DREAM HOME!! LOL!!!
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10-19-2006 @2:29AM divina cucina said... FYI, all the chocolate used in Euro chocolate to buils things is chopped up and given away at the end of the show.
Last time I went they were sculpting huhe blocks and were surrounded by hungry chocolate lovers, waiting for the waste!
I was just there this year...
Can there be such a thing as too much chocolate?
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