Radioactive chocolate

by Shayna Glick, Posted Jul 1st 2008 @ 11:00AM

A bar of chocolate from germany at the turn of the century that has radium in it.

Hey, would you like to try a piece of radioactive chocolate? I'm not sure how popular this was, but apparently during the first part of the 20th century manufacturers were putting radium in everything. Seriously, check it out (unfortunately it's all in French and I can't read anything on this website).

After Marie Curie discovered radium, everybody wanted a piece of the action, according to Neatorama. This chocolate bar was sold in the early to mid 1930's and was advertised as a rejuvenating food. I wonder if this was discontinued because it was unpopular or if people discovered that radium was harmful?

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Tags: chocolate, neatorama, radioactive chocolate, RadioactiveChocolate, radium

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7-01-2008 @11:43AM Narmeen Makhani said... Here's the translated version of the site:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dissident-media.org%2Finfonucleaire%2Fradieux.html&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=fr&tl=en

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7-01-2008 @5:12PM Charles Sprinkle said... Fun fact: Radium was even bottled into water as a miracle cure. One fellow drank so much of it that eventually his lower jaw fell off. It was probably after that incident that people became aware to the dangers of radium.
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