CHOCO STORY: THE BRUGIAN CHOCOLATE MUSEUM

This big chocolate egg is found in Bruges' big chocolate museum.  Sadly, the museum is not made of chocolate, but it does offer enough bizarre, miscellaneous chocolate-centric stuff to almost make up for it.  Almost.  Upon entry, there is complimentary chocolate, which is one of Carmen's favorite types of chocolate, along with milk, milk chocolate that is, although dipping chocolate products in milk can be very rewarding, especially Oreos, which are doubly satisfying when paired with milk as one can watch the milk slowly worm through the rivets and shapings of the Oreo choco shell.

Cortez brought chocolate back to the Old, grimy world.  Then he went back to South America and extinctified the Aztecs on his continent-spanning blood march!  Choco Story describes his role in Choco History as "Once in the Americas, Cortez bartered for the cocoa beans and knowledge of chocolate production from the Aztecs.  Later, he enacted his veritable genocide [sic]."

Both the monkey and the cocoa bean were fake.  :(

For centuries, each generation of the Belgian Royal Family has its own special chocolate tin designed for commemoration of their useless position and the storage of chocolate.  Notice the joy on the wee one to the far left.  Carmen imagines his name to be Greggy Boy, a precocious but strong-willed youth with a taste for poetry, fine linens, and the viola.  Also take note on how Greggy Boy's felicitous attitude decidedly juxtaposed the look of savage terror on his younger brothers face (HANS).

This is Jack Sparrow and Barbaras made out of chocolate.  The Orlando Bloom made out of chocolate was life-sized and horrifying and there were actual warnings against capturing it on camera for, as the signage warned, "detrimental repercussions to the human psyche" could occur.