Sunday, July 18, 2010
Largest
chocolate coin
- Science World sets world record
VANCOUVER, B.C., Canada -- Chocolatiers Gary Mitchell,
Jess Nolasco and Rita Craig from Purdy's Chocolates spent
more than eight hours creating a 25-pound chocolate coin,
measuring 60 cm wide and 5 cm thick, valued at $625, on display
at Science 
World -
which sets the world record for the Largest
chocolate coin
.
Photo: The 25-pound chocolate coin at
Science World is valued at $625 and is part of the Treasure!
exhibition. Photo: Bill Chung/Science World
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photo
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Part of an exhibition called Treasure!,
the milk chocolate coin
valued at $625 is a draw prize for
participants in a Science World treasure hunt.
Chocolatiers Gary Mitchell, Jess Nolasco
and Rita Craig from Purdy's Chocolates spent more than eight
hours creating the coin using four-and-a-half litres of milk,
5.56 grams of sugar and more than 10,000 cocoa beans. It's
60 cm wide and 5 cm thick.
The draw for the coin is on Sept. 7.
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Sunday, July 18, 2010
