Chocolate…it tastes lovely, doesn’t it? Well, guess what? It’ll taste even more lovely if you eat a giant chocolate button! Most artists carve things from soap, wood, or clay, but chocolate? Hmmm…interesting. This chocolate is part of a project called Edible Histories and is partly to celebrate 650 years since King Edwards lll grant the city of Bristol special rights and its royal charter.
Visitors walking into the exabit might never know the button in front of them is edible. The round shiny circle looks exactly like what you might find on the front of any sweater, just way way bigger.
The chocolate weighs about 18k, around the weight of a full suitcase. It has a diameter of 1m, which is enough to let two or three people use it as a table! Even though it’s this big, it’s one of the smallest objects on display at the Glenside Hospital Museum. And is only one of five chocolate objects that have been made in Fairtrade chocolate to symbolize the city’s trading history.
Some of the other things in the collection are a big, chocolate wheel and a 2m replica of Concorde. Concorde is a high-speed passenger plane that will be displayed at the Aerospace Museum in Filton.
But everyone’s wondering…when can we eat them? The chocolate objects will be brought together in October. Ten lucky people who came to watch the event will be chosen and handed special hammers. The hammers can be used to break the chocolate with the hammers. They will also be the first to eat and taste the chocolate, before passing pieces out to others who have come to watch the once-in-a-lifetime event.
Then Luke Jerram, the artist in charge of the project and his team will bring the rest of the chocolate to local food banks in Bristol.
If you want to be the first ever human being to taste a giant chocolate button, you’d better go to the event and cross your fingers!
Visitors walking into the exabit might never know the button in front of them is edible. The round shiny circle looks exactly like what you might find on the front of any sweater, just way way bigger.
The chocolate weighs about 18k, around the weight of a full suitcase. It has a diameter of 1m, which is enough to let two or three people use it as a table! Even though it’s this big, it’s one of the smallest objects on display at the Glenside Hospital Museum. And is only one of five chocolate objects that have been made in Fairtrade chocolate to symbolize the city’s trading history.
Some of the other things in the collection are a big, chocolate wheel and a 2m replica of Concorde. Concorde is a high-speed passenger plane that will be displayed at the Aerospace Museum in Filton.
But everyone’s wondering…when can we eat them? The chocolate objects will be brought together in October. Ten lucky people who came to watch the event will be chosen and handed special hammers. The hammers can be used to break the chocolate with the hammers. They will also be the first to eat and taste the chocolate, before passing pieces out to others who have come to watch the once-in-a-lifetime event.
Then Luke Jerram, the artist in charge of the project and his team will bring the rest of the chocolate to local food banks in Bristol.
If you want to be the first ever human being to taste a giant chocolate button, you’d better go to the event and cross your fingers!
