An entire room made of chocolate? For real!

[eppur_se_muova]

NEW YORK (AP) -- Don't lick the walls.

An all-chocolate room was unveiled in Manhattan on Tuesday -- a pre-Valentine's Day creation complete with furniture and artwork made of the sweet stuff.

"It's the perfect bit of sin," said Ali Larter, star of TV's "Heroes," of the Godiva chocolate "pearls" that are her private daily indulgence.

Here, they were dripping off the chandeliers above the dining table, which was a sea of stars, truffles and crescents -- all chocolate, of course, under glass.

Larter is the celebrity face hired by the Belgian chocolatier for its annual Valentine's Day promotion contest. This year, anyone who buys the winning box of chocolates -- for $23 and up -- may win the chocolate room. It is to be re-created in a suite of Manhattan's Bryant Park Hotel for a pampered getaway weekend for two in May.

The winning box -- sold only in North America -- will contain a note informing the buyer of his or her good luck.
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more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/funnynews/01/29/chocolate.room.ap/index.html

[YankeyMCC]

1. Am I just a grumpy stick in the mud

because whenever I hear of stuff like this I'm just disgusted?

I've nothing against a bit of fun and indulgence - and particularly with chocolate :) now and then, but this sort of extravagant display just seems so distasteful and wasteful. All that energy and resources wasted for a chocolate room? How many people will actually get enjoyment out of it vs how many would've gotten joy out of all the other things that could've been done with the chocolate and not to mention money and energy that was put into this silly thing.

[Heidi]

2. On the other hand, it could be seen as art,

and you wouldn't be the first person to criticize the way art is made or presented. :hi:

[Jamastiene]

3. My bedroom in Heaven.

:loveya:

[baldguy]

4. .

[zabet]

5. I want a whole house built like that.

Just so I could literally
eat my way out of house and
home.

:9