![]() Six pieces of Scho-Ka-Kola contain about as much caffeine as a cup of coffee. See the results in the picture gallery! It's all in Finnish but the images speak for themselves. In 2013, we urged people to come up with new uses and modifications for Scho-Ka-Kola canisters. Even your own imagination is not the limit as you can imitate others! for storing coins, RPG dices, or Boresnake and other such cleaning systems. When emptied, the boxes have plenty of uses e.g. The tin box is shaped perfectly for field use, strong, and easy to open and close. These were phased out relatively soon, but the blue option made a comeback in 2012 so you can now choose between the Original and Milk Chocolate. In the '60s, the selection grew 200% with the addition of milk and hazelnut options with a different taste but all the boost. Getting chocolate would boost morale but soldiers' diaries also have mentioned that it would often also mean trouble ahead. During WW2, Scho-Ka-Kola was a part of the aviator's iron ration and was widely issued alongside normal food distribution to the army. ![]() Scho-Ka-Kola is a dark, bitter, and strong chocolate, originally developed for sports. If you are expecting some kind of Easter egg milk chocolate, this is not for you! The long history told short It is also a valid currency for bribing others in the field. The taste is strong and the bits are separated so you don't have to use your bloody bayonet for the job. Scho-Ka-Kola is chocolate with lots of caffeine, essentially a mild combat drug! (Contrary to rumors, the recipe never included other psychoactive stimulants apart from caffeine.) Buy this 10-Pack and save! Buying Scho-Ka-Kola by the kilo is a good deal and worth a lot more on the street! Also available separately. My aunt found this to be hilarious.Here's a heroic dose of that famous German energy chocolate you're looking for! This brown gold in the easily recognizable round tin box has kept ze Germans awake and efficient since the 1930s. When my aunt looked at the box she saw that all of the pieces had been pinched by this friend, in order to break the chocolate slightly and allow the friend to tell what was inside. (I recall my aged aunt speaking of a friend she had visited who had such a box of chocolates and offered her a piece. Thus, as Forrest's mother said, "You never know what you're going to get." It might be something you really wanted, it might be something that you simply have to tolerate. So, when offered you would take a piece and eat it, unsure of whether the particular piece would be something you like or something you don't like. (Many later boxes contained a label or "crib sheet" stating what pieces were what flavor, but this information was not commonly present in boxes prior to maybe 1960.) But even though the pieces were unwrapped, since they were chocolate covered it was difficult or impossible to tell if a given piece contained nougat filling, or cherry, or nuts, or whatever. They're not so common anymore, but at one time fancy boxes of chocolate-covered candies were the gift of choice to mothers and wives on the occasion of a birthday, anniversary, Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, etc.Ī typical box contained maybe 40 individual unwrapped pieces, neatly arrayed with paper (and later plastic) dividers keeping them from sliding around. You have to understand the literal meaning of "box of chocolates". ![]() And Forrest, like someone without the box lid, hasn't been going through life with any sort of plan, he's just been picking up the next chocolate and just finding out if it's a toffee or something else once he has eaten it. But you don't know until you've lived it, and by then it's too late to not live it.įorrest uses this quote to exemplify the randomness of life.įorrest has had such a random, eclectic life - much like the variety of chocolates which is in the box. So every day - every new experience - is something you really don't know about until you actually live it. You never know what life is going to give you. ![]() You're going to eat a chocolate (you know you are! admit it! you want chocolate!), but you won't know what you are getting until you bite into it - and then it's done. Problem is, since they are covered in chocolate, you can't really tell what any given piece of chocolate is going to taste like. When you open a box of chocolates, there is a variety of flavors available. It may be great experience or can be worse, but you would not know it until you live it. You don't really know what every day of your life is going to be until you live it. And in the end, you've tasted whether you liked it or not. Well, it means that you don't really know what a chocolate tastes like until you bite it.
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