<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[shape+colour]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://shapeandcolour.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Jeremy]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://shapeandcolour.wordpress.com/author/shapeandcolour/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[chocolate from mary &amp; matt + brooklyn&nbsp;brothers.]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>I think I&#8217;ve figured out the key secrets to making modern-urban-funky chocolatricks. Herein, my thoughts:</p>
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<li>Helvetica. The international font of modern. Use it everywhere. Use it often.</li>
<li>Packaging should include white, the traditional foil, and pink. Not any pink, but acid Barbie doll porno pink. The kind of pink that makes your eyeballs wiggle a little when you look at it.</li>
<li>Much like dropping cherry bombs in the toilet or stealing a large diamond from a pedestal in an art gallery, you need to create a diversion. Fool me somehow. If my mind is left to focus on the fact that I&#8217;m eating chocolate, I might get fat. Confuse and befuddle me and it&#8217;s possible my metabolism will be right behind.</li>
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<p>I give you Exhibit A:</p>
<p><img src="https://shapeandcolour.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/choc1.jpg" alt="choc1.jpg" /></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the Chocolate Scrabble bar from New York design team <a href="http://www.maryandmatt.net/"><font color="#ff00ff">Mary &amp; Matt</font></a>.  Clearly demonstrating all three hallmarks of choco-cool, the best of all is the Scrabble-game diversion. You&#8217;ll be so busy thinking up &#8220;qu&#8221; words that you won&#8217;t have time to count calories. Unfortunately, it&#8217;s not available on their website as of right now. Either it sold out, or Hasbro (á la Facebook&#8217;s Scrabulous) is trying to sue their asses off for daring to tread upon the sanctity of Scrabble™®© without their express permission. It&#8217;s a game, not the Qur&#8217;an, let&#8217;s try and keep that in mind. Also keep in mind the proper and legal trade-marking, registered trade-marking, and copyright I have assigned to the Scrabble™®© name, should anyone from Hasbro see this and have the urge to run me into the poorhouse.</p>
<p>And now, Exhibit B:</p>
<p><img src="https://shapeandcolour.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/choc3.jpg" alt="choc3.jpg" /></p>
<p><a href="http://www.fatpigchocolate.com/"><font color="#ff00ff">Fat Pig Chocolate</font></a>, created by New York creativos <a href="http://www.brooklynbrothers.com"><font color="#ff00ff">Brooklyn Brothers</font></a>,  features all the hallmarks of cool candy. You&#8217;ve got your vagina-pink foil and nifty branding in Helvetica. But, in a surprise twist, rather than divert you from the fact that you&#8217;re eating candy, they&#8217;ve called a spade a spade. Eat up fatty!</p>
<p><img src="https://shapeandcolour.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/choc2.jpg" alt="choc2.jpg" /><img src="https://shapeandcolour.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/choc4.jpg" alt="choc4.jpg" /></p>
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