Chocolate Box Art
August 18, 2021 6:49 PM Subscribe
Sure, maybe the Candy Wrapper Museum includes a McVitie's Penguin. But does it have an extraordinarily rare Cadbury Chocolate Box, illustrated by Arthur Rackham in 1933? Please enjoy the story of Luxury assortment: the British artists behind Cadbury's chocolate boxes.
How fascinating! I only became aware of chocolate box art as a genre from the answers in this AskMe about chocolate box art, and your main link is answering a lot of questions I hadn't thought to ask.
posted by LobsterMitten at 6:04 AM on August 19, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by LobsterMitten at 6:04 AM on August 19, 2021 [1 favorite]
I like that they have an image of each artist’s gallery work to compare to the chocolate-box work.
posted by clew at 1:29 PM on August 19, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by clew at 1:29 PM on August 19, 2021 [1 favorite]
LobsterMitten, thanks for the link--the answers to that question really put this project in context.
posted by MonkeyToes at 2:06 PM on August 19, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by MonkeyToes at 2:06 PM on August 19, 2021 [1 favorite]
Anyone know how expensive chocolates were then proportional to now? It isn’t just that we produce and ship most material more cheaply, but filled chocolates might have been far more perishable, which makes them more significant while they last.
(On reflection, chocolate creams so shelf-stable that they can get remaindered in drugstores are kind of creepy. )
posted by clew at 6:33 PM on August 19, 2021
(On reflection, chocolate creams so shelf-stable that they can get remaindered in drugstores are kind of creepy. )
posted by clew at 6:33 PM on August 19, 2021
“...but filled chocolates might have been far more perishable...”
Makes me think of the Jacques Brel song “Les Bonbons.”
Je vous ai apporté des bonbons
Parce que les fleurs c'est périssable
Puis les bonbons c'est tellement bon
Bien que les fleurs soient plus présentables
Surtout quand elles sont en boutons mais
Je vous ai apporté des bonbons.
(I brought you candy
Because flowers are perishable
And candies are so good;
Although flowers are more presentable,
Especially when they are in bud,
But I brought you candy.)
posted by The Underpants Monster at 9:10 PM on August 19, 2021
Makes me think of the Jacques Brel song “Les Bonbons.”
Je vous ai apporté des bonbons
Parce que les fleurs c'est périssable
Puis les bonbons c'est tellement bon
Bien que les fleurs soient plus présentables
Surtout quand elles sont en boutons mais
Je vous ai apporté des bonbons.
(I brought you candy
Because flowers are perishable
And candies are so good;
Although flowers are more presentable,
Especially when they are in bud,
But I brought you candy.)
posted by The Underpants Monster at 9:10 PM on August 19, 2021
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