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The History of Chocolate Eggs

Lucky Peach

“Chocolate eggs are more than candies, symbols, or what the German Insurance Association calls “delicious, energy-rich products of the confectionery industry”: they confuse and titillate; they suggest egginess when no real eggs are in sight. Eggs are so fundamentally about origins that even egg-shaped chocolates can’t help but evoke their antecedents.”

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