Last night in Las Vegas — I’ll be back in the mundane world tomorrow. I should have brought my wife out here on this trip, but I know my company isn’t enough of a draw, so I thought I’d let her know what she missed—the world’s largest chocolate fountain, here in the Bellagio.
See? I know how to seduce someone.
All of that fat manages to be significantly more attractive flowing there than when greatly expanding the human body.
Glen Davidson
George Bush was wrong. The terrorists don’t hate us for our freedom, they hate us cause we’re bogarting all the chocolate! 2 tons? Holy crap…
Glad you could make it out here to Sin City, and it was a huge honor to be able to meet you. Did you enjoy Red Rock?
Finally old enough to think “beer” when I see “Guiness” rather than “book of world records”.
Am I alone in finding the idea of eating from a vat of communal syrup just a wee bit disgusting? Or do most people see that and think “Willy Wanka!”
It’s decorative, and behind glass. You don’t get to eat from it.
Naw, Kosk. It strikes me as pretty gross too.
You’re not allowed to bathe in it.
You’re not even allowed to eat from it.
And, I suspect, the dark truth is they’ve mixed in some foul chemicals which prevent it from clogging up the plumbing, but would make it dreadful to the plumbing of guests.
As for those of you squicked out by other people eating of it … well, I hope you farm, pick, and process all your own food, rather than share in the community of human comensual microorganism which swirl through our agriculture, retail, and other industries. May as well come to appreciate having your immune system regularly tested by foreign organisms.
Not that I’m opposed to washing your vegetables before fixing a salad, but admit the truth – all that does is blunt the risks.
I watched a documentary a few nights ago about homeless people in the US, with dispossessed families in Las Vegas living in storm drains and hoping for dry weather. It must be a comfort to them to know that two years of planning and engineering went into providing their wonderful city with the world’s largest chocolate fountain.
As a chemist, I find chocolate interesting because it’s filled with chemicals (heh, like what else would it be filled with?). You know, dark chocolate and cocoa contains endocannabinoids, which is probably why people love the stuff.
You’re not allowed to bathe in it? You’re not allowed to eat it? Why the hell would they tease humans like this? That’s so not fair! *pout*
That was my first thought too – if you can’t completely jump in, what’s the point of it being the world’s biggest?
There would also have to be some heavy duty antibiotics in the chocolate to keep bacteria, fungi, and other itty-bitty critters from growing.
Chocolate is a contact sport. Fountains of the sacred ooze that can only be watched are a Blasphemy.
What a complete waste of chocolate.
point of pedantry: if the cannabinoids are in the chocolate? Then they’re not endo-, by definition.
I’ve never quite understood this need for oddball tourist attractions to be the “world’s largest”: the world’s largest ball of twine, the world’s largest ketchup bottle, even the world’s largest collection of the world’s smallest versions of the world’s largest things (ok, that last one kind of has a point). Isn’t being huge enough of an attraction?
@13 Exactly. That thing is probably a welcoming environment for all kinds of bacteria. Gross.
Huh. I always thought you seduced someone by asking them out in an elevator.
Then what is the point?
Even government agencies are not immune to the ‘biggest’ strangeness: http://www.nps.gov/stea/planyourvisit/bigboy4012.htm
At least Golden Corral lets you eat theirs. After someone else’s grubby rugrats have stuck their fingers in, licked them off, and stuck them back in, of course.
Don’t worry about germs in the chocolate fountain, it’s been chlorinated.
Mmmm …. Norwalk virus. Yummy.
(Up here febuary is our national gastro-enterititis month.)
Interestingly, the height is in metres, the weight in UK tons (near enough – 1 long ton is 2240 lb), and the flow rate is in quarts/min – I assume that’s US quarts. Tho why they are using 120 quarts/min instead of 2 quarts/sec or 30 gallons/min is beyond me.