And then realised it was their holiday gift chocolate coins.
― HRH Queen Kate (kate), Friday, 12 December 2003 11:53 (twenty-one years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 12 December 2003 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)
― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 12 December 2003 11:57 (twenty-one years ago)
This could be an even dumber idea than handing out pay packets in pubs!
― HRH Queen Kate (kate), Friday, 12 December 2003 11:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― HRH Queen Kate (kate), Friday, 12 December 2003 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)
― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 12 December 2003 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)
― colette (a2lette), Friday, 12 December 2003 12:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― colette (a2lette), Friday, 12 December 2003 12:02 (twenty-one years ago)
― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 12 December 2003 12:06 (twenty-one years ago)
― smee (smee), Friday, 12 December 2003 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)
What other strange non-metal things could money be made of? Cheese?
I know in the Danelaw, honey was acceptible as a form of currency in which you could pay your tax and your tithe! And on certain islands, apparently it's still legal to pay your taxes in puffins! (Or at least it was back in the 70s when I was still reading such facts in Puffin Annuals.)
― HRH Queen Kate (kate), Friday, 12 December 2003 12:41 (twenty-one years ago)
Will different countries have different types of chocolate for pay? White chocolate in Switzerland, chocolate with hamburgerjuice in America etc?
Would they be wrapped? Would some money have a Charlie's Chocolate Factory gold slip in them, and you'd get to go to the chocolate factory to see money be made?
Could rich uncle scrooge guys finally melt their money and truly swim in their money without getting bumps on their noggins? assuming you can blend it out, not boil it and die.
Will Bling Bling change name to choco loco? Will Mr T be delicious?
Will banks be replaced by confectionaries?
I think I'll miss jingling change though. Sticky pockets just doesn't sound as exciting (or possibly TOO exciting, but this isn't the "what if all money was made of jism" thread)
Obviously different types of chocolate would be worth different amounts of money. But what about blocksizes? Will f.ex. a 1kg piece be worth 4 times as much as a half-kilo block? Will one of those giant Toblerone-bars be like gold bars are today? Or are they impure due to the honey and nuts? I think they'd be the equivalent of gold bars, for that makes me happy.
"All that doesn't glitter is not chocolate"?
― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Friday, 12 December 2003 12:43 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/wonka.jpg
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 12 December 2003 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)
― TOMBOT, Friday, 12 December 2003 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)
What about different grades of chocolate for different coloured money? Like milk chocolate could be silver money and dark chocolate could be gold money, and, erm, white chocolate could be, like coppers.
Of course, then we'd have to abandon both the decimal system and paper money. And the third world debt would be sorted out, because chocolate-producing nations would be richer than first world nations!
― HRH Queen Kate (kate), Friday, 12 December 2003 12:51 (twenty-one years ago)
― colette (a2lette), Friday, 12 December 2003 12:53 (twenty-one years ago)
How about the new slang for money, then? Cross my palm with Galaxy? Rhyming slang for Cadburys? Don't EVEN try passing that Hershey's on me, man!
Victorian street urchins being told "Let me see the colour of your chocolate, young man..."
― HRH Queen Kate (kate), Friday, 12 December 2003 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)
― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Friday, 12 December 2003 13:30 (twenty-one years ago)
― C J (C J), Friday, 12 December 2003 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)
― chris (chris), Friday, 12 December 2003 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)
― C J (C J), Friday, 12 December 2003 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 12 December 2003 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)
― chris (chris), Friday, 12 December 2003 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)
"I'm sorry madam, we don't accept Hershey's Kisses here...."
― C J (C J), Friday, 12 December 2003 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)
― C J (C J), Friday, 12 December 2003 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)
― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 12 December 2003 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)
― chris (chris), Friday, 12 December 2003 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.nephco.com/japan/pocky.jpg
― El Santo Claus (Kingfish), Friday, 12 December 2003 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 12 December 2003 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)
"Minted" would stop meaning that you were rich, and start meaning that your money was adulterated! Like After Eights! Or maybe "Minted" means more than Eight Squid...
The exchange rates could get so confusing... Aussie to Euro would be, perhaps, how many Golden Roughs in a Lindt?
Though US to UK would be hard... no way a Cadburys is worth 1.6 Hershey Bars. More like 10 Hershey bars!
― HRH Queen Kate (kate), Friday, 12 December 2003 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)
― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 12 December 2003 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 12 December 2003 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)
And I always used to get After Eights because no boyfriend I ever had liked them!
― HRH Queen Kate (kate), Friday, 12 December 2003 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― C J (C J), Friday, 12 December 2003 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)
― C J (C J), Friday, 12 December 2003 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 12 December 2003 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)
― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 12 December 2003 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)
― TOMBOT, Friday, 12 December 2003 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)
They can be, like, the beaded shells of currency or something!
― HRH Queen Kate (kate), Friday, 12 December 2003 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 12 December 2003 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)
― HRH Queen Kate (kate), Friday, 12 December 2003 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)
::ducks::
Gingerbread latte by any chance?
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 12 December 2003 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)
― HRH Queen Kate (kate), Friday, 12 December 2003 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 12 December 2003 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)
― HRH Queen Kate (kate), Friday, 12 December 2003 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)
Halloween would suddenly be a lot more dangerous for little kids to be openly carrying bags of candy. People would have shotguns when answering trick-or-treaters at the door. "Take only one and get the hell outta here before you get hurt."
Robbing a bank would be like, "Load this sack with unmarked Godivas, and leave those foil coins out."
Money laundering would be much easier, you just melt the money and re-mold it in the fridge.
Counterfeit money would be made of suger-free Carob.
― sucka (sucka), Saturday, 13 December 2003 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)
Except there's a downside, as when you bite in, you immediately decrease the money's worth.Greedy people go mad, not wanting false money, yet not daring to bite in, in case it's real.Eventually they can't take it anymore and start distributing it at random to poor people, and write hippiesongs about it.
― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Saturday, 13 December 2003 13:30 (twenty-one years ago)