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Thread started 12/06/22 7:17pm

LoveGalore

What kind of chocolates were in the chocolate box?

Prince did a lot of traveling in Europe so he got to taste some of the best chocolate around. I know he had a particularness about food too, so I'm really curious what kind of chocolates he had in the box?

For reference, the lyric in "Chocolate Box":

"I got a box of chocolates that'll rock the socks off any girl that wants to come my way."

Additionally, is this chocolate the same stuff he sings about a year later in "No More Candy 4 I"? Do we even consider chocolate "candy" anyway?
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Reply #1 posted 12/06/22 7:25pm

purplethunder3
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"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato

https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0
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Reply #2 posted 12/06/22 8:31pm

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Hannah Welton did say that he was like a box of chocolate, you never knew what you were gonna get with him.

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Reply #3 posted 12/07/22 1:28am

Vannormal

Hannah Welton... waaw! Such a bright mind...

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves. And wiser people so full of doubts" (Bertrand Russell 1872-1972)
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Reply #4 posted 12/07/22 1:42am

LILpoundCAKE

Vannormal said:

Hannah Welton... waaw! Such a bright mind...


oh wow lol she was around prince for 4 years, so I think she knows a little bit about him.

she also seems to have enough respect for him to not mention his name constantly but to
just sit back and be a footnote in his carreer.

as far as the box of chocolates goes, I always took it to be more about his songs and then
also about his romantic/sensual/sexual repertoire.

you know, one 'chocolate' might be a 'deep purple groove from the shelve' and another one
might be 'lickin a sister on the knees' and such giggle


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Reply #5 posted 12/07/22 8:02am

RJOrion

Probably white chocolate...im pretty sure it wasnt dark chocolate
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Reply #6 posted 12/07/22 8:29am

LoveGalore

RJOrion said:

Probably white chocolate...im pretty sure it wasnt dark chocolate


Cmon it's at least hazelnut chocolate.
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Reply #7 posted 12/07/22 10:16am

PacManPlus

OK, I thought this was going to be about the old bootleg from the 80's "Chocolate Box", which was a triple (?) album set...


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Reply #8 posted 12/07/22 10:29am

LoveGalore

PacManPlus said:


OK, I thought this was going to be about the old bootleg from the 80's "Chocolate Box", which was a triple (?) album set...




Wasn't Jewel Box the 3 cd set and Chocolate Box was a single disc that has rereleases of stuff in better quality
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Reply #9 posted 12/07/22 11:58am

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LoveGalore said:

PacManPlus said:

OK, I thought this was going to be about the old bootleg from the 80's "Chocolate Box", which was a triple (?) album set...


Wasn't Jewel Box the 3 cd set and Chocolate Box was a single disc that has rereleases of stuff in better quality

Then there was the 2010 free release from FBG titled "Box "O" Chocolates," which had some of the chocolate Box tracks in better quality still.

Formerly TheDigitalGardener etc.
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Reply #10 posted 12/07/22 12:21pm

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RJOrion said:

Probably white chocolate...im pretty sure it wasnt dark chocolate


White chocolate is just another scheme perpetrated by The Man to keep a brutha down.

We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves.
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Reply #11 posted 12/07/22 12:24pm

LoveGalore

Genesia said:



RJOrion said:


Probably white chocolate...im pretty sure it wasnt dark chocolate


White chocolate is just another scheme perpetrated by The Man to keep a brutha down.



Interesting take from the white theater kid crowd!

However, white chocolate isn't even really chocolate I thought. Isn't it considered something else entirely but calling it white chocolate was good marketing.
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Reply #12 posted 12/08/22 2:07pm

TrevorAyer

errbody know p packin one oversized tootsie roll in dat box ... nuttin else

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Reply #13 posted 12/22/22 6:33am

Genesia

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LoveGalore said:

Genesia said:


White chocolate is just another scheme perpetrated by The Man to keep a brutha down.

Interesting take from the white theater kid crowd! However, white chocolate isn't even really chocolate I thought. Isn't it considered something else entirely but calling it white chocolate was good marketing.

We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves.
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Reply #14 posted 12/22/22 10:20am

ShellyMcG

I love white chocolate.
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Reply #15 posted 12/22/22 12:53pm

RJOrion

Dark Chocolate is good for you...White Chocolate is bad for you...heed the signs.
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Reply #16 posted 12/22/22 12:54pm

ShellyMcG

RJOrion said:

Dark Chocolate is good for you...White Chocolate is bad for you...heed the signs.


Dark chocolate tastes bitter. White chocolate tastes better.
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Reply #17 posted 12/22/22 1:20pm

RJOrion

ShellyMcG said:

RJOrion said:

Dark Chocolate is good for you...White Chocolate is bad for you...heed the signs.


Dark chocolate tastes bitter. White chocolate tastes better.


Taste is subjective...and besides, many things that taste good, are very bad for you...
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Reply #18 posted 12/22/22 1:31pm

ShellyMcG

RJOrion said:

ShellyMcG said:



Dark chocolate tastes bitter. White chocolate tastes better.


Taste is subjective...and besides, many things that taste good, are very bad for you...


Very true. And the opposite is also true. A lot of what's good for you tastes horrible.
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Reply #19 posted 12/22/22 1:39pm

funkbabyandthe
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He was more into caramel.

In terms of actual chocolate lol, i believe he understood the greatness of Belgian,and european choclatiers in general

He prob discovered lindt or a swedish company

Their stuff is amazing

American chocolate does not compare
Hersheys? Reeses?
Those are inarguably inferior.
[Edited 12/22/22 13:40pm]
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Reply #20 posted 12/23/22 7:58am

ShellyMcG

funkbabyandthebabysitters said:

He was more into caramel.

In terms of actual chocolate lol, i believe he understood the greatness of Belgian,and european choclatiers in general

He prob discovered lindt or a swedish company

Their stuff is amazing

American chocolate does not compare
Hersheys? Reeses?
Those are inarguably inferior.
[Edited 12/22/22 13:40pm]


American "chocolate" is horrible. Someone brought me a bar of chocolate back from New York and it was literally like eating candle wax.
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Reply #21 posted 12/23/22 11:18am

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purplethunder3121 said:


I've got to rewatch that movie this weekend.
Time keeps on slipping into the future...


This moment is all there is...
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Reply #22 posted 12/23/22 2:03pm

IanRG

White, Black. Puerto Rican, every chocolate just a freakin'

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Reply #23 posted 12/23/22 5:53pm

ChocolateBox31
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rolleyes

"That mountain top situation is not really what it's all cracked up 2 B when eye was doing the Purple Rain tour eye had a lot of people who eye knew eye'll never c again @ the concerts.just screamin n places they thought they was suppose 2 scream."prince
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Reply #24 posted 12/23/22 7:45pm

onlyforaminute

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lol
Time keeps on slipping into the future...


This moment is all there is...
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Reply #25 posted 12/23/22 11:47pm

funkbabyandthe
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you gotta give me some of your (Chocolate)
What you waitin' 4?
(Chocolate) Ha, oh Lord
Give me some of that (Chocolate)
Just can't wait no more
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