Wembley Arena
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A large chocolate base covered in green icing becomes a football pitch, with Jelly Baby players and homemade advertising boards.
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- Unable to find a snack nobody had copied, the makers built a football pitch. The ingredients were 950g of Galaxy chocolate, 550g of Dairy Milk, 150g of icing sugar, 2 bags of Jelly Babies, 2 pieces of apple-flavoured bubble gum, 4 tubes of writing icing, 2 boxes of candy sticks, half a bottle of green food colouring 7 years out of date, marshmallows, and a box of Cadbury Fingers, a pack of strawberry laces and a slab of Milky Bar bought but eaten or ignored, about £13. A load of chocolate was melted, poured into a big tray and frozen in the fridge for about an hour. The grass was icing made with far too much water and 1997-vintage dye, a watery mint green rescued with more icing sugar; after another freeze it was still runny, leaked out and would not hold up the Jelly Baby players, who looked drunk, so the edge of the pitch was reinforced with the Dairy Milk and an advertising board added. The cross-section shows the pitch is solid chocolate; it was not all that bad, and the makers conclude it is better to pimp something you can copy, and to plan. Source 1 · Source 2 · Source 3 · Source 4 · Source 5 · Source 6 · Source 7 · Source 8 · Source 9 · Source 10 · Source 11
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Ingredients: Galaxy chocolate, 950g Dairy Milk chocolate, 550g Icing sugar, 150g Jelly Babies, 2 bags Apple flavoured bubble gum, 2 pieces Writing Icing, 4 tubes Candy sticks, 2 boxes Green food colouring, half bottle ( 7 years out of date ) Marshmallows, 1 Cadbury Fingers, 1 box ( unused but eaten ) Strawberry lace, 1 pack ( unused but eaten ) Milky Bar, 1 slab ( not bothered with )
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We decided that there were not enough snacks to replicate without copying other peoples and running the risk of being sued. There was only one thing to do… make a football pitch.
Ingredients:
Galaxy chocolate, 950g
Dairy Milk chocolate, 550g
Icing sugar, 150g
Jelly Babies, 2 bags
Apple flavoured bubble gum, 2 pieces
Writing Icing, 4 tubes
Candy sticks, 2 boxes
Green food colouring, half bottle ( 7 years out of date )
Marshmallows, 1
Cadbury Fingers, 1 box ( unused but eaten )
Strawberry lace, 1 pack ( unused but eaten )
Milky Bar, 1 slab ( not bothered with )
Estimated Cost: £13
As usual it all starts with melting a load of chocolate.
Pour into a big tray and freeze (in fridge) for about an hour.
Next we had to create the "grass" for our pitch. However, we had far too much water and some food dye that was good to consume in around 1997. This gave us some watery, mint-green excuse for icing.
After buying some reinforcements in the form of more icing sugar, we finally had enough icing, and it didn’t have the consistency of water.
We froze it all (again) and then took it out when we realised we needed to put the players on. However, even though the icing wasn’t a thin liquid, it was still runny. Having leaked out in great supply, it refused to hold up the jelly baby players, who consequentially all looked like they’d been at the bottle a bit too much. We opted for reinforcing the edge of the pitch with the dairy milk. We added a nice advertising board as well, just to finish it off.
And here we are, our great modelling and pimping skills not necessarily on show.
The cross-sectional view shows that the pitch really is solid chocolate.
Finally, we had to try it. It wasn’t all that bad; depending on how strong your stomach is.
From this "little" experiment, we can deduce that it is much better to pimp something that you can copy. Prior planning, a stage we skipped entirely, is also highly recommended.
