Radioactive Chocolate. Yum! - Neatorama

Shortly after the discovery of radium in 1898 by Marie Curie and her husband Pierre, everyone wanted to put it in their products. Behold one of the strangest use of radioactivity ever: the radioactive radium chocolate! It was made by Burk & Braun, Germany, and sold from 1931 to 1936 for "its rejuvenation power."

More strange vintage products containing radium: Link [in French] - via Fogonazos, thanks Aberron!

Wow! Amazing text! Pierre Curie selftesting radiation poisonning, doctors prescribing radium with "no side effects", or people buying the Tho-Radia beauty cream that heals sun burns (LOL)... Marie Curie, the year of her death to radiation poisonning, recommended radium water drinking and bathing...

Well, time to visit Montana http://www.merrywidowmine.com/about.html

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Fun fact: if you've ever eaten chocolate made from beans that were grown in Western Africa, it probably has traces of radioactive particles in it.

Enjoy.

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I doubt this bar has any radium in it. At the time, the word 'radium' was used in the same way marketers today will sling around 'platinum card' or 'gold club' or 'nanotechnology' .

Radium cost a pretty penny back then and that chocolate bar would have cost a fortune even at a minute dosage.

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You mean a gold card is NOT made of gold?! there goes a life long dream.

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I am with Aaron here; but the thought of there really being radium in it is really a bit scary ain't it?

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"Shortly after the discovery of radium in 1898 ... everyone wanted to put it in their products."

Kind of like soy. :P

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Get all the radium you can handle here in Batavia, Illinois, practically the radium and radon capital of the midwest! Come test our soil, if it doesn't burn the flesh off your hands!

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Technically everything is a little bit radioactive, in the technical sense of the term. :)

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It reminded me to the old Absintheur´s advertising.

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