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Belgium’s chocolate-flavored stamps get seal of approval

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Come March 25, Belgium will launch a new postal product — a chocolate smelling, chocolate tasting stamp.

“We have added a chocolate taste to the glue of the stamps,” the Belgian postal service said, in an Agence France-Presse report. “You can taste [it] when you lick it.”

The stamps also smell of chocolate, AFP reports.

“It was not easy to get the scent and flavor of the dark chocolate right,” the postal service said, according to AFP. “In the end, people from Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland all worked on it.”

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Cheryl K. Chumley

Cheryl Chumley is a continuous news writer for The Washington Times. Previously, she was part of the start-up team for The Washington Times’ digital aggregation product, Times247. She’s also a 2008-2009 Robert Novak journalism fellow with The Phillips Foundation. She can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com.

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