“If you’ve got melted chocolate all over your hands, you’re eating it too slowly”

“If you’ve got melted chocolate all over your hands, you’re eating it too slowly” is a saying that has been printed on many images. The long-time slogan of M&M’s candies has been, “The milk chocolate that melts in your mouth—not in your hand.”
 
“If you’ve got melted chocolate all over your hands, you’re eating it too slowly” was posted on the newsgroup alt.support.dissociation on November 22, 1998, under “Chocolate Rules!” “If you’ve got melted chocolate all over your hands, you’re eating it too slowly” was posted on te newsgroup misc.writing on January 4, 1999, under “The Rules of Chocolate.” “If you’ve got melted chocolate all over your hands, you’re eating it too slowly” was printed in the Vancouver (BC) Sun on January 12, 1999, in a list titled “The Rules of Chocolate.” Authorship is unknown.
         
   
Google Groups: alt.support.dissociation
Chocolate, for RC and others
choddie
Nov 22, 1998, 3:00:00 AM
(...)
> Chocolate Rules!
>
> If you’ve got melted chocolate all over your hands, you’re eating it
> too slowly.
   
Google Groups: misc.writing
The Rules of Chocolate
Holly C. Sumner
Jan 4, 1999, 3:00:00 AM
I received this on a listserve I run. Our topic isn’t about chocolate… but we sure do talk about it enough. I’ve noticed the same thing here. Smart people!
 
>If you’ve got melted chocolate all over your hands,
>you’re eating it too slowly.
 
Newspapers.com
12 January 1999, Vancouver (BC) Sun, pg. B5, col. 4:
If you’ve got melted chocolate all over your hands, you’re eating it too slowly.
(From a list titled “The Rules of Chocolate.”—ed.)
     
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Chocolat_a_toi
@TolaPopoola
If you’ve got melted chocolate all over your hands, you’re eating it too slowly.
4:55 AM · Jul 5, 2009
 
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Lil Hangout
@lilhangout
Humor Rules Of Chocolate: If you’ve got melted chocolate all over your hands, you’re eating it too slowly.
.. http://bit.ly/yUIC0
11:05 AM · Aug 13, 2009
 
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Bob Kostic
@causticbob
#whychocolateisavegetable If you’ve got melted chocolate all over your hands, you’re eating it too slowly.
12:20 PM · Jun 15, 2010
 
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Rikardo INO
@InoRikardo
Rules For Chocolate ===================================  If you’ve got melted chocolate all over your hands, you’re eating it too slowly.  Chocolate covered raisins, cherries, orange slices & strawberries all count as fruit, so eat as many as you want.  The problem: How to get
8:55 PM · Nov 8, 2022
 
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Zelda
@mona2Blightning
Lol, you got my joke.
Ok. Fine I will go with my dirty joke 🤣🤣
If you’ve got melted chocolate all over your hands, you’re eating it too slowly.😂😂
Good morning, Lorenzo.🌞
Have a great day ❤️🍵🍵🍫🍫
8:12 AM · Jul 7, 2024