Belgian postal service to issue chocolate-flavoured stamps

Sending mail can be eating dessert too, thanks to the Belgian postal service.

Belgium is taking kicking its chocolate-loving image up a notch with the introduction of flavoured postal stamps.

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bpost announced it would start selling stamps that smell and taste like chocolate on March 25. The statement, issued in French, says bpost has designed five stamps, each devoted to a different type of chocolate.

The sticky part on the back of the stamp is flavoured with cocoa oils that release when someone licks the postage. Finding a way to flavour paper so it actually tastes like Belgian chocolate wasn't easy, according to the statement. Collaborators from Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland worked on the project.

This isn't the first time Belgium has issued Chocolate-themed stamps but in the past the fun stopped with a scent.

Beware, though, if these stamps are like the chocolate-scented variety issued in Switzerland more than a decade ago, they might disintegrate from excessive licking.

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Switzerland considered selling chocolate-flavoured stamps back in 2001, according to CNN, but dropped the idea because of hygienic reasons and for fear that sweet lovers would lick their stamps to oblivion.

Do I see a diet trend forming?