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Sweet Music

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In 1903 Germany’s Stollwerck Chocolate Company briefly offered tiny clockwork phonographs that played 3-inch records made of chocolate.

“When a song no longer pleases, oh well!” wrote the French magazine La Nature. “Just savor the disc like you would a simple snack, and eat it.”

August 16, 2021August 14, 2021 | Oddities · Technology

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