Melts in Your Booth, Not in Your Hand

Food is a huge part of the world expo experience. In Osaka, you’ll be able to try everything from Oktoberfest beers to eel pie on top of ice cream. But what’s tasting food compared to admiring it like the Mona Lisa?

At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair you could drool over: the Prune Knight made entirely of dried French and silver prunes; a globe, eight feet in diameter, covered with 6,280 oranges; and in the Horticultural Building, a Liberty Bell made of 4,500 of the oranges.

But those most have paled next to French confectioner Henri Maillard French’s booth, with a statue of Christopher Columbus made of solid chocolate, standing 7.5-feet feet tall and weighing in at 1,700 pounds. Next to them Maillard also displayed chocolate reproductions of the “Venus de Milo” and the Roman goddess Minerva, each a svelte 1,500 pounds.