The original analogy is a box of chocolates, where some are poison. In the original German, it’s actually even more cool because the German word for poison is “gift”!
(Also it was originally published in 1930s Germany, and the ‘poison chocolate’ referred to Jews)
Ive not heard of that analogy before but i like it
Ah I found the original quote - I misremembered it as skittles, but same message:
The original analogy is a box of chocolates, where some are poison. In the original German, it’s actually even more cool because the German word for poison is “gift”!
(Also it was originally published in 1930s Germany, and the ‘poison chocolate’ referred to Jews)
TIL about another horror
TIL! Thanks :)
I first saw it during the Me Too movement, so good to know it’s been around even longer.
The skittles version, specifically, came from one of the trumps a while back and referred to immigrants.
Ohhhhh. Ew.