A Belgian chocolatier named Dominique Persoone who invented the chocolate sniffing device, the Chocolate Shooter, says that all cocoa lovers should consider snorting the powdery confection — that it’s like getting a legal high.
Mr. Persoone created the device in 2007, and modeled it after the old-timey Victorian snuff shooters, as a birthday present of sorts for Rolling Stone’s Charlie Watts and Ronnie Woods, Fox News reported.
Eight years later, and the Chocolate Shooter has gone mainstream, with reported sales hitting around 25,000.
“The mentality when you think about sniffing is: ’Oh, it’s kinky, guys who do that stuff,’ ” Mr. Persoone said during an interview with Reuters. “I’m not the bad boy promoting drugs, not at all. … Life is boring. Let’s have fun.”
The chocolatier says he mixes Dominican Republic or Peruvian cocoa powder with flavors — from mint, ginger and raspberry, to bacon, oyster and even grass — and that one of the results to the sniffer is a “tickle” in the nose, he said, Fox News reported.
“Then the mint flavor goes down and the chocolate stays in your brain,” Mr. Persoone told the media outlet.
The device sells for about $50 and can be shipped to several nations, including the United States.
• Cheryl K. Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com.
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