(I have no idea if accurate.)
Police are like a box of chocolates
They’ll kill your dog.
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I’ve always seen literal maps showing what’s what. Sounds like maybe none of the Gumps could read. But even so, wouldn’t you learn to tell the shapes apart? It shouldn’t keep surprising you over and over.
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I was mostly stuck on how that joke is older than most people on this site
I wouldn’t be so sure about that. I’m pretty sure that Lemmy skews older to such a degree that most users are my side of 35 and the movie is “only” 30 years old 😁
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… So you’re upset that I said card instead of map? Really? Whatever. Round here it’s a little card.
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Wasn’t the part with him telling other people that set in the 80s or 90s?
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I guarantee you 100% it’s a showerthought.
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I’ve seen them in recent years, but I haven’t always seen the maps.
You’ve always had the iconic Whitman’s sampler, haven’t you?
Are there other boxes of chocolates?
None that matter.
Except maybe Sees. Not a big fan of the company but I’ve had some great chocolate assortments from them.
Momma told him that so he wouldn’t feel bad being unable to read it.
All the cards I’ve seen always had pictures and text of what’s what.
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I’m not sure he was illiterate but he did play football at Alabama so it’s a distinct possibility.
You just burned bama
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Back in the day there wasn’t maps when you got chocolate. Food allergies were not much of a concern back then and nutrition information wasn’t required.
More to the point, the boxes weren’t all the same. Sure, they only had ~10-20 different pieces, but they would be placed seemingly at random. You may (or may not) have had a card to identify them, but that wasn’t tied to location.
It also doesn’t cover the quantities. Does this box have 5 cherry cordials or just 1? What about honeycomb? Opera cream? Peanut butter?
You still see this from some of the smaller chocolatiers.
Most boxes of chocolate didn’t have a card or map explaining which was which back in the 90s.
There was always a risky box of chocolates on grandma’s kitchen table.
Each bite was a gamble: might be a delicious milk chocolate with a peanut inside, or it might be a bitter chocolate with some medicine-like cherry filling.
He wasn’t illiterate though. His character was just rather simple, and wholesome. I never thought his character was stupid, just perhaps autistic.
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I’ve bought plenty of local chocolate shop boxes that didn’t have a map.
Yes. Nice chocolate didnt have a map because they were custom made and had people experimenting on site. It’s very rare to do it that way now because most chocolate is factory made and require ingredients breakdowns.
Not in the 1950s.
How do you feel about that?
He is literate, it just took him longer to fully learn to be than most folks.
I think his mama was talking about how Boxes of chocolates were often sent to folks as a surprise, meaning they wouldn’t know what’s inside from being the ones to buy them originally.
Cops are like a box of chocolates: they’ll kill your dog.
Well, I thought it was cute.
Even if you can read, it’s mostly just cheap praline.
