“The world’s biggest CHOCOLATE BAR weighed about as much as an African ELEPHANT.”

National Geographic 5,000 Awesome Facts, fact # 8 of 35 on decadent desserts

Ingredients included sugar, dried whole milk powder, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, butter oil and emulsifier and weighed in at 5,792.50 kg ( 12,770 lb & 4.48 oz).

Measurements were 4.0 meters, (13 feet & 1.48 inches) x .35m (1 ft, 1.78 inch).

This happened in Alfreton, Derbyshire U.K. by Thornton’s Plc on Sept. 7th, 2011. (https://guinessworldrecords.com)

Thornton’s Place (https://www.thorntons.com/uk/en/) is now a well known “delicious confectionery for the Nation” that had humble beginnings dating back to 1911 when Joseph Thornton, a traveling confectioner opened up a sweet shop and had his son run it for him.

In the 1920s, they began making homemade truffles, which is when the company grew.

According to https://www.ifaw.org/journal/elephant-faq, African male elephants can weigh between 1800 and 6300 kg, or approximately between 4,000 and 14,000 lbs.

Or about as big as Thornton’s world’s largest chocolate bar.