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"Nice to eat you": Pope meets his chocolate double

The life-size chocolate Pope was crafted by amateur chocolatiers.

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POPE FRANCIS WAS presented with a life-size chocolate statue of himself on Wednesday from 20 amateur chocolatiers, according to The Daily Mail.

Here’s the statue in all its glory. It was made of 1.5 tons of cocoa from Atitlan, in Guatemala:

image- Additional reporting Aoife Barry

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