In eighteen hundred and tiddly pom a Swiss engineer and his chocolateer wife set up a small workshop in Great Mardlingham, just south of the Norfolk Alps. Their first invention was a chocolate bicycle, which soon proved popular among the villagers, although very few made it past the end of The High Street. Naturally, being chocolate, the bicycles were extremely vulnerable to being devoured by their riders with the unwelcome help of such passing wildlife that had teeth of a sharpness not to be gainsaid.
The couple soon discovered that although their bicycles were extremely popular and they were coining it hand over fist in the profit department, customers had one complaint. The bicycles had a tendency to fall over while being consumed, thus getting grit on all the best bits and generally spoiling the flavour. At the time, the couple were working on a new product, a chocolate flute aimed at the Russian market and catchily branded The RobleTone. In a moment of extreme inspiration, they filled in the various drillings and pitch holes, enlarged its size and sold it as an edible bicycle rack, thereby solving the problem.
Thus was born the world-wide product we know and love, The RobleTone, although its original purpose is now long forgotten.
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With apologies to - TOBLERONE - Swiss Chocolate.
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lizdavies
and I thought I was the only one who ever set out with the intention of parking my bike in it - even though so far it's always been eaten before I get round to it... But then I've never had a chocolate bike!