Secrets (play)

Secrets is a one-hour 1973 BBC Television play by Michael Palin and Terry Jones, starring Warren Mitchell as the owner of a chocolate factory. The play was part of a series called Black and Blue, which featured black and blue (saucy) comedy.

Story

Three men fall into a mixing vat in the factory, and before anyone can shut down the production line they have already been melted down, blended with the chocolate, boxed up as Secrets Chocolates and shipped off to Worthing. Despite a desperate chase the boxes containing the men's remains are sold and eaten.

Related Topics:
Production line - Worthing

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To everybody's surprise, market research shows that the chocolate-eating public enjoyed the Worthing batch's unusual "full-bodied" taste. When the factory responds by blending beef with its chocolate recipe the results are disastrous. There is only one possible conclusion: the public enjoys the taste of human flesh.

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Faced with bankruptcy there is only one thing the factory can do: admit what has happened, and then start "recycling" corpses as chocolate ingredients. This proves to be an astonishingly popular move, and Britain's economy flourishes thanks to cannibalism.

Related Topics:
Recycling - Britain - Cannibalism

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It is interesting to note that Soylent Green, which took an altogether more serious view of a similar subject, was released in the same year.

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