Death by Chocolate is a marketing term for several desserts that feature chocolate (especially dark chocolate or cocoa) as the main ingredient. The US trademark was owned by S & amp; A Restaurant Group, the parent company of Bennigan's restaurants, but with the subsequent bankruptcy of the company the current legal situation is unclear. In the United Kingdom and the European Union, the registered trademark belongs to F.T. Wood & amp; Sons Limited However, unauthorized uses of the term are common although they still constitute a trademark infringement.
The term was coined by Erik Russell in 1984 while working for London-based dessert maker Kaysens. When testing the sample for a new chocolate product, he exclaimed, "This is death by chocolate."
A dish called "Death by Chocolate" can be:
"Death by Chocolate" is also the name of an ice cream flavor. In ice cream, there is usually a chocolate candy, chocolate chips and chocolate ice cream.
Chef Marcel Desaulniers wrote a book, Death by Chocolate, on the subject. Subsequently other books in the series had similar names.
The Scottish band Simple Minds wrote a song called "Death by Chocolate" as well as the Australian singer Sia. In addition, it is the title of a disc of the German nu-jazz band De-Phazz
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