POP/ROCK - April 17, 1987

The latest recording innovation from West Berlin doesn’t pose a threat to the compact disc--but, then again, compact discs can’t be eaten like Peter Lardong’s chocolate records. The 42-year-old inventor claims his chocolate LPs can be played up to 20 times without hurting the turntable “as long as you eat the record fast” after that. “But if you hold it in your hand for a long time, the record melts.” Lardong makes his sweet LPs by creating a master copy of a record in latex, pouring melted chocolate onto the master copy and deep-freezing it for about 10 hours.