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And just when you thought the clockwork laptop for under a $100 was an African wind-up, two of our crazy Englishmen are driving from the UK to Mali on a truck fuelled by the gooey stuff of legend; chocolate.

Thanksgiving indigestion just got a whole lot heavier.

The equivalent of 80,000 chocolate bars will propel their bio-fuel converted lorry across 4,500 miles of rocky road, Saharan sands and dirt all the way to Timbuktu.

Bob Geldof might not have been much impressed by it, managing only a "Is this it?" on reaching the fabled, mythical, exotic… oh countless
ethereal adjectives later… remote Timbuktu, but that isn't dissuading the two happy-go-lucky British eco warriors.

They want the fuel, made from cocoa butter extracted from chocolate "waste misshapes" (what, since when was any chocolate "waste"?

And so what if it's a funny shape, it's still the best stimulant and most indulgent piece of pleasure going) to prove to our Chelsea gas
guzzlers that if chocolate bio-fuel can get you to the back of beyond, it can get your kids to school.

And the bonus is that just when you thought it was bad to give out sweets in Africa, it turns out four tonnes of chocolate makes you the good guys after all.