A chocolate teapot is a teapot that would be made from chocolate. It is commonly supposed that such a teapot would melt, and be impossible to use, therefore the term is often used as an analogy for any useless item.
In fact, experimental research in 2001 failed to successfully use a chocolate teapot they had made, but later research by The Naked Scientists in 2008 shows that such a teapot can be used to make tea, provided that the walls of the teapot are made over a centimeter thick.
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