Recently, Mayor Ray Nagin declared that New Orleans would be a “chocolate city.” However, as the Borowitz Report website indicates, Nagin’s wish for a chocolate city may not be possible:

Days after the Mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin, predicted that New Orleans would soon be a “chocolate city” again, the Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) poured cold water on those plans, arguing that building a city out of chocolate was “unfeasible.”

Harland DeBellis, a spokesperson for the USACE, said that the agency had given plans for a city constructed entirely out of chocolate the thumbs down only after engineers painstakingly built a scale model of New Orleans out of Hershey’s bars and found the results “problematic.”

“If the existing levees in New Orleans were breached by the flood waters of Katrina, imagine how much worse they would have been if they had been made out of chocolate,” Mr. DeBellis said at a press briefing in Washington today. “Chocolate is simply not a suitable building material.”