Aunty Fatty was a rich woman. She loved to eat chocolate very much. She loved chocolate so much that she always had a piece of chocolate in her mouth. Because she ate so much chocolate, she smelt like chocolate. And wherever she went, children in the town would gather around her because she smelt so sweet.

But Aunty Fatty didn’t like anyone in the town. She was a selfish woman and she didn’t want to share her chocolate with anyone. She kept all the chocolate for herself.

Day by day, Fatty ate more and more chocolate and bigger ones too. Soon, she found that the largest chocolate bar she could find in town was still too small for her. Fatty decided to make her own chocolate, to make the largest chocolate the town had ever seen, a chocolate that would be – of course – only for herself.

Aunty Fatty used all the chocolate in town to make her mega-chocolate. Fatty’s chocolate was bigger than her house. In fact, it was as big as a jetfoil. Fatty couldn’t keep the giant chocolate in her house so she parked it on the street. Because the chocolate was so big, everyone in town could see it and people all gathered around it to marvel and maybe get a bite.

A child in the crowd shouted, ‘Aunty Fatty, may I have some of your chocolate?’

Fatty was angry when she heard the boy. She was afraid that people would eat up her chocolate. She climbed up to the top of the chocolate and said, ‘This chocolate is mine! No one can have it but me! I’m going to finish it now!’ And she opened her mouth as wide as she could to bite into the gigantic sweet. But the chocolate was too hard for her. It was so hard that it broke Fatty’s front teeth. At that Fatty fainted and she fell down from the chocolate.

Fatty was lying on the ground and mumbling when the rain began. The rain fell hard and the rain fell fast. People ran away to find shelter. And guess what? Fatty’s chocolate was melting! The chocolate was so big that when it melted it caused a chocolate flood in the town. People never like floods but this time they cheered because the flood tasted so sweet. Everyone swam in the chocolate and drank the sweet syrup at the same time. It was the greatest chocolate festival ever.

What about Aunty Fatty? She had lost her chocolate and she had broken her teeth and what else? She had a terrible toothache because she had eaten too much chocolate. But Fatty wasn’t the only one who suffered. Everyone in town had also eaten too much chocolate during the flood and so they all had toothaches now. There was a long queue at the dentist’s and it was then – because of Fatty – that dentists became as fabulously rich as everyone knows they are today. It was because of Fatty and her chocolate long ago that people came to understand how important it was to brush their teeth and that there it was possible to have too much of a good thing.