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“Fill the two spoons with powder,” the instructions read.

“Smooth over. Adjust the opening between the spoons to the width of the nose. Tighten the shooter. Place the spoons under the nose. Sniff and shoot.”

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It sounds like a step-by-step guide to snorting an illicit drug, but it was far from it. I was in a candy store with seafoam green walls, jars of exotic licorice on the shelves and hula-hoops hanging from the ceiling. And I was there to snort chocolate, nothing more.

The owner’s name is Mary Jean Dunsdon, but most people call her Watermelon, after the fruit she used to sell to nude sunbathers on Wreck Beach.

Watermelon has owned the Licorice Parlour on Commercial Drive in Vancouver for just over two years and learned about snorting chocolate last year.

She took a trip to Belgium, the birthplace of the phenomenon, to experience it — and to bring it back to Vancouver.

“I was just amazed when I heard it,” Watermelon said. “I get there and everybody’s eating stupid old truffles, and I’m like, ‘We’re here for the snorting chocolate!’”