Salo in chocolate is a Ukrainian dish, created as a joke or experiment and produced since the late 1990s.^[1][2]

The recipe is thought to have originated in an ethnic joke about the Ukrainians' cult-like attitude towards salo, similar to the Italians' attitude towards spaghetti.^[2]

In the late 1990s, Odesa Confectionery Factory started production of candies Salo v Shokoladi.^[3][1] The chocolate candies were invented as an April Fool's Day joke. They were not actually salo; they contain a regular caramel filling with a small amount of rendered fat added as a salty flavouring.^[2] Since then, the dish is available in shops and restaurants in various Ukrainian cities.

A BBC reporter called it "one of the unhealthiest snacks in the world".^[3]

"Chocolate salo" is one of popular desserts in the restaurant of the Museum of Salo in Lviv.