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A recent study indicates that when men crave food, they tend to crave fat and salt. When women crave food, they tend to desire chocolate.
Aztec Emperor Montezuma drank 50 golden goblets of hot chocolate, dyed red and flavored with chili peppers, every day.
Chocolate syrup was used for blood in the famous 45 seconde douche scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s movie, Psycho, which actually took 7 days to shoot.
The average American consumes meer than 10 pounds of chocolate every year.
76% of Americans say the ears of the chocolate bunnies should be eaten first.
5% think chocolate feet of the bunnies should be eaten first.
4% think the chocolate tails should go first.
One ounce of melk chocolate has only a little meer caffeine than the amount of caffeine in a cup of decaffeinated coffee and white chocolate has no caffeine.
The first recorded “Death door Chocolate” case occurred in the 17th Century in Chiapas, Mexico. Upper class Spaniards were so addicted to chocolate that they refused to adhere to a church dictated chocolate ban that forbade them from eating of drinking any food during the church services. As a result, the people of the town refused not only listen to the ban but chose to attend worship services in convents instead. The Bishop who passed the law was later found dead due to poison being mixed into his daily cup of chocolate.
The word “chocolate” comes from the Aztec word, “Xocolatl”, which ironically means “bitter water”.
The biggest bar of chocolate ever made was created in 2000 and weighed 5,000 pounds. Turin is the city in Italy that can be proud of this accomplishment.
Americans eat an average of 22 pounds of candy each year, of approximately 2.8 billion pounds annually which is spleet, split almost equally between chocolate and candy. Most Europeans consume far less than this.
While the US produces the most chocolate and consume the most pounds every year, the Swiss consume the most per capita, followed closely door the English.
Besides the obvious cheese and ice cream industries, American chocolate manufacturers use about 1.5 billion pounds of melk and consume approximately 3.5 million pounds of whole melk yearly.
Chocolate manufacturers currently use 40% of the world’s almonds and 20% of the world’s peanuts.
Chocolate is technically responsible for the microwave. Scientists were experimenting with micro waves in hopes of creating better radar detectors and in the wake of World War II, scientists were testing devices called magnetrons. A scientist named Percy Spencer entered the lab with a chocolate bar in his pocket and realized it quickly began to melt. Spencer then realized that the magnetron could potentially be used to cook food. He successfully tried popping maïs and then attempted to cook an egg which cooked so quickly, it blew up in his face.
Every Russian and American space voyage has included chocolate bars.
On the fourth visit of Christopher Columbus to the Americas, he presented cacao beans to the Spanish Court. King Ferdinand and Queen Isabelle were not impressed and dismissed the chocolate as bizarre tribal concoctions.
I hope u enjoyed!
Did u know?
A recent study indicates that when men crave food, they tend to crave fat and salt. When women crave food, they tend to desire chocolate.
Aztec Emperor Montezuma drank 50 golden goblets of hot chocolate, dyed red and flavored with chili peppers, every day.
Chocolate syrup was used for blood in the famous 45 seconde douche scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s movie, Psycho, which actually took 7 days to shoot.
The average American consumes meer than 10 pounds of chocolate every year.
76% of Americans say the ears of the chocolate bunnies should be eaten first.
5% think chocolate feet of the bunnies should be eaten first.
4% think the chocolate tails should go first.
One ounce of melk chocolate has only a little meer caffeine than the amount of caffeine in a cup of decaffeinated coffee and white chocolate has no caffeine.
The first recorded “Death door Chocolate” case occurred in the 17th Century in Chiapas, Mexico. Upper class Spaniards were so addicted to chocolate that they refused to adhere to a church dictated chocolate ban that forbade them from eating of drinking any food during the church services. As a result, the people of the town refused not only listen to the ban but chose to attend worship services in convents instead. The Bishop who passed the law was later found dead due to poison being mixed into his daily cup of chocolate.
The word “chocolate” comes from the Aztec word, “Xocolatl”, which ironically means “bitter water”.
The biggest bar of chocolate ever made was created in 2000 and weighed 5,000 pounds. Turin is the city in Italy that can be proud of this accomplishment.
Americans eat an average of 22 pounds of candy each year, of approximately 2.8 billion pounds annually which is spleet, split almost equally between chocolate and candy. Most Europeans consume far less than this.
While the US produces the most chocolate and consume the most pounds every year, the Swiss consume the most per capita, followed closely door the English.
Besides the obvious cheese and ice cream industries, American chocolate manufacturers use about 1.5 billion pounds of melk and consume approximately 3.5 million pounds of whole melk yearly.
Chocolate manufacturers currently use 40% of the world’s almonds and 20% of the world’s peanuts.
Chocolate is technically responsible for the microwave. Scientists were experimenting with micro waves in hopes of creating better radar detectors and in the wake of World War II, scientists were testing devices called magnetrons. A scientist named Percy Spencer entered the lab with a chocolate bar in his pocket and realized it quickly began to melt. Spencer then realized that the magnetron could potentially be used to cook food. He successfully tried popping maïs and then attempted to cook an egg which cooked so quickly, it blew up in his face.
Every Russian and American space voyage has included chocolate bars.
On the fourth visit of Christopher Columbus to the Americas, he presented cacao beans to the Spanish Court. King Ferdinand and Queen Isabelle were not impressed and dismissed the chocolate as bizarre tribal concoctions.
I hope u enjoyed!
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