The origins of chocolate, which is derived from the Theobroma cacao tree, stretch back at least 4000 years.The plant is believed to have originated in the Amazon or Orinoco basins in South America and was regarded by the Aztecs as being of divine origin ('Theobroma' means 'food of the gods').
Who was the inventor of chocolate? Well, you could give credit to many people, from the Olmec, Maya and Aztec civilizations that discovered the cacao bean, to the Dutch inventor who created a press to make cocoa powder, to the Englishman who invented the world's first eating chocolate. And then there are all the other chocolate inventions that have followed.
When Europeans went and saw the Aztecs they saw chocolate and brought it bak here but we made it sweet.
The first chocolate was made by the Olmecs. Soon, the Aztecs started making chocolate.
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In South America.
You can die it purple, But Chocolate is not originally purple. It is actually green and red.
I believe that the word eclair is french but i do not know if they originally put chocolate in them.
The first chocolate would have been an un-sweetened chocolate that would have been originally closer to a bitter dark chocolate.
That would mean you started out with an originally 6 ounce piece of chocolate.
South America
Originally, it was only the very wealthy and the privledged who could afford the luxury of drinking chocolate.
Chocolate was native to the Americas and existed as far back as the Aztec civilization. Chocolate was originally served as a liquid that was bitter.
Originally, from Mexico but now all over the world....
Kit Kat
South america
Chocolate, originally called Cacao by the Aztec's that discovered it around 1,400 BC, was used as a drink and herb to be added to food.
toffee originally came from chocolate, the chocolate is heated up then softened