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Chocolate
Milk chocolate, dark chocolate, chocolate chips, chocolate ice cream... Chocolate has been a favorite confection throughout the ages. Ask or answer questions about this sweet treat.
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Even though they didn't have refined sugar, they enjoyed desserts like you and me! They ate things like fruit, candies cakes and horse cream. I hope this helps!
What was the first company to make a cheaper chocolate compound?
The first people known to have made chocolate were the ancient cultures of Mexico and Central America. These people, including the Maya and Aztec, mixed ground cacao seeds with various seasonings to make a spicy, frothy drink.
Later, the Spanish conquistadors brought the seeds back home to Spain, where new recipes were created. Eventually, and the drink's popularity spread throughout Europe. Since then, new technologies and innovations have changed the texture and taste of chocolate, but it still remains one of the world's favorite flavors.
The first company to make a cheaper chocolate compound is a company that does not excist today,it was called burney's chocolate. Burney's was created because hersheys chocolate was too expensive for some people back then.
chocolate was first discovered by the Aztecs except they did not have chocolate bars only chocolate drinks with no sugar and Hernando Cortes was the first European to try it however he did not like it but brought some back to Europe just in case sugar was added to it and it came the chocolate we know today
What is the difference between a cacao bean and a cocoa bean?
Well, these are two different plants. Cocaine comes from processing leaves of the coca plant, and chocolate products (coco liquor, butter, and chocolate treats) come from the coco bean, or cocoa.
When was the first chocolate made?
It was made in 1644 in belguim where workers found the choco beans in the trees and thought it would be a good idea to investigate on whether they were edible or not. So they did and found out that if you break them down and mix them with milk they become a product called chocolate!!
How did chocolate come to the UK?
According to Alan Davidson in The Oxford Companion to Food, chocolate was first sold in London in 1657 by a Frenchman with a shop in Gracechurch Street, who advertised it as "an excellent West India drink [which] cures and preserves the body of many diseases". Not inly did he sell it ready to drink, but he also showed his customers how to make it themselves with a recipe book they were encouraged to buy. The great diarist Samuel Pepys refers several times to a morning drink of 'Chocolatte' in the 1660s. It's also thought that England may have been the first place where chocolate drinks were made using milk kinstead of just water, although this came later.
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How did chocolate get to Europe?
Christopher Columbus brought a few cocoa beans back to show Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, but it was the Spanish friars who first introduced chocolate to Europe more broadly. It wasn't until the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs that chocolate could be imported to Europe, where it quickly became a court favorite. The first recorded shipment of chocolate to Europe for commercial purposes was in a shipment from Veracruz, Mexico to Sevilla in 1585.
Where was the first bar of chocolate made?
Ganong Brothers
For many years after its introduction to European cultures, chocolate was only a drink. In 1830, a British chocolate maker, Joseph Fry & Sons found a way to make a solid form that could be eaten. In 1847, the Fry chocolate factory began making the first chocolate bars. We could say that cocoa beans was first found by Christopher Colombus. Chocolate is yummy.
What was Milton Hershey's interests?
Selling and making chocolate. Milton also enjoyed cigars and children. He spent much time improving his town and his employees lives.
What is the song in the dove commercial?
Do your eyes sit wide?
Does your nose go to the side?
Does your elbow have a krinkle?
Do your knees sorta wrinkle?
Does you chest tend to freckle?
Do you have a crooked smile?
Do your eyes sit wide?
Do you ears sorta wiggle?
Does your hair make you giggle?
Does your neck grow long?
Do your hips sing a song?
Do your ears hang low?
Who is daughter did the Baby Ruth candy bar get named after?
Grover Cleveland had a daughter named Ruth who died at age 12. The company that makes the Baby Ruth candy bar claims that she was the inspiration for the name, but that is likely to be an urban legend. Check out this website for the details.
http://www.snopes.com/business/names/babyruth.asp
What have chocolate eggs got to do with Easter?
"The hare, the symbol of fertility in ancient Egypt, a symbol that was kept later in Europe…Its place has been taken by the Easter rabbit" (Encyclopedia Britannica, 1991 ed., Vol. 4, p. 333).
"The origin of the Easter egg is based on the fertility lore of the Indo-European races…The egg to them was a symbol of spring and rebirth. In Christian times the egg had bestowed upon it a religious interpretation, becoming a symbol of the rock tomb out of which Christ emerged to the new life of His resurrection". (Francis X. Weiser, Handbook of Christian Feasts and Customs, p. 233)
"Around the Christian observance of Easter…folk customs have collected, many of which have been handed down from the ancient ceremonial…symbolism of European and Middle Eastern pagan spring festivals…for example, eggs…have been very prominent as symbols of new life and resurrection" (Encyclopedia Britannica, 1991 ed., Vol. 4, p. 333).
Can food go through us customs?
Certain foods are allowed through US customs, but many are not. Unpackaged foods, raw meats, fruits, vegetable, produce, un-packaged breads, ect. are not allowed in. Certain food dyes that are legal in other countries are not always legal in the US, too.
What is the formula for cocoa butter?
The chemical formula for cocoa butter is CH3(CH2)16COOH. The food that normally contains cocoa butter are chocolate candy cocoa powder and Hot Chocolate.
Can chocolate make you smarter?
But not the chocolate it self that make you live longer...
To have a longer life you would need a happy life, researcher has shown that people with happy feeling tend to life longer than those who don't...
And chocolate can stimulate endorphin and also serotonin which make you happy and relaxed.
What is the name of the zumba song choco choco lat lat everybody do the chocolate'?
"Chocolate" by Soul Control
