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the bean that was once money, melts at body heat, and ruins dogs
means A sweet brown food made from roasted, ground cacao seeds, eaten solid or drunk and used to flavor countless things.
from From Spanish 'chocolate,' which the Spanish borrowed from Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs — most often traced to a word like 'xocolatl,' often glossed as 'bitter water,' though scholars argue about the exact parts. The Aztecs drank cacao cold, frothy, and unsweetened — a far cry from the candy bar — and the word rode the conquistadors' ships back to Europe, where sugar eventually softened both the drink and the meaning.
- former currency
- Aztecs traded cacao beans as actual money
- melting point
- melts just below human body temperature
- dog danger
- theobromine inside is toxic to dogs
- slow growth
- cacao trees take five years to fruit
- bitter origin
- early chocolate was a spicy unsweetened drink
lindt lindor truffles — swiss chocolate brand producing 7 billion truffles annually since 1949
ferrero rocher — italian hazelnut-filled chocolate produced by ferrero, world's second-largest chocolate company
cadbury dairy milk — british milk chocolate bar created in 1905, sold in over 200 countries
hershey's kisses — american cone-shaped chocolates produced since 1907 by the hershey company