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A 1.5 oz. milk chocolate bar has only 220 calories.
A 1.75 oz. serving of potato chips has 230 calories.

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Chocolate in a blue wrapper won't sell in Shanghai or Hong Kong because the Chinese associate blue with death.

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Casanova, fond of chocolate's divine properties, considered it an elixer of love.

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Queen Victoria was such a devotee that she sent five-hundred-thousand pounds
of chocolate to her troops one Christmas.

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Chocolate's scientific name, Theobroma, means food of the gods.

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Montezuma, the last Aztec ruler, personally consumed some fifty "pitchers"
of chocolate drink each day and had two thousand "pitchers" prepared
for members of his household.

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Chocolate's History

1527
Conquistadors bring chocolate home to Spain.

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1580
Beverages made with cocoa become popular in Spain.

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1615
Italians are introduced to drinking chocolate, thanks to chocolate paste brought from the Spanish New World.

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1657
London's first chocolate shop opens for business. Until now, only the noble class has been able to experience chocolate drinks.

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1659
Cocoa finds its way to France via the Spanish ship "Maria Theresa". Local physicians applaud its properties, and rumors of it's aphrodisiac qualities begin.

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1765
Chocolate is first manufactured in the United States.

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1819
Francois-Louis Cailler introduces the world's first commercially-made eating chocolate. It is sold in blocks.

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1824
John Cadbury opens a tea and coffee shop in Birmingham, England. With funding from his father for his business ventures, he begins experimenting with grinding cocoa beans with mortar and pestle.

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1828
Conrad J. Van Houten obtains a patent for his method of removing the fat from roasted cacao beans. He adds this fat (not yet called cocoa butter) to a mixture of cocoa powder and sugar, creating the first chocolate candy.

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