Here's some chocolate facts:
CHOCO FUN FACTS -Monkeys found chocolate first, not people. -Traces of chocolate have been found in ancient Mayan pottery - from 3,400 years ago! -The word Chocolate comes from the Aztec words for "Bitter Water" -Both the Mayans and Aztecs associate chocolate with fertility! What do they know that we don't? -The first English chocolate house opened in London in 1657, 53 years after the word "Chocolate" was first used in English. -Chocolate is poisonous to horses, dogs, cats, rodents and parrots - but essential for people! -50 million people depend upon cocoa for a living. -Queen Victoria sent 100,000 boxes of chocolate to soldiers fighting in the Boer War on New Year's Day, 1900. -The Tropicana casino in Atlantic City sells a super deluxe chocolate brownie - the "Brownie Extraordinaire with Saint Louis" for $1,000! Cited from: Malaysia 4th Chocolate Fair 2011, For more info kindly visit the event website at http://www.chocolatefair.com.my |