Ah chocolate, the first love of every man, woman and child,
it’s a solution (however temporary) to every problem from upset and anger to
happiness and adoration. Chocolate truly is one of the wonders of the world, in
the past it has been that valued it’s actually been used as currency and
in 2014 U.S. chocolate sales were $21.1 billion, that alone shows the
significance and the demand for the product. Whether it be white, milk, dark or
other more rare varieties (all will be revealed later on), everyone loves to
sit down and have a square or 10. Here we’re going to look at 100
mouth-wateringly delicious facts about chocolate.
1.
Winston Churchill at
one point was in danger of a Nazi assassination by an exploding bar of
chocolate.
2.
Aztecs used cacao
seeds were a form of currency.
3.
Montezuma II, an Aztec
emperor, drank over 50 cups of chocolate per day.
4.
As well as milk, dark,
and white varieties, there is a rare fourth type known as blond chocolate.
5.
The film “Willy
Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” was financed by Quaker Oats to promote its
new Wonka Bar candy. That’s why it’s named that instead of the book’s title of
“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”.
6.
Joseph Fry invented
the first chocolate bar in 1847.
7.
The chocolate industry
is worth approximately $110 billion per year.
8.
Milky Way bars aren’t
named after the galaxy; they’re named after the malted milkshakes the bars were
supposed to taste like.
9.
Three Musketeers bars
were originally three pieces; chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry. They switched
to just the one bar after strawberry prices increased.
10.
In 1947, hundreds of
Canadian kids went on strike and boycotted chocolate after the price of a
chocolate bar jumped from 5 to 8 cents.
11.
Andes Candies were
called “Andy’s Candy’s,” after creator George Andrew Kanelos but it was changed
after men didn’t want to buy their partners chocolates with another man’s name.
12.
A 2013 study found
that the smell of chocolate in a bookstore made customers 22% more likely to
buy books of any genre and a whopping 40% more likely to buy cookbooks or
romance novels.
13.
The largest chocolate
bar ever weighed over 12,770 lbs (5,792 kg), created in the UK in celebration
of Thornton’s 100th birthday.
14.
The world’s most
valuable chocolate bar is a 100-year-old Cadbury’s bar, it sold for $687 at
auction in 2001. It was taken on Captain Robert Scott’s first expedition to the
Antarctic.
15.
Chocolate milk was
invented in Jamaica. Irish botanist Sir Hans Sloane is said to have first mixed
chocolate with milk in Jamaica in the early 1700s.
16.
Chocolate milk is an
effective post-workout recovery drink.
17.
German chocolate cake
has history with Germany. It’s named after its inventor, Sam German.
18.
Darker chocolates can
have as much caffeine as a can of Coca-Cola.
19.
A 2004 London study
found that 70% of people would give their passwords for a chocolate bar.
20.
Americans buy 58
million+ lbs (26 million+ kg) of chocolate on Valentine’s Day, that’s 5%
of yearly sales.
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