TRIVIA TODAY - Monday, November 14, 2011

Greetings Infomaniacs,

I've been spending a lot of late nights doing homework lately, which is not good when I have snack cravings and a container of leftover Halloween candy. I should say, I did have a container of leftover Halloween candy! Thankfully it is gone and I am not buying anymore chocolate. Instead, I am just going to share with you some trivia about chocolate!

Enjoy!
Melissa

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QUOTE: "A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her."

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RANDOM TIDBITS
Chocolate was introduced into the United States in 1765 when cocoa beans were brought from the West Indies to Dorchester, Massachusetts.

Cocoa butter is the natural fat of the cocoa bean. It has a delicate chocolate aroma, but is very bitter tasting. It is used to give body, smoothness, and flavor to eating chocolate.

Cultivation of cacao trees can occur only in tropical climates, 20 degrees north or south of the equator. Principal growing areas include West Africa, Brazil, Ecuador and the Indies.

German chocolate cake did not originate in Germany. In 1852, Sam German developed a sweet baking bar for Baker's Chocolate Co. The product was named in honor of him -- Baker's German's Sweet Chocolate.

In 1900, Queen Victoria sent her New Year's greetings to the British troops stationed in South Africa during the Boer War in the form of a specially molded chocolate bar.

The world's first chocolate candy was produced in 1828 by Dutch chocolate-maker Conrad J. Van Houten. He pressed the fat from roasted cacao beans to produce cocoa butter, to which he added cocoa powder and sugar.


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