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| Chocolate Trivia, continued |
| Chocolate syrup was used for "blood" in the famous 45 second shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's movie, Psycho which actually took seven days to shoot. Rumor has it that Napoleon carried chocolate with him on all his military campaigns for a quick energy snack. The word "chocolate" comes from the Aztec word xocolatl, which means "bitter Water" 1.4 oz. of milk chocolate contains about the smae amount of caffeine as a cup of decaffeinated coffee, which is 6 mg. A cup of regular coffee is between 65 and 150 mg. One plain milk chocolate candy bar has more protein than a banana. Great chocolate manufacturers choose their beans in the same way as a wine-maker chooses his or her grape varieties. Years ago, when harvesting was over, a dance was performed on the cocoa seeds which had been put out to dry in the sun. this tradition continues today in certain regions of Central and South America. In the Chuao Valley, in Venezuela, the cacao bean is still cultivated just as it was at the time of the Aztecs. Chocolate contains a minimal amount of salt. Wicker baskets, filled with cacao beans, were among the gifts which the aztecs offered to the conquistadors. For the Aztecs, cocao chocolate was a luxury and the cocao beans were like gold, a rare commodity that served as both currency and gifts for kings and gods. The Aztecs used to prepare a drink for the gods made up of ground cocao bean paste mixed with spices and corn. American and Russian space flights have always included 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 end of the second World War marked a new era in chocolate advertising and image-making, which would be based on photographs instead of drawings. Venezuela was the site fo the first cocoa plantations. The first chocolate box was introduced by Cadbury. |
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