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A 'short but sweet chocolate history
For those with a sweet teeth, chocolate is probably something you can simply live without life.
Even types of capture-IT-IT-IT-IT often find themselves struggling to fight the appeal of the gravity of the Mars bar or a kit-kat.
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However, some of us stop to think about the history of chocolate and how it really comes in the shelves of our stores today.
Who first discovered cocoa tree?
We have Latin Americans to thank you for the fact that we have chocolate in such abundance in the 21st century.
Those who live in Southeast Mexico around 1000 BC have discovered cocoa, although they really use it for any other problem.
After that, in about 300 AD, the Mayan was accompanied and decided that they could do a lot of things with these cocoa particles.
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The Mayan began using cocoa beans as a currency, buying everything from animals to slaves with cocoa beans.
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Only rich people
Chocolate lovers may not be surprised by the fact that Mayan also uses their cocoa beans in religious rituals.
A bridge and groom will give each other chocolate, and even have a shift
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Transfer fast for several hundred years, and Christopher Columbus went to this part of this world.
While pulling out a large number of supplies on their ships in 1502, Columbus and his men happened casually found some cocoa beans when they accidentally fell out.
Seventeen years later, Hernán Cortés came to conquer Mexico and tasted some cocoa beans when he was there.
He doesn't like it at all (what's wrong with him?!) And even said it was more suitable for pigs than everyone.
After he conquered the Aztec empire, he decided not to escape the cocoa beans completely, but to continue using them as currency.
Aztec people are not the only one HERNán Corté
Some bright people have accompanied and discovered that many of these islands have sugar.
Acting more sugar into cocoa beans makes chocolate less bitter and desirable as much as a food substance.
Now it's delicious, it seems people around the world want to try it.
It is not only used for medicine purposes, but to the 17th century, cocoa plantations are being developed, chocolate houses have opened and large quantities of tools have been shipped worldwide.
Chocolate and Valentine's Day
The Chocolate Association with Valentine's Day was actually launched in 1861, when Richard Cadbury, the founder of Cadbury's Chocolate company famous, had an idea.
He thinks that by packing a small chocolate option in a heart-shaped box, he will create a big profit when February 14 comes.
He is not wrong, and consumers love ideas, especially because they can eat candies and then save the beautiful red box like an anniversary!
Until today, you can still find the heart-shaped boxes filled with chocolate in gift shops and other stores.
