Trivia Facts About Chocolate
Posted on September 5, 2009 | Category: Chocolate
I know, that chocolate is one of my obsessions, and chances are pretty good that it may be one of yours. Or at the very least, you’ve indulged in a bite or two of one of the worlds most favorite candies. But, here are a few trivial facts about chocolate that you may not have known before. Let’s start of with a simple one.
- First of all if you love chocolate, chances are your a woman. New research points out that whenever women crave some kind of food, it is almost always chocolate. On the other side of X/Y gene it would appear that men normally crave salty snacks. For some reason I seem to be able to enjoy the best of both worlds, since my cravings seem to be equally balanced between chocolate and salt.
- If your chocolate tastes drift to the spicy side, then you may have a connection with the late great Montezuma. It would seem, that Montezuma took a healthy dose of chocolate every day. And, that he mixed his chocolate with a few chili peppers thrown in for good measure. Don’t think I’ve ever tried spicy chocolate, but it sounds tantalizing. I’ll have to look around for a recipe or make up one on my own.
- It would appear that the citizens are getting more than their fair share of the worlds chocolate supply. Apparently, they consume almost half of the worlds yearly consumption of chocolate. To be precise, about 700 million kilograms. Hey Obama, how about passing some of the chocolate my way
- Did you know, that chocolate syrup was a favorite substitute for blood in many of hollywood movies scenes. At least back in the black and white days, it worked pretty well. I guess color movies didn’t do much to help the chocolate industry.
- Under the category of “Mother doesn’t always know best”, would you be surprised to know that all those acne pimple your suffering from have nothing to do with consuming chocolate. At one time it was believed that chocolate could cause pimples. Fortunately for all you teenagers out there, there’s no need to stop eating chocolate any longer.
Well, there you go. Now you have five more useless facts about chocolate you can stuff away in your brain. After all, you never now when you could end up in the fight of your life, and the only way out is your immense knowledge of life saving trivia. It worked for India Jones, and it worked for Macgyver, it could work for you to.
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December 13th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
I do wish there were more people like you around on the internet. Not many people are careful with their words, including myself sometimes. I have written things I would love to take back but now its not possible.