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In 1847 J. S. Fry found a way to make the chocolate into a solid bar. He took melted cocoa butter and  Dutch chocolate together and letting it harden

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Hello! Today we will share some of the many facts we learned about chocolate.

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1.Remove beans from cocoa pods.

2. Ferment and dry them.

3. Roast them on a griddle until done.

4. Remove the shells and grind the seeds into a fine paste.

5. Mix paste with water, chili peppers, and cornmeal.

6. Pour the resulting concoction back and forth from pot to cup until frothy foam develops on top.

7. Serve with pride in finely decorated earthenware cups.

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People got other ideas with chocolate. One inventor molded the chocolate into different shapes. Maury got the idea the surround chocolate with sugar coatings. Mars  (the company) gave him some money for that project. They were successful and named their company m&m. Another inventor mixed chocolate with peanut butter, marshmallows and caramel and the public loved it.

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When Spain conquered the Aztecs they took many treasures including cocoa beans. After Hernan Cortes brought back chocolate to Europe it became quite popular. First it was used for medical purposes but when they added sugar and honey it became much more enjoyable

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-It has become cheaper.
-We don’t use as money.
-It has become yummy and sweeter.
-There is now all sorts of stuff that has chocolate, like chocolate cake and chocolate milk.
-There is also white chocolate.

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When the Aztecs conquered the Mayans, the Aztecs forced them to pay taxes, and, the Mayans paid in cocoa beans. They had to take cocoa beans from the Mayans because the cocoa beans did not grow where the Aztecs lived

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Chocolate was invented by the Mayans, as they were the first to make cocoa beans into a drink that was dark and bitter. It was first made roughly 4,000 years ago, which was in 1750BC. The Mayans used cocoa beans as money.