Rumour has it...
- The first chocolate house was opened in London, England in 1657.
- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and the chocolate bar in his pocket melted.
- Chocolate syrup was used for blood in the famous shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s movie, Psycho.
- Chocolate was so popular in seventeenth century England that the government imposed a tax on it. No change there then…
- The average American consumes approximately 11.7 pounds of chocolate each year. The Swiss scoff a whopping 21 pounds of chocolate per person while Britons manage a measly 9 pounds each.
- The Japanese custom ‘Chiri Choco’ means ‘Duty Chocolate’ and it requires employees to give chocolates to their bosses as a token of loyalty.
- When Christopher Columbus first presented chocolate to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain they dismissed it as a bizarre tribal concoction.
- Due to its reputation as an aphrodisiac, Casanova took chocolate before bedding his many conquests.
- 50% of women say they prefer chocolate to sex.
- Monthly cravings for chocolate in pre-menstrual women may be explained by its rich magnesium content.
- Chocolate is the most-craved food in the world. Couldn’t find anyone salivating for lettuce then?
- Chocolate was considered to be such a strong aphrodisiac by the Aztec Indians that it was forbidden for women to touch it.
- Emperor Montezuma drank 50 of more cups of chocolate every day, quaffed in great golden goblets.
- Chocolate purists argue that white chocolate isn’t really chocolate since it doesn’t contain any cocoa mass.
- Chocolate has been taken into space as part of the diet of US Astronauts.
