Here are some fun facts about chocolate. It's a little random, but the facts are pretty cool......
Did you know that the Mayans used cacao beans as currency?
American chocolate manufacturers use about 1.5 billion pounds of milk only surpassed by the cheese and ice cream industries. They also consume approximately 3,500,000 pounds of whole milk. (This is from Candyfavorites.com)
Montezuma II would drink 50 cups of hot chocolate everyday, because he believed it made him a more "manly man."
Milton Hersey, the inventor of the Hersey's chocolate bar, has a city named after him where all the lamp posts look like chocolate kisses.
Cacao trees grow exclusively 20 degrees South and 20 degrees North of the equator in Meso America.
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I appreciate the continued work on the blog. If we continue to build it they will start to come...interestingly sometimes the readers come years after the fact. Perhaps, Mia, you will be well into high school when plenty of folks run into your middle school musings. That's something to look forward to, I think.
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