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🍫 World Chocolate Day 🍫
Andres-2
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Fun Facts for World Chocolate Day
1.) Chocolate comes from the fruit of the cacao tree
The fruit is about the size of a large mango and has a sweet, white pulp with large seeds. Similar to coffee, the seeds must be fermented, dried, and then roasted to get the rich flavor we know of as chocolate.
2.) Chocolate doesn’t start off shiny, it has to be “tempered”
When melted chocolate cools, the cocoa butter forms several different types of crystals. When you heat chocolate, cool it, and then heat it again, it encourages the formation of uniform crystals, which is why the surface changes from dull to glossy.
3.) Chocolate is poisonous to dogs
The toxic component of chocolate is theobromine. Humans easily metabolize theobromine, but dogs process it much more slowly, allowing it to build up to toxic levels in their system.
Technically, humans could consume a lethal quantity of chocolate, too, but you’d need to eat at least 22lbs of chocolate first in a sitting. So don’t do that.
4.) It takes 400 cacao seeds to make 1 lb of chocolate
Each cacao tree yields about 2,500 seeds, meaning you can get about 6.25 lbs of chocolate from each tree. It takes a almost a full year for a cocoa tree to produce enough pods to make 10 standard-sized Hershey bars.
5.) UFCW members make Hershey’s, Ghirardelli, See’s and other iconic chocolate candies
The hardworking men and women of Hershey’s produce 70 million Kisses every day, and enough annually to make a 300,000-mile-long line of Kisses. That means if you lined them up, you’d likely need a new car (or at least some heavy repairs) by the time you drove far enough to reach the end.
6.) The first chocolate bar was invented in 1847 by Joseph Fry
Together with his sons, Fry formed the British chocolate company, J. S. Fry & Sons, Ltd. They would also invent the first cream filled chocolate Easter egg in 1873. The company merged with Cadbury in 1919 and the original plant continued to operate until 2010.
7.) Thousands of Canadian children orchestrated a chocolate boycott in 1947
In 1947 hundreds of Canadian kids went on strike and boycotted chocolate after the price of a chocolate bar jumped from 5 to 8 cents. Within days, Canadian chocolate sales dropped by 80%.
El apoyo al boicot disminuyó cuando el periódico conservador The Support for the boycott waned when the conservative paper The Toronto Evening Telegraph accused the children’s activities as being part of a Communist plot and a front for Moscow, and the price of chocolate remained at 8 cents. (Source)
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I know Joseph Fry originally investigated the properties of chocolate to make medicines taste better when you swallowed them. Not sure how he decided that would be the best thing!
We are going to the chocolate story again in York in the summer when we visit the city. Its really interesting! I cannot remember the full story as its been a year or two since I went but I know some of the original buildings are still there. Tiny shops!
The one in York started off as Rowntrees which also does many none chocolate sweets too.
Did you know that we in Britain don't get as many flavours as other countries (such as KitKats) because we have lower safety and health limits 🤔
One of my grandads family used to work in the factory in York and everytime he visited he would come back with a massive box of mishapes.
Fun times!
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@Andres-2 I found another fact on one of my photo albums I have about Lindt chocolate!
All the major chocolate factories started in York, Cadburys, Rowntrees and Terry's. But did you also know that Lindt had connections in York too? . He started as an apprentice to one of those (think was R) and chocolate used to be stirred for 3 hours but was always lumpy. One Friday he went home for the weekend and forgot to turn the machine off. 3 days later when he went back thinking it was ruined..it was super smooth. So now they stir it for 3 days and he went off to do his own chocolate. Rowntrees still make the chocolate but it's sold under the nestle brand.
