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Culture August 30, 2017
I wanna get chocolate wasted!
In 2015, Americans consumed $18.7 billion dollars of chocolate. On December 28th, on National Chocolate Day, they probably will consume more.
People grab chocolate when they want a taste of something sweet. Chocolate is not just your average sugary delight though.
ENTITY shares five delicious facts about chocolate.
In ancient Mayan and Aztec times, it was believed that the cocoa bean was found by the gods. Each year, the Maya would hold a festival to honor the cocoa god Ek Chuah. The Maya would pay homage to Ek Chuah with offerings and rituals.
Cocoa in the Maya and Aztec times did not taste like the sugary candy we know today. The chocolate before was mixed with various spices and even included chili. It also had major healing properties. The Aztecs used chocolate to clean teeth and for fertility as well. Legend has it that Montezuma consumed over 50 goblets of hot chocolate before he went to the harems.
And it didn’t go well with Christians. The “My Sweet Lord” exhibition was canceled due to many Catholics being offended one, in particular, being Cardinal Edward Egan.
Matt Semler, the gallery’s creative director said that the Catholic Church got it all wrong.
“They jumped to conclusions completely contrary to our intentions,” Selmer told NBC News.
Watchdog of the Catholic League Bill Donohue said that the statue was an insult to the Catholic church.
“One of the worst assaults on Christian sensibilities ever. It’s not just the ugliness of the portrayal, but the timing — to choose Holy Week is astounding,” said Donohue.
It took 200 pounds of chocolate to make the 6-foot Jesus concoction.
Čokoladnica Cukrček created a chocolate bar that measured 1,531.9 ft². The chocolate was so big that even the Slovenia Prime Minister had to take a look.
The chocolate bar was presented at the chocolate festival in Slovenia.
Another country that had the title of the biggest chocolate in the world was Armenia. The chocolate bar weighed a total of 9,702 pounds. The chocolate was divided and shared at the Armenian capital.
When people lust for chocolate, a few bites of a bar usually satisfy their craving. For Rachel Evans though, one bar does is just not enough for her.
Evans shares that chocolate is a regular and daily item in her diet.
“I eat chocolate every day. I don’t just eat one bar or one bag. I’ll eat one and have another an hour later – family sized bags and bars, huge amounts of chocolate. I eat amounts that would make others physically sick. I’ll have it mid morning, lunch time, afternoon, evening and on the sofa at night,” Evans, 36, shared on the show ThisMorning.
She continues, “It (chocolate) is beautiful, but it’s no good for me. I’m trying to lead a healthier life, I have lost weight and started running but, I can’t get rid of it.”
It’s only healthy if it’s dark chocolate. Dark chocolate may also help you in terms of your memory as well. Researchers at Harvard say that dark chocolate helps your body’s blood flow.
“As different areas of the brain need more energy to complete their tasks, they also need greater blood flow. This relationship, called neurovascular coupling, may play an important role in diseases such as Alzheimer’s,” said lead author Farzaneh A. Sorond.
As long as chocolate is good for the blood flow, I say, make it rain.
