Chocolate
History
History
How many years back can the cacao bean be traced?
4,000 years
When was the first Hershey bar produced?
1900
The first "hot chocolate" was seasoned with these two spices...
Cinnamon and Vanilla
First European country to incorporate chocolate into their cuisine? *What year?
Spain, 1585
How many pounds of chocolate does the average American consume per year?
12
Which people first cultivated the cacao bean?
Mayans (but first consumed by the Olmec people of Latin America 1,000 years before cultivation)
Why were M&M's created?
To have a type of candy that could transport easily in tubes to soldiers in WW2, rather than bars that would break.
What is the history behind "German Chocolate cake"?
Named for American Sam German, who developed sweet cocoa baking bar for Baker's Chocolate (not a German!)
First country to add butter and sugar to cocoa beans to make sweet "eating chocolates"
England
In the U.S., which holiday sells the most chocolate? *how many pounds?
Halloween, 90 million lbs
In the 15th century, the Aztecs used cocoa beans as __________
currency or money
What is the first-known chocolate-based official dessert recipe?
Chocolate Mousse
Who knows the history of chocolate chips?
Created by Ruth Wakefield in Whitman, MA in 1935 when she chopped a chocolate bar to add to a cookie dough recipe. Toll House cookies gave her a lifetime supply of chocolate in exchange for her recipe, and the name Toll House comes from her inn that she owned.
Which was the first country to add milk to eating chocolate, creating "milk chocolate"
Switzerland
Which food group does the cocoa bean belong to?
Fruit
What famous Aztec ruler drank over 50 cups of bitter hot cocoa bean drinks a day?
Montezuma
Most popular candy bar in 2020?
Snickers
Chocolate was ONLY consumed as a drink until which year?
1847
Which area of the world provides over 70% of cocoa beans?
West Africa
The smell of chocolate induces _______ in humans.
Relaxation
In which American war were soldiers paid in cocoa beans for their service?
Revolutionary War
Name the first three candy bars in the United States...
The candy bar genealogy from that point goes something like this:
(1900) Hershey Bar, Clark Bar (1916), Oh Henry! (1920), Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups (1922), Baby Ruth and Milky Way (1923), Mr. Goodbar (1925), Snickers (1930), 3 Musketeers (1932), Kit Kat (1933), and Nestle’s Crunch (1938)
Who is credited with baking the first-ever chocolate cake?
One report says that a chef in France made the first chocolate cake for Napoleon Bonaparte‘s wife, Josephine. Another story says that a woman in the United States named Sarah Lee invented chocolate cake in the 1800s
Most popular chocolate brand in the world?
Ferrero Rocher
What is the lethal dose of chocolate for human being?
22 lbs!