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Welcome to Ogle’s Family!topic: chocolateLecturer: Ogle Momma always said: Life is like a box of .Forrest. You never know what youre gonna get. _______Forrest Gump Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Warming-up Questions 1)Do you like chocolate? 2)Which country do you think makes the most delicious chocolate? 3)Do you like getting chocolate as a present? 4)Do you know how chocolate is made? 5)How much chocolate should children eat? Delicious Facts about Chocolate Nothing wraps its way around the tongue like a rich, bitter/sweet chocolate. It is one of the great pleasures of life celebrated across the world. It finds its way into the best ice creams, biscuits and cakes. It is a favorite in top New York restaurants as much as grocery stores across the land. It is also a substance surrounded by myth and mystery with all kinds of strange effects and miraculous powers assigned to it. It has been used as a stimulant, an aphrodisiac, a medicine and it is said to make horses run faster. Here are a few of the true facts about chocolate- they are remarkable enough to fascinate without any embroidery. The History of Chocolate Chocolate has been consumed by human beings for over 3000 years. It comes from the cacao plant that is native to Central America. The Mayans, Toltecs and Aztecs used it as a currency and occasionally went to war over it. If you are interested in early exchange rates-one turkey cost 100 cacao beans and one fresh avocado was worth 3 beans. The plant is short and hates direct sun so is usually grown under larger trees like coconut or banana. A double blessing! The History of Chocolate The name xocolātl was the Central American name for the chocolate drink made from cacao and means bitter water. Often it was flavored with peppers. When first taken to Europe by the Spanish in the sixteenth century, it quickly became the favored drink of the aristocracy and was wildly expensive. To meet demand, the Spanish enslaved whole populations of Na