Delicious Facts about Chocolate

Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa once wrote, “There is no metaphysics on earth like chocolate.”(15)
The English chocolate company Cadbury made the first chocolate bar in the world in 1842.(6)
In the film Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock used Bosco chocolate syrup for blood in the famous shower scene.(19)
Champagne and sparkling wine are too acidic to go well with dark chocolate. Red wine typically compliments it the best.(17)
Hershey’s produces over 70 million chocolate Kisses--every day.(7)
Reports predict that the global chocolate market will grow to $98.3 billion in 2016 from $83.2 billion in 2010.(5)
Cacao trees can live to be 200 years old, but they produce marketable cocoa beans for only 25 years.(15)

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