Everyone knows that chocolate has appeared more than 3000 years ago. His first explorers were the Aztecs and Maya. Both did a drink (a little differently) from the cocoa powder and water. Assuming that the chocolate drink of the gods, the Indians used it in some rituals, and sometimes chocolate replaced even the money.
There is a legend of Aztec about the origin of the chocolate. There lived a beautiful and talented gardener. He had a wonderful orchard, in which, among others, one inconspicuous tree with bitter fruit, similar in appearance to the cucumbers has grown . Ketsatkoatl didn’t know what to do with them, and once thought to make a bean powder and boil it in water. It turned out drinking, exhilarating spirit and giving effect, which the inventor calls “chokolatl”.
Soon, news of it reached gardner’s tribesmen, who loved the properties drink. In the end, “chokolatl” began to appreciate the above gold.
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