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2,600-year-old Mayan Chocolate Found

Posted by michael on from the dark-and-bitter dept.

Peter T Ermit writes "In this week's issue of Nature, scientists report that they have discovered traces of chocolate in a Mayan spouted jug from 600 BC. (The Mayans liked to drink their chocolate rather than eat it.) This is about 1000 years older than the next oldest chemical detection of cocoa. Maybe the Maya rabbit in the moon was really the Quik bunny."

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  1. remember by tps12 · · Score: 2, Funny

    It was all a waste of time until the white man brought them pretzels, the One True Chocolate Vessel.

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  2. i wonder by isorox · · Score: 3, Funny

    I wonder what the use by date is

  3. They smoked it by GuyMannDude · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Mayans liked to drink their chocolate rather than eat it

    No, actually a short filmstrip I saw at the Ah Fudge! chocolate factory said that they mixed it with tabacco, rolled it and smoked it. Nowdays, of course, it comes in a hygenic package.

    After that filmstrip, me and the others from the school field trip when ape shit in the factory, swiming in vats of chocolate and beating up the chocolate bean mascot they had.

    GMD

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  4. Vending machines by kmahan · · Score: 2, Funny

    2600 years old. Just about the right age for MoonPies... But the vending machine in the second floor lab of CERL at the University of Illinois had older items.

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