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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."

3 of 30 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Hm... Hershey Foods dood? by dev0n · · Score: 2, Interesting

    sweetening chocolate was a Spanish idea... when they brought it home, they experimented with it.

    http://www.fmnh.org/Chocolate/history_intro2.htm l

  2. Who.. How? by lowtekneq · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually only the kings and nobles drank chocolate, (mixed with water).. but the beans were common bartering items.

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    Carpe meam simiam!
  3. Re:Chocolate by Sobrique · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Chocolatl is an interesting drink. Got a sample when on a tour of a chocolate factory. An acquired taste, it is somewhat bitter, and the spices etc. are definitely not what a 'modern' chocaholic like myself expect.
    I rather liked it though.
    (That's not to say that the recipe was particularly authentic though, it was a chocolate factory tour and not an archeological re-creation).
    Want to try it?