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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. Damn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    That's one crusty old nut!

  2. Re:Chocolate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Wait a second? You're attempting to use dictionary.com to refute an etymological derivation from the Mayan? That's like disproving the AMA Journal with something you read in USA Today. What an asshole.

    Someone please mod this pompous metallica-listenin' turd down.

  3. I wonder... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I wonder what 2600 year old chocolate tastes like.
    I also wonder if one of the people who found it could
    get me a piece. I'm all out of chocolate at home.