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2,600-year-old Mayan Chocolate Found
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."
... A Mayan teenager has just been dumped by her boyfriend, she goes out with her friends for a nice jug of chocolate to drown her sorrows....
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Some things just don't seem to change, eh?
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How long does it take chocolate to break down? When is it no longer chocolate?
That's one crusty old nut!
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It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)
Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors .. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt .45 and a .38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.
Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!
Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our governme
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That is why it is called "chocolate", from the Náhuatl choco ~= froth and atl ~= water: frothy water. Náhuatl is the language spoken by the aztecs and other peoples in Mexico.
It was all a waste of time until the white man brought them pretzels, the One True Chocolate Vessel.
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Anyone find it coincidental that the researcher was a guy by the name of Hershey, working at the choc maker? IIRC the Mayans consumed chocolate as a savoury food, not a sweetened one; they'd use it to add flavour to meat and veg, or supplement chilies of various types (ya, I know they did mention the last part). Apparently sweetening chocolate was a later European idea. Anyone willing/able to confirm this?
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Actually only the kings and nobles drank chocolate, (mixed with water).. but the beans were common bartering items.
Carpe meam simiam!
I wonder what the use by date is
Well as I know it..... my girlfriend always ate chocolate when she got her . so I had wondered what they did in the olden days? Now I know hmmmmmmmm who would have thunkin?
that's not chocolate. Ewww...
"What is the sound of one belly slapping?"
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
watch this
CowboyNeal ate it.
I'm sure Nestle are stoked to have gotten this ad onto the Slashdot front page.
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.
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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Interesting enough, the current issue of Discover magazine has an article about Chocolate, and how it's in danger of becoming extinct.
You can read a sample of the article at: Discover
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