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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. Chocolate by wakaramon · · Score: 5, Informative
    (The Mayans liked to drink their chocolate rather than eat it.)

    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.

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

    I wonder what the use by date is

  3. Ummm... by Zen+Mastuh · · Score: 3

    that's not chocolate. Ewww...

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  4. 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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