From chocolatl to chocodream
The taste of chocolate has changed through the years. We started with spicy chocolatl and now we have sweet chocolate. Faster and cheaper chocolate production methods have been developed. This trend started by growing trees which give more fruits, but low(er) cacao qualities than the trees which were grown by the Maya and Aztecs.
It has become so popular that more and more people want to eat the food, which was once so rare that it was used as gifts for gods and kings. Nowadays it is possible to buy chocolate just until the gas station around the corner is closed. Apparently the managers of chocolate factories think that chocolate is so addictive that they can even sell us artificial chocolate.
Who knows, one day they’ll even invent cacao beanless-chocolate!
Whenever this “chocodream” arrives on the shelves, I hope people will keep in mind that the real chocolate is still made out of little beans, derived from so called cacao pods which grow on real trees!
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