Aztecs Created Chocolate While Trying To Make Beer. In Other News: We Love The Aztecs.
15 November 2007, 9:00 AM. By Alex Alvarez
Researchers in Honduras have discovered residue from a chemical compound that comes exclusively from cacao in pottery vessels dating back to 1100 BC - a residue that suggests chocolate might have originally been consumed by the Aztecs as a beer-like celebratory beverage of supreme awesomeness:
The earliest cacao beverages consumed at Puerto Escondido were likely produced by fermenting the sweet pulp surrounding the seeds,” the scientists wrote in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
One of the researchers, anthropologist John Henderson of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, said cacao beverages were being concocted far earlier than previously believed - and it was a beer-like drink that started the chocolate craze.
Well praise to Cihuacoatl! It sounds like the Aztecs were a people after our own hearts. …Oh. Potentially awkward.
Chocolate invented 3,100 years ago by the Aztecs - but they were trying to make beer [Daily Mail]
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haha, awesome cartoon…just thought i’d let you know
what didn’t the aztecs and mayans invent?
Interesting… the only thing in my fridge right now is beer and chocolate. Coincidence?
Mmmmmmmmmmm chocolate beer.
Coincidence is NOT! I also have some cold cheves in the fridge and some chocolate treats in the freezer! Must be a genetic thing!