As far as I'm concerned every day should be "chocolate day"
Some facts about chocolate:
- Columbus brought cacao (chocolate) beans back to Spain on his fourth voyage in 1502.
- Americans consume about half of the world's chocolate production.
- Hershey's chocolate was introduced in 1900.
- Hawaii is the only state that grows cacao beans to produce chocolate.
- Seven billion pounds of chocolate and candy are manufactured each year in the United States.
- Chocolate syrup was used in the famous shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho.
- Chocolate contains phenylethylamine (PEA), a natural substance that is reputed to stimulate the same reaction in the body as falling in love.
- One plain milk chocolate candy bar has more protein than a banana.
- The average person will consume 10,000 chocolate bars in a lifetime...that's a lot of chocolate!
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