Chocolate drink older then we thought
The history of chocolate will have to be revised following a new discovery, along with the history of humanity’s troubled relationship with alcohol. Archaeologists working in Honduras detected residues from cacao plants in liquid holding vessels from 500 years earlier than beverages of the chocolate precursor have previously been found. John Henderson and colleagues think the beverages in question were more like beer than a hot chocolate-type drink and could have been as potent at 5% alcohol by volume
On The Great Beyond:‘Chocolate beer’ is older than we thought
November 22, 2007 @ 10:19 pm
lol. did you know that chocolate was banned in switzerland for many years. read this
November 23, 2007 @ 12:34 am
I love it, nice site, regards Dr Shock