Chocolate! I don’t think I’ve ever seen a cacao tree. What’s the scale of this?
June 4, 2008 at 10:58 am
(3) Kallie says:
What odd looking… fruit? It’s hard to believe that something so delicious comes from those green footballs! How did it ever occur to someone to turn those into chocolate?
June 4, 2008 at 11:02 am
(4) Kris Hirst says:
Well, in terms of size, I believe that the ripe fruit is about the size of a football! The first use of them, archaeologically, was just the liquor you get when you crack them open. People started planting the tree purposefully about 1100 BC.
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I’ve never seen anything like that!
Chocolate! I don’t think I’ve ever seen a cacao tree. What’s the scale of this?
What odd looking… fruit? It’s hard to believe that something so delicious comes from those green footballs! How did it ever occur to someone to turn those into chocolate?
Well, in terms of size, I believe that the ripe fruit is about the size of a football! The first use of them, archaeologically, was just the liquor you get when you crack them open. People started planting the tree purposefully about 1100 BC.
Here’s more stuff on chocolate:
http://archaeology.about.com/od/caterms/qt/cacao.htm
and
http://archaeology.about.com/od/cterms/qt/chocolate.htm
Hmmm…I didn’t know it grew quite like that. Interesting.
Amazing, really. Who knew?
Way cool. So that’s where chocolate comes from? Interesting that the first use was liquor. Hmmm. Very cool post.