WQ - More Chocolate!

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt. ~Charles M. Schulz

My preference is dark chocolate. I am capable of exercising a little restraint if I'm offered milk chocolate or white chocolate, but when it comes to dark chocolate I either eat it all or I hoard it and try to make it last as long as possible. In a box of chocolates, I choose the dark chocolates every time, and if it's somehow combined with orange or raspberry or coffee flavors, that's even better.

"My momma always said, 'Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.'" ~Winston Groom

That's why I've always appreciated the boxes of chocolates that come with a little map or key that gives you at least a general idea if you're getting caramel or hazelnut filling. 

The superiority of chocolate (hot chocolate), both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which is has in Spain. ~Thomas Jefferson

Well, I don't think that's quite how it's worked out, but I do like to think that chocolate is something very healthy! 

Coffee and chocolate - the inventor of mocha should be sainted. ~Cherise Sinclair

Coffee and chocolate is a winning flavor combination, in my opinion! A good cup of coffee is the perfect accompaniment to chocolate cake, a chocolate muffin, or chocolate cheesecake.

Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me. ~Audrey Hepburn

"For who could hate or bear a grudge, against a lovely bit of fudge?" ~Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Never mind about 1066 William the Conqueror, 1087 William the Second. Such things are not going to affect one's life . . . but 1932 the Mars Bar and 1936 Maltesers and 1937 the Kit Kat - these dates are milestones in history and should be seared into the memory of every child in the country. ~Roald Dahl

A brief history of chocolate seems appropriate here. Cacao seed kernels are the source of chocolate or cocoa and cacao has been consumed in some forms since early Mesoamerican civilizations like the Olmec, Maya, and Aztecs. So centuries before the common era, these people groups were drinking chocolate beverages! 

Christopher Columbus took cocoa beans back to Spain, but it wasn't introduced to the Spanish court until later on. Then after the Spanish conquest, chocolate was imported to Europe and became popular in the court as a beverage, with sugar and honey added.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, chocolate companies like Nestle, Rowntree, and Cadbury got started. Cadbury was making boxed chocolates in England by 1868, for example, and did you know they created the modern chocolate Easter egg? They made the first one in 1875 after developing a cocoa butter that could be molded into smooth shapes. And of course, there was Milton Hershey, who purchased chocolate processing equipment at the World's Fair in Chicago in 1893, and got his start making chocolate-coated caramels.

Caramels are only a fad. Chocolate is a permanent thing. ~Milton S. Hershey

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces. ~Judith Viorst

Some of these quotes and thoughts first appeared in WQ - A Box of Chocolates on this blog in November 2023.

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