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* The scientific name for cacao beans (the primary ingredient in chocolate)
is "Thebroma cacao," which literally translated means "food of the gods."
* The Aztecs believed that chocolate could make those who drank it deranged.
* They're absolutely correct.
* A single chocolate chip provides sufficient food energy for an adult to
walk 150 feet.
* It would take 875,000 chocolate chips for an adult to walk around the
world
* Cars and planes are a far more convenient means of travel than chocolate.
* Fans of baseball player Henry Rodriguez (of the Los Angeles Dodgers) like
to shower the player with Oh Henry! candy bars every time he hits a home
run.
* Fans of movie actress Barbara Hershey have never showered the actress with
Hershey chocolate bars.
* Chocolate syrup was used for blood in the famous shower scene in Alfred
Hitchcock's 1960 film "Psycho."
* In a blatant case of false advertising, the 1977 film "Looking for Mr.
Goodbar" had nothing to do with the candy bar by the same name.
* Hershey Park, a chocolate theme park in Pennsylvania, scrapped plans for a
hot fudge flume ride after an ant farm invaded the research and development
department.
* According to comedienne Rosie O'Donnell, the staples of chocolate dining
are Ring Dings, Yoodles, Swiss Rolls, and Devil Dogs.
* O'Donnell once claimed she has an IV drop of Yoo-Hoos.
* Americans eat 2.8 billion pounds of chocolate annually (12 pounds per
person), nearly half the world's supply.
* According to Iowa law, it is illegal to give a box of candy as a romantic
gift unless it weighs more than fifty pounds.
* The world's largest Hershey's Kiss, created in 1987 as part of a Hong Kong
marketing promotion, was thirty inches tall and weighed over four hundred
pounds.
* Chocolate can be lethal to dogs. About two ounces of milk chocolate can
kill a 10-pound puppy.
* A 1987 government survey revealed that 87 percent of Republican
congressmen love chocolate, while only 80 percent of Democrats considered
themselves chocoholics.
* Experiments conducted at the University of Pennsylvania found that the
consumption of chocolate has no effect on acne.
* In 1997 a U.S. marshal shot a New York teenager for eating a 3 Musketeers
candy bar. The marshal allegedly thought the candy was a gun.
* A 1990 exhibit at the California Museum of Science and Industry featured a
bust of Albert Einstein made entirely of chocolate.
* Einstein, although a genius in every other way, was not especially fond of
chocolate.
* At a 1988 conference on chocolate at Hofstra University, lecture topics
included "Inside the Pastilles of the Marquis de Sade" and "Has Modernism
Failed the Chocolate Box?"
* When a chocolate cargo truck crashed in Shelby, North Carolina, in 1993,
sand was put on the highway to stop motorists from licking the pavement.
* Liz Paul, a British researcher, developed a chocolate patch (similar to
the nicotine patch) in 1997 that she claimed would cure people from craving
chocolate.
* Napoleon carried chocoate with him on his military campaigns, eating it
when he needed quick energy.
* During Napoleon's disastrous invasion of Russia in 1812, the emperor
forced his army to march on foot more than 500 miles from Poland to Moscow,
which required approximately 17,600 chocolate chips.
* Although the Baby Ruth candy bar was not named for baseball hall-of-famer
Babe Ruth, the tubby slugger was eventually immortalized with not one but
two mediocre candy bars: The Bambino and the Big Champ.
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In non-essentials, liberty.
In all things, charity.
-- Augustine
Jeaibe
>the nicotine patch) in 1997 that she claimed would cure people from craving
>chocolate.
Where can I get one of those?
Douglas...@newman.com
>* A single chocolate chip provides sufficient food energy for an adult to
>walk 150 feet.
I ate just one of those once and couldn't get back.
Doug
Just a virtual guy... in a virtual world.
Douglas...@newman.com
Hershey, Pennsylvania