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Cocoa beans were even used instead of money. A rabbit cost 4 cocoa beans, a salve cost 100 beans
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When the Spanish explorer Hernan Cortés reached Mexico, he was received with a great ceremony, and offered a thick chocolate drink in a golden goblet.
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The Spanish added sugar to the chocolate drink and kept the recipe for making chocolate a secret for nearly 100 years.
In the 17th century, drinking chocolate was an expensive luxury. -
The first milk chocolate bars were produced by the company Nestlé.
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Chocolate houses became fashionable places to meet and chat.