chocolate covered pretzels
While it is unknown why anyone
would go to such lengths to
imitate cacao beans, it has been
speculated that they may have been
offering it to the gods in
exchange for the very expensive
cacao beans.
Chocolate comes from cacao beans,
the trees grow in the New Guinea,
Indonesia, Malaysia, the Dominican
Republic, Mexico, South America
and West Africa rainforests.
Cacao trees do not begin to
produce until the are between
three and five years old. When
they begin the harvest, the pods
are harvested carefully by hand
(the trees will continue to
produce pods throughout the year
as long as they are not damaged
during harvesting). Then the pods
are chopped open with machetes to
separate the beans from the white
sticky pulp that surrounds them.
They are then fermented and dried
for about 2 weeks before they are
exported, for all of this work the
families get very little money,
usually $30.00 to $108.00 for each
member of the family per year.
chocolate covered pretzels
chocolate factory
Labels: hot chocolate | chocolate chip
