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Chocolate is a Spanish loanword, first recorded in English in 1604, [1] and in Spanish in 1579. [2] However, the word's origins beyond this are contentious. [3] Despite a popular belief that chocolate derives from the Nahuatl word chocolatl, early texts documenting the Nahuatl word for chocolate drink use a different term, cacahuatl, meaning "cacao water".
Milk chocolate is a form of solid ... combined cocoa and condensed milk in 1875 that the milk chocolate bar was invented. ... the country was producing 15,000 tonnes ...
Chocolate is perceived to be different things at different times, including a sweet treat, a luxury product, a consumer good and a mood enhancer. [168] Its reputation as a mood enhancer is driven in part by marketing. [169] Chocolate is a popular metaphor for the black racial category, [170] and has connotations of transgression and sexuality.
Lindt has opened over 410 chocolate cafés and shops all over the world. [46] [47] The cafés' menu mostly focuses on chocolate and desserts. Lindt chocolate cafés also sell handmade chocolates, macaroons, cakes, and ice cream. On 15 December 2014, eighteen people, including eight staff, were held hostage at a Lindt cafe in Sydney. Three ...
Rudolf Lindt (16 July 1855 – 20 February 1909), often known by his francized name Rodolphe Lindt, was a Swiss chocolate maker, chocolatier and inventor. He founded the Lindt brand of Swiss chocolate and invented the conching machine [1] and other processes to improve the quality of chocolate.
Swiss chocolate consumption increased dramatically from the beginning to the end of the 20th century, from about 1 kg to 12 kg per capita per annum. [27] Although partly developed outside Switzerland, white and ruby chocolate were also invented by Swiss-based chocolate manufacturers Nestlé and Barry Callebaut, in 1936 and 2017 respectively.
J. S. Fry & Sons, Ltd., better known as Fry's, was a British chocolate company owned by Joseph Storrs Fry and his family. Beginning in Bristol in 1761, the business went through several changes of name and ownership, becoming J. S. Fry & Sons in 1822.
A chocolate bar is a confection containing chocolate, ... and Poincelet, who invented the melanger in 1811, ... a quarter of the country’s total output, ...