{"id":71,"date":"2009-02-04T19:47:55","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T19:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyfork.com\/breaking_news_chocolate_is_old\/"},"modified":"2021-04-22T19:42:13","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T19:42:13","slug":"breaking_news_chocolate_is_old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/breaking_news_chocolate_is_old\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News: Chocolate is Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It would seem that scientists made a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/science\/la-sci-cacao3-2009feb03,0,6521359.story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">significant breakthrough in the history of chocolate<\/a>, recently determining that those magic little cacao beans responsible for all kinds of wonderful things might have been available in North America almost 500 years before they initially thought. <\/p>\n<p>Originally believed to have been introduced from Mexico somewhere around the 15th century, current evidence suggests&#8230;you know what? We&#8217;re nodding off just thinking about this. So instead, let&#8217;s just take a look at how far chocolate has come:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><\/p>\n<table class=\"image center\" align=\"center\" border=\"0\" width=\"224\">\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"caption\">Chocolate, Chocolate, Chocolate, Ack!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now that&#8217;s what we call progress.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would seem that scientists made a significant breakthrough in the history of chocolate, recently determining that those magic little cacao beans responsible for all kinds of wonderful things might have been available in North America almost 500 years before they initially thought. 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