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Chocolate may have been first enjoyed as beer; alcoholics and chocoholics find common ground

Ted Alvarez on November 13, 2007 7:33 AM
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In news sure to unite unhappy couples everywhere, a new archaeological discovery seems to indicate that chocolate was first enjoyed by prehistoric Mesoamericans as a "frothy, bitter brew of fermented roasted and ground cacao seeds." Do you hear that, disgruntled, Russell Stover-chomping wives and lethargic, Labatts-addicted husbands? You have a shared prehistory! You had each other at hello!