There are many animals on the endangered list, chocolate should also on the list of endangered species. After all with people swearing to not eat chocolates and there are warnings about the dangers of eating chocolates, then there won’t be enough chocolate lovers left in the world. And if there are no chocolate lovers then there is no need for chocolate. So, it is obvious that chocolate has become an endangered species. Or is it?

Well, contrary to popular perception the time for writing obituaries about chocolate hasn’t yet arrived. In fact, sales of chocolate have only increased over the years. Nobody can really explain it. With all the factors going against chocolate you would expect that the sales would have come down. But, no! The fascination for chocolate is not going to end any time soon, especially dark chocolate.

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The fascination with chocolate goes back a long time. In fact there are records that show that as early as the seventeenth century people in Mexico were fascinated by this delicious substance. According to a story the women of Mexico of those days were so fascinated by chocolate that they used to have their maids bring it in during sermons even at the cost of interrupting the sermon by a Bishop. When the Bishop threatened them with excommunication they preferred changing the church rather than leave their hot chocolate. The moral of the story - Chocolate is here to stay and nothing is going to change that.


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