Long long ago
chocolate was a mysterious thing. That time no one eat this but some
people drink it. Even they don't know how to drink it , suddenly they
find out how to drink it.
They lived beside a rainforest near middle America. They ware farmer. The forest was full of wild beasts, different types of tropical plants and dangerous snakes. And the cocoa trees in this forest, which is made from the seeds of the chocolate.
The jungle monkeys knew a fair amount about the strange fruits.They ate the sweet white inner part of the fruit. And they drop the bitter seeds. In this way lot's of coco trees grown from those seeds.
One day the farmer saw monkeys eat cocoa fruit and they also try it. And they got great taste from the sweet white inner part of the fruit.But they also throw the bitter seeds.Then the farmer told the others about this fruit, the others began to eat the fruit of the cocoa.Though everyone ate only sweet white part and threw the bitter seeds.
Suddenly some villagers had noticed that, there is a strange beauty of a scent where they had gathered cocoa fruit seeds.Within a few months they discovered the method of permanent of the scent.For this they converted the seeds as a drink.
For this reason they kept the seeds under the banana leaves first few days.then they dried the seeds very well by sun heat.then they fried the seeds and crush them like paste,Finally they mixed the paste with more spices and water to ready to drink.
They gave the new name of this drink 'cakala or' (Chocol baa).
While this Chocol Baa's taste was very bitter, but still they loved it.
To go to jungle and collect cocoa fruits was not easy. that's why , farmers began to cultivate plants for cocoa on their own grounds. The farmers was the member of a tribe named ' Mayan'.This Chokol or Chol Baa was an essential part of the life of 'Mayan'.
Mayan King and the priests drink chocolate every day.They like the foam more than the drink.Even they used cocoa fruit at their marriage ceremony.Even there was a custom that groom-bride will exchange 5 cocoa.That time people love so much cocoa trees that they draw almost everywhere cocoa trees picture. But the cocoa seeds recipes was very tough.Not only tough but also time consuming.As a result, most people are not drink chocolate without any ceremony.Cocoa fruit seeds considered so precious to the Mayan's later that they bagan to use it as money.That time one could buy a rabbit by 10 cocoa and a slave by 100 cocoa.
Almost 100 years to the next.A group of businessman arrives at Mayan's village.They wanted to took completely new thing for their emperor, that's why they searching for quite a while.In this way they arrived at Mayan's village.Those traders were from a dangerous tribe named 'Aztec'.So to avoid trouble Mayan's wanted to give them some valuable Cocoa seeds.
When 'Aztec's knew the mystery of the chocolate, they served one mug of liquid chocolate to their emperor. after drinking chocolate emperor was cried out ''wow''. He saw it, cold drinks, but provocative,Again, not exhausted.So he ordered his soldiers to drink liquid chocolate before going to war.
Aztec's where lives, the place was not good for the cultivation of cocoa trees.The place was a bit more cool.That's why Aztec's could not cultivate Cocoa.They bought cocoa from Mayan's and would bring in their country.
And the Emperor of Aztec's 'Montezuma' was quite crazy for chocolates.He had full his warehouse by cocoa seeds.Even sometimes he drink 50cup of chocolates.His belief was, this drink will make him even richer and wiser.But the poor man's chocolate still just a dream.
Became a legendary story about the origin of chocolate at the same time.
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