Unusual Facts About Chocolate

chocolate has been with us for centuries chocolate did you say chocolate from being initially treated with suspicion to being used as medicine and finally as the ultimate dessert treat we know today chocolate has had quite a journey from its Origins to our mouths and there's still quite a bit about chocolate that you've probably never heard before today on weird history food we're going to let you in on some strange little-known facts about chocolate but before we unwrap today's sweet sweet history why not subscribe to the weird history Food Channel and leave us a comment letting us know what other classic Confections you'd like to hear about next for now let's take a bite out of some sugary delectable history Everyone likes to talk about how chocolate tastes but can we talk about that smell chocolate it's a delicious bouquet you detect when your nose is treated to chocolate comes from the butter which is basically just fat except it's crammed full of around 600 Aroma molecules if you analyze these molecules one by one not sure exactly how you do that but just saying if you did you'd notice that some of these molecules smell nothing like the roasted chocolate fragrance we know and love instead you may find scents like potato chip peach or even cooked meat amongst the cocoa fragrance all things that taste better when covered with chocolate by the way scientists were able to determine that chocolate makers really only needed 25 of these base smells to create the cocoa scent this is especially important for species who get their sense of taste via their sense of smell hey that's us the high fat paired with the slow release of those compounds up into your nasal passages creates The Delectable taste that chocolate is famous for this is why you should take your time savoring your chocolate the slower you eat the more powerful the flavor becomes however the faster you eat the sooner you can go get more chocolate it's a real conundrum despite efforts by the best literary Minds in history most people do tend to judge a book by its cover that old adage was put to a tasty test in 2019 when a scientific study was conducted to CL packaging influences a person's decision when choosing a chocolate treat volunteers were given both wrapped and unwrapped candies as well as empty wrappers to analyze without doing any tasting these chocolates were arranged in themes from fun and bold to everyday and healthy healthy like sport chocolate do they make performance enhancing Mr goodbars the study's participants didn't report much difference among the chocolates themselves but the packaging was another story scores plummeted for the candies where the rappers were missing while candy with visible wrapping earned High Praise chocolate and fancy wrapping created the strongest attraction and a higher guarantee that the volunteer would purchase this candy in the future while taste was still an important factor the product's appearance was surprisingly powerful additional experiments of this type showed that packaging factors into about 60 percent of all candy sales hey what can we say humans like things that look cool that's why every Trapper Keeper is covered with dolphins and f-14s laughs John Montague the fourth Earl of Sandwich holds the distinction of inventing the sandwich but he's not the only member of the family credited with creating something you can get from Starbucks it turns out John's great great grandfather was sipping on the first mocha Frappuccino two generations before a 350 year old recipe was discovered back in 2013 authored by Sir Edward Montague Eddie was an avid alcoholic at a time when chocolate was new to England and folks were suspicious of its very existence they were indeed the Dark Ages oh wait that was during the restoration well agree to disagree rumor had it round these parts that chocolate was a leading cause of hemorrhoids and organ damage but sir Edward liked his little concoctions so he put together a recipe that combined chocolate with the awesome power of snow and a pinch of salt huh snow like from outside the dessert was eaten with a spoon and was extremely similar to the ice chocolate served in coffee shops to this day although the stuff you get in coffee shops presumably has less sticks in it not bad for food everyone was convinced was poisoned but the Earl had a solution for organ damage just in case drink hot chocolate 15 minutes before the Frozen snack which is both a Charming home remedy and a pretty clever way to get yourself two desserts [Music] [Applause] if you thought that taste was determined solely by ingredients then we've got some surprising news for you it turns out that flavor in food can be affected by many factors such as price verbal description or even the color of the plate a study from 2013 set out to find the best possible color to pair with chocolatey Delights over 50 volunteers were given the same hot chocolate in different colored mugs evidently this experiment was conducted in Santa's Workshop after tallying up all the votes nearly all the participants agreed that the best tasting hot chocolates were the ones in the orange or cream-colored mugs even though they were all the same so get yourself an orange and cream-colored mug and fill it with hot cocoa if you're looking for the flavor explosion of your lifetime hey there weird historians have you ever been hacked you know had your personal information stolen while using the unsecure Wi-Fi at a coffee shop or fallen for a super believable fishing email nordvpn can help weird history food and nordvpn are teaming up and you should check it out if you want an easy to use Lightning Fast VPN that can protect you from common cyber security threats like fishing malware and password attacks nordvpn can connect with one click giving you peace of mind while you browse online safely and freely nordvpn also hides your IP address and allows you to set it from over 60 countries all over the world with over 5200 plus servers in 60 countries nordvpn can help you easily find a server near you for better speed or in a far away location to access region restricted content it takes just a click open the map click on a location and you'll be connected in second nordvpn makes it that easy get your exclusive nordvpn deal at nordvpn.com wh food the link is in the description and right now get four months for free on a two-year plan it's risk-free with nord's 30-day money-back guarantee there generally doesn't seem to be much overlap between foods that are delicious and foods that are actually good for you that's why McDonald's is the biggest restaurant in the world and nobody buys their salads but amazingly chocolate is one of those rare foods like a tasty unicorn in addition to exciting your taste buds chocolate makes your heart healthier calms your mind and lowers blood pressure it's literally the perfect treat it might even win you a Nobel Prize in 2012 Dr Franz messerly published a study in the New England Journal of Medicine centered around chocolate's ability to earn the eater a prestigious award the award in question is the renowned Nobel Peace Prize and Dr messerly claimed that stuffing your face full of chocolate like you've won a Wonka golden ticket may boost the likelihood of winning a Nobi but before you go and buy several textbooks weight in chocolate bars the good doctor was not arguing that chocolate made you smarter no the study was comparing the amount of chocolate each country consumes versus the amount of Nobel Prize winners hailing from that country nessively found that the more chocolate country 8 the more Nobel laureates they produced but the study wasn't meant to be taken too seriously while the data he presented was sound messerly knew that the supposed link between chocolate and academic accolades was too sweet to be real it seems the purpose of the study was to demonstrate that correlation doesn't necessarily equal causation either that or he's just trying to discourage people from eating chocolate so he can win all the Nobel prizes for himself if you asked for a chocolate sundae in the 1800s Azar any shopkeeper would think you were out of your mind that's because chocolate syrup was originally used to flavor medicine so asking for a chocolate sundae would be like asking for a drizzle of cough syrup on your waffle cone delicious back then doctors purchased bitter cocoa powder from Hershey's which while not known for its success as a medical supply company has a nearly Immaculate record in the field of chocolate the powder was then mixed with large quantities of sugar to form a thick syrup before this life-changing invention chocolate was already used to treat patients suffering from wasting disease and because every medicine back in the 19th century tasted like manufacturing waste the chocolate syrup was mixed in to give stubborn patients something tastier to swallow the syrup eventually transferred from behind Pharmacy counters into the aisles themselves when it was discovered this chocolaty miracle could be added to virtually any food to make it 900 times better delicious despite being banned in 1989 the illegal trading of ivory has resulted in the deaths of around 50 000 elephants in 2011 alone what does that have to do with chocolate you're probably wondering the answer is entirely too much the key to successfully trading Ivory is getting it across the borders undetected Smugglers have a variety of bizarre methods they use to get their loots safely to its destination without anyone being the wiser including dressing the ivory and clothes in a wig and booking it a ticketing coach uh probably so you can't blame officials in Macau for being suspicious in 2013 when they opened the luggage of two South African Travelers and found 538 chocolate bars while we personally don't find that amount of chocolate suspicious we recognize that others might after dipping these dubious Delectables in warm water they found the chocolate contained not peanuts caramel or nougat but about 76 000 worth of poached Ivory still tastier than coconut filling just in case you thought the ivory thing was going to be the most depressing part of this episode we've got one more chocolate related bummer to lay on you and it involves candy manufacturing giant Nestle the company has long been accused of dodging child labor laws the Fair Labor Association paid a visit to 260 of Nestle's farms and what they found was not pretty over 50 child workers aged 15 to 17 were found working in the factories perks included zero education for children working alongside their families and low to non-existent pay attempts to fix the situation have repeatedly failed Farmers don't enforce the ban on underage workers and human rights lawyers have determined that Nestle is either unable to fix the problem or simply doesn't want to apparently once you start raking in enough chocolate dollars you can just say no to labor laws foreign having a chocolate obligation sounds like an important responsibility but it doesn't sound like a negative thing that is unless you're expected to give chocolate to your male co-workers or else suffer their ungrateful wrath there is a tradition in Japan called jirishoko in which women are expected nay obligated to bring chocolate for the men in their workplace jirishoku is reluctantly observed on Valentine's Day and women who participate must spend a bunch of money obtaining chocolate acceptable enough to make their co-workers happy you might think that any amount of free chocolate would be appreciated but that is apparently not the case women have reported facing backlash from those who did not receive sufficiently delicious chocolate which led to abuse and harassment in the workplace who gets upset over free chocolate oh right Souls fortunately the jiri Shoku practice seems to be dying out a 2019 survey saw 60 percent of women saying they would rather eat the chocolate themselves or share them with their family than give it to temperamental co-workers honestly every Valentine's Day tradition should be replaced with just gifting yourself a bucket of Hershey Kisses only 35 percent of women in that same survey said they plan to participate at all next time around which is good anyone who gets angry over being given chocolate doesn't deserve chocolate you've lost your chocolate privileges [Music] it should go without saying but as hard as chocolate rolls you probably shouldn't snort it but a company ironically named legal lean defied that reasonable logic when it introduced the world to Coco Loco a snortable chocolate powder for about 25 you could get yourself 10 snorts that were guaranteed to make you feel euphoric of course the inventors of this chocolate Innovation didn't have any actual evidence to back up their claims experts generally agree that raw cacao taurine and guarana would create respiratory problems in the nose and lungs and should definitely not be snorted the FDA never stepped in possibly because they were big Coco Loco heads so we'll never know how bad or good the product may have been best to spend 25 on chocolate that can be eaten the old-fashioned way or you could cut yourself some lines of Nestle's quick and see how it goes that rabbit sure seems like he's snorting something so what do you think how do you like your chocolate let us know in the comments and check out some of these other weird history food videos

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Length: 13min 6sec (786 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 22 2022