30 Days Of Gratitude Day 25

I am thankful for chocolate. I hope that's not too lame because it is true. I love chocolate; I can't conceive of not liking chocolate. When I meet someone who doesn't like chocolate it's like said they don't like to breathe. I'm just like "oh, um okay". Today we discovered; thanks to my daughter'sharp eye, that our previous home town has a chocolate shop. It has been there over a year, so it was there before I moved away but I had no idea. THere has been a huge effort over the last few years to revitalize the downtown are and there have been a lot of new businesses open as a result. The Chocolate Works is one of them. I insisted we go in and, of my goodness. I think Heaven must be somewhat like it. The smell was enough to make one gain 2 pounds. I wanted one of everything!
According to one website I looked at on the history of chocolate says cocoa beans used to be used as currency. Also it says that originally the only way it was consumed was as a drink. When chocolate first make ti to Spain it was only used a medicine, sounds righ to me.
In the 1850s, Englishman Joseph Fry changed life by adding more cocoa butter, rather than hot water, to cocoa powder and sugar. The world’s first solid chocolate was born.
In 1875, Daniel Peter and Henri Nestle added condensed milk to solid chocolate, creating a milk chocolate bar.
In 1879, Swiss chap Rudolphe Lindt invented the conch, a machine that rotated and mixed chocolate to a perfectly smooth consistency.
You can read more here
Thank You God for chocloate and for giving these men the inspiration to make what has become what we consume today.