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Sheep poo or Chocolate?

at around evening time on Monday, the 1st of February 2010 by Gypsy

Neat little bit on chocolate’s history…

Which European country first enjoyed the pleasures of chocolate? Spain. The first official shipment of cocoa beans arrived in Spain in 1585. But the Spanish had been secretly bringing in the precious crop for nearly 60 years before that. In fact, in 1579 English pirates looking for treasure on a Spanish galleon mistook the valuable beans for sheep droppings, and burned the entire ship. It wasn’t until the mid-1600s that France, England and Italy started their own love affairs with the sweet treat.

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