You don’t just eat a chocolate. You devour it. You have an emotional connect with it, you celebrate it. The perfection with with a cold cube of chocolate starts melting when it comes in contact with your tongue is nothing short of a love story. If you love chocolate with all your heart and soul, read on and get acquainted with some facts.

1. There are too many celebrations of chocolates every year: When it comes to chocolates people don’t really need an excuse to eat it but celebrations make it mandatory. Chocolate day all over the world is celebrated on July 7. This marks the day when chocolate first came to Europe in 1550 on the same day. A lot of people argue that it goes back to 1504 because Christopher Columbus apparently discovered it. Whether it’s the official day or not, it’s a  given that chocolate first came to Europe in the 16th century. There’s another day that celebrates chocolate known as  the National Milk Chocolate Day, celebrated on July 28, another on September 13 known as  International Chocolate day. If you’re already tired there’s the last but not the least day, celebrated on November 7 known as National Bittersweet Chocolate With Almonds Day.
2. Chocolate is kind of a vegetable if you think about it. Milk and dark chocolate both come from the cacao beans which is present on the cacao tree. If you plan on getting chocolate gifts delivered, there are a number of stores that do home delivery.
3. White chocolate is not really chocolate. Since white chocolate doesn’t contain chocolate liquor or cocoa solids, it’s not chocolate in the strictest sense. However it does contain cocoa butter which comes from the cacao bean.
4. The cacao bean usually comes from south and central America and Mexico. It is believed by historians that these places started harvesting the bean around 1250 BCE.
5. Hot chocolate was the first chocolate thing made. Cacao was harvested in both Aztec and Mexican culture and although it wasn’t anything like the hot chocolate we have today, it was used in a number of ceremonies like weddings.
6. Marie Antoinette loved the modern kind of hot chocolate: Marie Antoinette was heartless for sure but she shared the sentiments of all the millennial’s- i.e., apart from cake she also loved hot chocolate. Hot chocolate was regularly served at her palace. Apart from that, hot chocolate was believed to be an aphrodisiac drink.
7. Cacao was used as currency by the These people valued and loved the cacao bean to such an extent that they used it as currency at the height of their civilization.
8. Spanish Friars shared the love for cacao and spread the word around the world. After it was introduced in Europe, the friars took it to a number of monasteries and spread it all over the continent. Now chocolate gifts delivered all over the world without the noble help of friars.
9. The first time the solid chocolate came into being was in 1847. It was invented by a pair of British soldiers in their shop called The Fry and Sons. They called this mixture, eating chocolate. They combined cocoa butter, chocolate liquor and sugar to form a solid and grainy treat.

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