Answer: A tree
Theobroma cacao is an evergreen tree that grows well in the tropics, within about twenty degrees latitude of the equator. It's native to Central and South America; the Aztecs famously enjoyed a chocolate drink, although their hot cocoa was decidedly unsweetened.
The trees love moisture and shade, which makes them perfect for rainforest cultivation: they're perfectly happy as understory trees, with other trees growing above. Flowers grow right on the trunk, so that's where the pods develop, too. Unlike many other trees with edible fruits, cacao trees flower all year round, so pods at many stages of ripening coexist on the same trunk. Each pod takes about six months to ripen, and only then can chocolate happen.
From Quiz: Chocolate Behind the Scenes
Answer: Tropical
Cacao beans grow on trees. These trees live near the equator and love tropical weather.
From Quiz: The Great Chocolate Quiz
Answer: They're chocolate-covered with a crunchy peanut-butter and caramel-flavored center.
The Curtis Candy Company of Chicago came up with the idea for Butterfinger bars, which are indeed chocolate covered with an orange-colored center that they describe as a flaky crispy peanut-butter caramel. The other descriptions are made up and don't fit Butterfingers at all.
From Quiz: That's My Butterfinger!
Answer: Cocoa
The cacao tree (Theobroma cacao) is native to Central and South America and has a naturally bitter taste. Hence the reason for the extensive process required to manufacture chocolate. The cacao tree produces pods inside of which there are soft seeds or beans, commonly called cocoa beans. The word cocoa is simply a derivative of the word cacao.
From Quiz: Death by Chocolate!
Answer: Milton Hershey
Hershey Chocolate Company was founded in 1894 by Milton. He began his company in the city of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The company first began making chocolate to coat the caramels that he originally made.
From Quiz: A Candy Empire: Hershey's Food Corp.
Answer: They were Quakers
Until the nineteenth century, Quakers in Britain were outlawed from holding public office or attending university. So, they were excluded from the professions such as the sciences and politics. With a military career also not an option, enterprising Quakers turned to business and usually excelled.
In the UK today the chocolate industry has consolidated. Fry and Cadbury merged in 1919, and are now a component of Cadbury-Schweppes. Rowntree was absorbed by Nestlé in 1985.
From Quiz: A Chocolate Selection For You
Answer: Marz
The cheapskate was a shopkeeper from Glasgow, Scotland and the wrapper was even identical! He had the idea when Mars was still new but widely popular. However, it was thinner and cheaper.
From Quiz: Top 10 Flops - Chocolate
Answer: Smarties
From Quiz: Australian Chocolates
Answer: Mars
Mars is the brand name for Masterfoods confectionery range.
From Quiz: UK Chocolate Bars
Answer: John Cadbury
John Cadbury (1801-1889) opened a shop in Bull Street, Birmingham in 1824. He was a tea dealer and coffee roaster, but he experimented with cocoa beans - preparing small quantities to sell in his shop. Benjamin Head was his brother and he later became one of the original Cadbury Brothers. Their father, Richard Tapper Cadbury owned a linen draper's shop in Birmingham. George Cadbury was John's son who established the Bournville factory and founded the village of Bournville.
From Quiz: Chocolate - Cadbury's World
Answer: John Cadbury
John Cadbury was one of 10 children. Aged just 22 when he first set up as a dealer of tea, coffee, hops and mustard. Soon a new line started selling cocoa and drinking chocolate, this he prepared himself with a mortar and pestle!
From Quiz: History of Cadbury's
Answer: Kit Kat
"Have a Break, Have a Kit Kat!"
From Quiz: For Chocaholics!
Answer: violet
Violet was an original color from 1941-1950.
From Quiz: Chocoholics Welcome!
Answer: Yellow and green
Cacao beans grow in yellow-green pods. When they are ripe, they turn orange-red. They hang from large branches. Cacao trees can grow up to 50 pods twice a year.
From Quiz: The Great Chocolate Quiz
Answer: Belgium
Belgian chocolate is world-renowned and the countless chocolate shops across the country maintain the tradition and reputation. Pralines, made of ground nuts and chocolate, are common in Belgium and many people say the best pralines can be found there. As such, it would seem almost ridiculous to visit Belgium and not buy or eat some chocolate!
From Quiz: Death by Chocolate!
Answer: Yorkie
Although many girls and women eat Yorkie's, the motto is "It's NOT for girls!"
The Yorkie bar was founded in 1976 by Eric Nicoli. It is a bit like a Dairy Milk, just chunkier.
For one time, York Railway station, trains arriving at the railway station would see a billboard which read "Welcome to" and then underneath showed a picture of a Yorkie bar with the end bit off. Underneath then read a slogan "Where the men are hunky and the chocolate's chunky."
(Source: Wikipedia)
From Quiz: The Melt In Your Mouth Chocolate Quiz (UK)!
Answer: Derry Township
Derry Township was the perfect location for the new factory. The location was close to the ports in New York which meant he could easily get the necessary supplies for making chocolate and any other delightful candies.
From Quiz: A Candy Empire: Hershey's Food Corp.
Answer: Realization
Five Boys was introduced in 1902, priced 6d, and remained until 1971 when it was sold at 7d.
The photographs which were used to produce the distinctive label on the bar of chocolate ('Desperation/Pacification/Expectation/Acclamation/ Realisation.... it's Fry") were taken by Messrs Poulton & Son.
The model of all five boys was the photographer's son Lindsay and apparently his father used a rag soaked in ammonia to achieve the 'desperation face' on his own son.
When Fry's milk chocolate was launched in 1902, the Five Boys picture was featured on the label and the chocolate became known as 'Five Boys Chocolate'. It retained its popularity until it was withdrawn in 1976.
From Quiz: A Chocolate Selection For You
Answer: Oak Tray
It was simply some chocolates in a box that looked like an oak tray.
From Quiz: Top 10 Flops - Chocolate
Answer: Maltesers
Maltesers became popular for the wonderful noise they made rolling down the steps of the cinema. A national pastime that, fortunately or unfortunately, has disappeared with the advent of carpeted stairs.
From Quiz: Australian Chocolates
Answer: Dairy Milk
Dairy Milk in 2001 launched many variations including; Caramel, Mint, Shortbread and Crunchie.
From Quiz: UK Chocolate Bars
Answer: There is no sure date
No one knows for sure when the first chocolate bar appeared or even who made it, but an important event occurred in 1828. The Van Houten press was invented, which extracted cocoa butter from the bean - the same press that brought the Cadbury Brothers success with Cocoa Essence.
From Quiz: Chocolate - Cadbury's World
Answer: 1824
He opened his first shop at 93 Bull Street in the then very fashionable part of Birmingham.
From Quiz: History of Cadbury's
Answer: being in love
According to the research of psychoanalysts, women release phenylethylamine (PEA) into the brain when they are in love. PEA is an endorphin, and chocolate is chock full of PEA.
From Quiz: A Chocolate-Covered Quiz
Answer: Balls filled with layers of marzipan and chocolate
This a first class chocolate.
From Quiz: For Chocaholics!
Answer: Whole Nut
Eat that chocolate! According to www.raisingkids.co.uk,
"Recent research from Argentina suggests a chocolate-rich diet reduces damage to blood fats caused by free radicals.
In another study, volunteers who consumed 37g of chocolate a day showed increases in plasma prostacyclin levels, and reduction in leukotriene levels". Now you can eat it, guilt free. 37g, by the way, is one normal sized bar.
From Quiz: Fabulous 'Cadburys' Chocolate!
Answer: 1966
"Godiva's" best seller is the "Open Oyster". A molded chocolate shell, filled with hazelnut praline. Yum!
From Quiz: Chocoholics Welcome!
Answer: Theobromine
Now here's a surprise for you. The cacao beans are not sweet, they are bitter. This is because the chemical theobromine is found in the cacao tree. Theobromine is also found in tea leaves and the kola nut.
From Quiz: The Great Chocolate Quiz
Answer: Offered them to the gods during sacred ceremonies
It was customary to offer the seeds up to the gods. During ceremonies to venerate these gods, it was also customary for those present to share drinks of chocolate as well. I wonder if the occasional victim or two, whose hearts were about to be ripped out, were also offered this genial courtesy? Such was the value placed on cacao seeds during this era that members of society had to pay them as a form of tax to their rulers.
The Aztecs also offered chocolate beverages to Xochiquetzal, their goddess of fertility. Today, of course, some chocolate enthusiasts insist that consuming chocolate produces the release of various pleasant chemicals into our systems that are akin to the feeling of being in love. Its impact is said to last four times longer than the happy feelings caused by kissing. That depends on who is doing the kissing of course. The consumption of chocolate is even said to act as an aphrodisiac, but don't swallow that one. This has yet to be verified by scientists.
From Quiz: The Dark Side of Chocolate
Answer: Butterfinger
A butterfinger bar is made out of crisp caramel and is coated in compound chocolate. It is made by the Nestle Co. The center of the bar has a flaky, orange color.
From Quiz: American Chocolate Bars
Answer: Hershey's Kiss
The small pieces of chocolate were individually wrapped with little squares of silver foil. After fourteen years of making the little chocolate candies Hershey began using a new machine that would mechanically wrap the Hershey's Kisses.
From Quiz: A Candy Empire: Hershey's Food Corp.
Answer: Flake
Flakes are very very tasty! They are in a yellow and purple wrapper and are made by Cadbury. They can also come in white chocolate (Snowflake) and hazelnut chocolate (Hazelflake).
From Quiz: European Chocolate Bars!
Answer: Freak Chocolates
So instead of simple caramel, you might find something from cheese to olives.
From Quiz: Top 10 Flops - Chocolate
Answer: Galaxy
There is also a Galaxy Instant Hot Chocolate Drink available. In other parts of the world, the Galaxy bar is sold under the brand name Dove.
From Quiz: UK Chocolate Bars
Answer: Swiss
The idea of combining chocolate and milk was not an entirely new concept, as between 1849 and 1875 the Cadbury Brothers sold a milk chocolate drink. But the Swiss chocolate bar was a huge success in Britain, and in 1898, Cadbury Brothers responded with their own chocolate bar. They sent George Cadbury Jr. on a fact-finding mission to Switzerland. Eventually in 1905, they produced a bar with a flavour to rival the Swiss chocolate, using fresh milk rather than powdered. Cadbury's Dairy Milk chocolate was born.
From Quiz: Chocolate - Cadbury's World
Answer: Richard and George
John Cadbury handed over the company to his two sons in 1861.
From Quiz: History of Cadbury's
Answer: Turkish Delight
Turkish Delight was made by Fry's until 2000.
The botanical name for the cacao tree (from which chocolate derives) means the "food of the gods". Cacao trees produce pods, each of which contains 20 to 50 cacao beans. There are different varieties of cacao beans with different flavours, much the same as there are different varieties of grapes which produce different wines.
From Quiz: Fabulous 'Cadburys' Chocolate!
