What food item did the country of Spain keep secret for over a century before allowing this item to be traded?
Correct answer: Chocolate
Player en_846
I still have trouble sharing chocolate
Player #25874027
Player #30161301, Would you give away chocolate if you weren’t forced to?🍫
Player #36023672
A century? It's impossible for me to keep chocolate hidden from my kids for more than an hour
Guillermo Jr.
chocolate? secret??
crime against humanity!!
brahminy
Madrid breakfast. Churros with a cup of really thick hot chocolate to dip them in. Yum
Player #27643412
Player #30161301, probably because they may have had a limited supply/ hence its high value..
wileycoyote
Life is like a box of chocolates. (Forrest Gump)
ABBAsSaint
Hello, my name is Arlene, and I’m a Chocoholic…
Miss Sue
Who'd guessed? huh
Bambi
Not very altruistic to keep chocolate awayfromtherestoftheworld! The Mayans were ready to share it. Thank you Mayans! You deserved a better history
ruth
The only candy I like is chocolate candy.
Barb@71
Chocolate crops arein great danger today
Natalie
Oh my!! How can you keep chocolate a secret!!
Paula J
brahminy, milk chocolate, I hope
Paula J
Player en_846, I, on the other hand, love to share the glory of chocolate with others
Mr_Hve_Fun
ABBAsDtr, Got to admit it too, I am a Chocoholic also, I wish I could give out clues of my favorite candy bar, it has peanuts, carmel — I get it at the end of my work week, it is pay day all over again! But look into the Aztec, Spain thing…
Mr_Hve_Fun
Jack, Yes me too, I have no “sour grapes” but scholarly inquiry should be done this. You do learn a lot from this game and majority of topics I do question. It is great fun to see “I am smart, U are smart 2” . I get along or try to get along with you all. Ok enough said, Take Care my fellow Trivia Buffs, keep on playing, be nice!
Mr_Hve_Fun
Waldo Lydeker, I too wonder, What about the Aztecs, did the not have Cocoa and did not Spanish take the chocolate and no mention of the Swiss (This needs serious investigation)
Tracey
c. 1538 a Spanish doctor, Melchior ?, something, wrote a medical treatise on the use of chocolate to cure melancholia.... its a long time since I wrote the essay I can't remember the actual date and name, sorry
Waldo Lydeker
Champurrado. A Mexican hot chocolate thick morning beverage. I wonder if it originated in Spain.
Player #29407424
I do not share my chocolates..no way..get ya own!!
Jack
Player en_846, I always thought chocolate and vanilla came from Mexico
Chocmum
Player #30161301, they kept the secret not the chocolate ...
Player #30161301
why did they kept it for so long