Food of the Gods (Cacao)
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Chocolate and Its Ending
Chocolate is a luxury cash crop. It was growing in south america, people like e you know, we now have these giant colonies all over the place. The spanish tried to keep a lid on their monopoly of the cacow tree,. So then at some point the dutch likes smuggled it out, moved it to their places over in shrilanka and everywhere throughout any place that's tropical. And then today we now have, i think, something like 70 % of all the chocolate made, or all the cacaw grown in the world, is grown in the Ivory coast as well as gana.
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