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The History of British Chocolate
The first shipment of cocoa that came into the hands of the british an, i think it was a spanish ship that had got off course. And they thought that it was full of sheep droppings so they burned it. Once it got to england, we treated it completely differently, and it was more democratized. So it's political, it's radical. It's associated with people who want to take on the king. We drank it completely differently. There are some records of chocolate fortified wine, all ther some som shuck, some cocoa and some wine. The lady who founded the round trees chocolate dynasty, her granddad ended up in pris just for being a