Is It a Hot Chocolate?

We think they had hot chocolate. We need it hot because it's got fat in it. And over 50 % of the cocoa bean is cocoa butter, it's fat. So you goino need that hot water to get it all dissolved. The myr might have chucked that in some porridge. But they'd also have ground it down into a powder,. mixed it with water and made a liquid drink. They wouldn't have thought of this as a food. There are one or two images that suggest that the my were pouring this drink between two vessels - though they were pouring it from a great height. When i remember milk shakes from the 19 eighties, we're just like