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A Chocolate Timeline > 
It's almost impossible to believe it now, but for most of its very long history, chocolate was not something people ate. It was a beverage, and not only was that beverage rarely hot, it was usually not sweet. Once the Spanish arrived in the New World and began to survey the riches they found there, they noted the potential of the bitter black beverage the natives were so fond of. With the addition of another colonial product, cane sugar, chocolate began to take on its modern form. After two hundred years or so of drinking the stuff, the machines of the Industrial Revolution unlocked the secret to the chocolate bar. Chocolate, once reserved exclusively for the wealthiest members of society, is available to everyone.
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