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When Chocolate Syrup Was a Pharmaceutical Product - Neatorama

It was thousands of years ago when people of the Americas learned to isolate cocoa from the cacao plant. They drank it as a liquid for energy and nutrition, and even though it wasn't sweetened, we can imagine that some of them just liked it. Cocoa came to Europe, where it competed with coffee and tea as an energizing drink. Then someone got the bright idea to add sugar. Score!While chocolate has been used as a medicine off and on, it was mainly useful for masking the awful taste of opium, cocain