My Dutch friend feels the history of chocolate related with her country.
Cadbury made this town for workers and contributed to this town and community of people a lot by making houses, church, hospital and Football club too!
To know the history of chocolate is interesting. According to huge information website, Wikipedia, at the end of the 18th century, the first form of solid chocolate was invented in turin. In 1828 Dutchman Conrad J. van Houten patented a method for extracting the fat from cocoa beans and making powdered cocoa and cocoa butter. Van Houten also removed the bitter taste. It is believed that the Englishman Joseph Fry made the first chocolate for eating in 1847, followed in 1849 by the Cadbury brothers. Now Cadbury is well known as a most common chocolate brand all over the UK. ちなみに、イギリスの一人当たりのチョコレート消費量は、ヨーロッパ一だそうです。同僚の男性も、いつもおいしそうに食べてます。クリスマスはもちろん、仕事場でのミーティング、ティータイムも、チョコやチョコクッキーなど必ず登場します。イースターは、オフィスの十数カ所に隠されたチョコエッグを、さがすゲームがありました。もしかして、世界一かもしれません。