Chocolate

Aztec. Man Carrying a Cacao Pod, 1440–1521. Volcanic stone, traces of red pigment. Brooklyn Museum.

Chocolate describes a number of raw and processed foods that originate from the tropical cacao tree. It is a common ingredient in many kinds of sweets, chocolate candy, ice creams, cookies, cakes, pies, and desserts. It is one of the most popular flavours in the world.

Quotes

• Chocolate is a psychoactive food. It is made from the seeds of the tropical cacao tree, Theobroma cacao. The cacao tree was named by the 17th century Swedish naturalist, Linnaeus. The Greek term theobroma means literally food of the gods. Chocolate has also been called the food of the devil; but the theological basis of this claim is obscure.
  • Introduction to chocolate.org

• Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
  • Forrest Gump

• Augustus: I'm Augustus Gloop. I love your chocolate.
  Willy Wonka: I can see that.
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

• Well, folks, it looks like we're up chocolate creek without a popsicle stick.
  • Gingerbread Man, Shrek 2

• Love, biochemically no different than consuming large quantities of chocolate.
  • The Devil's Advocate

• Eat your chocolates, little girl,
  Eat your chocolates!
  Believe me, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
  • Fernando Pessoa as Álvaro de Campos (heteronym), "The Tobacco Shop" (15 January 1928), trans. Richard Zenith, Fernando Pessoa and Co. (Grove Press, 1998)