Discovery of Chocolate

Where does chocolate come from? Chocolate comes from trees but it will look like a fruit and the fruit is called a cacao but if you open it it  Won't be chocolate the black thing is what make’s the chocolate.The ancient Aztecs knew that you could Do something special with those brown seeds so they put them into piles and let them rot, but not for too long.Before the seeds could spoil, then they put them in the sun to dry . Then they’d grind it all up into a powder, like by mashing them with a stone.The Aztecs would make a drink from this powder, a drink that they called xocoatl. It’s where our word chocolate, comes from.our word chocolate is borrowed from the ancient Aztec language.So the very first chocolate wasn’t a chocolate you eat .It was a chocolate you drink .Now here’s the thing, you might think that this xocoatl drink would maybe taste like hot Chocolate, or maybe like sweet chocolate syrup . but it doesn't . It actually tastes more like dark chocolate,the kind of chocolate that adults usually like the eat.Have you ever tried dark chocolate?