The History of Chocolate Explained

Chocolate is amazing. Dark chocolate, milk chocolate, chocolate with nuts... It's amazing. And this video we will look at the history of chocolate. How was chocolate created? From the Native Americans such as the Aztecs and Mayans, to the first European chocolate factory, to the modern chocolate industry.:

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Credits
- Research: Mrs Scope
- Animation: History Scope (Avery)
- Audio: Seb. Soto

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:00 Early History
07:55 Europeans Arrive
14:23 The Rest of the World

Image Credits
Olmec Head. Created by ‘Mesoamerican’ (username on wikipedia). The image was zoomed in and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International.

Music Credits

Sources
Mistrati, Miki, and Romano, U. Roberto. Shady Chocolate. Performed by Mistrati, Miki (2012; Copenhagen: Bastard Film & TV). DVD.
Mistrati, Miki, and Romano, U. Roberto. The Dark Side of Chocolate. Performed by Mistrati, Miki (2010; Copenhagen: Bastard Film & TV). DVD.
Mull, L. Diane, and Kirkhorn, Steven R. 2005. “Child Labor in Ghana Cocoa Production: Focus upon Agricultural Tasks, Ergonomic Exposures, and Associated Injuries and Illnesses.” Association of Schools of Public Health.

[unematrix]

3:47 Is that a grinder with the Grindr logo on it?

And uhhhh 7:00... Avery is getting spicy in this video

[danskrr]

Babe wake up, History Scope just uploaded a new video!

[mrinmoybanik]

In India, historically we already have so many varieties of indigenous sweets and milk based confectioners that that chocolate faced stiff competition here. Well I wan't really fond of sweets much as a kid but enjoyed milk chocolates. Nice video though 👌!

[emmanuelflores]

F for the people who never tasted chocolate

[sokolmihajlovic]

The humor is hillarious.

Ty for your outstanding vids.

[hitori]

2:57 “Stone-face drunk”
> Literally stone faces
Thank you, writer ❤

[nebularspace]

I loved this video! You clearly have a passion for this topic and it showed.

[baronvonjo]

I find it so bizarre Chocolate Chip cookies were not a thing until the 1930s. Nestle bought the recipe from a American woman. I think they paid her and gave her a life time supply of chocolate. They use her "Toll House" brand to this day as well.
Chocolate Chip cookies are such a stable now but haven't really been a thing for even a century.

[thelakeman]

Chocolate is pretty big in India today and has been all pervasive for my entire life living in large cities and all. But from what I can tell a few decades ago although they were a thing and most would've known about them they just weren't as pervasive as they're today, a lot of the chocolate niche was already filled by non-chocolate confectioneries and sweets (traditional or non-traditional), even today the word "chocolate" itself in India is a colloquialism that will refer to any sweet packaged stuff aimed at kids including both chocolates and candies but excluding the traditional sweets. Another factor I'd guess would be that pre-refrigeration the summer in a lot of Indian cities would be unsuitable to store them, but I doubt how big a role this plays since a lot of USA, Mexico, etc also get as hot during summers.

[Columbo_]

Thank you my friend always love your documentaries, very educational. 🙂👍

[tulip]

The European aristocracy had their own porcelain cups only to drink chocolate. It comes with a lid so the chocolate stays warm 😊

[AdityaMehendale]

Chocolate is not mass-consumed on the Indian subcontinent likely because:
1) Price --> For the kiloprijs of chocolate, you can get a lot of other tasty stuff; chocolate has less "bang for the buck". It's like why you don't eat mangoes every day in NL.
2) Storage --> With small moms-and-pops shops, and >30*C temperatures, "swiss-style" chocolate melts in the shops, and possibly recrystallizes into a disgusting mess, or needs to be stored in a refrigerator, which makes it taste like sawdust. Nobody has bothered to innovate to get a different formulation that is stable at 35*C. A notable exception is chocolate(-coated)-ice-cream, whereby the need to refrigerate levels the playing-field.

[xwjinyp]

I love the sound quality of this video, really well done

[neezduts_]

I love chocolate. Hell, I look like chocolate, but chocolate saved this man’s life. Give it up to chocolate 👏. F for those who never had chocolate

[mruanova]

you have an amazing sense of humor, i love your content

[bobsbrain]

Amazing video, thanks for making and sharing 💖🍫💖

[liberal-libertarian]

work on my local docks weve been unloading a cocoa bean ship this week, 20, 000 tonne when you crack a bean open there's a tiny little chunk of chocolate, its very surreal knowing that's where chocolate comes from haha

[BogaBoga]

Good to know that there are other people as addicted to chocolate as me!

[Riospraid]

You should do The Collapse of the Roman Empire

[itsmeowen]

so sad this only got 17k views, I loved this video