Why is Belgian Chocolate so famous? 🍫

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[cocobutter]

I had a friend from Belgium once, who was coming to America for college. She used to bring my family Belgian chocolate and other foods every time she went back and forth. I miss her.

[random-nesss]

All the sudden I want to go to Belgium

[talldorf]

When I hear Pralines as an American; I think of New Orleans Pecan Pralines.

[jasperminer]

I remember watching a movie set in Bruges, i forgot the title though.

[elizabethclaiborne]

No, drinking chocolate was the early modern periods version of drugs. Not just taste, but theobromine and caffeine and coffee and tea were the rage for the same reasons. Imagine you’d never had these before.

[Valeriamtzp]

Never knew Belgian chocolate came to exist from Mexico, I feel like a bad mexican 😂

[PepperPeaches-nh]

Very few people realize the Olmecs in Mexico were the first to create chocolate over 4, 000 years ago! Thanks for the video!

[uemmnwb]

Pralines, Austrian Painter could eat 1kg of Pralines a day.

[ChrisDelAnno]

best pralines - Spegelaere- or CREVIN! and yes im a local and i know all the tourist traps, yr welcome ❤️

[cerobeareva]

The true inventors of chocolate are never given credit.

[ellieshine]

Note: the chocolate on the medicine wasn't all about flavour, because they were originally intended as suppositories.

[Legitpenguins]

This blew my 12 year old mind when I visited Belgium. I had only Eaton Hershey all my life. I haven't eaten Hershey in problem 5 years now

[Samwell-L]

Sugar really did help medicine go down eh

[royalthisnthat]

I suddenly want to go to Belgium! 🥰😋😍 Hot chocolate, pleeease!! 💞

[chompachangas]

I love chocolate so much, it's unmanly. I can and will eat it all and no one can stop me.

[patrickhobbs]

Luxembourg's chocolate is even better.

[largo]

A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.

[technomickdocumentalist]

Anyone open this notification and thought the actual short was an advert? I sat there like this is a long winded ad where’s the history video !!? 😂😂😅

[Peleski]

I need to stay away from Belgium. I'm still getting over that time to switzerland

[JuneHarriseco]

Wow, real pralines! Not the sugar crap you get in New Orleans