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Chocolate became popular in the United States
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Spanish added sugar and spices to the cacao beans to make a warm sweet chocolate drink and treat.
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Spanish invaders came to Mexico and they tasted chocolate for the first time. They brought back cacao beans back to Spain.
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The aztecs and mayans used cacao beans for money they also made a chocolate drink with it it was not a sweet drink in fact it was bitter they called it "bitter water."
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To make chocolate the mayans use cacao seeds in a cacao pod the seeds haft to be dried, roasted, and ground to be used for chocolate.
