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Milk chocolate bars were invented by the company Nestlé in 1875, in Switzerland Many chocolate bars today are made by the same families that set up the first chocolate factories; Cadbury, Bournville, Lindt, Suchard etc.
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Solid chocolate bars were invented by Fry & Sons in 1847, in Bristol.Developed the first solid chocolate bar for sale.
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The ‘‘Xocoatl’’ was invented by the Mayas and Aztecs in 1519, in Mexico. Hernan Cortés reached Mexico in 1519, he was received with a great ceremony, and offered a thick chocolate drink out of a golden goblet by Aztec Emperor Moctezuma.
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Cocoa was invented by the Maya Indians in 600 AD, in Mexico. Traded cocoa beans for other things like cloth.
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''Chocolate Houses'' were invented in the 18th, in London. Rodolphe Lindt invented a machine that helped make chocolate houses. After the invention of the cocoa press in the 19th century,
chocolate could be mass-produced and so became
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Drinking chocolate was invented by the Spanish in 1528, in all the Courts of Europe. The Spanish added sugar to the chocolate drink and kept the recipe for making chocolate a secret for almost 100 years.