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Put the chocolate in the bag and nobody gets hurt. I take chocolate from strangers.

If they don't have chocolate in heaven, then I 'm not going. Save the Earth! (It's the only planet with chocolate.) There's more to life than chocolate, but not right now. media type="youtube" key="xo2wRvJ04ss" width="425" height="350"
 * Who invented chocolate?**

Chocolate history starts out in Latin America, where cacao trees grow wild. The first people to use chocolate were probably the Olmec of what is today southeast Mexico. They lived in the area around 1000 BC, and their word, "kakawa," gave us our word "cacao." Unfortunately, we don't know how (or even if) the Olmec actually used chocolate. We do know, however, that the Maya, who inhabited the same general area a thousand years later (from about 250-900 AD), did use chocolate. It is with the Maya that chocolate history really begins. The cacao beans were used as currency. 10 beans would buy you a rabbit or a prostitute. 100 beans would buy you a slave.