tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12333976.post6428486269983190825..comments2024-02-18T15:43:14.717-05:00Comments on Moved to LivinLaVidaLowCarb.com/Blog: Chocolate Lover Melting Mama Raves On Sugar-Free, Low-Carb ChocoPerfection BarsJimmy Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08590225257991702645noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12333976.post-91799522281791529382007-04-12T07:04:00.000-04:002007-04-12T07:04:00.000-04:00Do you know how excited I am right now? I've got ...Do you know how excited I am right now? I've got some in the mail - and I'm totally melting it and experimenting. Berries. Coffee. Oh. My. Goodness.Melting Mamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15313677759600597454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12333976.post-30583633719380399722007-04-12T05:38:00.000-04:002007-04-12T05:38:00.000-04:00Here in America where Chocolate has been used for ...Here in America where Chocolate has been used for tens of thousands <BR/>of years by the Inca and Aztec and Mayan Indian High Priests it was <BR/>considered a "Link to Paradise" and only these High Priests ingested <BR/>it. They grew it on "High Plateaus" in there special gardens. The<BR/>(chocolate)plants were carefully grown and nurtured and cared for by <BR/>these high priests. The peach like fruit that contained the seeds <BR/>that we call chocolate were carefully harvested and dried and then <BR/>ground into a bitter powder paste and then ingested in I'm not <BR/>exactly sure which manner. Eaten or drank. The "High" that followed <BR/>was what was considered to be "A Link To Paradise". Few of these <BR/>plants existed and only high priests and high Chiefs partook in these <BR/>rituals. This went on for untold thousands of years. When European <BR/>armies and priests conquered these Civilisation's there Gold and <BR/>Pottery and whatnot along with there Gardens and Plants were taken by <BR/>the "New Rulers", mostly Spanish at that time. Taken back across the <BR/>oceans to the King of Spain and then the rest of Europe's Kingdoms <BR/>was this bounty including these seeds and there history. Europeans <BR/>loved these seeds and over time learned to mix these seeds with sugar <BR/>and cream to make it more palatable. We now and have been feeding <BR/>this to our babies and our entire population from young to old for <BR/>some three hundred years or less. Once only few plants existed and <BR/>only high priests ingested this drug that makes us "High" and we feel <BR/>good and colors brighten and sounds enhance and we "tingle" in <BR/>this "Link to Paradise" "High". Yes, we love it as did the high <BR/>priests. We then begun to grow these plants by the tens of thousands <BR/>of acres on huge plantations throughout South America and other parts <BR/>of the world. The industry was born. Caffeine of course being the <BR/>main ingredient in these seeds. Tea and coffee were already in use <BR/>throughout the "Kingdoms" of Europe and Asia and probably the Middle <BR/>East as well as parts of Russia to the north and Africa to the south. <BR/>Caffeine is not a minor player in mans evolution. It is a major <BR/>player. Just exactly when we started feeding this to our babies is <BR/>uncertain but my guess would be during these last two hundred years <BR/>or so and probably more so in this last one hundred years. With this <BR/>Lactose, Sucrose and Caffeine(Chocolate) we have gone from walking on <BR/>this earth like we did for the millennium to what we have now. All in <BR/>about one hundred years. Caffeine is a powerful stimulant.Tom Bunnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11840576840382147883noreply@blogger.com