The Petals and Leaves
Saturday, October 6, 2007
~Fun Facts~
Here are some fun facts about chocolates. I forgot what the link was...but just read it as it is k. The #1 food craved by women across North America. And it’s second only to pizza among men.
Pairing wine with chocolate: Pair lighter chocolates with lighter wines; darker chocolates with full-bodied wines. Go from light to dark in your tasting session, starting with milk or lower percentage cacao chocolates and their corresponding wines.
Pairings for Dark, Bittersweet and Semisweet chocolate:
-Zinfandel
-Syrah
-Tawny Port
-Armagnac
-Cognac
Pairings for Milk Chocolate:
-Merlot
-Riesling
-Sauvignon Blanc
-Dessert wines
Pairing chocolate with fruit is a natural. Some experts prefer chocolate and beer combinations to chocolate and wine. In Europe, bread and chocolate are common companions. Chocolate and coffee are meant to be together, while chocolate and tea is an unlikely match that some experts swear by.
One study reported that 91% of chocolate-cravings associated with the menstrual cycle occurred between ovulation and the start of menstruation. Cravings are usually most intense in the late afternoon and early evening.
Chocolate syrup was used for blood in the famous 45 second shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's movie, "Psycho" which actually took 7 days to shoot!
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket!
Chocolate has more than 500 flavour components, more than twice the amount found in strawberry and vanilla!
You would have to eat more than a dozen Hershey Bars to get the amount of caffeine in one cup of coffee.
A favorite dish of the Aztecs was roast turkey with chocolate gravy.
The best selling candy bar in the U.S. is Snickers.
Chocolate manufacturers currently use 40 percent of the world's almonds and 20 percent of the world's peanuts.
White chocolate contains no caffeine
Half of Americans choose what chocolate they eat by the shape of the piece.
On his fourth voyage to the New World, in 1502, Christopher Columbus was the first European to taste chocolate.
In soda fountain slang, a "bucket of mud" is a bowl of chocolate ice cream
In a recent survey, 70 percent of female respondents said they would rather have chocolate than sex.
Chocolate first appeared on film when Jean Harlow ate candy in the 1933 comedy Dinner at Eight.
It takes 400 cacao beans to make one pound of chocolate.
Chocolate was once considered a temptation of the devil.
Vanilla is used to make chocolate.
According to a survey of sex shop owners, chocolate is the least popular flavor of edible underwear.
Consumers spend more than $7 billion a year on chocolate.
Chocolate can be lethal to dogs.
Napoleon carried chocolate with him on his military campaigns, and always ate it when he needed quick energy.
Chocolate in a blue wrapper won't sell in Shanghai or Hong Kong because the Chinese associate blue with death.
theFLOWERSdied @ 4:09 AM!!
