The History of Chocolate Explained

[@danielcliment8251]

I cannot thank enough to the gods of podcast for these two. Is such a luxury to listen to smart people talking these days...

[@waterdragon2012]

Definitely an endangered species

[@peteroconnor4672]

I thoroughly agree ! Rare and rarified ! To listen to anybody speak on a subject that isn't 'themselves' these days is so sooo refreshing .

[@francislarv3012]

We grew up in the 50’s about a mile or so away from the Bakers Cocoa Factory in Dorchester, Massachusetts. The aroma of cocoa would carry on the 2 days a week that they would bake it. So delightful.

[@jmcdowall]

10:25 I won't do it in an Italian accent - He said [breath] [Italian Accent] "eet seemeda mora" - I will. 😂

[@jme_a]

Tom's intro accent reminded me of the exchange between King Arthur and the French soldiers in Monty Python and The Holy Grail 😆

[@goyonman9655]

Probably grew up on it

[@Mute_Nostril_Agony]

He's channelling countless British actors doing Hercule Poirot

[@debbiecarter6430]

😂

[@Elitist20]

Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelled of elderberries!

[@Psmith-ek5hq]

@@Elitist20 I fart in your general direction.

[@DarkForcesStudio]

A 53min chocolate ad. And loved it. Next. Pot Noodle. 👍

[@dabtican4953]

Lucky to get sponsored by Cadbury, good episode too as usual.

[@cadbury]

Thanks Dabtican! We loved working with them on this 💜

[@joannemoore3976]

People don't regard tea as erotic 🤣🤣 I bloody love this podcast

[@woronzof3909]

I do love your episodes, all of them. Educational and very entertaining!! I mostly catch them via podcasts, but I’m here to tweak your comments on Quakers. We are all considered clergy, actually-no laity! The idea is that we all have some sort of ministry to contribute, sometimes officially “minuted” to do so, but always under girding our daily lives and actions.

[@proletar-ian]

These guys are so good at what they do

[@MB-dp1rj]

Just returned from Europe with a "stash" of Cadbury chocolate in my luggage!! Loads of Daily Milk and Flakes...the Best. Though Swiss choc is a close second. Best of all...I simply love these two chaps for such interesting, intelligent and amusing content.

[@bullfighteragainstnonsense9924]

Tom's French accent is excellent too

[@TheAnadromist]

As they used to say in the late 90s... Sweet!

[@samuelyeates2326]

Chocolate: Start your day off with a bang!

[@fuferito]

The _Whizzo Chocolate Company_ would definitely love to add powdered millipedes and the galls or livers of eels to complement their "Crunchy Frog" chocolate.

[@jimb9063]

I think that idea has got legs.

[@geoffreylowery9730]

Say what you like but Hershey's can be had with fruit, nuts, and many other delicious ingredients... but not Lichen. Love the show guys. Hanging on every episode from the tax dodging U.S.

[@JoMad53]

‘Allo ‘Allo vibes at the start!

[@AnthonyBrown12324]

It can be Cadbury's chocolate as in 's that denotes the chocolate belongs to Cadbury . As in Tom Holland's book .

[@unbabunga229]

You can’t leave us on a cliff hanger for the Second Punic War, that’s barbarism

[@mynameisweevil]

It's outragious behaviour.

[@christinehaylock8428]

Very poor behaviour indeed.

[@ted356]

Very entertaining. FYI Cadbury chocolate Easter eggs are still very popular in the US.

[@thanksfernuthin]

If you ever get a chance to watch someone make their own chocolate from the harvested plant onwards, do it. It's absolutely nightmarish. A huge amount of work and time and a hundred ways to screw it up. Chocolate would still be for only the very rich today without the industrialization of it's manufacture.

[@sawahtb]

I've been to the Ghirardelli factory and it's really a process that needs machines, it's too intense.

[@forthrightgambitia1032]

I remember seeing adverts for Iceland Moss cocoa in original versions of the magazines in which Dickens's Our Mutual Friend was serialised.

[@raoulduke8003]

Glad to find you again on KZbin! Question: do you have a St. Patrick's Day episode?

[@rubin_brenner]

They do, its from March 2022 on Apple podcasts

[@JoshAkers-cd1zj]

Loved this episode ❤‍🔥

[@Clarkeianto]

I wont do it in an Italian accent.......proceeds to do an Italian accent 😂😂😂❤

[@sunsunsunh]

Wow, what a studio you got there

[@tractorhead971]

I recommend the song ‘Chocolate Wings’ by Bent.

[@channel9r]

Brilliant! I'm off to the shops to stock up on Dairy Milk ...

[@cadbury]

We love this 😍💜

[@CatFindsStuff]

I learned that chocolate arrived in Ireland via ships from Norway. Captained by Norwegian Forest kitties, crewed by tabby cats.

[@bkohatl]

I love fake accents in a foreign language to mimic the original language, perfect comic relief.

[@Ammeeeeeeer]

Dammit, now I have to go buy some chocolates 😆

[@hahahahahha8458]

You guys only did ONE episode on the first world war, will there be more?

[@djgingecoldwell10]

Monty Phyton had a sketch about a chocolate selection, and when Tom mentioned the ancient medicines like eels worth and liver covered in chocolate, reminded me of Phytons cockroach 🪳 whisp. Fantastic podcast

[@jacquipettitt3389]

Loved this episode people.

[@gosiachaaban2484]

Super interesting stuff, especially Bourneville part for me. Cadbury is not my favourite, far too sweet. Chocolate with alcohol in it is a nice combination and dark chocolate with chilli 🌶

[@Ivannah75]

Love you both.

[@noodleperson17]

A comment about the tedious, ubiquitous and misogynistic ‘woman having orgasmic response to eating chocolate made by a man’ in adverts (Flake, Lindt and others) would have been interesting. But I suppose Cadbury would object to that discussion.

[@elleneylers987]

Loved this, love chocolate...

[@malicant123]

Can't we just be happy that it did arrive? 😂

[@Johnconno]

My God, it's Max Von Sydow!⚰️

[@MsGardener77]

Tcho is a company in California and makes amazing chocolate.

[@HectorLopez-km7vh]

EXCELLENT!!

[@_eddiecole]

Meanwhile Nutella is taking puerto rico by storm

[@darnchacha1632]

Hate the Hershey hate, Love the show but where you get off dissing my favorite chocolate bar like that!

[@noodleperson17]

You said that Quakers shared an entrepreneurial spirit (borne from necessity) along with Jews and… Armenians???? I didn’t know the latter were around in Victorian Britain?

[@yj9032]

Why is this removed from Google podcasts?

[@SamandSteve]

Because google podcasts is being wound up, in favour of KZbin

[@ArthurVIIJuliusPendragon]

Tom’s posture needs fixing

[@jimb9063]

Good stuff gents. I'd love to try the original drink as I only drink coffee black, espresso if I can get it, so can do without sugar and milk. Would be a good comparison, may the best bean win. Couple of things I've heard but not sure how true. The success of Quaker origin 'refreshment' companies in the UK was largely because in the days before food legislation, Quakers were one of the few groups of people who were trusted not to cut corners for profit. The slight vomit flavo(u)r of US chocolate comes from a method of production used during WW2. People got used to it so it stayed the same.

[@dogeared100]

Vomit flavor? Not Hersheys.

[@jimb9063]

@@dogeared100 Slight. It's the butyric acid in it apparently, which actually is present in vomit. Love the concepts they come up with though. We need more peanut butter and chocolate products in the UK IMO it works well.

[@shelleyscloud3651]

Noooooo! They’ll try to cancel chocolate now!!!

[@michaellear6904]

Yeah, some folks lie awake at night mortified by the idea that somewhere someone might be enjoying themselves.

[@1964cohibas]

The policeman out of ello ello

[@robjeffrey7544]

Tillamook Cheese! You haven't lived!

[@gregcollins7602]

First we will talk about the history of chocolate in Meso America starting with the Olmecs. I saw a head in the British museum. On to the Spanish and what they wrote. WTH.

[@nickunderwood4116]

Hang on... Jefferson was Cornish?

[@Iosephus_Michaelis]

Listen to the episodes on the American War of Independence

[@nickunderwood4116]

Will do! This needs an explanation.

[@victoriamacgregor9280]

I love cadburys chocolate

[@ropeburnsrussell]

I'm offended by your libelous comments on cheese in the United States. Vermont and New York both produce excellent sharp cheeses. Otherwise I enjoy hearing you discuss Britains decline, I enjoy it a great deal.

[@dogeared100]

Here here.

[@puppets.and.muppets]

the cadbury flake was inspired by my work ethic.

[@tpm1999]

American Chocolate is an acquired taste .... just like Haggis.

[@youngsyr]

To Europeans it smells of vomit!

[@michaellear6904]

Harsh

[@dogeared100]

As an American I just can't tell the difference.

[@darraghnevin6589]

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