National Chocolate Day
While there are a lot of specific chocolate-related holidays, National Chocolate Day celebrates everything chocolate. Chocolate is one of the most popular foods in the world. This is precisely why you should read below to learn more about it.
When is National Chocolate Day?
National Chocolate Day is celebrated on October 28 every year.
FAQs
The following frequently asked questions are sure to boost your knowledge regarding the day.
How should I observe National Chocolate Day?
I suggest that you celebrate the day by sharing your favorite chocolates with your friend, deepening your bonds. Or, you can tour a local chocolatier to improve your knowledge and experience.
Trying to make truffles from scratch is a fabulous way to celebrate National Chocolate Day. This is quick and easy, requiring just cream and chocolate chips.
How is chocolate made?
Chocolate is made from the tropical Theobroma cacao tree seed, found in Mexico, Central America, and Northern South America. These seeds, however, have an intense and bitter taste, requiring fermentation.
After fermentation, the beans are cleaned, dried, and roasted before removing the shell to produce cacao nibs. These are then ground, liquified, and molded with other ingredients. This chocolate liquor is then processed into either cocoa solids or cocoa butter.
Fun Facts
Four hundred cocoa beans are needed to make just one pound of chocolate.
A single cacao tree produces around 25,000 cacao beans.
Over 70% of cocoa comes from West Africa.
A cacao tree begins producing cacao beans after five years.
Benjamin Franklin, in Philadelphia, sold chocolate from his print shop.
Montezuma, the Aztec Emperor, used to drink around 50 cups of cacao a day.
Over 50 million people depend on chocolate for their livelihood all over the world.
Chocolate can make cats and dogs very ill.
Cote d’Ivoire is the largest producer of cocoa, providing over 40% of the world’s supply.
Delicious Facts About Chocolate
It takes two to four days to form a single-serving chocolate bar.
“Cacao” is the way you say “cocoa” in Spanish.
Chocolate was initially eaten bitter and on ceremonial occasions like weddings only.
Dark chocolate can help prevent tooth decay.
There are over 500 chocolate flavors available around the world.
Cacao trees can survive for around 200 years but produce cacao beans for just 25.
The first chocolate bar was made in 1842.
Milk chocolate was invented in 1875, in Switzerland, by Daniel Peter.
Chocolate milk is a great post-workout recovery drink as the carbohydrates help replenish the muscles quicker.
Chocolate Jokes
Did you hear about the magician that had chocolate in his shirt?
He had some Twix up his sleeve.
What happens before it rains chocolate?
It sprinkles.
What kind of sweet is never on time?
Choco-LATE.
What’s the sun’s favorite chocolate bar?
The Milky Way.
What fruit loves chocolate?
A cocoa-nut.
Why did the doughnut visit the dentist?
He needed a chocolate filling.
What is the opposite of Chocolate?
Chocoearly.
Why did the Oreo go to the dentist?
Because it had lost its filling!
What do you call Chewbacca when he has chocolate stuck in his hair?
Chocolate Chip Wookie.
What did the M&M go to college?
Because he wanted to be a Smarty.
What do you get if you dip a cat in chocolate?
A Kit Kat bar.
The dentist asks, “What kind of filling do you want?”
The child answers, “Chocolate!”
What is a French cat’s favorite dessert?
Chocolate mousse.
What do you call stolen cocoa?
Hot chocolate.
What’s an astronaut’s favorite chocolate?
A Mars bar.
What’s a monkey’s favorite kind of chocolate?
Chocolate chimp.
What do you call a lamb covered in chocolate?
A candy baaa.
How did the hipster burn his mouth on hot chocolate?
He drank it before it was cool.
What Christmas carol do candy bars sing?
Almond Joy To The World.
One-Liners
Seven days without chocolate makes one weak.
I got myself a hazelnut and chocolate sports car. It’s a Ferrari Rocher.
I have this theory that chocolate slows down the aging process. It may not be true, but do I dare take the chance?
I heard a chocolate joke the other day, but it wasn’t that funny and only got Snickers out of me.
Flowers and champagne may set the stage, but it’s chocolate that steals the show.
I once saw a ghost made of chocolate and vanilla. Ice creamed.
A boy threw a milk chocolate bar at me. How dairy!
I just saw an aircraft made of bubbly chocolate. I think it was an Aero plane.
Quotes For Chocolate Lovers
As long as there is chocolate, there will be happiness.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
Chocolate remedies adversity.
Jareb Teague
Chocolate says I’m sorry so much better than words.
Rachel Vincent
Chocolate symbolizes, as does no other food, luxury, comfort, sensuality, gratification, and love.
Karl Petzke
Anything is good if it’s made of chocolate.
Jo Brand
When we don’t have the words, chocolate can speak volumes.
Joan Bauer
Have a piece of chocolate today and feel like royalty!
Andy Atticus
Chocolate is comfort without words.
Ursula Kohaupt
Chocolate makes everyone smile. Even bankers.
Ben Strohecker
Eating chocolate can have significant influences on mood, generally leading to an increase in pleasant feelings and a reduction in tension.
Peter Rogers
Nothing is as alluring as a piece of chocolate you can’t have.
Nina Sandmann
I like all sorts of chocolate: milk chocolate, dark chocolate, anything.
Freddie Highmore
Check out Chocolate Quotes: The Funny and Famous.
Great Chocolate Quotes
Will looked horrified. “What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate?”
Cassandra Clare
Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands – and then eat just one of the pieces.
Judith Viorst
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.
Charles M. Schulz
Let’s face it; a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.
Audrey Hepburn
Reminiscent of childhood memories, luxury, sweetness, and sensuality, chocolate is more than just a food – it is therapy.
Christelle Le Ru
When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
Regina Brett
There is nothing better than a friend unless it is a friend with chocolate.
Linda Grayson
Captions for Instagram
Good chocolate, good mood.
Forget love. I’d rather fall in chocolate!
Life is like a box of chocolates.
Happiness is an unexpected piece of chocolate!
Fueled by hot chocolate!
Chocolate every day keeps miseries away.
The promise of sweet perfection!
Irresistibly tempting!
Chocolate fixes everything.
My kind of happiness.
I could give up chocolate, but I’m not a quitter!
Life happens. Chocolate helps.
Chocolate is nature’s way of making up for Mondays!
Life is better with chocolate spread.
When in doubt, eat chocolate.
You had me at chocolate!
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