Pigs don’t like Ben and Jerry's Mint and Oreo Cookie ice cream - Ben and Jerry's used to feed its milky water to a local farmer's pigs - Mint and Oreo Cookie being the only flavour they didn’t like.
A US company has just launched a new product called Coco Loko, a snortable form of chocolate. Among the target audience are recovering cocaine addicts who need a legal boost.
Would you believe a humble chocolate bar led to a cooking revolution, well it did. Scientist and chocolate lover Percy Spencer was working on a WWII radar and weapons project using a magnetron when he noticed the chocolate bar he’d had in his pocket melted. It didn’t take him long to determine the high-powered vacuum tube which created microwaves was able to heat food, quickly. Hello microwave!
Chocolate gives you a more intense mental high and gets your heart pounding more than a kiss does.
The chocolate river from the film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1979) was actually made of real chocolate, water, and cream. It spoiled fairly quickly and left a terrible smell.
Feel relaxed when you eat chocolate? Can't explain it! Well thats because the smell of chocolate increases the brain waves, which triggers relaxation.
White chocolate isn't real chocolate! Yes, we've all been lied to. In order to be classified as real chocolate, a product has to contain cocoa solids or cocoa liquor. White chocolate contains cocoa butter instead.
A 2004 study in London found that 70% of people would reveal their passwords in exchange for a chocolate bar.