Interactive Crossword Puzzle - March.  2004

Chocolate

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1. ____ is the name of the drink made by the Mayans from cocoa beans.
4. Chocolate ____ at 78 degrees fahrenheit.
5. Under this Aztec Emperor, the drink made from cocoa beans was reserved for the male elite.
8. This country is now the world's leading producer of cacao.
9. The first cocoa treas grew wild in tropical rainforests in the ______ and Orinoco basins over 4000 years ago
11. This company's milk chocolate bar was first made in 1900.
14. In 1894 the Hershey Chocolate Factory was founded by __________ Hershey.
15. In 1657 the first chocolate house opened in this city.
16. Cocoa beans were onced used as a form of this.
18. The inside of a cocoa bean is called the ___
20. Hershey, PA is home to the world's largest chocolate _________.
22. This type of chocolate was invented in 1879 by Henri Nestle & Daniel Peter.
23. Coenraad Johannes Van Houten invented the ___________ which extracts cocoa butter from chocolate liquor, leaving powdered cocoa behind.
24. This candy bar was first made in 1923 by Frank Mars.
26. The first chocolate ___ suitable for general consumption was made by Fry's chocolate factory in Bristol, England in 1847.
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2. Chocolate was used for its _________ qualities during the 18th century.
3. Each cocoa pod contains about 20 - 40 of these.
4. These people established the first cocoa plantationsin sin 600 A.D.
6. Dr. James ____ & John Hanan started the first chocoated factory in North America.
7. The fruits of the cocoa tree are in the form of very colorful _________.
10. The ____ eat about 22 pounds of chocolate a year per capita.
12. Hershey was called the "______" of chocolate.
13. Main ingredients in chocolate are chocolate _____, cocoa butter, sugar, & milk.
17. Columbus was the 1st European to discover cocoa beans upon landing in ________ on his 4th voyage.
19. World wide sales of chocolate top 50 _______ dollars today.
21. This person considered chocolate to be an elixer of love.
23. It takes over 50,000 of these animals to produce enough milk for one day's production of Hershey chocolate at the Pennsylvania plant.
25. Hershey makes more than 80 million ______ shaped products every day at it's factories in CA and PA.

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