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We think of chocolate as something sweet. 1, a long time ago, people thought of chocolate as something very bitter. For us, chocolate is a candy, but once it was a medicine. Today, chocolate can be a hot drink, a frozen dessert, or just a 2. Sometimes it's an ingredient in the main course of a meal. Mexicans make a hot chocolate sauce called mole and pour it over chicken. The Mexicans also eat chocolate with spices like chili 3.
Chocolate is a product of the tropical(热带的)cacao tree. Cacao beans taste so bitter that even monkeys say "ugh!" and run 4. When the Spaniard came to Mexico in the 16th century, they started drinking cacao too. 5 the drink was strong and bitter, they thought it was a medicine. When the Spaniards took the drink back to Europe, people found that 6 removed the bitter taste of cacao. Wealthy Spaniards heated the sweet drink and thought it was good for their health.
In the 19th century, an English company made the first solid block of sweetened chocolate. Then people could 7 drink and eat chocolate. Later, a Swiss company mixed milk and chocolate 8. People liked the taste of milk chocolate even 9.
Besides the chocolate candy bar, one of the most 10 American snacks is the chocolate-chip cookie. Favourite desserts are chocolate cream pie and, of course, an ice cream sundae(圣代)with hot fudge sauce(热软质巧克力糖酱).