Chocolate! - history of chocolate, how it is made, and the different forms in which it is eaten - includes a quiz on chocolate trivia

Ranger Rick, Feb, 1996

c. "Kiss" is an old name for any small piece of chocolate wrapped in foil.

5. About how many pounds of chocolate does the average person in the United States eat every year? a. 6; b. 11; c. 18

6. Which of these things have been made out of chocolate?

a. jigsaw puzzle

b. chess set

c. model of a computer diskette

d. model of the Statue of Liberty

e. all of these

7. Would the world's largest chocolate egg have fit inside your bedroom?

a. sure--it was about the size of a watermelon

b. probably--it was about 7 feet (2 m) tall

c. no way--unless you have a ceiling that's 18 feet (5.5 m) high.

ANSWERS

1. b. Hershey is the home of the Hershey Foods Corporation. One end of town smells of chocolate. At the other end, where Hershey Foods makes peanut butter cups, it smells of peanuts!

2. False. White chocolate contains lots of cocoa butter, which comes from cacao beans. But it doesn't have what all true chocolate must have--chocolate liquor.

3. b. M&M candies may be "munchy and mouth-watering," but they were named after their inventors, Forrest Mars and Bruce Murrie.

4. c

5. b

6. e. Almost anything you can imagine has been made out of chocolate in factories around the world.

7. c. The giant egg was 17 feet, 9 inches (about 5.5 m) tall, and it weighed more than 2 1/2 tons (2250 kg).RANGER RICK