Chocolate

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Chocolate
Its To Die For

• Erick Shirley
• Laleen Ramiscal
• Melissa Ho
• Ayako Kagita

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What you really want to know about chocolate

• Or maybe not,
• But Im gonna tell you anyway

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Attraction

• People often think that it is the caffeine that
  attracts us to chocolate.
  
• Only part of the draw is caffeine
• There are other things that excite cravings

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Why do we crave the taste of chocolate?

• Anandamide
• Researchers think the presence of anandamide in
  chocolate may explain why it is by far the
  most-craved food. 
  
• messenger molecule that plays a role in
  depression, memory, and pain.
  

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What sense does this make?

• As much as we might deny it
• Humans like pain because it brings pity, which is
  a form of attention.
  
• Either from someone else or from yourself

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Chocolate also contains...

• Phenylethylamine
• What is this?
• Phenylethylamine is related to amphetamines, and
  both are stimulants of the nervous system
  

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How Chocolate is related to LOVE
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History of Valentines Day

• Emperor Claudius in 264 A.D. banned all
  marriages
  
• St. Valentine conducted marriages in secret
• Imprisoned for acts of defiance
• Wrote a note to a girl met in prison signed
• from your Valentine
• Patron saint of lovers died February 14th

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Chocolate and Love
Princess Maria
Casanova
Montezuma
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Guinness World Records

• Largest Chocolate Bar
• 5,026 lb
• Italy, Mar. 2000
• Largest Fudge Slab
• 2002 lb
• Length 166ft., Width 9in., Height3 in.
• 86 hrs. to prepare, 13 people to pour it into
  shape
  
• Canada
• Largest Box of Chocolates
• 3,226 lb
• Illinois, Nov. 2000

• Tallest Easter Egg
• 25 ft. 1 in., 8.968 lb
• South Africa, April 1996
• Largest Smore
• 1,600 lb
• 20,000 marshmallows 7,000 Hersheys chocolate
  bars
  
• 24,000 graham crackers
• California, May 2003
• Largest Easter Egg Hunt
• Army troops hid 150,000 solid chocoolate eggs and
  3,000 children participated in the hunt
  
• Australia, March 1999

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Chocolate Consumption
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Top 10 Candy Bars

• Hershey Bar
• Invented by Milton S. Hershey
• His highest demand for the bars came from the
  U.S. Army they would buy 30 lb blocks of solid
  chocolate and send it overseas to the troops
  
• 1907 Hershey created the bite-sized Hersheys
  Kisses
  
• Slogan A sweet to eat.

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Top 10 Candy Bars

• Oh Henry!
• Invented by Williamson Candy Company
• Origin behind the name There was a boy that
  would come in to flirt with the girls working
  there. They would tease him and coo Oh, Henry
  every time they wanted something done.
• Slogan Oh hungry?

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Top 10 Candy Bars

• M Ms
• Mars Murrie
• Forrest Mars Sr. got his idea for M Ms after
  witnessing some soldiers eating coated chocolate
  pellets with a sugary shell to keep them from
  melting.
• Slogan Melts in your mouth, not in your hand!

• Baby Ruth
• Originally called Kandy Kake
• Story behind the name Grover Clevelands
  daughter Ruth or the great baseball legend George
  Herman Babe Ruth
  
• Slogan The real deal.

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Top 10 Candy Bars

• 3 Musketeers
• Originally this candy bar was made up of 3
  flavors chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry
  
• Slogan Big on chocolate, not on fat.
• Milky Way
• Made of chocolate malt-flavored nougat and
  caramel covered with milk chocolate
  
• Also known as Mars bar
• This candy bar was created because Frank Mars and
  son Forrest wanted to come up with a chocolate
  malted drink in the form of a candy bar
  
• Slogan If only all good things could last this
  long.

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Top 10 Candy Bars

• Butterfinger
• Previously marketed by being dropped out of
  airplanes in the United States
  
• Slogan Break out of the ordinary.
• Kit Kat
• Named after a literary club London Kit Kat
  club
  
• Originated in England
• Slogan Have a break, have a Kit Kat.

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Top 10 Candy Bars

• Reeses Peanut Butter Cups
• Harry Burnett Reese was a dairy employee of
  Milton S. Hershey.
  
• Inspired by his former boss success, Reese
  decided to build up his own fortunes.
  
• Slogan Theres no wrong way to eat a Reeses.

• Snickers
• 1 selling candy bar in America
• Named after a favorite horse of the Mars family
• Slogan Dont let hunger happen to you!

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Name that Candy Bar

• The Guessing Game
• Using the description given, guess the name of
  the candy bar.

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Name that Candy Bar

• Play time in Elementary school.
• 2. The number of points in an athletic game.
• One of the nine planets.
• Every workers most favorite time of the month
  (it occurs twice a month ).
  
• Something you can say when you cant seem to
  figure out that one word you want to say.

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Name that Candy Bar

• Its big bucks!
• Gesture used to show love.
• A word for a sound.
• To utter a nasty, partly stifled laugh
• Calling a certain guy

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Fun facts about chocolate
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VS
Coffee
Chocolate
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Everyone loves chocolate!!
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Blood??!!
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Chocolate festival in America

• Carolina chocolate festival
• Ghirardell squares Annual Chocolate Festival
• The long Grove Chocolate Festival

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Carolina Chocolate Festival
40 FEET???!!!
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Ghirardell Squeares Annual Chocolate Festival
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Long Grove Chocolate Festival
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If you want to order
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Life is like a box of chocolates.
You never know what youre going to eat
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