The History Guy explores our 5,000 year love affair with chocolate

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I found this channel looking for historical information on slouch hats (unfortunately, he focused more on the Australian one), but have found several of his vidoes informative.

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eat-chocolate-forever

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The [food item] that we know today are a surprisingly modern invention, coming into their own in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

It’s amazing how often this is true. Even many of the things we think of as core cultural-identity foods only really came into existence thanks to modern distribution and food processing technologies, or as parts of food trends they indirectly brought about.

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