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Already
2,000 years ago, Mayas knew cacao beans. They used them as money and made
a drink out of it, which they called '"Xocoatl", a name which is the basis
for the word "chocolate". The drink was made on the basis of cacao beans,
hot water, corn flour and chilli pepper, a kind of liquid chocolate chilli
pie, so to say.
The cacao bean came to Europe around 1530 but only became popular in the
18th century, in the beginning as drink, but later also in solid
form. In 1912, the praline was invented. Even though the beans originate
from South-America, where they still grow, the majority of cacao beans nowadays
is imported from West-Africa.
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