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Chocolate (cacao) was cultivated in Mexico, Central and South America and dates back to around 1100BC. It was not until the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs that chocolate could be imported to Europe in the 16th century and before that no one in Europe had ever heard of chocolate. The first chocolate house opened in London in 1657. Chocolate in its solid form was invented in 1847 by Joseph Fry & Son. Today, the chocolate industry is a steadily growing, $50 billion dollar-a-year worldwide bus (...)