• Tattorack@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    I dunno. I like my chili flavoured candy.

    Beside, wasn’t chocolate traditionally eaten with chili by the natives? Or was it a spicy coco drink…?

    • EchoCranium@lemmy.zip
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      10 days ago

      I’ll occasionally make up coffee in the morning with chocolate, cinnamon, and a few shakes of cayenne pepper. Coffee shop I went to once did the same thing, called it an Aztec Mocha. Very good.

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          9 days ago

          I have no idea what coffee shop it was, just some random place my wife and I stopped at while traveling. But yeah, the mocha with cinnamon and cayenne is great, especially on cool and rainy days. The heat from the spice adds to the warmth of the drink.

    • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      Chocolate isn’t sweet, it’s bitter. You have to add a lot of sugar to get the sweet chocolate we’re familiar with. The Mayan and Aztec versions of hot chocolate were more like a spicy coffee than the sweet drink we have now.