And all because the lady loves...sheep`s dung
When English privateers first seized toe rich cargoes of Spanish ships travelling home from the Caribbean or South America, the English sailors tipped the chocolate beans overboard, thinking them no better than ´sheep`s dung`. This blunder prevented chocolate reaching the English market for many years.
In an attempt to wean his fellow Englishmen away from their traditional contempt for chocolate, the seventeenth-century English sailor Thomas Gage, who had been a prisoner of the Spaniards for a number of years, intstructed them to serve the chocolate with a variety of flavourings including sugar, cinnamond, rose water and even pepper. Gage himselfe had a portable chocolate-making kit, and became the forerunner of a ehole industy of British chocolate makers. Gage`s other recommendation to the English readers did not catch on so well - hedgehoog and iguana svouries.
In an attempt to wean his fellow Englishmen away from their traditional contempt for chocolate, the seventeenth-century English sailor Thomas Gage, who had been a prisoner of the Spaniards for a number of years, intstructed them to serve the chocolate with a variety of flavourings including sugar, cinnamond, rose water and even pepper. Gage himselfe had a portable chocolate-making kit, and became the forerunner of a ehole industy of British chocolate makers. Gage`s other recommendation to the English readers did not catch on so well - hedgehoog and iguana svouries.
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