cost of producing a goblet of Montezuma's cocoa beverage?
cormac wrote:
On Feb 11, 4:22 pm, wrote:
Cortes reported that Montezuma drank 50 goblets of (non-sweetened)
cocoa beverage before entering his harem.
a goblet of cocoa was expensive to make in pre-mechanized society.
Even if the laborers were nominally slaves, they had to be fed,
clothed, housed, etc. In fact, the houseservants of a sovereign are
normally well kept.
Is it possible to estimate an equivelant 2007 value of a goblet of
Monteuma's cocoa drink?
The cocoa would have contained a high proportion of cocaine.
Apart from being soporific, it would have caused erectile dysfunction.
He should have slept in the spare room.
Cormac
I can't find any referrence of cocaine being present in
cocoa. Caffein, yes, but not cocaine.
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