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Aussie

(Steve Pope) wrote in news:icf3gi$mh6$1
@blue.rahul.net:

> Aussie > wrote:
>
>>Samesame, I couldn't imagine eating chocolate with chilli in it, but some
>>people do.
>
> Ever since the ancient Aztecs people have been doing this.
>
> The Spanish were very happy with their conquest of both these New World
> food ingredients, and to this day people are still drinking chocolate
> with chili in it in Barcelona and Madrid. And in various other parts of
> the former Spanish Empire, including western North America.
>

It's only a fairly recent addition to the palates of Aussies, and I for one
have never taken to it.

--
Peter Lucas
Hobart
Tasmania

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