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Default cost of producing a goblet of Montezuma's cocoa beverage?

BK wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:28:48 -0500, Bob Kolker wrote:
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>> VtSkier wrote:
>>>
>>> I can't find any referrence of cocaine being present in
>>> cocoa. Caffein, yes, but not cocaine.

>> The coke is in the leaf, not the seed.
>>
>> Bob Kolker

>
> Um, guys? You're confusing two entirely different plants:
>
> Coca (from whence comes cocaine) - Erythroxylum coca
> Cocoa (from whence comes chocolate) - Theobroma cacao
>
> BK (back to lurk mode)


That's what I was getting at, but thanks.