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Tech NewsScientists Have Created Rainbow Hologram Chocolate Without Any Extra Ingredients
Your average convenience store is a marketing warzone as snack makers compete to make their candy bars stand out amongst the competition. Skipping fancy wrappers or weird flavor combinations, researchers from ETH Zurich have found a way to make truly unique chocolate with a hologram-like color-changing finish that doesn’t require any special ingredients or dyes. … Continued
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ScienceHuman HistoryChocolate Has a New Origin Story
New archaeological evidence suggests humans were cultivating and consuming cacao—the crop from which chocolate is produced—as long as 5,300 years ago, which is 1,500 years earlier than previously thought. What’s more, cacao was initially domesticated in the equatorial regions of South America, and not Central America. Humans, as a new paper published today in Nature Ecology … Continued
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Oops! A Tippy Truck Spilled Tons of Sticky Chocolate All Over the Road
When trucks full of stuff flip, they sometimes spill their contents on the ground. Sometimes it’s money. Sometimes it’s a ton of skittles. This time it’s warm, brown goo. A truck spilled tons of liquid chocolate along a highway in western Poland on Wednesday, initially blocking six lanes of traffic, the Associated Press reports. This might … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidHow to Turn All Your Leftover Easter Candy Into a Functional Chocolate Knife
Is “leftover Easter candy” an oxymoron? Does such a thing even exist? If, for some bizarre reason, you get tired of consuming chocolate bunnies this April, don’t throw all that candy away. As YouTube user Knifemaker demonstrates, you could actually turn all those sugary treats into a functional kitchen knife. https://gizmodo.com/nothing-to-see-here-just-a-functional-knife-made-of-fi-1821568429 Let’s just make sure … Continued
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EartherClimate Change
That ‘Chocolate Extinction’ Story Is Total Nonsense
I was hoping to start 2018 off with a positive blog, like some of my colleagues, but then I glanced at my feeds and saw ‘chocolate extinction’ all over them. Apparently, news broke over the new year that chocolate was going to go extinct in mere decades, as climate change threatens the survival of cacao … Continued
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Tech NewsI Can’t Believe We Have to Tell You Not to Snort Chocolate
Snorting chocolate to get high lives alongside “Beezing,” butt chugging, and blumpkins as things that everyone talks about but few people take seriously. Despite being around for a while, chocolate snorting has once again resurfaced in the news, thanks to a company called “Legal Lean” selling “Coko Loko,” a product that promises to simultaneously deliver … Continued
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io9We’d Rather Find This Chocolate Baby Groot in Our Easter Baskets Instead of a Bunny
‘Tis the season to consume chocolate effigies of bunnies, chicks, and gigantic eggs. But given the choice, we’d much rather rifle through all that fake plastic grass in our Easter baskets to discover this incredibly detailed solid chocolate Baby Groot. Although, we’d be too impressed to devour it. Sugar Spice Cakes is responsible for this … Continued
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Our Greatest Geological Discovery Is This Chocolate Boulder With Edible Candy Geodes Inside
If you thought Cadbury Creme Eggs were humanity’s greatest confectionery creation, Alex O’Brien Yeatts, a baking and pastry student at the Culinary Institute of America, has come up with a dessert that looks straight out of a geology textbook—not a cookbook. Working with cake decorator Abby Lee Wilcox, Yeatts created what looks like a massive boulder. … Continued
