When was the first chocolate bar made?
It's unbelievable, but the secret of a chocolate bar was discovered only in 1847. Before that time, people knew only the recipe of the chocolate paste. The first chocolate factories appeared when the technology of candy bar making was finally developed. And you know what - the product is still very popular among children and adults!
What are your thoughts on this subject?
33 Comments
Mark Johnson
Strange how there is no evidence anywhere about Aztecs making a chocolate bar.
Steve Kemp
The first chocolate bar was made by J Dry and Sons of Bristol, England. They moved the production out of the city to Keynsham (where I live) in 1935. Frys were bought by Cadbury's and Cadburys planned to close the plant in 2007 after a EU grant was given to Cadburys to move production to Poland. After much wrangling (including a promise to reverse the decision to close the plant), Cadburys were sold to Kraft who promptly closed the plant as most of the machinery had already moved to Poland. It is therefore little surprise that the people of Keynsham overwhelmingly voted to leave the EU.
If you ever had a Fry's Chocolate Cream Bar, Double Decker, Dairy Milk, Chocolate Buttons, Creme Eggs, Mini Eggs, Chomp or Crunchie in Britain prior to 2011, it was made in Keynsham
Douglas Germond
Mark Johnson that's because the aliens wanted the chocolate for themselves!!!
Stephen W. Gerrard
Not a very good or thorough explanation of the answer. I am surprised this was not rejected.
Kathy Shever
They had chocolate, but did not make it with sugar and milk into a bar
First&Formost
no Nobel price for him?
Georgia Kemp
Chocolate was known for centuries by native Americans. One can still buy it in blocks to make drinks, even in NZ.
Shannon Skipworth
Mark Johnson, they didn't make chocolate bars, they made a cocoa drink
Emma
Perry Gaspar, No. The Aztecs valued chocolate for medical purposes and it was usually drunk, not solid.
Kath Thomson
The Aztecs were the first to convert cocao beans to a powder but they only used it to drink. It was this powder form that spread to the rest of the Americas and Europe. But solid chocolate blocks didn't appear until 1847, made by Frys of England.
Derek Smith
Ah, Keynsham! Home to Horace Batchelor, I believe. The creator of the famous infra-draw method! Steve Kemp,
Wyla Reedy
I really thought it was earlier than the options given.
Corey Taylor
Still took the work of Milton Hershey to perfect the bar!
Joe Mangan
Steve Tingle, alot of prominent confectioners were Quakers, Cadburys in Birmingham, Rowntrees in York, Jacobs and Bewleys in Dublin.
Richard G Schwartz
Love Love Love chocolate where ever it came from.
Steve Tingle
Denise Currie, The Cadbury family were also Quakers!
Jennifer Dyster
Perry Gaspar, not bars. They drank it
Robert Henderson
it was dr Hans Sloane who gave his name to Sloane Square that developed the process fo making solid sweetened chocolate and gave the process to either Cadbury or Fry without charge and he was from the 18th century, not the 19th
jack patti go
I really haven't a care aboutwhen it was made! It is that IT WAS MADE!!!!! I LOVE ME SOME CHOCOLATE!!!!!