Who first figured out that chocolate and mint would taste great together?
The history of chocolate goes much further back to the Mayan and Aztec indians. (see complete history at: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blchocolate.htm. According to this source though, it appears that the Europeans get the credit for mixing chocolate with mint. They were apparently looking for ways to make bitter chocolate more palatable and mixed it with mint, cinnamon, and other spices. Here is the story: —————————————- When the British merchants lost control of the American tobacco market after 1776, they searched for a substitute crop to sell. They found the substitute in the opium poppy grown in their newly acquired lands in India and Burma. … While the British made fortunes selling opium to the Asians, and while the newly formed United States peddled tobacco to the world, the Spaniards pushed a seemingly much more innocuous drug found in America. T
