[Ainaserkewen]

Ithaeliel is right. There couldn't have been chocolate in Middle-Earth at that "time" because it came from south America. I don't know the story exactly, but I hear that inside a coco pod(including the beans and such) the beans are covered in a sticky sweet syrup. The story I heard said something about the natives only eating the sweet sticky stuff cause it was tasty, and leaving the coco beans for medicine or something. I hope you all know that coco beans by themselves taste terrible. So I guess one day, a native was collecting coco pods when one was crushed(don't ask how, I don't know) and the beans were mixed with the syrup. And that's how the first chocolate was invented, or so I hear. I don't think that chocolate would have been introduced to Europe or any of the eastern Hemisphere until the Spanish landed in South America in the 1400's. Sorry everybody who would have loved there to be chocolate in ME, you'll just have to stick to bacon. Mmmmm, bacon.