I did try
Mexican chocolate. I found it pretty interesting, but only tried it once. I don't know if it was the same brand shown in the link, but it was in similar wrapping. I liked the idea of breaking the wedges from the disk. They are thicker than candy bars and the chocolate had a higher melting point. A good choice to carry around on a hot day.
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Mexican Chocolate
Mexican chocolate is made from dark, bitter chocolate mixed with sugar, cinnamon, and sometimes nuts. The end result is a "grainy" less smooth product. Chocolate is frequently purchased in "disks" although it is also available in bars and syrups.
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What is interesting is that chocolate was used as currency. If I remember, 'pieces of eight' were slivers from a roundish coin. I don't know which came first, but it appears that the eight bits of chocolate have the same concept as the chocolate coins I see around Hanukkah.
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The peso had a nominal value of 8 reales ("royals"). The coins were often physically cut into eight "bits", or sometimes four quarters, to make smaller change. This is the origin of the colloquial name "pieces of eight" for the coin, and of "quarter" and "two bits" for twenty five cents.
Long tied to the lore of piracy, "pieces of eight" were manufactured in the Americas and transported in bulk back to Spain (to pay for wars and various other things), making them a very tempting target for seagoing pirates
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And
this would make a fine doodad for chocolate lovers.
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