Chocolate Milk Was Created in Jamaica
July 14, 2021 8:40AM PDT
Despite people thinking chocolate milk came from brown cows, the beloved sweet drink came from…Jamaica!
From SmithsonianMag.com:
According to Jame Delbougo, a historian, the Jamaicans were brewing “a hot beverage brewed from shavings of freshly harvested cacao, boiled with milk and cinnamon” as far back as 1494. And chocolate has been known to humans as far back as 350 B.C. It’s hard to believe that no one before Sloane thought to put milk in it.
Read more about the origins of chocolate milk HERE!
As an adult, do you still drink chocolate milk? I know I do!
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