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The royal storehouses had “vaults” full of this currency. One estimate listed the yearly expenditure of dried beans at 11,680,000. Some of these beans went to pay the king’s attendants. Others went into the king’s chocolate drinks—and he drank a lot of chocolate. Hernán Cortés relate that when Moctezuma II, emperor of the Aztecs, dined he took no other beverage than chocolate, served in a golden goblet and eaten with a golden spoon. Flavored with vanilla and spices, his chocolate was whipped into a froth that dissolved in the mouth. It is reported that no fewer than 50 portions each day may have been consumed by Montezuma II , and 200 more by the nobles of his court.
Originally posted by kro32
Aztecs were just creepy with all their ritual murder and stuff.
Very scary people.
Holding a cacao bean
Originally posted by Hanslune
Archaeologists have found cocoa beans that have been halved and the [color=gold] center removed and replaced with sand and the now empty shell sealed with wax coloured to look like the bean. It is also reported that counterfeit beans were made from ash and other ingredients have been found too. Counterfeiting has a long history.
Originally posted by davidgrouchy
Cacao beans!
That's right, unsweetened
dried out chocolate beans as money.
In the Aztec empire money grows on trees.
Originally posted by davidgrouchy
The only plant in the world that bears it's
fruit on the trunk and not on branches.
Bananas are naturally slightly radioactive,[9][10] more so than most other fruits, because of their high potassium content, and the small amounts of the isotope potassium-40 found in naturally occurring potassium.[11] Proponents of nuclear power sometimes refer to the banana equivalent dose of radiation to support their arguments.
Originally posted by Freedom_is_Slavery
Originally posted by davidgrouchy
The only plant in the world that bears it's
fruit on the trunk and not on branches.
What about a banana tree ?
Originally posted by Harte
The trunk of a banana tree is actually underground.
The fruit comes from a blossom on the leaves, the leaves being what we think of as the "trunk" of the tree.
Harte