The History of Chocolate Explained

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  • čas přidán 14. 06. 2024
  • Chocolate is amazing. Dark chocolate, milk chocolate, chocolate with nuts... It's amazing. And this video we will look at the history of chocolate. How was chocolate created? From the Native Americans such as the Aztecs and Mayans, to the first European chocolate factory, to the modern chocolate industry.:
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    Credits
    - Research: Mrs Scope
    - Animation: History Scope (Avery)
    - Audio: Seb. Soto
    Chapters:
    00:00 Intro
    01:00 Early History
    07:55 Europeans Arrive
    14:23 The Rest of the World
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Komentáře • 228

  • @unematrix
    @unematrix Před rokem +111

    3:47 Is that a grinder with the Grindr logo on it?
    And uhhhh 7:00... Avery is getting spicy in this video

    • @Mikachu9426
      @Mikachu9426 Před rokem +5

      It's a pestle and mortar with the Grindr logo on it, yes ;)

    • @wetplant1748
      @wetplant1748 Před rokem

      the only way Avery's gf can turn him on is with chocolate bars

    • @testificles240
      @testificles240 Před rokem +1

      @@Mikachu9426 brilliant... absolutely brilliant, didnt even see it... nice XD

    • @grapejuice664
      @grapejuice664 Před rokem

      💀

    • @YourGayOverlord
      @YourGayOverlord Před rokem +1

      Curieux

  • @danskrr
    @danskrr Před rokem +44

    Babe wake up, History Scope just uploaded a new video!

    • @AXAXAXAYt
      @AXAXAXAYt Před rokem +1

      Sis wake up history scope posted a new video

  • @emmanuelflores1557
    @emmanuelflores1557 Před rokem +156

    F for the people who never tasted chocolate

    • @davidbryden7904
      @davidbryden7904 Před rokem +10

      Including the ppl that grow coco, but are to poor to afford the finished product?😢

    • @AngDevigne
      @AngDevigne Před rokem +2

      F

    • @rustomkanishka
      @rustomkanishka Před rokem +3

      F for those people and for those who work on the farms and will never be able to afford enough food, forget chocolate

    • @lyallfurphy
      @lyallfurphy Před rokem +3

      And for the dogs who have

    • @DaGreenCat_
      @DaGreenCat_ Před rokem +6

      I have a friend who is allergic to chocolate and i feel soo bad for him 😢

  • @ThijquintNL
    @ThijquintNL Před rokem +99

    F for our chocolateless ancestors😢

  • @mrinmoybanik5598
    @mrinmoybanik5598 Před rokem +72

    In India, historically we already have so many varieties of indigenous sweets and milk based confectioners that that chocolate faced stiff competition here. Well I wan't really fond of sweets much as a kid but enjoyed milk chocolates. Nice video though 👌!

    • @HistoryScope
      @HistoryScope  Před rokem +24

      From that point of view it makes sense that it's so popular in western cultures: our crops are incredibly bland. We have a few spices growing natively in Europe and some nuts, but anything interesting like pepper, nutmeg, or pre-industrial versions of candy all come from Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

    • @siddhantdeepful
      @siddhantdeepful Před rokem +4

      I am pretty sure it did not hit off in India because Indians are used to very sweet confectionary(Like a questionable amount of sugar goes into them ). SO having sweets which were a bit bitter just did not seem appealing to them. My parents are not interested in milk chocolates because they are not as sweet as Indian confectionery.

    • @RK-cj4oc
      @RK-cj4oc Před rokem

      ​@@siddhantdeepfulWhat kind of Indian sweets are " better" than chocolate?

    • @BausofHogs
      @BausofHogs Před rokem +1

      Lmao at showing a whip while asking for subs

    • @dsxa918
      @dsxa918 Před rokem

      ROFLMAO @ having been subscribed for a while now

  • @baronvonjo1929
    @baronvonjo1929 Před rokem +11

    I find it so bizarre Chocolate Chip cookies were not a thing until the 1930s. Nestle bought the recipe from a American woman. I think they paid her and gave her a life time supply of chocolate. They use her "Toll House" brand to this day as well.
    Chocolate Chip cookies are such a stable now but haven't really been a thing for even a century.

  • @tulip811
    @tulip811 Před rokem +25

    The European aristocracy had their own porcelain cups only to drink chocolate. It comes with a lid so the chocolate stays warm 😊

  • @hitori3667
    @hitori3667 Před rokem +16

    2:57 “Stone-face drunk”
    > Literally stone faces
    Thank you, writer ❤

    • @HistoryScope
      @HistoryScope  Před rokem +1

      I felt very clever for coming up with that joke

    • @robbrown4621
      @robbrown4621 Před rokem

      I think the stone face is probably because they are constipated from consuming too much chocolate! :)

  • @thelakeman2538
    @thelakeman2538 Před rokem +22

    Chocolate is pretty big in India today and has been all pervasive for my entire life living in large cities and all. But from what I can tell a few decades ago although they were a thing and most would've known about them they just weren't as pervasive as they're today, a lot of the chocolate niche was already filled by non-chocolate confectioneries and sweets (traditional or non-traditional), even today the word "chocolate" itself in India is a colloquialism that will refer to any sweet packaged stuff aimed at kids including both chocolates and candies but excluding the traditional sweets. Another factor I'd guess would be that pre-refrigeration the summer in a lot of Indian cities would be unsuitable to store them, but I doubt how big a role this plays since a lot of USA, Mexico, etc also get as hot during summers.

  • @sokolmihajlovic1391
    @sokolmihajlovic1391 Před 9 měsíci +3

    The humor is hillarious.
    Ty for your outstanding vids.

  • @nebularspace
    @nebularspace Před rokem +3

    I loved this video! You clearly have a passion for this topic and it showed.

  • @AdityaMehendale
    @AdityaMehendale Před rokem +7

    Chocolate is not mass-consumed on the Indian subcontinent likely because:
    1) Price --> For the kiloprijs of chocolate, you can get a lot of other tasty stuff; chocolate has less "bang for the buck". It's like why you don't eat mangoes every day in NL.
    2) Storage --> With small moms-and-pops shops, and >30*C temperatures, "swiss-style" chocolate melts in the shops, and possibly recrystallizes into a disgusting mess, or needs to be stored in a refrigerator, which makes it taste like sawdust. Nobody has bothered to innovate to get a different formulation that is stable at 35*C. A notable exception is chocolate(-coated)-ice-cream, whereby the need to refrigerate levels the playing-field.

  • @Scrooge_McDuck1111
    @Scrooge_McDuck1111 Před rokem +2

    Thank you my friend always love your documentaries, very educational. 🙂👍

  • @user-xw9ji6ny3p
    @user-xw9ji6ny3p Před 5 měsíci

    I love the sound quality of this video, really well done

  • @CalebxCiara
    @CalebxCiara Před rokem +4

    You should do The Collapse of the Roman Empire

  • @bobsbrain397
    @bobsbrain397 Před rokem

    Amazing video, thanks for making and sharing 💖🍫💖

  • @mruanova
    @mruanova Před rokem

    you have an amazing sense of humor, i love your content

  • @KobraVR
    @KobraVR Před 10 měsíci +2

    I always assumed chocolate was less popular in warmer climates due to it being harder to stop melting, especially in poorer regions

  • @RikkeMyE
    @RikkeMyE Před 9 měsíci

    Gosh I love your videoes! ❤

  • @neezduts_
    @neezduts_ Před rokem +4

    I love chocolate. Hell, I look like chocolate, but chocolate saved this man’s life. Give it up to chocolate 👏. F for those who never had chocolate

  • @itsmeowen
    @itsmeowen Před rokem +1

    so sad this only got 17k views, I loved this video

  • @forzaa867
    @forzaa867 Před rokem +1

    History Scope, you turned crazy in this video

  • @TheChannelofOrange
    @TheChannelofOrange Před rokem +4

    Great, now I am going buy chocolate

  • @CyberRager
    @CyberRager Před rokem +5

    Now that you have a video on it you have no running gag for your future episodes xd

  • @petanikakaopakhaji
    @petanikakaopakhaji Před 8 měsíci

    helpful information

  • @gregoryturk1275
    @gregoryturk1275 Před rokem +3

    F for Teophanu the farmer in 1365 in the Byzantine Empire who never ate chocolate.

  • @TheNonplayer
    @TheNonplayer Před rokem

    dank u well meneer :)
    ...goede docu's

  • @BogaBoga
    @BogaBoga Před rokem +3

    Good to know that there are other people as addicted to chocolate as me!

  • @liberal-libertarian9605
    @liberal-libertarian9605 Před rokem +2

    work on my local docks weve been unloading a cocoa bean ship this week, 20,000 tonne when you crack a bean open there's a tiny little chunk of chocolate, its very surreal knowing that's where chocolate comes from haha

  • @Chris_winthers
    @Chris_winthers Před rokem +3

    He's back

  • @sunixjester
    @sunixjester Před rokem +10

    Chocolate, proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy.

  • @thedispenser8301
    @thedispenser8301 Před rokem +4

    2:32 Lmao

  • @danever159
    @danever159 Před rokem

    Great. Great video.

  • @lukecash3500
    @lukecash3500 Před rokem +1

    Ate a chocolate bar while watching this. Realized it's obligatory to watch this while tasting chocolate.

  • @emmanuelflores1557
    @emmanuelflores1557 Před rokem +5

    Sweet Sweet Chocolate =D

  • @bleached_anus1487
    @bleached_anus1487 Před rokem +2

    New History Scope! Sweet!!!

  • @tinahs8269
    @tinahs8269 Před 6 měsíci +1

    I can't believe you didn't mention the US producers...I always thought Hershey here in Pennsylvania came up with successful milk chocolate bar before Nestle did. That entire town is devoted to chocolate production.

  • @itsmeowen
    @itsmeowen Před rokem

    thanks for making a in-depth video on chocolate. al the other videos on other channels are like 5m long

  • @aarondemiri486
    @aarondemiri486 Před rokem +1

    God I love this channel.

  • @-ze5hm
    @-ze5hm Před rokem +2

    Watching this while eating chocolate

  • @ioan_jivan
    @ioan_jivan Před rokem +1

    Awesome! I like chocolate on jellly :))

  • @erwindewit4073
    @erwindewit4073 Před rokem +1

    Man! I was SO close to running to the supermarket! Fortunately, it is sunday and I live in the countryside... SO yum! Also, spicy chocolate is great :)

  • @BuckeyeNationRailroader
    @BuckeyeNationRailroader Před rokem +2

    11:55
    All around me are familiar faces
    Worn out places, worn out faces
    Bright and early for the daily races
    Going nowhere, going nowhere
    Their tears are filling up their glasses
    No expression, no expression
    Hide my head, I wanna drown my sorrow
    No tomorrow, no tomorrow
    And I find it kind of funny
    I find it kind of sad
    The dreams in which I'm dying
    Are the best I've ever had
    I find it hard to tell you
    I find it hard to take
    When people run in circles, it's a very, very
    Mad world, mad world

  • @user-ol7tk8te8l
    @user-ol7tk8te8l Před rokem +2

    Chocolate is life

  • @EchoLog
    @EchoLog Před rokem +2

    Americans were smart farmers. Boats. Milk.
    How many times will CZcams think I don't know anything about chocolate and show me a 101 course for the same god damned plant.

  • @brainstormingsharing1309

    HAHA hello my friend. You can be 100% sure that you are not alone that like chocolate so much. And because I have an absolute passion for chocolate (sugar), and I eat chocolate every day and around the clock! Keep it up 👍👍👍👍👍

  • @joekeating3329
    @joekeating3329 Před rokem +1

    Oh boy let's get some chocolate

  • @MissBabyForte
    @MissBabyForte Před rokem

    This is the perfect april fool video, it interesting and different but something that alot of people would like to know about. Thank you for sharing this video.

  • @GreatGloves
    @GreatGloves Před rokem

    Greetings from Finland!

  • @bevinboulder5039
    @bevinboulder5039 Před rokem +3

    Chocoholics everywhere salute you!

  • @JJschannel255
    @JJschannel255 Před rokem +2

    The best thing ever is chocolate

  • @Kleexun
    @Kleexun Před rokem +4

    11:53 F

  • @LordToxicis
    @LordToxicis Před rokem

    i was scared this was an April Fools joke, but i was made the fool. well done HS!

  • @superyamky
    @superyamky Před rokem

    8:40 LOL😂

  • @elation00
    @elation00 Před 11 měsíci

    07:00 oh you like that chocolate don't you, who's a good boy?

  • @superyamky
    @superyamky Před rokem +2

    🍫❤️

  • @KyloHen4162
    @KyloHen4162 Před rokem

    Dang now we have to wait until May 1 until your next video

  • @drunkendevil
    @drunkendevil Před rokem

    “Babe! New History Scope dropped!” - Me

  • @namesurname1036
    @namesurname1036 Před 5 měsíci

    Chocolate is SOOOO amazing

  • @MrGiygas1
    @MrGiygas1 Před rokem

    Can you do a video on the Manhattan Project, and the process of creating the first atomic bomb?

  • @luritdurit
    @luritdurit Před rokem

    I do agree chocolate is the best thing ever

  • @NoxyDoesStuff
    @NoxyDoesStuff Před rokem +1

    wow

  • @adihelenagur7915
    @adihelenagur7915 Před 7 měsíci

    Thanks for the knowledge! I couldn’t click your video because I didn’t like the picture. I don’t like hearts loving romantic things.. :) thank you so much! So interesting and important information

  • @tulip811
    @tulip811 Před rokem +3

    Yooo Nestlé sold the first milk chocolate??? Noooo

  • @psyxypher3881
    @psyxypher3881 Před rokem +9

    I have my own theory on why Asia and Africa aren't too interested in chocolate: The milk content.
    Lactase persistence isn't too common in these mitochondrial groups so perhaps they simply don't enjoy chocolate the way people who have lactase persistence would.

    • @gregoryturk1275
      @gregoryturk1275 Před rokem

      Most of the world’s chocolate is grown in West Africa, kind of ironic lol.

    • @chidoking09
      @chidoking09 Před 10 měsíci +2

      but i love chockolate and i am Nigerian

  • @papazataklaattiranimam
    @papazataklaattiranimam Před rokem +2

    Çikolota 👁️👁️

  • @vaibhavdpunjabi0152
    @vaibhavdpunjabi0152 Před rokem +1

    F for those unlucky chaps

  • @PossessedPotatoBird
    @PossessedPotatoBird Před rokem

    Least chocolate obsessed Dutchman

  • @ze_baronkrigler7611
    @ze_baronkrigler7611 Před rokem

    I find it hilarious that Aristocrats drunk Hot Chocolate

  • @placeheldholdplace2050
    @placeheldholdplace2050 Před rokem +1

    I'm not just pressing F for everyone who never got to try chocolate, but also because we ourselves are only 200 years into the chocolate age.
    Imagine if the chocolate bar had been discovered 2000 years ago, and places all over the world had been experimenting with it, and incorporating it into the recipes, and learning new ways to make it. Imagine a chocolate 2000 years into the future, and weep, for you will never taste it.
    but today's bars are still so good though, so there's that, at least.

  • @andro9009
    @andro9009 Před rokem

    The fish guy from spongebob: Chocolate🍫!

  • @keithcastillo5434
    @keithcastillo5434 Před 5 měsíci

    I like unsweetened cocoa it is the best source of minerals/electrolytes.

  • @shubhsiddhartha9409
    @shubhsiddhartha9409 Před rokem +1

    At last the true meaning of life is being discussed in detail.

  • @martialfantasy8772
    @martialfantasy8772 Před rokem +2

    To the African Chocolate Economy
    Cheers!

  • @bennruda11
    @bennruda11 Před rokem

    Love to Ghirardelli chocolate

  • @justarandomaspie4132
    @justarandomaspie4132 Před rokem +2

    Finally, some good april fools content!

  • @Gancrothor-II
    @Gancrothor-II Před 10 měsíci

    Chocolate CHOCOLATE CHOCOLAAAATE CHOCOLAAAAATE!!!!
    -Tom from Sponge Squarepants

  • @just_a_turtle_chad
    @just_a_turtle_chad Před rokem +1

    A turtle approves of this documentary on chocolate.

  • @robbrown4621
    @robbrown4621 Před rokem

    Trader Joes (American supermarket) sells one pound Belgian chocolate bricks for only $7 per pound. And they have four or five types. :) :) :)

  • @alexrellion1458
    @alexrellion1458 Před rokem +1

    Small correction Theos means god in Greek, not Latin. Deus is god in Latin.

  • @luckyluciano1623
    @luckyluciano1623 Před rokem

    I love Nutella! Sweet sweet Nutella 😋

  • @polyherb4096
    @polyherb4096 Před rokem

    Now that i finished the video after the first 12 minutes from its release...

  • @Ansset0
    @Ansset0 Před 7 měsíci

    37 seconds in... 2:45 in the morning.. I suddenly NEED to have chocolate. Just need 😜🤦.. although I eat chocolate maybe twice a year..

  • @monkeeseemonkeedoo3745

    Giving the spongebob chocolate guy a run for his money

  • @RK-cj4oc
    @RK-cj4oc Před rokem +1

    Could you Maybe do a " why are Turkic countries so Islamic"
    Why did the ancestors of modern Turkey for example choose Islam, Why did the central asian turks stay muslim even after being part of the christian russian empire for years and part of the atheist soviet union.
    Thank you and keep up the great work!

  • @AliClovis2899
    @AliClovis2899 Před 4 měsíci

    I will NOT overthink today, Jesus. Thanks DeMarcus! Love you and God bless

  • @grapejuice664
    @grapejuice664 Před rokem

    6:58 Bruh 💀💀💀

  • @bristoled93
    @bristoled93 Před rokem

    Chocolate bars melt when it's hot, and I don't like eating chocolate in summer because it's not as nice in hot weather and I read a comment by an African saying in African culture men don't eat sweet things as much as women and children, it's not seen as manly.

  • @pingasbungus4517
    @pingasbungus4517 Před rokem +1

    21 people who watched this video are allergic to cocoa beans

  • @TimRobertsen
    @TimRobertsen Před rokem

    13:28 Aah yes, I was afraid we wouldn't talk about ww2:p

  • @TheRealSpeedWolf
    @TheRealSpeedWolf Před 10 měsíci

    I used to live in Asia and Africa, and I can tell you that it's not because they don't like chocolate. It's just that it's very expensive, costing almost as much as a full meal, like chicken with rice. The price of a Sneakers bar or Kit Kat bar is currently the same, but it doesn't mean they won't indulge when they have the means. You don't have to take my word for it, fly to Thailand or any part of Africa and compare the real food you can get for the price of a Sneakers bar. Chocolate is considered a luxury, especially good chocolate. Think of it like McDonald's being for poor people in the United States, but in other countries, it's for the middle class.

  • @bigfootjinxthecat8696
    @bigfootjinxthecat8696 Před rokem +1

    CHICOLATEUEUEIEIISISIEOEOEO

  • @Zaman805
    @Zaman805 Před 3 měsíci

    Chocolat is great

  • @thebloodtrail
    @thebloodtrail Před 3 měsíci

    To me, if you dont like chocolate, *you need to be on a watchlist, it is the gift from the Norse Gods and shame on ya if you say you dont like or tried chocolate*

  • @jonaspete
    @jonaspete Před rokem

    Its hot in south east asia so chocolate bars melt into a goop shape

  • @simon_2867
    @simon_2867 Před rokem

    Dam 44s after reales

  • @georgetanner9381
    @georgetanner9381 Před rokem +1

    Chocolate bunnies are fantastic, you know??

  • @adihelenagur7915
    @adihelenagur7915 Před 7 měsíci

    Yay cocoa

  • @yasser_mapper
    @yasser_mapper Před rokem

    Here in Belgium chocolate is €1euro for a bar milka oreo is the best chocolate believe me😊

  • @michaelsriqui7898
    @michaelsriqui7898 Před rokem

    CHOCOLATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!