Where all is sweet .. . Cocoa Podr—. of probablyI asked MOV BONBONS ARE MADE. is an interesting and almost incredible fact that we Americans Impend twice as much a year for our bonbons as we do for ships. £Qur annual shipbuilding bill, according to the latest census, is about f^Qrty millions a year; while our confectionery costs us dou- le that ; and of this enormous, most pala- table produc- |pm, chocolate enters into the composition ~~ie-half. What is chocolate ?a friend one day. - Why, its made of cocoanut -shells, I guess, he said. A great many other fairly -intelligent people would doubtl
Where all is sweet .. . Cocoa Podr—. of probablyI asked MOV BONBONS ARE MADE. is an interesting and almost incredible fact that we Americans Impend twice as much a year for our bonbons as we do for ships. £Qur annual shipbuilding bill, according to the latest census, is about f^Qrty millions a year; while our confectionery costs us dou- le that ; and of this enormous, most pala- table produc- |pm, chocolate enters into the composition ~~ie-half. What is chocolate ?a friend one day. - Why, its made of cocoanut -shells, I guess, he said. A great many other fairly -intelligent people would doubtlessguess just as badly. Chocolate ismade of the cocoa bean. The cocoatree grows in tropical America. Its importance tothe world is not to be judged by its size: for i;stands only about twelve feet high. Big yel- r /low pods, shaped like a cucumber, grow onlarger branches. These pods are full ofaromatic kernels. These are the cocoa Cocoa Tree
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