SC - More Chocolate

[Mike C. Baker]

With apologies to all, AOHell appears to have eaten the promised
long-form timeline and additional commentary. I'll try again
tonight.  Until then, a quick response for Anne:

- ---Karen Lyons-McGann <dvkld.dev at mhs.unc.edu> wrote:
> > source, the Dames of Mexico purchase chocolate compounded
> > with sugar as one would any other sweatmeat at shops in
> > the streets.
> Does it say purchased and ate, or just purchased with no
> indication of what the Dames of Mexico did with the product?
> Chocolate compounded with sugar sounds a lot like the cakes
> of chocolate and sugar still sold which are crushed and
> finally beaten into hot milk to make cocoa.   They are 
> hard as rocks, and only someone desperate for a chocolate
> fix would think to eat them as candy. (Trust me on this, and
> don't ask for details.)
 
 Anne, 
"Sweetmeat" (I mispelt, or transcribed a mis-spelling) I've always
associated with an item to be eaten, as in candy. This usage goes
back at least to Roman times (vendors in the stands selling, or
dispensing sponsor-provided, victuals at the Coliseum).

That, and I'll note that at least one brand of the modern version of
the solid cakes / tablets is imminently edible in my opinion (even
though I shouldn't, these days):
"Abuelita" brand, comes in bar form, is compounded from chocolate,
sugar, cocoa butter, cinnamon flavor, and modern etc. Very granular
sugar, thoroughly edible as-is (and I don't usually like cinnamon
other than in pastry rolls). 

(The first bar I found and purchased was eaten more than transformed
into a drink; the second bar is still in my cupboard, hoarded for
visitors and/or as an ingredient, after I was diagnosed diabetic.)

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