chocolate coffee
Chocolate to the Aztecs was a much
more acceptable drink, the
warriors and nobility especially
desired it. Octli was not
prohibited, the elderly were
permitted to drink it, and
actually they were identified as
people who had children and
grandchildren, not necessarily
old. They were allowed to have up
to four cups each night, at some
feasts every one could drink it,
however the normal penalty for
being drunk was death.
Chocolate, understandably became
an acceptable replacement for
octli with higher up Aztec
civilization, even then not
everyone accepted chocolate as a
drink. Because cacao was seen to
be a luxury product, not standard
in the austere life they had lived
previously, many of the Aztec
associated chocolate to the
leisure and luxury loving people
of the Gulf Coast and the lowlands
it had originated in.
chocolate coffee
chocolate chip cookie