Chocolate News
Happy National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day! August 4, 2019
Chocolate Is Most Popular Ice Cream Flavor In Maryland, Study Finds
Square, a mobile payment company, says the top-flavor in 14 states, including Maryland, is chocolate. That is followed by 12 states, picking vanilla. The most unusual pick is in Nevada, where unicorn is the favorite flavor.
Bitter chocolate: Deforestation in the Ivory Coast
Ghana and the Ivory Coast gave in to pressure from the global chocolate industry and lifted a month-long ban on cocoa sales that was meant to push international buyers to accept a new minimum pricing agreement.
Tractor-trailer with 40,000 pounds of Hershey’s chocolate crashes in Maryland
A tractor-trailer was carrying 40,000 pounds of Hershey’s Chocolate Bars, Kit Kats and other goods when it crashed on a Maryland interstate early Friday, injuring the driver, officials said. The truck clipped a police car then jackknifed and overturned on southbound Interstate 270 in Germantown around 1 a.m., a spokesman for Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service said.
Can You Eat Expired Chocolate?
Let’s start off by identifying two things that would affect one’s decision of whether or not it is okay to eat expired chocolate.Of course, there is a need to check whether or not it is still considered safe to eat expired chocolate. The next thing to consider is its flavor. Bryn Kirk, a course facilitator at the Chocolate University Online, discussed these two factors, safety and flavor, and what should be considered if you have found an expired chocolate bar stocked away in those cabinet drawers.