Since Winter is coming, most students drink hot beverages to keep their bodies at a warm temperature to ward off the icy corridors of MHS. Which is why most think about their favorite drink, hot chocolate. Though most may or may not know a lot about hot chocolate. Many students have their own ideas of it’s creation.

According to About.com, cocoa beans were not only valuable for their chocolate but they were also valuable for the drinks the Aztecs created. The original “hot chocolate” was made of wine and roasted peppers, but it was cold. The Aztecs were not known for their chocolate to be sweet.  The European explorer, Hernan Cortes  discovered it in the late 1500s, during the time of taking over the Mayan and Aztec empire.

The Europeans later modernized the simple cocoa bean and sweetened the chocolate. They put it into warm beverages thus creating “Hot Chocolate”. Word about it did not spread as quickly as most would hope, by the 1700’s Chocolate Houses were more common in Europe. However, hot chocolate has been more modernized, and turned into a powder for an easier handling process.