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London Gazette , January – March 1834.
Offer to tender for supplying Royal Navy with rum, tobacco, cocoa, wine, peas and cooperage (barrels) stores.

Chocolate was first used as a drink, sweetened with sugar to mask the bitter flavour of the chocolate. Later it was used for making eating chocolate. At this period, most people drank beer, wine or spirits. Water was not safe to drink, tea coffee and chocolate were expensive. Quakers promoted drinking chocolate as an alternative to alcohol.

Date: Tues Jan 7th 1834

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