Chocolate Part3: A Story

Spot & Me and the Chocolate Monsters


By Snake Boy


One day, Spark, Daniel, Teddy, Spot and I were walking. It was a very boring day. There were no games to play. There was loads of rain. Then, Daniel spotted the time machine. We got into the time machine. Daniel and Spark pushed all of the buttons and pulled all of the levers. Spot set the time. WE went to the future.

"Bark! Bark!" said Spot. Translation: Let's go to the time of Charlie and the monster chocolate factory!"

The time machine shook like and earthquake and shook again.

"Mamma Mia cheese and crackers this machine is bigger in the inside!" I said.

Then the machine stopped shaking. We all got out of the time machine. Suddenly, there was a bash and another bash. Then there was the sound of a dinosaur roaring. We all looked behind us. It was Dave, Daniel's old dinosaur friend. Then, we saw a giant chocolate monster. Spark, Spot and Teddy ate the chocolate monster.

"Bark! Bark!" said Spot and Spark. Translation: "What a tasty meal!"

We saw a chocolate monster crowd. The chocolate monster crowd charged. They charged and charged.

"Run for your lives!" said Spot.

"Spot, do you have your rotten chocolate bombs?" said Daniel.

"Yes I do. Let's chocolate them out!"

We threw and threw the rotten chocolate bombs and the chocolate monster crowd. They got stinked out with the rotten chocolate bombs. The chocolate monsters melted.

"Look out! More chocolate monsters with chocolate guns!" Said Spark.

"Spark, do you have any stink bombs?" said Teddy.

"Yes I do" said Spark, "But I left them in the time machine."

"Maybe spot has some extra chocolate bombs" said Teddy.

"Of course I do!" said Spot. "I always have extras."

"Hey look! a chocolate cannon!" said Teddy. "Let's put some rotten chocolate bombs in it."

"I could put some of my bad breath in it." I said. I breathed into the cannon again and again.

"Fire!" said Teddy.

The monsters were getting stinked out five at a time but there were still 1,000 more. Bang! Bang! Two more shots came. Ten monsters were melted. Crack! Crack!


"Look, it's Reuben using his hard head against them!" said Daniel.

"Let's eat them all!" said Spot.

"Let's eat them all for our dinner!" said Spark.

"Um...Spark there's too many" said Spot.

""Well we can eat most of them." said Spark.

Bang! Bang! The cannon went off again.

"Who's firing the cannon?" said Spark.

"Me" said Teddy.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Spot fired the machine buzuka gun.

"What a lot of melted chocolate monsters!" I said. There were only ten more left.
 Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! They were all dead.

"It's going to explode!" I sad. "Lest's go!"

We all jumped into the time machine-even Dave. Daniel and Spark pulled all of the levers and pushed all of the buttons. The time machine shook and shook like an earthquake. and there was a bash and another bash. Then it didn't bash anymore. We all got out of the time machine-even Dave.

"Let's go inside the house." said Spot. We all walked into the house-except Dave. Mum would kick Dave out if he came in and skin him. The teddies went into our room and jumped onto our beds.

"Bark! Bark!" said spark. Translation: "I want some bones!"

THE END

Chocolate Part 2: The Making

By Miss Little Ears


Stage 1
To make chocolate, you obviously need a cocoa tree. These take 15-20 years to grow and must be grown in a tropical climate. When the bean pods are fully grown, cut them off of the tree. Split open the pods and take out the beans. Cover the beans with banana leaves and leave for a week. This gives them a better color and flavor. Take off the banana leave and let them dry in the sun for three days.

Stage 2
Next, you will clean the beans and remove the pulp. Roast the beans at 121C in a revolving oven. Crack open the shells of the beans into the edible nibs. grind the nibs with a roller to make the chocolate liquor or cocoa mass, which is the base for all chocolate. It will still be gritty and grainy. In a heavy press, extract half of the fat (cocoa butter) from the liquor but don't throw it away.

Stage 3
Mix condensed milk and sugar with the chocolate liquor to make a paste. The paste is passed through some big rollers to make a fine, flaky powder called "chocolate crumb". The cocoa butter you saved earlier is added back into the chocolate crumb to make another paste. This paste is put into heated vats. Giant rollers go slowly over it.  This makes it smooth and melt-in-your-mouthy. This takes many days. The temperature is reduced slowly and the now liquid chocolate is poured into metal molds. After the chocolate sets in the molds, you will have your very own bar of chocolate!

Chocolate Part 1: A History

By Mr. Wolf

Chocolate was first discovered by the Aztecs, Mayans and Incas. It didn't start as a chocolate bar but as a drink called "xocolat". It was EXTREMELY HOT!  Later, they made a cooler drink. When the Mayans attacked the Incas, the Incas were made to pay taxes in chocolate. Back then cocoa beans were used for money. About 500 years later, Columbus found Mexico and brought back cocoa beans with him. Spain kept it a secret for the next 100 years. When England invaded Spain, they found the cocoa bean and brought it back to the UK. Italy brought it to the Pope so he could say that it was OK to drink. Luckily, he said it was OK! When the USA heard about chocolate in the 1800s, they didn't seem that interested. Normal sweet shops didn't begin to sell chocolate bars until the late 1800s. Fry's Chocolate Cream came out in 1866, Cadbury's Dairy Milk in 1905, Milky Way in 1923, Chrunchies in 1930, and Mars Bar in 1932.
Even though some hated it, the "xocolat' of the Aztecs started something that will never go away!