Hot Chocolate
$5 play money
Melted chocolate and hot milk. On the ChowChow Feast menu it costs $5 in play money, which puts it in the Snack tier ($1 to $14). It is one of the small, cheap things that make an order feel real.
No payment, no address, no delivery. This is a game.
Key facts
- Cuisine
- International
- Menu section
- Beverages & Drinks
- Price tier
- Snack ($1 to $14)
- Play-money price
- $5
- Main ingredients
- chocolate, milk
- How it is served
- A mug of thick hot chocolate with whipped cream and chocolate shavings
History, tradition and origin
Cacao was first cultivated in Mesoamerica, where the Maya and Aztecs drank it bitter and spiced and used the beans as money. Spain sweetened it, and it stayed a drink for the wealthy until nineteenth-century inventions produced cocoa powder, solid bars and milk chocolate. Brownies are an American creation of the 1890s, and chocolate truffles come from France and Belgium.
Food economy and industry
About two thirds of the world's cocoa is grown in West Africa, mainly Ivory Coast and Ghana, on small family farms. Low farmer incomes, child labour and deforestation are long-standing problems that certification and traceability programmes try to address. Cocoa prices reached record highs in 2024 after poor harvests.
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