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unusual facts about Cocoa


Kel-Tec SU-16

SU-16 refers to a series of semi-automatic rifles and carbines manufactured by Kel-Tec CNC Industries, Inc. of Cocoa, Florida, referred to in Kel-Tec's marketing as "Sport Utility rifles".


Abomosu, Ghana

Abomusa (var. Abomoso) is a city in central Ghana's Atiwa District, an area dominated by the production of cocoa.

Akim Oda

Cocoa is an important part of the Akim Oda economy, including plantations and casual plantings along roadsides.

Amadou Koné

Grandson of Dan Kalmo whose big brother, the legendary warlord Fanhikroi, an opponent of colonial rule, was assassinated on the road leading from Banfora to Bobo Dioulasso, Amadou Kone learn very early sense of honor by his father who, exasperated by the abuses of the French settlers and the new leaders in their pay, chose to immigrate to the Ayamé region Basse, Côte d'Ivoire, where he created plantations of coffee and cocoa with his family.

Barry Callebaut

In November 2005, America's Test Kitchen named Callebaut's cocoa powder its top brand for baking.

Canboulay

The French Revolution (1789) had an impact on Trinidad's culture, as it resulted in the emigration of Martinique planters and their French creole slaves to Trinidad where they established an agriculture-based economy (sugar and cocoa) for the island.

Carol Off

She claimed that French-Canadian journalist Guy-André Kieffer, who was kidnapped in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire in 2004, had been murdered for exposing Ivorian government corruption in connection with cocoa.

Children in cocoa production

To combat the child slavery in cocoa production, US Representative Eliot Engel introduced a legislative amendment to fund the development of a "no child slavery" label for chocolate products sold in the United States.

Chocolate ice cream

The Codex Alimentarius, which provides an international set of standards for food, states that the flavor in chocolate ice cream must come from nonfat cocoa solids that must comprise at least 2.0-2.5% of the mix weight.

The US Code of Federal Regulations "permits reductions in the content of milk fat and total milk solids by a factor of 2.5 times the weight of the cocoa solids", in order to take into account the use of additional sweeteners.

Cocoa butter

Chocolate liquor is pressed to separate the cocoa butter from the cocoa solids.

Cocoa House

And was built from proceeds from commodities (e.g., Cocoa, Rubber, Timber and so on) of the then Western State of Nigeria.

Cocoa Puffs

Unlike original Cocoa Puffs, the Combos cereal does not contain cocoa.

Colonial Venezuela

In the 18th century a second Venezuelan society formed along the coast with the establishment of cocoa plantations manned by much larger importations of African slaves.

Department of Optometry, KNUST

In March 2011, volunteers from Vision Aid Overseas visited the Department to teach its students as well as embark on Outreaches to cocoa growing areas of the Ashanti Region.

Divine Chocolate

It was originally established in the UK in 1998 as a company limited by shares owned by the Kuapa Kokoo cocoa farmers' co-operative, the Fairtrade NGO Twin Trading and The Body Shop, with support from Christian Aid and Comic Relief.

Dorothy Mengering

While in Lillehammer, she interviewed Hillary Clinton (inquiring if her husband might be able to "fix" Dave's speeding tickets), Nancy Kerrigan (repeatedly asking her if she would like a cup of hot cocoa), and several other winter Olympians, including gold medal-winner Tommy Moe.

Economic history of Nicaragua

The rich volcanic soils produced a wide array of products, including beans, peppers, corn, cocoa, and cassava (manioc).

Economy of Vanuatu

Copra, cocoa, kava and beef account for more than 60% of Vanuatu's total exports by value and agriculture accounts for 20% of GDP.

Copra is by far the most important cash crop (making up more than 35% of the country's exports), followed by timber, beef, and cocoa.

Fernandino peoples

The first inhabitants purchased dwellings for $3,000 to $5,000, with a handful of large plantation owners who'd engaged in cocoa and yam farming industry which was controlled by English and Spanish factory owners.

Flame fougasse

This assembly was placed in a rubber sponge bag that was, in turn, inside a used cocoa tin; four ounces (100 g) of magnesium alloy turnings were added, the electrical wires were passed through a small hole in the lid of the tin which was then tightly fitted.

Food and drink in Birmingham

Famous food brands that originated in Birmingham include Typhoo tea, Bird's Custard, Blue Bird Toffee, Bournville cocoa, Cadbury chocolate and HP Sauce.

Gourbeyre

Crops such as cocoa, coffee and bananas are grown in the mountains and a sugar factory produces sugar at the river's estuary.

Guy-André Kieffer

In a 2006 interview regarding her book Bitter Chocolate, CBC journalist Carol Off claimed that Kieffer's disappearance and probable murder was related to his investigation of the shady practices involving the Ivorian government and the cocoa industry.

Harkin–Engel Protocol

The protocol was negotiated by Senator Tom Harkin and Representative Eliot Engel in response to a documentary and multiple articles in 2000 and 2001 reporting widespread child slavery and child trafficking in the production of cocoa.

How'd That Get On My Plate?

The program investigates how various foods are produced (including honey, milk, eggs, strawberries, and cocoa in the first season), from their rawest form to their finished state, and features visits to food production factories throughout the United States.

Iceland moss

It forms a nutritious and easily digested amylaceous food, being used in place of starch in some preparations of cocoa.

Isaac Babalola Akinyele

Since the Pax Britannica of 1893, the Ibadan had started to settle down to civil life occasioning cocoa farming; introduced by the CMS around 1890, and other agricultural and business enterprises.

Itacaré

After a massive blight of Vassoura de Bruxa (Witch's broom) devastated the region's cocoa crops in the 1980s, Itacaré has depended mostly upon tourism.

Jesse Whatley

He continued playing non-League football in Bristol for a further two years, for Stapleton Institute and Mental Institution Club, later moving into coaching, becoming coach of Fry's Cocoa Tree Boys in 1937.

Koundi et le jeudi national

They organise a union, the Organisation for Communal Interests, and create a cocoa plantation over several hectares to be able to depend on themselves.

Kpalimé

Palimé, formerly known as Kpalimé, is a city in Plateaux Region, Togo near the Ghanaian border, centred on the weaving industry and the surrounding cocoa plantations.

Love's Prisoner

At that time Jonathan Twist, a quaint philosopher and their somewhat mysterious neighbor, offers their help and Nancy finds with of the help of him a job as a seller of Cocoa Climax.

Marlbrook, Herefordshire

The Cadbury factory at Marlbrook processes 180 million litres of fresh milk, 56,000 tonnes of sugar and 13,000 tonnes of cocoa liquor each year to produce milk chocolate crumb which is blended with cocoa butter, refined and turned into milk chocolate at other factories.

Monilia

Moniliophthora roreri, a pathogen of cocoa and other species in or related to the genus Theobroma

NIBS

Cacao nibs, pieces of roasted cocoa beans, generally ground into powder, but also inserted into chocolate bars to give additional "crunch"

Phytophthora

Phytophthora megakarya - one of the cocoa black pod disease species, is invasive and probably responsible for the greatest cocoa crop loss in Africa

Rockland County Courthouse and Dutch Gardens

The garden features a one story tea house whose interior features a brick fireplace with carvings of mountains, windmills and other serene symbols representing aspects of Dutch-American history, others of motifs popular in 1930s: Popeye, the Baker Cocoa and Old Dutch Cleanser maids.

RPG Group

The company also produces smaller quantities of a variety of other exotic horticultural crops like Areca nut, banana, cardamom, cocoa, coffee, coconut, pepper and vanilla as well as limited quantities of organic tea and spices.

Serendipity 3

It is made with 5 scoops of the Tahitian vanilla bean ice cream, Madagascar vanilla covered in 23K edible gold leaf, drizzled with the world's most expensive chocolate, Amedei Porcelana, and covered with chunks of Chuao chocolate, which is from cocoa beans harvested by the Caribbean Sea on Venezuela's coast.

Square Mile of Murder

#The case against Madeleine Smith was found to be not proven that she laced her lover Pierre Emile L'Angelier's cocoa with arsenic (Blythswood Square).

Strugnell

the fictional Jake/Jason Strugnell, a poet from Tulse Hill, a persona employed by the poet Wendy Cope in her collection Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis (1986)

Tetteh Quarshie

Whether Tetteh Quarshie was actually the first person to introduce cocoa to Ghana was questioned during the administration of Sir Gordon Guggisberg, British Governor of the Gold Coast from 1919 to 1927.

The Naked Jungle

In 1901, mail order bride Joanna (Eleanor Parker) arrives from New Orleans at a South American cocoa plantation to meet her new husband, plantation owner Christopher Leiningen (Charlton Heston), whom she has married by proxy.

Telling the story of an attack of army ants on a Brazilian cocoa plantation, it was based on the short story "Leiningen Versus the Ants" by Carl Stephenson.

Theramine

Theramine is a specialized formula that consists of: Choline Bitartrate, L-arginine, L-histidine HCL, L-glutamine, L-serine, GABA, Griffonia Seed (95% 5HTP), Whey Protein Hydrolysate, Grape Seed Extract (85% Polyphenols), Cinnamon, and Cocoa Extract (6% Theobromine)

Victorian Village

It also the location of Cocoa Manor, once host to filming of ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.

Willie Harcourt-Cooze

Relocating to a rented property in Devon, England, after several years of assembling suitable equipment, and the resumption of cocoa farming, he began production in 2007 in Uffculme, Devon, filmed by Channel 4.

WTKS

WTKS-FM, a radio station (104.1 FM) licensed to Cocoa Beach, Florida, United States


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